Do bees like cannabis pollen?

VolimPicke

VolimPicke

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I have a friend in Toronto and she planted some seeds this year.
One of her plants was a male and she was impressed with all the pretty flowers.
She did not know it was a male.
She also commented that she had never before seen so many bees around a flowering plant before.

Have others noticed the same thing?
Do bees like cannabis pollen?
 
crisnpropa

crisnpropa

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It's a great late season source of pollen for many pollinators. I had a male plant amongst 11 females one season and it was an incredible sight to see 10 ft tall plant & all the many different creatures it attracted.
 
Severed Tongue

Severed Tongue

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VolimPicke said:
I have a friend in Toronto and she planted some seeds this year.
One of her plants was a male and she was impressed with all the pretty flowers.
She did not know it was a male.
She also commented that she had never before seen so many bees around a flowering plant before.

Have others noticed the same thing?
Do bees like cannabis pollen?
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Male Cannabis plants do not have flowers, they have pollen sacs that pop and drop, so not sure what your friends is growing there but it's not cannabis.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Bees will collect pollen from male cannabis plants. Bees eat nectar and pollen. They require both.

Severed Tongue said:
Male Cannabis plants do not have flowers, they have pollen sacs that pop and drop, so not sure what your friends is growing there but it's not cannabis.
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Bees eat pollen. They make bee bread.

carolinahoneybees.com

Bee Bread-What Is it and How Bees Make It?- Carolina Honeybees

Bee bread is a mixture of pollen, honey and nectar that bees produce to feed their young. Some people consume it for possible health benefits.
carolinahoneybees.com carolinahoneybees.com
 
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Freerojo

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Funny, just observed a bumblebee check out my plants but turned up their nose and moved onto regular flowers.
 
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conor c

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Well supposedly people have actually already experimented with using trained bees to pollinate cannabis it is possible apparently i read that somewhere or maybe even a video on youtube i cant quite remember lol
 
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elephantSea

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conor c said:
Well supposedly people have actually already experimented with using trained bees to pollinate cannabis it is possible apparently i read that somewhere or maybe even a video on youtube i cant quite remember lol
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trained bees? this is literally what bees do lol
 
Weedvin

Weedvin

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VolimPicke said:
I have a friend in Toronto and she planted some seeds this year.
One of her plants was a male and she was impressed with all the pretty flowers.
She did not know it was a male.
She also commented that she had never before seen so many bees around a flowering plant before.

Have others noticed the same thing?
Do bees like cannabis pollen?
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Yes, but they forget where the hive is
 
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