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Dwarf and semidwarf Cannabis

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Cooper 1486, collected in Bhutan in 1914. Its label reads Dwarf var. on sand by stream, the collector's description of the plant's stature.
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Dwarf and semidwarf Cannabis are plants of Cannabis sativa that are short for the species, together with the populations and seed lines described as staying short. Neither word has a fixed meaning in the genus. Ernest Small calls the line between dwarf and semi-dwarf in crops "arbitrary", depending on the plant under discussion. He takes the hempseed cultivar FINOLA, about 1.5 m tall at maturity in Canada, as a semi-dwarf beside almost all other cultivars, which reach 2 m or more.[1]

A plant can be short for three different reasons. Poor soil, drought or a short season can hold it back; it can carry an inherited short or compact architecture; or it can flower early, since flowering ends growth in height. A height written on a herbarium label or in a seed catalogue does not by itself say which of these is at work. Small wrote in 2017 that he could find no literature on the physiological or genetic control of small stature in Cannabis, although the effect of photoperiod on height was well studied.[1]

In the eastern Himalaya and the plains below it the words appear in two kinds of source: herbarium labels such as a 1914 sheet from Bhutan marked Dwarf var. and a seed company's description of Nepali lines as a "semidwarf Nepali ganja landrace".[2] The short plants on those labels were mostly collected on sand, stony ground or dry land. One Nepali lot sold with a "semidwarf" description was among the tallest in a 2024 United States field trial.[3]

Terminology

Small defines "brachysm" as dwarfness from shortened internodes, a consideration in making semi-dwarf versions of otherwise tall crops.[1] McPartland and Small (2020) qualify height by habitat when they key the varieties of C. sativa subsp. indica by whether plants are "≥ 2 m tall in good habitats" (var. indica and var. himalayensis) or "< 2 m tall in good habitats, and often ca. 1 m" (var. afghanica and var. asperrima).[4]

Schultes and colleagues (1974) wrote that Cannabis ruderalis "is reported to be very small, normally up to two feet in height". They described C. indica as "normally three to four feet tall".[5] McPartland (2018) points out that the C. ruderalis of Janischevsky (1924) comprised relatively tall, laxly branched plants up to 2.1 m, whereas Schultes applied the name to extremely short plants of no more than 0.61 m.[6] Grown in de Meijer's field trials in the Netherlands, accessions received as C. indica, C. sativa ssp. ruderalis or var. spontanea "exceeded by far" the sizes Schultes and colleagues had given.[7]

The Dwarf var. on Cooper 1486 is the collector's description of the plant. The sheet is determined only as Cannabis sativa L.[8] The Real Seed Company, the vendor of the Nepali lines discussed below, uses "semi-dwarf" also for landraces from outside the Himalaya that it offers for breeding.[9]

Causes of short stature

Growing conditions

G. K. Sharma surveyed Cannabis in Himachal Pradesh, the Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir in 1970, 1973 and 1976, between 250 and 3,050 m. On man-made, nutrient-rich soils the plants grew to more than four metres. On sandy soils they were "dwarfed or even prostrate in some cases", with thin stems, small leaves and small seeds. Plants of the plains were usually smaller than plants in similar habitats higher up. Wild plants at higher elevations were larger, laxly branched and vigorous.[10]

Controlled trials show the same response. In a growth-chamber study, raising the salt concentration of the nutrient solution cut plant height by 15% in two medical cultivars. The harvest index rose, because stem mass fell while flower yield fell only slightly.[11] Moving a crop in latitude has a similar effect: cultivated cannabis from high latitudes in China, planted at Kunming, flowered and matured early and grew to "a dwarf stature" with almost no branches.[12]

Growers also shape the plant by hand. The Nepal Darbar told the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission that when the plants "put forth fine down" the tip was cut off and the big leaves plucked, which "causes a large number of branches and fine leaves to be produced". A plant of two or two and a half feet was slightly slit.[13] David Prain put the hemp plant at 3 to 8 or 10 feet when wild, rarely over 6 feet as a fibre crop and "usually only from 4 to 5 feet high when grown for gánjá".[14] Male plants are "characteristically slimmer and less vigorous than females (although taller)".[1]

