sammyqc
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Urban, small raised beds, Zone 5 (Canada)
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Post by sammyqc on Jan 8, 2009 20:59:55 GMT -5
This is a fairly new thing for me, but I've been wondering if anyone here grows it/is thinking of growing it. Apparently you don't need to use anything at all (chemical etc) as it grows like a weed (pun intended). I've been eating it for a few weeks now (hulled seed) and I've never felt better. I think this is a huge untapped market. There are a few suppliers out there, but there could be a bigger market if this is promoted, and more growers would be needed.
Hemp is even a fantastic livestock feed.
Just popping this out there.
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Post by houseodessey on Jan 8, 2009 22:47:21 GMT -5
No wonder you've been absent. Damned hempseed complacency. I know nothing about growing hemp but had lots of friends in college that grew certain varieties indoors. Not very helpful. Just couldn't resist the opportunity to pick at you a bit. Hemp has lots of good uses, though and should be used more, IMO.
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Post by stratcat on Jan 9, 2009 19:22:41 GMT -5
Hi, Sammy. Good to see you here.
Haven't tried growing hemp nor eaten any. I'll be interested in hearing how eating it works out for you.
Been playing your stringed instruments? Getting some guitar work in but the mandolin stays in its case.
john
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sammyqc
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Urban, small raised beds, Zone 5 (Canada)
Posts: 94
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Post by sammyqc on Jan 9, 2009 23:19:16 GMT -5
Been scarfing the seeds as recommended, 3-4 tbsp a day. So far so good, and I am giving it credit for helping my swimmer's knee, as well as just over all feeling good.
Haven't done any serious practice on my violins, but the girls have been playing theirs lately, and wanting lessons, which is good. My guitar, well, seeing as my dad is a guitar guru/teacher, I think he would be seriously shamed by his daughter's lack of proficiency.
But I am riding again, and that is taking precedent over pretty much every thing. And planning to buy a project OTTB next fall.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 10, 2009 9:32:13 GMT -5
Good to see you here sammy. My 18 year old daughter wanted a violin this year for christmas. It has been out of the case once. Of course, around here it's called a fiddle and used for down home bluegrass music more than as a violin playing classical. I couldn't get it to do anything more than make a horrible sqeaking sound. What is an OTTB?
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Post by stratcat on Jan 10, 2009 18:42:45 GMT -5
And just what kind of horse is a project OTTB?  Glad to see the girls playing music. I help my older nephew lots on gtr. In person and over the phone. j |
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sammyqc
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Urban, small raised beds, Zone 5 (Canada)
Posts: 94
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Post by sammyqc on Jan 10, 2009 21:57:13 GMT -5
I'm glad they like music too! It's just hard for them to take lessons from their bossy mother. At least they finally believe me that a violin is pretty much impossible to play upside down!! It's really hard to teach your own kids, I don't know how homeschoolers do it. I can play Mozart, Vivaldi, whatever, for them, and they think that's great, but apparently I usually still don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to helping them out! But they are getting better, and we may try and go with guitar or piano for them, so they will actually listen to their teacher.
An OTTB is an off track thoroughbred, a project because all they've done is race. They need a lot of retraining, which can be a lot of fun, although very time consuming. A lot of these lovely horses get sent to slaughter at the end of the race season, for simple economic reasons. They aren't much use to the owners once they can't race, and they are deemed expendable. The geldings in particular, because they are of no use for breeding purposes. A lot of these horses have made lots of money for their owners, and deserve a hell of a lot more. And a lot of them have potential to go on to other things. They just never get the chance. Ah....don't get me started. Anyway, I plan to buy a horse next year, and figure I should try to do some good at the same time by saving at least one from an uncertain future.
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Post by Alan on Jan 10, 2009 23:37:33 GMT -5
I would love to grow hemp here, but they would be on my ass like white on rice as the state police already think I'm growing weed because of the greenhouses and the name of the business "Bishop's Homegrown" which was actually chosen to get gossip started and people curious about checking us out! Any publicity is good publicity!?
