Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:16:53 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <970922221425_1197353005@emout12.mail.aol.com>
Subject: Growing Cannabis

A question:

      I was sitting in a biology class last year, when my teacher brought up
a chemical called colchicine. She said it is a mutagen used in growing
various plants to produce unusually large plants. The chemical prevents the
plant from producing a cell wall during cell division, thus producing cells
2-3 times larger than normal, and therefore plants 2-3 times larger than
normal. I thought this had interesting possibilites! It's supposed to be
placed on the growing tip when the plant is still very young (probably just
after the first leaves are formed?) and just a little bit. I thought I'd
mention it, as I didn't see any posts.

http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/botany/colch.html