Have been thinking about the possibilities of the potential within the cannabis genome to select towards salt tolerant individuals and create lines that would be more equipped to handle a harsh salty environment.
Typically, accumulated salt in most plants is severely damaging to deadly. It’s theorized that an accumulation of salt buildup due to irrigation techniques was a major catalyst for fall of the Sumerian civilization. So to say, salt tolerance is an important aspect to consider for most crops. Is the only answer to try and avoid the buildup at all costs? Plants are incredible. Powerhouses of great magnitude. I feel it’s worth looking into the potential hidden benefits. As the great Bob Marley once said, “when one door is closed, many more is open.”
Being able to irrigate crops that produce respectable harvests with brackish or semi-brackish water, aquaponic derived or not, would be monumental. As the nutritious value of the plant is within it’s seeds, and the medicinal value in the resin, I think there’s vast potential to explore as the armchair research I’ve done so far suggests that the typical concern for food crops and the like is salt buildup on the leaf matter altering taste while seed crops didn’t share the same concern.
Couldn’t also help but wonder how much that may help deter pests and insects as well, the accumulation of salt within the plant.
Perhaps salt tolerant rootstocks with grafts of traditional types.
Curious what others think about this topic. Much love
that a grower got healthy plants even though the sodium levels were too high in soil testing. In other words, it’s a tolerant plant. A weed. 
when I was doing community service hours there was a duck pond with too many birds & some reedy nesting areas that had my mind going… 
