I am not a huge fan a cannabis, but it is great to see anyone growing their own stuff. Medicine, food, textiles, we need to do this to be independent as humans. You ever use the male plants to make rope or clothing? Just get the stalks wet and beat them on a rock, the resulting fibers are your raw textile material.
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Do you dry the stems first or beat them fresh?
Wet them with water for most types of fiber. I believe it is called Pithing or Coir. It is handy to be able to make twine or rope and while I have not used hemp, I have done other fibers. Hemp is supposed to be stronger than most natural fibers. Wet it and beat it on a rock, the strongest and longest strings separate and survive.
I got a bunch of old dry stems laying around I use for bong cleaning & potpourri 😁 I’ll have to try to rehydrate some & make some rope
I would try extracting the oil from them, unless the plants were males. Stem oil is very potent.
Appreciate it! We actually don't have males generally, as it's all from feminized seeds or from clones of females. Although i wish I had an outdoor grow, and could actually harvest males for hemp too. Would be awesome.
Cloning a flower, that's another handy skill only imparted to the wise!
I will put up an aloe Vera cloning technique for flowers in a couple weeks when I next take clones :) organic :)