Hey guys.. I have a quick question about a few strange plants today. I work at an amusement park, and after work tonight I decided to go on a few rides with a fellow co-worker. As we walked through the park, we both cought the strong scent of weed drifting through the air.. so we look around for the culprit. Well, much to our suprise on the side of the path we were walking there was a group of a few plants, and upon closer inspection look ALOT like pot plants. This, coupled with the smell raises a few questions. So I took a picture, and I was wondering if anyone could help me identify the plant... sorry about the low quality. If it turns out to actually be pot should I:
(A) Take some cuttings for myself
(B) Rat out my employer
(C) Take some cuttings, then rat out my employer
(D)

Please, before you comment, zoom in and really inspect the shape of the leaves.. the shape is just like the 2nd image I posted

You think that's what pot looks like? How cute

Sorry, I haven't seen a real plant in person. And yes, the leaves do look very close to pot leaves, aside from the fact that they aren't jagged.

You should still rat out your employer.

You could say that about many plants.

Those look like (female) marijuana plants, and the fact that mature pot plants stink to high hell also supports this conclusion.

I've never seen marijuana plants blossom anything like that. I also googled just now in case I was putting my foot in my mouth. But still, nothing that looks anything like that.

Female and Male marijuana plants are very hard for the average person who isn't experienced with Marijuana to tell the difference from. The leaves look very much the same, the difference is told by looking at the "pistils" of the plant. I won't go into details as to how you tell the difference, but unless you actually physically get up close and inspect these parts and you have never really seen a Marijuana plant before in person, you won't be able to tell which is male or female.

Also, not all Marijuana plants smell to high heaven. I grew a couple of plants a few years ago and they had next to no smell, and the Marijuana was extremely good to smoke.

That picture is also too ****ty of a quality to actually tell if it's an MJ plant or not but my guess is no. The major indicator? Whatever the hell the purple **** is on top flowering.

rofl op you are hella dumb

someone post the alot creature.

Sniff the leaves, see if you get high.

if you don't, burn it.

I recommend (C), though make sure you wait to smoke it until after you've called in the police report. Victory tokin', brah!

Temperamental knows his stuff.
I suspect if there was a strong pot smell it was probably because someone had smoked pot in the area. The plants most often have a strong smell at harvesting or when being smoked.

Also:



That is why I was amused that people would assume that's a marijuana plant in the first place. Don't take it harshly though, I know I've said plenty of things that would sound cute or amusing to someone who was an expert in that field (not that I'm a pot expert, far far from it).

/shrug, I defer to Temperamental's expertise. It does sound like a strange location for them to be growing. It would be pretty coincidental if the smell was from somebody smoking nearby.

I have a friend who is a horticulturalist and he would have called you the dumbest piece of **** this side of the Mississippi. And I would have laughed for mistaking that plant as Cannabis.

For future reference:

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS305&=&q=marijuana%20plant&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

My question is:

How do YOU know what smoked Marijuana smells like?

The shape of the flowers show that the plant is almost definitely something in the fabaceae (pea family). A quick search for fabaceae with palmately compound leaves (not their usual leaf form) suggests that the plant is some kind of lupin.

I'm no expert though, just got an amateur interest in natural history, it could be something I've overlooked.

How does anyone NOT know? I think you'd have to live a pretty sheltered life to have never encountered it.

The gender of a cannabis plant is terribly irrelevant, as a single plant can switch, or produce blossoms of both kinds. It's strange (because most plants aren't gendered at all) but it doesn't affect the smokability.

Shoot, where's DJ Yoshi when you need him, he'd probably be able to tell you without question.

Too bad you didn't find whoever was around there smoking it, and gave up at the sight of that plant.

Look you guys I discovered some more "suspicious" plants...





you can tell right away that these leaves are just waiting there to be DRUG ABUSED

No way that's MJ.

MJ flowers don't even look much like flowers for that matter. They're buds around the stem with lots of normal leaves sticking out of them. Certain varieties can be relatively colourful, purplish, blueish, reddish or yellowish, but they never have petals and a 'heart' like regular flowers.

And the leaves need to be jagged, no matter if it's Indica, Sativa or hybrid. They can be broad (Indica), narrow (Sativa) but they should always have a jagged edge.

Also, there are several bushes and plants that give off a strong smell of weed. There used to be this really strong smell of weed near the house where I lived. For years we were always thinking some neighbour was growing weed in his garden until finally a friend of mine pointed out some bush growing everywhere on the terrace that is notorious for giving off that same smell.

You don't smoke MJ leaves

No, just the flowers.

Those are some ugly ass flowers

From my experience good old MJ does not have pretty purple flowers.

Mmmmmmmmmmm

These two people look exactly the same, aside from the fact that one of them isn't black!

I don't.

But then again my sense of smell is ****ty and I'd probably miss it anyway.

Some varieties do.

As funny as all this is, let's be a little more fair. At least he brought it up because of the smell.

Still looks nothing like the plants in the first post though.




Spoilsport.

You ever smoked Pot? You can't smoke the male plant and get high, it produces absolutely zero THC, or such low levels (in a hermaphrodite as the male "takes over" and destroys the female) that you'd have to smoke an entire plant to even get a buzz. The male Marijuana plant is used to make hemp, while the female Marijuana plants are the ones that produce the THC.

A plant also rarely switches genders, and although it does happen, it is a one way thing. It doesn't change back from male to female at will, it either goes from one to the other, or it doesn't.

Sometimes you can get a hermaphrodite plant, where you have elements of the male and female plants both present. This is also very rare, however when this happens it basically means your plant is going to be screwed. Unless you are near the ending stage of your growing, where the plant will already have produced its THC, then you might as well throw the plant out if you have a hermaphrodite.

The gender of a Marijuana plant is one of the most relevant things. If not THE most.

Also: Marijuana plants don't produce blossoms.

Don't hate kthx. Sorry I'm not a marijuana expert I guess. I've smoked before, but I've never seen a plant up close, and in person, just the dried bud. The honest truth is that the smell is really what made me question it, but after looking at ECHO's post it most definitely is Spider Flower (which, I have learned from researching, is commonly mistaken by laymen as marijuana do to the similar leafing patterns and distinct smell). You can all grow back to your grow rooms and tend your plants now.