Industrial Hemp - Page 7

Cole_Robbie · October 2, 2019

LOL, thanks.

I'm stinking up the neighborhood, smells like a skunk farm.

bower · October 2, 2019

Super pics Cole, what a bounty!!

PureHarvest · October 3, 2019

Are you/have you been doing testing to tell when to harvest based on CBD or THC levels?
What is your harvesting/drying method/plan?
Are you going to hand-trim and then remove buds from stems and ship in super sacks?
Do you have a buyer and how far away are they?
Sorry for the machine gun questions.
I'm trying to learn and you are the only person I have access to that may be able to answer these questions without me paying a consultant's fee, lol.
Crop look awesome BTW!

pmcgrady · October 3, 2019

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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Buds!

Is this the T1 (aka Trump)?
That's a beautiful crop!

GrowingCoastal · October 3, 2019

Wow! And it grows like a weed. Beautiful.

Cole_Robbie · October 3, 2019

Thanks. Yeah, that is T1. I bought my first lab test last week, came in at 16.25% cbd and .3% thc, which is perfect, I think. The IL dept of ag has said that for at least this year, they will only count delta 9 thc and not total thc, so just about everyone should pass. That might change next year, if there is Federal guidance. I was one of the lucky ones selected for state testing, but now I know I will pass, so it isn't a big deal.

I have harvested a few plants finishing early. They just get hung in a spare room with a little heat. Prices of flower have really come down in the past few months, dropping about 40%. But even at the current rate, my T1 is still worth $375 per pound. My girlfriend has a processor's license, so she will be a buyer for some of it. I can trim and store a lot, too. Some I sell in "pre rolls," which are basically cbd joints to smoke. I get some funny looks at the farmers market with the pre rolls. There is also a web site called kush marketplace. It's like the ebay of cbd. I can sell some there, and also will probably have a web site going eventually.

Cole_Robbie · October 3, 2019

I just found out that one of my pre roll customers is a man with Parkinson's disease. When his condition acts up, he lights one, and by the second puff he will stop shaking. It is gratifying to be able to help someone like that.

Worth1 · October 3, 2019

If you learn to cure it the stuff will have a nice smoke and not taste like home grown.
The trick is to convert the chlorophyll to sugars me thinks with a slow humid cure and drying.
Been many years since I have done it but everyone like it a lot.

HudsonValley · October 3, 2019

In my neck of the woods, hemp growers have formed a collective ("Hempire State Growers") and some farms are offering "hemp tours." I haven't taken a tour, but I drive through former apple orchards that are now hemp fields almost daily. They are indeed very smelly at this time of year!

wildcat62 · October 4, 2019

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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Buds!

Great pic...

Cole_Robbie · October 4, 2019

Thanks, guys.

I have been pollinating like a busy bee to make feminized seeds, and I think I am just now starting to see them form.

Cole_Robbie · November 1, 2019

Here are the first seeds of the year. They came from a volunteer plant that grew from some trash I cleaned out of a batch of spring seeds. I pollinated with pollen I had stored in my freezer. It made 650 seeds, not a huge amount, but they are still selling for about a buck apiece, so not a bad haul from a backyard volunteer plant.

bower · November 1, 2019

Those are beautiful seeds.

Marcus1 · November 2, 2019

Cole, What did you use for pollen? My understanding is for feminized seed you have to use pollen from a hermathrodite. Plants look great. Marcus

Cole_Robbie · November 2, 2019

Thanks. And yes, the pollen is collected from female plants that are stressed into making male flowers. I use colloidal silver. Some people use a different chemical, sts I think, but it is somewhat toxic.

I have a couple hundred plants outside that I have tried to pollinate, and I am just now starting to sample them for seeds. Pollination is a tricky affair, especially with no research to guide me. I'm flying blind, but learning quickly, I hope.

October 2, 2019	#92
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Super pics Cole, what a bounty!!

October 3, 2019	#93
PureHarvest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b Posts: 1,369	Are you/have you been doing testing to tell when to harvest based on CBD or THC levels? What is your harvesting/drying method/plan? Are you going to hand-trim and then remove buds from stems and ship in super sacks? Do you have a buyer and how far away are they? Sorry for the machine gun questions. I'm trying to learn and you are the only person I have access to that may be able to answer these questions without me paying a consultant's fee, lol. Crop look awesome BTW!

October 3, 2019	#95
GrowingCoastal Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Vancouver Island Canada BC Posts: 1,253	Wow! And it grows like a weed. Beautiful.

October 3, 2019	#96
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	Thanks. Yeah, that is T1. I bought my first lab test last week, came in at 16.25% cbd and .3% thc, which is perfect, I think. The IL dept of ag has said that for at least this year, they will only count delta 9 thc and not total thc, so just about everyone should pass. That might change next year, if there is Federal guidance. I was one of the lucky ones selected for state testing, but now I know I will pass, so it isn't a big deal. I have harvested a few plants finishing early. They just get hung in a spare room with a little heat. Prices of flower have really come down in the past few months, dropping about 40%. But even at the current rate, my T1 is still worth $375 per pound. My girlfriend has a processor's license, so she will be a buyer for some of it. I can trim and store a lot, too. Some I sell in "pre rolls," which are basically cbd joints to smoke. I get some funny looks at the farmers market with the pre rolls. There is also a web site called kush marketplace. It's like the ebay of cbd. I can sell some there, and also will probably have a web site going eventually.

October 3, 2019	#98
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	If you learn to cure it the stuff will have a nice smoke and not taste like home grown. The trick is to convert the chlorophyll to sugars me thinks with a slow humid cure and drying. Been many years since I have done it but everyone like it a lot.

October 3, 2019	#99
HudsonValley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a Posts: 626	In my neck of the woods, hemp growers have formed a collective ("Hempire State Growers") and some farms are offering "hemp tours." I haven't taken a tour, but I drive through former apple orchards that are now hemp fields almost daily. They are indeed very smelly at this time of year!

November 1, 2019	#103
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Those are beautiful seeds.

November 2, 2019	#104
Marcus1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Colorado Posts: 124	Cole, What did you use for pollen? My understanding is for feminized seed you have to use pollen from a hermathrodite. Plants look great. Marcus

November 2, 2019	#105
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	Thanks. And yes, the pollen is collected from female plants that are stressed into making male flowers. I use colloidal silver. Some people use a different chemical, sts I think, but it is somewhat toxic. I have a couple hundred plants outside that I have tried to pollinate, and I am just now starting to sample them for seeds. Pollination is a tricky affair, especially with no research to guide me. I'm flying blind, but learning quickly, I hope.