LabRat
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I finally figured out why the plants were all smaller this year and those ‘Hemp’ plants came up so tiny.
Seeds! There’s a f’n field of hemp laying on the ground not 5 miles east of me! I’m going to find out what type of hemp it is and if it’s fiber only then I might as well toss the seeds. If the crop was for hemp seed then it could make a decent cross so I have them all saved in separate containers.
While I was trimming up the ‘hemp’ plants I was finding a few seeds but only on the little pre-flowers that stick out at the base of the buds. no seeds in the buds themselves. All the hemp plants had that but now that I’m started on the Mazarilla every bud has a few seeds in it. Probably did 1/3 of the first plant and have over 100 seeds from that so 300+ in that plant and it’s the second smallest of them all.
The Mazarilla plants were flowering fairly well when I put them out but not the hemp plants. The hemp plants got hit very early in flowering so got way more stunted is what I think happened.
With a hemp processing plant being built in the area there is likely going to be a lot more hemp planted around here so after only 3 years of growing outside I may have to shut that down. I’m thinking I could fill my two plots up with opium poppies next year and grow a different high value crop instead. Been wanting to try those so why not eh.
I did pollinate a branch on one of the Mazarilla and a few buds on one of the larger hemp plants with some of the fem pollen I made recently. They are a little immature but should be viable. I don’t really need the Maz ones as I have two small plants inside all loaded up with seeds almost ready for harvest. The hemp ones may be worth trying out tho.
I could have left them in the garden until now at least to let the few seeds mature but they were all ready to chop and we had bad weather coming in that never really happened. It’s been warm and sunny right up to today and was 26C here yesterday FFS. This global warming crap is really extending our grow season to the point where fast flowering photos could finish in time but then . . . SEEDS!
I just used the garden hose to spray off the plants one at a time then spun them around to get most of the water out and hung them in the carport to dry. After a week or so I put clear garbage bags over them to slow the drying and left the bottoms open but last night sprayed a little water in the bags and closed the bottoms to extend the drying time further. Today I moved them down to the basement where it’s a nice steady 61F and will continue trimming here and there until they’re done. With this MS or whatever it is I can only go a few hours before hand spasms kick in and I can’t focus my eyes well enough to see what’s going on. If it takes a month to get them done I don’t care as they are all going to oil and there’s plenty of pot in the freezer needs doing first. I finally have an appt for a brain MRI in the middle of Nov to see if it is MS but whatever it is seems to be getting worse fast.
I just decarbed small samples of 5 of the hemp plants so I can do the Beam’s Test for CBD on them. I already did one a week or so ago to try a quick and easy method rather than using vials that later need to be cleaned. I just tossed a pinch of decarbed pot into a tiny ziplock, squirted in a shot of Ronsonol lighter fluid and squished that around for a minute to extract the oils then added 3 drops of the 5% potassium hydroxide/everclear reagent and it turned reddish indicating positive for CBD. Easy-peasy!
All tested positive for CBD so now to make them into oil. Thought I'd use up some crappy little baggies I have instead of the better ones like above. Should have used the clear ones for this. Still can see the pink tho.
Turned out I did have a muskrat in the dugout and finally got the bastard. Nice clean head shot from a standing position at about 20 yds. Gave it to my dog to check out and he ate the whole damn thing. Would not let me take it back.
One thing I’ve learned is even the small plants I grew out there this year are too much at once for me to handle on my own and I’m not hiring trimmers. Lot of dirt and dead/live bugs to clean out and bud washing some barely did anything so would not cut down on my labours at all. It seems as the plants dry the bugs take off for greener pastures so after doing a couple of the smaller hemp plants fresh and finding lots of living critters I was happy to find almost none now that the plants are almost bone dry.
Poppies sound easier.
Seeds! There’s a f’n field of hemp laying on the ground not 5 miles east of me! I’m going to find out what type of hemp it is and if it’s fiber only then I might as well toss the seeds. If the crop was for hemp seed then it could make a decent cross so I have them all saved in separate containers.
While I was trimming up the ‘hemp’ plants I was finding a few seeds but only on the little pre-flowers that stick out at the base of the buds. no seeds in the buds themselves. All the hemp plants had that but now that I’m started on the Mazarilla every bud has a few seeds in it. Probably did 1/3 of the first plant and have over 100 seeds from that so 300+ in that plant and it’s the second smallest of them all.
The Mazarilla plants were flowering fairly well when I put them out but not the hemp plants. The hemp plants got hit very early in flowering so got way more stunted is what I think happened.
With a hemp processing plant being built in the area there is likely going to be a lot more hemp planted around here so after only 3 years of growing outside I may have to shut that down. I’m thinking I could fill my two plots up with opium poppies next year and grow a different high value crop instead. Been wanting to try those so why not eh.
I did pollinate a branch on one of the Mazarilla and a few buds on one of the larger hemp plants with some of the fem pollen I made recently. They are a little immature but should be viable. I don’t really need the Maz ones as I have two small plants inside all loaded up with seeds almost ready for harvest. The hemp ones may be worth trying out tho.
I could have left them in the garden until now at least to let the few seeds mature but they were all ready to chop and we had bad weather coming in that never really happened. It’s been warm and sunny right up to today and was 26C here yesterday FFS. This global warming crap is really extending our grow season to the point where fast flowering photos could finish in time but then . . . SEEDS!
I just used the garden hose to spray off the plants one at a time then spun them around to get most of the water out and hung them in the carport to dry. After a week or so I put clear garbage bags over them to slow the drying and left the bottoms open but last night sprayed a little water in the bags and closed the bottoms to extend the drying time further. Today I moved them down to the basement where it’s a nice steady 61F and will continue trimming here and there until they’re done. With this MS or whatever it is I can only go a few hours before hand spasms kick in and I can’t focus my eyes well enough to see what’s going on. If it takes a month to get them done I don’t care as they are all going to oil and there’s plenty of pot in the freezer needs doing first. I finally have an appt for a brain MRI in the middle of Nov to see if it is MS but whatever it is seems to be getting worse fast.
I just decarbed small samples of 5 of the hemp plants so I can do the Beam’s Test for CBD on them. I already did one a week or so ago to try a quick and easy method rather than using vials that later need to be cleaned. I just tossed a pinch of decarbed pot into a tiny ziplock, squirted in a shot of Ronsonol lighter fluid and squished that around for a minute to extract the oils then added 3 drops of the 5% potassium hydroxide/everclear reagent and it turned reddish indicating positive for CBD. Easy-peasy!
All tested positive for CBD so now to make them into oil. Thought I'd use up some crappy little baggies I have instead of the better ones like above. Should have used the clear ones for this.
Still can see the pink tho.Turned out I did have a muskrat in the dugout and finally got the bastard. Nice clean head shot from a standing position at about 20 yds. Gave it to my dog to check out and he ate the whole damn thing. Would not let me take it back.
One thing I’ve learned is even the small plants I grew out there this year are too much at once for me to handle on my own and I’m not hiring trimmers. Lot of dirt and dead/live bugs to clean out and bud washing some barely did anything so would not cut down on my labours at all. It seems as the plants dry the bugs take off for greener pastures so after doing a couple of the smaller hemp plants fresh and finding lots of living critters I was happy to find almost none now that the plants are almost bone dry.
Poppies sound easier.
