Its now legal. Where can I buy hemp seeds to grow, not eat?
Is it legal in your state for you to grow it?
In a nutshell, first I’ll first assume you’re in an area where it is grown legally in which you intend to do this. With that out of way, one of the most popular and efficient means is to:
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Get great seeds. Genetics is important, and there are various seed companies of which you can buy from that will either make or break you from the get-go.
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Grow from a couple or handful of mother plants, and from these plants, cut growing shoots from them. You can literally have hundreds of plants all the same size sharing the same potency. You can do this for quite a few generations from the same mother plants. You can also have all female plants by looking very carefully at the nearly all female plant and using what few male buds off of it to pollinate the same mostly female plant.
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If grown indoors, ideally, don’t let them get much bigger than about a foot to a foot and a half or so.
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Again, if indoors, ideally, use metal halides for vegetative stage, switching over to sodium vapor during flowering. If you can only afford one light for both, go with sodium vapor, it will give you the best buds. You need about 3,500 ft candles for healthy buds on most strains, and this will mean getting the light down very low to the plant to achieve this.
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Pay attention to the hours of light vs, darkness, about 16-18 during vegetative stage, although some leave the light on 24 (controversial), but when flowering it is very important to have about 12 hours light and 12 hours of darkness, with no interruption of daylight during the night cycle, otherwise, you may never get your plants to flower.
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If you sell to an established medical establishment in the US, expect about $2,700 a lb. Not sure what it is now, and may not even be quoting the actual number, but I believe it should be within a few hundred dollars of that amount. This is not anywhere near what you could get on the black market, but we are speaking the legal means of doing so.
Don’t expect a lot of yield for your dried out plants, especially grown under lights and to about a foot or so, maybe 7 grams or so dried, strain will vary a little bit. But they will be very potent if the seeds were right. Flowers are what is sought out, and small leaves is fine as well. If grown outside, sativa is what you want, not indica, although both great in potency, sativa will give you much larger yields. Even if for private use, and done right, you could actually get about 5-7 lbs of dried out bud from sativa strains on a well ran operation, possibly more. Many still only get a couple of lbs for various reasons though.
In CO, you can grow up to six plants, three full size to maturity just for personal use. If you have the necessary licenses, that is the only time you can grow much more than that legally.
Growing can be as simple as just throwing a few seeds on the ground, and if you had great seeds to begin with, you can have some very potent plants. To be done legally in some states, you have to have the garden enclosed or out of public sight.
Personally, I think it’s best to get away from the lights, and the electricity that they will draw. About $40 (depends on kilowatt price) for each 1,000 watt light. Still grow it indoors, but there are acrylic panels and other types of grow panels, in which you wouldn’t be out the electric bill, and you could also grow them much taller than the foot or so, in which you could get much better yields, although you wouldn’t have as much control over the photoperiod. Also, fewer plants mean a lot less labor intensive. Despite how bright and how good the metal halide and sodium vapor lights are, put a foot candle meter to the light getting in with acrylic panels, and it’ll be considerably more, which will also let you grow the plants much bigger as well.
There are many ways to grow this plant, it’s quite easy, but I can’t stress getting great seeds enough. Again, that’s it in a nutshell.
razncain. Thank you for your input but I am not planning to grow pot, rather I am planning to grow hemp. I want to weave myself a shirt, make paper, print my own money, grow it for aesthetic purposes. Again, I do not plan to smoke the stuff. Note: The wife has a MM card so we can buy the real deal, even plant a few plants. Again, I’m talking hemp, not pot. Thx again. Note: I should have emphasized this in my original post but i thought the link would do my bidding. ( I have to admit, after razncain’s posting, I was tempted…)
No, it’s my bad, just figured you were using it slang for the other parts of it. That’s what I get for not clicking on your link, just didn’t make time for it, I have a slow feeder, and links take a good while for me to load especially in the evening. Carry on….
Understood razncain. Still, I’m squirreling away your enlightening post 
Still it was a great post!
I couldn’t read the article…are they saying farmers will make money growing hemp? :dubious:
That did not work out so well for Canadian farmers.
Read the link (article). It sez its a booming business in Canada. Now, where can I get Hemp seeds? - Not Pot seeds.
Like I said. I couldn’t read it. LA Times doesn’t like my old computer.
Given that there was a huge glut when they first opened the market in 1998 I wonder what changed?
Found some stats, but only through 2007. I can see the glut happen in 1999 and remember that a lot of farmers got burned. There was some kind of resurgence in 2006, followed by another drop.
From this article it would seem that Hemp’s primary growth is from health food. Seems like hemp might have finally found a niche to fill.
Even so, all his points about great seeds, etc. are worth noting because the same principals will apply.
Chief differences:
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Get seeds bred for fiber as opposed to buds or flowers. There are strains of hemp bred specifically for what you desire and they are different than varieties grown for pscyhoactive qualities.
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You’ll probably need to grow outside to get the quantities of fiber you desire.
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You’ll need to know how to convert help plants to usable fiber.
Sorry, I can’t advise you were to get seeds but, again, genetics are very important here. You want the hemp fiber variants.
Just to be clear on the issue, hemp and pot are the same plant. You are just looking for a strain of Cannabis Sativa L that has been bred for high fiber and low THC.
It isn’t a different plant.
http://hempethics.weebly.com/industrial-hemp-vs-cannabis.html
Thank you for the link. “Generally, industrial hemp grows best on fields that provide high yields for corn crops…”
I have a very nice corn crop (40+ plants) in one of my raised beds (25 X 10 X 2). Harvest time is about 6 weeks away. After harvest, I would like to use some of that space to grow hemp but I can’t find the seed. I’m in planting zone 9B.
Mr. Green YouTube series
Who is going to accept this Little Pig currency? The Big Bad Wolf?
Not finally, Again! Hemp was a big cash crop in the American colonies.
Little Pig currency will be backed by the full faith and credit of (trumpets please) Bitcoin.
Not really. Despite some hype it never took off. In the 17th century they had to force farmers to grow the stuff so that ships coming to the colonies could replace their sails. But it was not fun to grow and harvest the stuff.
Some of the founding fathers grew or sang praises of hemp but they never had to harvest the stuff personally. Certainly it was a cash crop for the times but other materials replaced pretty much all of its uses.
In the South, tobacco, rice and indigo were the big cash crops. Cotton came along later. British colonies were required to grow hemp which they did. Can’t find a good site as to why it fell out of favor. I’m guessing there were more profitable crops? (I’m talking 1700’s - 1800’s.)