Allotments 4 All

General => News => Topic started by: mat on August 27, 2009, 16:10:40

Title: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: mat on August 27, 2009, 16:10:40
This is funny!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8224421.stm

I wonder who is now rather embarassed...

mat
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: saddad on August 28, 2009, 22:00:35
 ::)
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: flowerofshona2007 on August 30, 2009, 21:01:01
We had that at the Rutland road lotties, police raided our polytunnel  ;D
Had to explain there are 2 types of leaf on tomatoes !
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: saddad on August 31, 2009, 21:58:17
There is more than a similarity with Achocha leaves but the plant is such a sprawling/climbing thug that nobody confuses the two...  :-X
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: Seaforth Allotments on September 01, 2009, 09:55:28
I was gutted.
Tried to grow some weed and ended up with delicious cherry toms instead...   ???

It's an easy mistake to make!  :P
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: amphibian on September 01, 2009, 23:01:34
I'm a hippy, I look like a hippy and smell like a hippy. I grow peppers and tomatoes under grow lights in my bedroom window, you can't see the plants from outside, just the grow lights. I've been waiting for the police to turn up, as of yet it hasn't happened.
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: Digeroo on September 01, 2009, 23:30:16
I had it many years ago with Dahlias - police came round to check them out. 
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: Obelixx on September 02, 2009, 13:21:39
Scientists at local research station grew hemp last year in a field right next to the road.  All sorts of fun for them and the police with people thinking it was wacky baccy.
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: amphibian on September 02, 2009, 22:20:02
Quote from: Obbelix on September 02, 2009, 13:21:39
Scientists at local research station grew hemp last year in a field right next to the road.  All sorts of fun for them and the police with people thinking it was wacky baccy.

My grandmother had a patch of hemp come up where she feed her birds, the older lady next door asked what the lovely plants were.
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: Sholls on September 02, 2009, 22:28:05
Quote from: amphibian on September 01, 2009, 23:01:34
I'm a hippy, I look like a hippy and smell like a hippy. I grow peppers and tomatoes under grow lights in my bedroom window, you can't see the plants from outside, just the grow lights. I've been waiting for the police to turn up, as of yet it hasn't happened.

I have a solicitor friend who, at the weekend, also looks and smells like a hippy. He had a minor sense of humour failure when, at six one Sunday morning, the local police decided to kick his front door in to investigate his reported "canabis plantation".  (i.e. The chillies kept under lights, in plain sight, in his greenhouse.  ::) )
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: saddad on September 02, 2009, 22:30:15
It would tend to make a grumpy start to the day...  ::)
Title: Re: Tomato plants reported as cannabis!!!
Post by: Sholls on September 02, 2009, 22:33:42
Personally, anyone who wakes me up abruptly is a legitimate target for verbal abuse (and possibly also a legitimate target for my bedside glass of water), how he maintained composure is a mystery to me.  :o