Inherited architecture

Small names four sources of short germplasm. The ruderal plants of the far north, especially Siberia, "tend to be quite short (less than a metre)" and are "natural dwarfs", but carry "genetic baggage" that suits them to their habitat and not to breeding. Russian oilseed hemp was short. The "indica type" of Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-western India is about a metre tall and compact, "especially under the often inhospitable conditions" in which it is grown. Clandestine breeders in the Netherlands and North America have selected smaller, faster-maturing plants since the early 1970s.[1] He also holds that landraces of both hemp and drug types were selected, "likely unconsciously", for semi-dwarf architecture before modern breeding began.[1]

The wild-growing South Asian plant is tall in McPartland and Small's account. Their var. himalayensis grows "throughout montane India, Nepal, and Bhutan" and reaches 1.0–3.0 m, with central-stem internodes often over 10 cm. It shares "tall height" with East Asian hemp. The varieties with short internodes are var. afghanica, "usually < 2 m tall, often <1 m", together with var. asperrima.[4]

Digitised herbarium sheet with two low, much-branched Cannabis plants arching across it, two packets at the top and a typed Flora of Bhutan label at the lower right.
Grierson and Long 2089, a "Low much branched herb up to 1 m" from a stony river bank in a dry valley of eastern Bhutan.

Common-garden trials show how much height varies between lines grown together. In de Meijer's trials the accession means for final stem length ran from 63 to 360 cm in 1990 and from 98 to 364 cm in 1993. Two uniform, very short-stemmed accessions were left out of the 1990 analysis.[7] Across the collection, low stature went with a set of "wild" achene characters, small, marbled and with a constricted abscission layer, as expected from descriptions of C. ruderalis.[7] The thesis also describes a "globular-shaped dwarf mutant" that arose spontaneously in a Lebanese strain and was crossed with the fibre cultivar Fibrimon to give the ornamental cultivar Panorama.[7]

In a cross between the tall fibre cultivar Carmagnola and the shorter USO31, Woods and colleagues (2021) resolved three quantitative trait loci for plant height.[15] In 25 indigenous Iranian populations grown in one greenhouse, the number of nodes and their spacing governed height. The authors picked out early-flowering populations "characterized by high RGR, HI, and shorter stature" as suited to breeding.[16]

Early and day-neutral flowering

Cannabis is "a quantitative (facultative) short-day plant". Some populations are day-neutral, "particularly at the northernmost locations of survival or near the equator".[1] Flowering "essentially terminates growth in height", which is how the height of most indoor plants is controlled: a daily dark period of 12 hours usually starts flowering.[1] In de Meijer's trials early-flowering accessions were shorter than late ones.[7] Height responds to daylength differently by crop type: it rose with longer days in essential-oil cultivars but not in fibre or grain cultivars.[17]

Toth and colleagues (2022) mapped Autoflower1, a recessive locus that confers photoperiod insensitivity, the trait of day-neutral (autoflowering) plants. In their field trial earlier flowering "resulted in smaller plants with less total biomass". They note that the trait is often ascribed in the grey literature to C. ruderalis, a group whose existence recent genomic studies do not support.[18] The day-neutral habit of ruderal populations is treated under Feral and ruderal Cannabis.

Eastern Himalaya and its foothills

Herbarium labels

R. E. Cooper pressed five sheets of Cannabis in Bhutan in 1914; four of them note the plant's stature. At Gichha in Punakha, at 8,000 feet, the label reads Herb 1'-6'-10' on sandy flats.[19] At Chukka, plants of four feet grew in a swamp (Cooper 1104) and plants "varying 3'-10'" in moist shady places (Cooper 1174).[20][21] Cooper 1486, from Chalimarphé at 7,000 feet on 11 July 1914, reads Dwarf var. on sand by stream.[8] Ludlow, Sherriff and Hicks 19635, collected at Tsalimape, also at 7,000 feet, in August 1949, describes plants "Up to 5ft." among Artemisia on open banks.[22]

The Bhutan sheets of 1979 and 1982 run from 55 cm to 2 m. Grierson and Long 2029a is a "Herb 1-2 m" from a dry hillside above Trashigang.[23] Grierson and Long 2089, from a stony river bank in a dry valley east of the town, is a "Low much branched herb up to 1 m".[24] Grierson and Long 4168, a "Small herb 55 cm", was taken from a roadside at about 540 m on 31 March 1982.[25]

