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It has been well reported that the hemp plant (cannabis) most probably originated in some part of Central Asia but as man has developed and travelled, it has been distributed widely around the world extensively. Growing marijuana outdoors for thousands of years has elicited a variety of desirable strains some are specifically grown for their fibre content, whilst others grown exclusively for their psychoactive chemical content.
The beautiful cannabis plant is a lush, fast-growing species which can obtain full maturity in 60 days when it is grown indoors under specific and professional heat and light conditions. If it is being grown outdoors it usually matures very nicely around the 3 to 5 month mark. The plant can grow to around a height of 15 feet or more under perfect conditions. Depending on the strain, it could reach just a height of only 4 feet. This amazing plant has fine characteristic branches subdivided into unique shape leaflets with a saw toothed edge. These leaves are the worldwide symbol of the marijuana plant.
This phenomenal plant is either male or female and under normal growing conditions these are generated in roughly equal numbers. There male plant produces the standard flower head which produced pollen, while the female flower heads contain the buds that enshrine the psychoactive THC chemical that people who are looking to get high' are after. During growing marijuana outdoors the grower will remove the males so the male plant does not release pollen which will lessen the potency of the females buds. It is well known that these female buds may contain up to five times more THC than the marijuana produced from other parts of the plant.
This THC chemical is present in majority of the plant, including the leaves and flowers, but it is most highly concentrated in the sticky resin produced by the females flower head. For the marijuana plant to create awesome quantities of THC resin the plant really does need a great fertile soil and long hours of daylight. Typical locations where great marijuana is grown in the world outdoors include Mexico, northern India, Africa, California and Australia.
Cannabis plants have not only been used throughout the ages for the psychoactive effects obtained from growing marijuana outdoors but also this versatile species has had a very elaborate standing in human agriculture for literally thousands of years. An acre of hemp produced more cellulose than an acre of trees. Hemp fibre made the ropes that lifted up the tough hemp canvas cloth used to make the sails of the ancient Phoenician, Greek, and Roman navies. Further findings have cited that hemp production was going on in north eastern Asia around 600BC and was introduced into the U.S by the first settlers. Until the late 1800's almost all of the world's paper was made from hemp, and even today many bank notes are printed on cannabis paper. Most of our great art works hanging in the worlds art galleries are painted on canvas.
