Would the honey only be able to made from male plants?
Bigjake8
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I know if you seen that video the was going around awile back with the bees working on the buds on the plant sad to say a friend of mine is a bee keeper and it's a fake he said they gotta spray sugar water on the buds to get them to land on it
I had ideas to haha
I had ideas to haha
One evening I was working in my flowering room and a bee came zooming through the door and flew straight on to a ripe bud. I'm almost sure I heard a 'plop ' sort of sound and it was instantly stuck there in the goo with all six legs. It did not look happy or in the mood to make any honey. I got it free and escorted it outside again. 
TheFertilizer
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Well, bees don't really land on flowers for pollen, but for nectar. Nectar is just sugar-rich water that they like because it's easy to collect in its form. The only thing cannabis plants produce that would be similarly collectible would be "guttated" sugar water, and that is not exactly a "rare" phenomenon, but it is also not extremely common place in cannabis. Add to that, I'm not sure that male plants "guttate" at all, and they are the ones with the pollen. Essentially, a bee would have to land on a male cannabis plant that's "guttated", and then get some of the pollen on it, and go over to a female plant that's also "guttated" and git the pollen on its pistils. Now, this is assuming cannabis pollen could even stick to a bee like other pollen could, that male plants can "guttate", and that bees can even land on and walk around on female cannabis flowers without great difficulty. That last piece is pretty essential, because with bees being so well evolved and adapted to collect nectar from other flowers, there would have to be a good reason for them to want to land on cannabis, a plant known to repel insects with its aromatic and sticky resins.
I think it's possible that bees could pollinate cannabis, but it would have to be an engineered circumstance in an isolated green-house, or some kind of weird micro-climate condition where the only plants around for a bee colony to collect nectar from were guttated cannabis plants. Engineering it would be formulaic, on the surface: Stick a bee farm in a greenhouse, with a VPD level that will elicit guttation, and a Hi-Brix diet that will ensure said guttation is rich in sugars. In practice it might be trickier, and surely without any practical benefit.
In nature, you're talking about finding micro-climates as obscure and isolated as Galapogos island and it's just unimaginable that a place would have a sustainable honey-bee population but no flowers that were more suitable. The only way it would ever happen in nature is if there was some kind of cataclysm that left only cannabis plants, and those bees were lucky enough to find cannabis plants that just happened to be guttated. It's possible, it's just completely improbable.
My $.02
Edit:
Weasel you posted before I replied, but that just confirms my suspicion that things would have be seriously wrong for a bee to even want to land on female cannabis flowers.
I think it's possible that bees could pollinate cannabis, but it would have to be an engineered circumstance in an isolated green-house, or some kind of weird micro-climate condition where the only plants around for a bee colony to collect nectar from were guttated cannabis plants. Engineering it would be formulaic, on the surface: Stick a bee farm in a greenhouse, with a VPD level that will elicit guttation, and a Hi-Brix diet that will ensure said guttation is rich in sugars. In practice it might be trickier, and surely without any practical benefit.
In nature, you're talking about finding micro-climates as obscure and isolated as Galapogos island and it's just unimaginable that a place would have a sustainable honey-bee population but no flowers that were more suitable. The only way it would ever happen in nature is if there was some kind of cataclysm that left only cannabis plants, and those bees were lucky enough to find cannabis plants that just happened to be guttated. It's possible, it's just completely improbable.
My $.02
Edit:
Weasel you posted before I replied, but that just confirms my suspicion that things would have be seriously wrong for a bee to even want to land on female cannabis flowers.
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