Two sheets from the Darjeeling hills, dated a day apart in August 1923 and credited to J. M. Cowan, carry field slips with the same note, On the dry land. The first, named Gangajat, is 2 Feets high.[26] The second, from Algarah and named Ganga, is 7 Feets high and was "Brought from Forest".[27] In far-western Nepal, Ikeda 1217005 was collected by a track in stony ground in Darchula District at 1,317 m on 9 July 2012. Its label reads 30-50cm tall. All male plants.[28]

Shrestha 2834, collected at 270 m in Dang, Nepal, in 2003, is catalogued as a Shrub.[29] The notes line of Banerjee 263, from East Champaran in 1964, is blank.[30] Short heights also appear on labels from outside the region. Davis 50730, a field crop at Ketama in Morocco, is 1-3 ft. tall.[31] Suvarnakoses 213, a garden crop in Thailand, is a Herb, 30 cm. tall.[32]

Colonial reports

Hooker's Flora of British India (1890) gives the species a stem of 4–8 feet.[33] Before the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission an excise officer from Darjeeling said that plants in villagers' gardens "grew the height of a man. The wild plant is a little smaller."[34] Another Darjeeling witness found wild hemp in the lower Rungit and Teesta valleys at 500–1,200 feet, on sandy, loose soil.[35] In Purnea, on the plains, wild bhang was "Generally dense, and in places grows to over six feet high".[36] The Commission itself wrote that in the Rajshahi Division "the Terai is still credited with heavy growth".[37]

Dooars field survey

Several large, dense, narrow-leafleted cannabis plants in leaf beside a building with a corrugated roof, with trees and palms behind.
A cultivated plant near Fulkardabri in northern West Bengal, from a line recorded at 2.5 to 4 m (ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250014).

A 2025 field survey of the western Dooars and the Kalimpong range by the Zomia Collective, published in two field reports, recorded feral stands of 1.2 to 3 m and cultivated plants of 3 to 4 m at Looksan and Banarhat.[38][39] The accession pages for lines from those collections give ranges such as 1–2 m for a feral line at Sipchu (ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250026), 1–2.5 m for a feral line at Looksan (ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250035) and 1.5–2 m at Suruk in the Upper Jaldhaka Valley (ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250030). Every line from those collections is recorded on its accession page as short-day.

The reports also describe a few compact plants. At Paren a single cultivated plant, in early vegetative growth and not collected for seed, stood about 1–1.2 m with "a compact, bushy structure with tight internodal spacing".[38] Feral plants along the Deana River were 1.2–2 m, "with squat, bushy forms", in shallow soil pockets.[39] The first report puts the stunting of potted plants at Satkaya down to their being root-bound.[38] Several of the plants were still in vegetative growth or early pre-flower when they were recorded in June.[38][39]

Semidwarf lines in the Nepali seed trade

The Real Seed Company sells two Nepali lines, Nepali Highland and Nepali Highland #2, as a semidwarf type. Its listing describes "the same ultra-bushy, narrow-leafleted, semidwarf type", "Looking like ornamental grass or bamboo". It says the landrace is grown in the highlands of central Nepal, the Terai and as far east as Tripura and Assam, and calls its "bamboo-like morphology" "probably the outcome of conscious selection by farmers to avoid detection".[2] The second listing calls the plants "the same crazy bushy semidwarf Sativa type as shown in the photo".[40] Neither listing gives a height.

The company's account of where the type comes from has changed. An August 2024 post says it collected "this semidwarf ganja landrace type in Nepal in 2022" and that the farmers in a 2014 eradication photograph from Tripura had used "a compact, semidwarf ganja landrace which they've clipped and planted like tea bushes".[41] A September 2024 post calls it a Nepali domesticate used for ganja in the Terai lowland and subtropical highlands of Nepal and in north-eastern India.[42] A December 2025 post says that the line was collected in Gandaki Province and that genomic analysis and police eradication videos suggest it is "in fact a ganja landrace from eastern Bengal"; it identifies neither the analysis nor the videos.[43] Four lots named Nepali Highland #1 to #4, deposited with the US National Plant Germplasm System in August 2026, carry a donor note that the seed was "Purchased in Manakamana Bazaar, Nepal from women selling the seeds" with no information on the exact origin of the batches.[44] The same note says that all the Nepali Highland batches "appear to be the same landrace type as 'Pokhara'".[44] Pokhara is a lot deposited in August 2023 as G 33754, from seed the donor obtained in a bazaar in Gorkha.[45]

