Bees

Moflow

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Do any of you outdoor growers notice if bees are attracted to your cannabis plants?
I'm a mostly indoor grower but take the indoor plants outside to chop when they're ready.
The odd bumblebee might come over for a quick look, they don't even land on the buds, then they fly off to the garden flowers.
Has anybody noticed this?
 

Funkentelechy

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I kept a beehive in with my plants for years, I have a friend that has done the same for years(until just recently when his house burnt down) and I've never noticed the bees taking any interest in the females or males, although as soon as the flowers on the males open I harvest the pollen and cull them to avoid mass pollination.
Cannabis is wind-pollinated so I kind of doubt that bees have any evolutionary reason to be attracted to it, certainly not the females as they have nothing to offer bees, Males maybe, but cannabis in general, doesn't have any need for bees for reproduction.

I have noticed a weird phenomenon of finding dead bees just laying on the leaves of my plants and so has my friend who is also a beekeeper. My friend and I have talked about finding dead bees every year in our plants and haven't come up with a logical explanation for it. Neither of us uses chemicals on our grows, we don't use insecticide of any kind, not even neem, in part because we keep bees. It's a mystery to me and the best explanation we've come up with, although it sounds a bit hippie, is that all bees die eventually perhaps our pot plants simply present them with a more comforting place to die than others. I dunno.
 

BudmanTX

Well-Known Member
i have....

also have a friend of mine who's a bee keeper too....he grows indoors, but does a seed program using the bees outdoors with a male and a female cannabis plant....
 

resinhead

Well-Known Member
Reason not to spray spinosad or pyrethrin on outdoor plants as both are highly toxic to bees. There are other effective solutions that are safe for bees.

Before you spray think about what you're spraying. A public service announcement.

That's a great photo.
Thanks bud:grin:
 
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