Alright Jerry, Wet, Wak, Gimik and the rest of you stella organic freaks! Get those Honey Journals going! BRILLIANT: Man Figures Out How To Train Bees To Make Honey From Cannabis
Not even REMOTELY "brilliant"... Physiologically speaking, how would any "bee" feed upon a cannabis trichome?
Pretty sure the bee's would seek out the male pollen. Other than that the bee's wouldn't eat or transport the female resin other than by accident. Sent from my LGLS991 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Honey Bees eat nectar and pollen from flowers. Nectar is the liquid in a flower, and pollen is a powdery substance which must be transferred from one flower to another to make more flowers.Larvae eat honey. Queen bees eat royal jelly. In a way this proves you're right. I honestly have no idea what the difference in normal honey and royal jelly is other than the queen eats one while the lave eat the other. Since the trichs would be the plants nectar, some honey is bound to have some Sent from my LGLS991 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
i dont think the resin inside trichomes and flower nectar are one and the same. trichomes have essential oils AFAIK not sugars like in nectar. the question is, weather there is any nutritional value inside the trichomes to satisfy the bees need to make honey for the larvae. (cause that's what they collect nectar and pollen for)
inside a trichome: Organelles produced by the plant called Vacuoles – which contain phenols, a chemical compound similar to alcohol [pictured at right in blue], and another type of organelle called plastids – containing hydrocarbons called terpenes [red], make their way up the trichome stalk [green] and combine inside the secretory cavity into a fibrous mat [yellow]. This concentrated mat is hit by UV-B light waves, causing the creation of cannabinoids.
is it possible the bees are somehow breaking up the phenol (which is similar to alcohol) to produce sugars? also i dont understand how a bee would extract the inside of a trichome.
Where does a pollen from a male cannabis attach on a female plant? I know in the buds somewhere but where exactly? In the thrichomes? If not maybe where the pollen makes connection? Im just rambling my thoughts about this. If its true it'll be sweet. So maybe the bees get it from the unnamed part of the female cannabis that i hope someone fills in. Thanks
Honestly idk. It almost has to be possible. Look up drunk bees on youtube. There are a few species of bee that seek out fermenting plants as well as psychoactive plants for a buzz. Its pretty funny. Thing is, if those are worker bees some has to make it into the honey right? Cannabis seems like itd be right up those bees alley. Sent from my LGLS991 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Well I just found a bee forum haha. The forum has nothing to do with cannabis, but this question is discussed at great length. I wont copy the link, but the site is beesource.com. thing is I cant agree or deny any of the info. Idk if or what part if the nectar of the females. As far as that, it seems like a lot of speculation, and people going back and forth. Doing searches for female cannabis nectar does nothing but get a lesson in male and female plant parts. Sent from my LGLS991 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
the pollen connects to the pistils. it then moves down the pistils to the calyx where the ovary sits. what unnamed part are you referring to?
I'm beginning to think that there's actually something to this... My original thought on this was a bit skeptical due to the fact that bees extract nectar from most flowers with their proboscis, and cannabis flowers are not even remotely similar in an anatomic sense when compared to those bearing nectar. But bees also have mandibles for chewing, which I had totally forgotten about. Perhaps they are able to actually chew the trichomes and take the oil in that way? And since sugars are hydrocarbon chains like terpenes and terpenoids, perhaps they're able to utilize them (terpenes/terpenoids) as a substitute for the sugar contained in nectar to make honey?
The correct scientific name is "Lady Bits" and that's all you need to know. More than that is just confusing. LOL The "Lady Bits" of course. BTW, when the pollen does connect to the pistil the whole thing is fairly rapid. The pistil will get a definate 'kink' in it, perhaps more than one, usually within a half hour of pollen connection. It will also turn brown, but not quite as fast. But the kinking from fertilization you can pretty much watch as it happens in about the time it takes to drink a beer. Wet
So Dinafem has an article posted on their website about this...and the story has a little more detail. Check it out here. Nicolas Trainerbees, the Beekeeper That Has Managed to Get His Bees to Make Honey with Cannabis Resin
I hope I dont get in trouble for this but this definitively answers the question. Look at all these bees on the bud... Sent from my LGLS991 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
bees use resin to create propolis. from the wiki: 1. train bees to collect resin from cannabis to make propolis 2. remove other food sources from the environment. 3. bees are forced to use cannabis to make honey to feed larva, or die. 4. keep breeding the bees that accept the cannabis as a resource for honey 5. after many generations start to prefer cannabis over regular flowers 6. profit.
