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To: mistermj who wrote (4758)	11/14/2006 5:38:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 10087

Title: Growing Industrial Hemp in Ontario For textile applications, cut hemp in the early flowering stage or while pollen is being shed, but before seed sets. Fibre that is cut after seed harvest will have lignified considerably and is usable only in some non-woven industrial fibre applications. In dioecious varieties, the male plants die back after shedding pollen. This results in lower fibre yields if the straw is cut after grain has matured. omafra.gov.on.ca One thing to consider...if you want food and oil,for biodiesel, say,you need seeds. ========= I have been trialling fibre hemp this season and am delighted to confirm that it is a very clean and easy crop to grow. It takes about 60 days from seeding to harvest and should yield around three tonne of milled fibre per hectar. We are expecting to get around $700 per tonne for the fibre. On a commercial scale we estimate that it will cost around $260 per tonne to produce. The crop requires fertile, well drained soils and irrigation, although the first crop received 125mm of rainfall and we only had to apply 75mm of irrigation. That means the crop requires less water than wheat to produce a comparable yield for a product worth twice as much. druglibrary.org At $4000/lb, it pays to sex marijuana. No seeds, high resin production, sinsemilla. At $700 a ton for hemp, it isn't done. That's why marijuana growers hate the idea of hemp showing up near them.

To: mistermj who wrote (4758)	11/14/2006 5:39:44 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

>And there is opinion that says sexing the plants was done to increase fiber production.< I have read several times in many different places that this is not true. Could you show your sorce for this information? I'd like to see any report of fiber benefit to this process. any at all .. just show me some kind of hint, please. >Old persons in Kentucky report seeing colored field hands break up and load their pipes with dried flowering tops of the plants and smoke them." (34) Smoking hemp is not the same as smoking pot. Smoking hemp is just a substitute for tobacco, without the THC.It is not the same as smoking pot.< Note .. dried flowering tops not leaf. Have you heard of any one using tobacco flowers for smoking?