Hemp flower farming.

[Kiwi Pete]

OOI, when you see "Hemp Oil" in a shop, is the oil produced from seeds, or the plant itself?

Later..

https://okcbd.co.uk/cbd-blog/all-posts/difference-hemp-cbd-oil/https://okcbd.co.uk/cbd-blog/all-posts/difference-hemp-cbd-oil/

Looks like oil can come from both seed and whole plant!

The above suggests the haulm after oil extraction is good animal feed... I wonder if stock can eat the hemp plant itself? All that biomass....

Generally the seed, the better quality oil comes from hempseed.
The rest of the plant is great feedstock either for stock or renewable energy usage, not only nutritious but also very little input is required - they don't call it "weed" for no reason!
As with most things, the more inputs you put in to make it grow, the more diluted the product becomes. Down where I am is fairly well suited to growing it, as the daylength/climate is suitable (hemp flowers when the daylength is shorter than night length) and thus seed production is a few weeks after the equinox. Rain causes much mould, and thus loss.

 

[JD-Kid]

looked at growing it here mainly for fiber as bit steep for headers
get some intesting employees with diff skill sets. to grow it. hahaha

 

[Kiwi Pete]

looked at growing it here mainly for fiber as bit steep for headers
get some intesting employees with diff skill sets. to grow it. hahaha

This is correct, bloke not far from me grows it and says he "has never once advertised for staff"

 

[SteveHants]

Romans used to grow hemp on the Island I believe. Our moist climate was ideal for retting and so softening the fibres. It is only the modern trend for baling the swath that requires a DM of around 18%.
The Essex mill (never trusted an Essex wallah since then) rejected my bales on grounds of moisture and promptly burnt them - WTF - without any compo.

It is whence Hampshire got its name.

 

[steveR]

It is whence Hampshire got its name.

Really. Interesting.

 

[steveR]

Generally the seed, the better quality oil comes from hempseed.
The rest of the plant is great feedstock either for stock or renewable energy usage, not only nutritious but also very little input is required - they don't call it "weed" for no reason!

Yet in that link it implied that the CPD oil extracted from the whole plant is superior to that from the seed alone...

Wonder what it would be like as a forage crop?

 

[steveR]

You do need a licence in the UK to grow any form of hemp, but it is freely available.

I know someone who planted wild bird mix that had hemp seed in it! He used a couple of bags of wildbird seed mixture (used on the bird tables) to finish off a bit of ground! Not sure what the mix looked like in the end, as there was a lot of competition from the mix as a well as a "weed" problem from a crap stale seedbed!

Dunno what the legaliistic implications would be.... Roundup??




* Sorry...

 

[SteveHants]

Really. Interesting.

Yes - it had the right climate apparently, and, of course, the ports of Southampton and Portsmouth were on its doorstep.

 

[JD-Kid]

This is correct, bloke not far from me grows it and says he "has never once advertised for staff"

only. thing is so I'm told the THC levels drop is the cash crops interplanted with the other hemp unless growing it for medical use then. why would yer need to place a cash crop in with the main crop hahaha

 

[Exfarmer]

It is whence Hampshire got its name.

Sadly wrong
It got its name from the Saxon name for Southampton which was Hamtoun meaning village/ town.
In those days Hemp was known as kannabis a Greek derived name possibly of Eastern origin. the term hemp is fairly recent.
I think some on line sources are trying to twist history for dubious ends

 

[DarthSidious]

Hemp flower? Is it legal to grow it anyway? I've thought about it several times. Usually I just buy CBD products when I need these for my spinal pain (I was in an accident 3 years ago). Usually I buy European produced CBD gummies because other CBD products can have a bad taste (the oil itself is bitter as hell) or can cause lungs damage (using CBD oils as a vape liquid can cause cancer). I don't think that I can make CBD gummies by myself without special equipment and growing hemp flowers can be dangerous. Maybe I'm wrong?