Plant ID: Tell me these are innocent plants!

[Onelifeoverland]

Bought a wild flower pack off Amazon and these bad boys have sprouted up. Someone tell me they are some innocent plant and not what I think they could be!!

OLO
www.onelifeoverland.com

 

[Trencakey]

They're what you think they are.No way of telling whether it's ordinary Hemp or Cannabis.

 

[punkrockcaveman]

My Grandad had some wild bird seed, some spilled from the feeder in his front garden. When the seeds grew up, a copper walking past had to tell him to remove them and bin them as they were in fact cannabis. So it is possible, that's assuming to copper's ID was right

 

[Broch]

They're what you think they are.No way of telling whether it's ordinary Hemp or Cannabis.

Oh yes there is

 

[Onelifeoverland]

Oh yes there is

OLO
www.onelifeoverland.com

 

[Broch]

Actually, to be serious, Hemp is Cannabis sativa in the Cannabaceae family and that is what you have there. The Hemp Nettles are in the Lamiaceae family.

 

[Toddy]

My carnaptious, thrawn, too clever, too up to mischief, always fun to know, old Grandpa was very mellow one Summer.
We thought he was mulling over some new engineering marvel or planning mischief. Baby of the family Uncle Andrew came home (he'd been doing his National Service as MO with the Gurkhas in Hong Kong) and took a wander around the gardens. Came into the kitchen and said to my Granny, "Why are we growing cannabis, Mother ?, "Are we dear ?", replied my Granny.
My Grandpa smoked a pipe, one of the ones with the silver mounted spring cap. He smoked every blasted herb and leaf he thought might look interesting. Stuffed leaves in and sooked hard to get them going.
Off for a daun'er (dawdle of a walk) with him was like following a smouldering compost heap sometimes
Anyhow, Auld Will had found the strange plant growing where my Granny cleaned out the budgie's cage.
Aye, indeed. Nothing new

Blame the bird food

 

[Onelifeoverland]

Actually, to be serious, Hemp is Cannabis sativa in the Cannabaceae family and that is what you have there. The Hemp Nettles are in the Lamiaceae family.

Seeing as it's quite illegal to grow in UK it is no longer there. It now resides in the bin. And ive complained to the company I bought the mix off, not quite the type of wildflower I thought I was buying.

OLO
www.onelifeoverland.com

 

[Toddy]

We're laughing but really you're right, and it is no laughing matter. It is illegal to grow and it could have landed you in trouble.
I think you're quite right to complain.

The other way that hemp is sometimes bought unknowingly is in the so called 'killed hemp' used as fish bait. It's not always as killed as it ought to be.

M

 

[Broch]

It could have been a fun BBQ though

 

[richos36]

would of waited till the buds grew then you would know by the smell lol are they Poppys under it ??

 

[TLM]

Some 15 years ago an Englishman was prosecuted in Dubai for the possession of 0.003 g of marijuana, it was stuck into his shoe sole. Heaven knows who's it was. I think he was convicted but kicked out soon as it was a bit heavy even for Dubai.

 

[Robson Valley]

Some call it "Peruvian Tomatoes" here. I can grow 4 ( NOT 5 but 4) Cannabis plants for my use provided that nobody can watch what I'm doing. I hear there's a really good local bakery. I can't be bothered. I fear smoking anything and I'll be back on the tobacco again. That was such a bitch of a habit to kick, I only want to do it once.

 

[slowworm]

I've always wanted to grow hemp to play around with, extracting cooking oil, using the fibres etc and have no desire to smoke it. Shame you can't grow the non-druggy one without a licence.

As for opium poppies, they're fine to grow in the UK and I've just planted some for bread poppy seeds. Often wondered if they'd ever produce opium in the uk.

 

[Onelifeoverland]

would of waited till the buds grew then you would know by the smell lol are they Poppys under it ??

Haha I work for government. Can you imagine the fallout! They just had to go asap

Also, I've just been told by more than one actually that they could as easily have come from bird seed and it so happens that I have several bird feeders in the same area. So now I am entirely unsure how they got there, other than to say they definitely came from one or the other - though I'm still feeling the wildflower is the likely culprit as the seed came from Morrissons.

OLO
www.onelifeoverland.com

 

[TeeDee]

Some call it "Peruvian Tomatoes" here. I can grow 4 ( NOT 5 but 4) Cannabis plants for my use provided that nobody can watch what I'm doing. I hear there's a really good local bakery. I can't be bothered. I fear smoking anything and I'll be back on the tobacco again. That was such a bitch of a habit to kick, I only want to do it once.

Just asking as i'm interested in the grey area of the Law , but is that One person = 4 plants , so if there was four people in the house could you all put an allowance in and thus grow 16 plants???

I know , ....I'm analytical.

 

[Toddy]

I've always wanted to grow hemp to play around with, extracting cooking oil, using the fibres etc and have no desire to smoke it. Shame you can't grow the non-druggy one without a licence.

As for opium poppies, they're fine to grow in the UK and I've just planted some for bread poppy seeds. Often wondered if they'd ever produce opium in the uk.

I met a lady who grew, processed, handspun and wove her own hemp. It was absolutely beautiful stuff. Soft, white, wonderful quality, right up there with really good linen. I was impressed and wished we could do that here too.
I was spinning fine Scottish fleece and she was astonished that it could be spun so finely. Her wool was coarse, like Hardwick and she didn't believe that we could weave with our fine wool. So, I showed her tartan
Then a rep from one of the tartan weavers showed us both their latest offering, a tartan woven on a nettle warp
Business keeps developing new manmade fibres. Sometimes I think they might do well to have a look at a wider range of natural ones instead.

Look up poppy straw

 

[slowworm]

Look up poppy straw

Interesting, although I thought poppies grown in the UK produce far less opiates than warmer climes.

OH spins, hence the interest in growing and processing hemp.

 

[Robson Valley]

I don't know if it's 4 plants per person or 4 plants per house. I know the police do drive around looking.
Like they have nothing better to screw up.

 

[Robson Valley]

Speaking of bird seed, I recall "Parrot Seed" sold in pet shops in Australia, back in the late 1960's when Cannabis was the devil.
It was labelled as "Hemp Seed." Yes it was and the germination percentage was about 10%. Better than most dope.