A third line, Nepalese Mountain Ganja, is listed at up to about 4 m outdoors. The listing quotes an unnamed cultivator who found that "half of the plants are semidwarf with some 'wild' type leaves and bud structure".[46] The same quotation stands in the donor narrative of the lot deposited as G 33749 in August 2023. Grown at six US trial sites in 2024, that lot recorded plant heights of 143 to 310 cm, one value for each site, about 100 days after sowing. The curator's notes call it "Exceptionally late flowering" and "Among the tallest accession evaluated in 2024 NY trials".[3][47]

The curators note "Very unusual leaf morphology and branching architecture" in G 33754, the Pokhara lot. In the 2024 New York trial it recorded a plant height of 148.29 cm about 100 days after sowing, against 281.71 cm for G 33749 at the same site.[45][3]

Explanations

The labelled short plants of the eastern Himalaya grew on sand (Cooper 1486), in stony ground (Ikeda 1217005 and Grierson and Long 2089) or on dry land (the Cowan sheets), the substrates on which Sharma saw stunting in the western Himalaya. His survey did not reach Nepal, Bhutan or the eastern Himalaya.[10] The passport of G 33714, a lot of the Nepali line sold as Humla Jungli, describes stunted wild plants in Humla, though not the plants its seed came from. Uncultivated plants grow along the track there, and the donor obtained their seed at a roadside guesthouse, where it lay drying on sacking, with abundant stands below the building. Farther along the track the donor found wild plants on the banks and dry bed of a tributary of the Karnali, "thoroughly stunted and desiccated"; the photographs attached to the passport show "dry brown plants of less than 30cm height". In the 2024 trials the lot recorded heights of 190 to 308.5 cm at five sites.[48]

The vendor's explanation for Nepali Highland is selection by growers for plants that escape notice.[2] Selection of this kind is documented for modern breeding elsewhere. Small describes illicit breeders selecting smaller plants in the Netherlands and North America since the early 1970s. McPartland and Small note that "Indica" genes are useful for reducing the height of plants "so they are more easily concealed outdoors".[1][4] Neither work discusses Nepal or north-eastern India.

A third possibility is introgression from Central Asian material. McPartland and Small state that Central Asian landraces were introduced into Nepal in the 1970s, citing Cherniak (1982).[4] The wild-type plant of the region, var. himalayensis, is in their account a tall plant.[4]

Early flowering would also keep plants short. Day-neutral populations occur near the equator as well as in the far north.[1] The vendor and the US curators describe the Nepali lots as late-flowering: in a post on a grow at 40° N the vendor calls long light hours "the main obstacle" to Nepali Highland flowering outdoors; the curators call G 33749 exceptionally late flowering and G 33754 the latest-flowering of about 500 accessions in the 2024 New York trial. Their notes add that G 33754 plants kept in a growth chamber under constant 12-hour days did not flower for over three months.[42][3][45]

The 2024 trials grew G 33714 and G 33749 beside other accessions at each site. No trial values are published for the Nepali Highland lots, whose GRIN pages list seed traits only.[44]

