Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)

Scientific Name: Urtica dioica
Common Name: Stinging Nettle
Other Common Names: Bigstring Nettle, Common Nettle, Common Stinging Nettle, Gerrais, Greater Nettle, Grote Brandnetel, Isirgan, Kazink, Nabat Al Nar, Nettle, Nettle, Stinging, Nettle,Common, Ortiga Mayor, Stinging Nettle, Stinging Nettles
Plant Type: Perennial
Where To Plant: Full Sun to Partly Shady
Soil Types: Average
Germination: Easy
Number of Seeds Per Pack: 50
Notes: Drying or cooking removes stinging effect of the leaves. Cooked young greens are good spring tonic.
Easily recognized by its prominent serrated leaves, the stinging nettle is a herbaceous plant related to hops, marijuana, mulberries, and elms. The minute, fluid-filled hairs on the leaf surface and stem can cause a stinging or burning sensation on contact with the skin.
Drying or cooking removes stinging effect of the leaves. Can be used in salt-reduced diets, as they contain a salt which is not a burden on the system. Cooked young shoots, rich in iron, are commonly eaten as tonic spring greens. Important bio-dynamic herb: increasing the potency of neighboring herbs, and stimulating humus formation.

stinging nettle as a companion to marijuana??

Much research is still needed on the interrelationships of plants in the garden. Little is known about common vegetable garden plants effect on each other, let alone how they may react with cannabis.

Growing certain plants in proximity to each other has been documented to cause noticeable effects on growth, both positive and negative. The main companion plant that has attracted interest with underground marijuana researchers is stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) which has been said to increase essential oils in many plants.







Seems like a great cover plant. It says there is underground research saying that planting it as cover could help w/ tricome and resin production plus who's going to go looking for your weed in the middle of a large patch of nettles? Plus it it stings animals also so could also be as a way to control pests

Actually that's really interesting. If you find more info let me know.

I like stining nettles... because thery are so similar to marijuana they can be grafted to eachother fairly easily... my idea was to graft stining nettles onto outdoor marijuana crops this way people trying to steel it will get STUNG!!!!

also some people smoke stining nettles and say they get a high feeling

yea i read about that..
i wish i could find more on how they can increase trichome and resin production. either way there going with my outdoor plants in the spring. There cheap too 50 for a 1.99

they grow wild over here... I just need to not pick them

How do they sting you? I'm assuming if you just wear gloves and long clothing you'd be fine?

yea gloves make it ok to tuch, it has little fiborus hairs that get stuck on you, and they sting. but I guess they fall of when its dried?

theres a plant w/ orange flowers that you can push on the pods and they pop... lol i dont know what its called but if you break open the stem and rub the liquid on where you got the nettles they go away.

Hahaha tcki. you are one funny dude. Heehee.

We have stinging nettle all over our lot. It stings but not for very long.

tckfui said:

I like stining nettles... because thery are so similar to marijuana they can be grafted to eachother fairly easily... my idea was to graft stining nettles onto outdoor marijuana crops this way people trying to steel it will get STUNG!!!!

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aww mannn not for long?!?!?!
I was always escarded to touch them

Just think if you could cross breed nettles to contain thc.
You could sting yourself high

At our place during the summer months I could be high half the time.

Hey wait a minute. I already am.

natmoon said:

Just think if you could cross breed nettles to contain thc.
You could sting yourself high

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the nettles are the nearest plant to cannabis, i think, and app. the healing prop, of the sting used to be used to relive many things,like arthritus. also i hear its good to eat. ive tryed before ,not mad on them. . i plan on growing some next year for around my cannabis plants i grow outside. they look like cannabis, and also they will stop my dogs from pissing on my ganja plants. they dony like nettles and try to keep away.

in england if you get stung we use a dock leaf, to counteract the sting. it really works. but the sting isnt bad for you,its supp, to be good, for some reason.

whats a dock leaf??????

Its a weed that often grows close to nettles in England, big fat green leaf

yea i think thats the same thing i'm talking about because it's always growing w/ the nettles

Pizzzh said:

theres a plant w/ orange flowers that you can push on the pods and they pop... lol i dont know what its called but if you break open the stem and rub the liquid on where you got the nettles they go away.

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Thats called jewelweed, good for poison ivy too.

BaconSquishy said:

Thats called jewelweed, good for poison ivy too.

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thank you +rep lol