Conservation

Small argues, in the words of his title, that dwarf germplasm is "the key to giant Cannabis hempseed and cannabinoid crops". He treats the semi-dwarf "indica type" as an excellent ideotype but adds that this category of plant "is very difficult to find today".[1] When he wrote, North America had no conventional public gene bank for Cannabis.[1] Since August 2023 the National Plant Germplasm System has held three of the Nepali lots discussed here, G 33714, G 33749 and G 33754.[48][3][45] Held ex situ, a seed lot can be grown again; a herbarium sheet records a plant's stature only for the place and season in which it was collected.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Small, E. (2018). "Dwarf germplasm: the key to giant Cannabis hempseed and cannabinoid crops". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 65 (4): 1071–1107. doi:10.1007/s10722-017-0597-y.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Nepali Highland". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "G 33749, Cannabis sativa L., Nepalese Mountain Ganja". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 McPartland, J.M.; Small, E. (2020). "A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives". PhytoKeys. 144: 81–112. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700.
  5. ↑ Schultes, R.E.; Klein, W.M.; Plowman, T.; Lockwood, T.E. (1974). "Cannabis: an example of taxonomic neglect". Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University. 23: 337–367 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ McPartland, J.M. (2018). "Cannabis systematics at the levels of family, genus, and species". Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. 3 (1): 203–212. doi:10.1089/can.2018.0039.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 de Meijer, E. (1994). Diversity in Cannabis (PhD thesis). Wageningen: Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen. doi:10.18174/207065. ISBN 90-5485-338-7.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Herbarium specimen E00150672: Cannabis". RBGE Herbarium Catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
  9. ↑ "Landraces for Breeding Advanced Semi-Dwarf Cannabis Cultivars". The Real Seed Company. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sharma, G.K. (1979). "A botanical survey of Cannabis in the Himalayas". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 76 (1): 17–20 – via Internet Archive.
  11. ↑ Allred, J.; Fatzinger, B.; Bugbee, B. (2025). "Crop steering through osmotic stress can reduce height but reduced yield in medical Cannabis". Journal of Cannabis Research. 7 (1) 92. doi:10.1186/s42238-025-00351-2.
  12. ↑ Chen, Xuan; Guo, Hong-Yan; Zhang, Qing-Ying; Wang, Lu; Guo, Rong; Zhan, Yi-Xun; Lv, Pin; Xu, Yan-Ping; Guo, Meng-Bi; Zhang, Yuan; Zhang, Kun; Liu, Yan-Hu; Yang, Ming (2022). "Whole-genome resequencing of wild and cultivated cannabis reveals the genetic structure and adaptive selection of important traits". BMC Plant Biology. 22 (1) 371. doi:10.1186/s12870-022-03744-0.
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  14. ↑ Prain, D. (1893). Report on the Cultivation and Use of Gánjá. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press. p. 38 – via National Library of Scotland.
  15. ↑ Woods, P.; Campbell, B.J.; Nicodemus, T.J.; Cahoon, E.B.; Mullen, J.L.; McKay, J.K. (2021). "Quantitative trait loci controlling agronomic and biochemical traits in Cannabis sativa". Genetics. 219 (2) iyab099. doi:10.1093/genetics/iyab099.
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  34. ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Babu Jogendra Nath Mozumdar, Brahmin, Deputy Inspector of Excise, Darjeeling". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. witness no. 82, pp. 223–226 – via Internet Archive.
  35. ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Babu Sreenath Chatterjee, Brahmin, Cashier, Public Works Department, Darjeeling Division". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. witness no. 96, p. 255 – via Internet Archive.
  36. ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. A. G. M. Wodschow, Assistant Manager, Indigo and Zamindari, Dumur Factory, Purnea". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. witness no. 193, pp. 420–421 – via Internet Archive.
  37. ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. I: Report. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. ch. III, "The existence, prevalence, and character of the spontaneous growth", paras. 26–29, 45, pp. 19–20, 24 – via Internet Archive.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 Éloïse (30 June 2025). "Field Report #3: Western Dooars and the Kalimpong Range". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 Éloïse (30 June 2025). "Field Report #4: Western Dooars Part II". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  40. ↑ "Nepali Highland #2". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  41. ↑ "Semidwarf ganja landraces and Sativas". The Real Seed Company. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 "Rare semidwarf ganja landrace from Nepal". The Real Seed Company. 3 September 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  43. ↑ "Nepali Highland – a ganja landrace from east Bengal?". The Real Seed Company. 3 December 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 "G 34115, Cannabis sativa L., Nepali Highland #1". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 "G 33754, Cannabis sativa L., Pokhara". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  46. ↑ "Nepalese Mountain Ganja". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  47. ↑ "Hemp Phenotyping and Descriptors Handbook". USDA Agricultural Research Service. Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Geneva, New York. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
  48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 "G 33714, Cannabis sativa L., Humla Jungli". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
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