Anyhow, I've been playing a lot of bass lately, I need to restring both of my acoustic guitars and I'm planning on buying a new mandolin shortly (had to sell my Kona when I started the business for upstart money). Prior to breaking my collar bone in a car accident I used to play violin a little bit, but not terribly profficiently, I can find the notes, it's the angle of the instrument that bothers me, I have in the past played cello on some recordings and that was a lot of fun, and banjo was always an interest as well.
All things I used to have more time for. I have entertained starting a three piece band up at some point in the future. I would like to start something up based around mandolin and bass. Sort of a alt-bluegrass/country/grove/jam band, but I don't know if I'll ever get around to it. I would be happy if I could just put together a cover band to re-interpret songs at this point.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 11, 2009 10:45:29 GMT -5
Well sammy, good luck with the horse. I'm sure you know what you are if for, it is a lot of work. Be careful-my husbands business partner had a retired race horse given to him. One day while walking the horse back to the barn after a ride, the horse spooked, kicked his son square in the face. Crushed his face. Literally. Was still having plastic surgery over a year later. Now, of course it wasn't the horse's fault that Dakota was walking too close behind, but they can just be so unpredictable. Takes a special touch with animals like that, and it sounds like you have that touch. Lucky for at least one horse that you are willing to take it on. We just live about an hour from Churchill Downs, and me and my daughters do like to go once in a while. And the horse farms in Lexington KY are really beautiful. A friend of mine used to own and train horses that raced at Churchill, and once he took us to the spring auction in Lexington. One horse was lead to the ring, and you could just tell this horse was special. He sold for 4 million dollars, and the guy who bought him was sitting right behind us and my other friend was freaking out because she thought they were pointing at us. Sorry to ramble, but for anyone who loves horses, a trip to Lexington in the springtime is nice. There is a museum there detailing the history of horses at Churchill. If you ever get that far south.
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Post by PatrickW on Jan 11, 2009 13:37:11 GMT -5
I've been thinking about growing it too. My neighbors also all think I grow it, because I grow my seedlings under an orange sodium vapor lamp. These lamps are a dime a dozen here, cheaper and more energy efficient than fluorescent tubes. It makes for a pretty distinctive glow out the window, and I have to be careful not to let the light shine in my neighbors houses too much.
The one thing I'm not too sure about is growing it at the community garden, as they're a slightly conservative bunch there... No one else at the garden is growing any right now, so I would stand out. I don't really want to grow it in the house, as I don't have space.
From a practical standpoint, even though it's not legal, the police here recognize a 5 plant per adult (18 years old) limit, and if you live in a house with more than one adult, you can combine your limits. That means we can grow 10 plants between the two of us.
Some older varieties of hemp are hard to find! It would be nice to grow some out and share some seeds...
I don't use it myself! This would be purely for purposes of biodiversity and research...
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Post by hiven on Jan 11, 2009 13:48:22 GMT -5
I didn't know about that Patrick !
We got 2 plants growing voluntarily in our back garden last year.
The seeds were (most possibly) coming from our neighbour which smoke it.
I simply pulled them out and feed it to my worms.
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Post by bunkie on Jan 11, 2009 17:53:12 GMT -5
wait a minute. i thought hemp was like the sister plant of marijuana? and smoking it you couldn't get high...i learned this from experimentation in my mid-youth! ;D hemp was grown more for food, as sammy mentioned (hi sammy!) and can also be used to make paper, rope, clothing, etc... i want so much to grow this on our property, but it is illegal here and there are drug copters always flying overhead during the summer months looking for pot plants. i think it would be one of the most useful plants in the gardens! there's a website here www.votehemp.com/that is trying to make it legal to grow in the states. Vermont has passed a law to grow it, but there are so many specifics, it almost can't be done. there are i think 2 states where one can get a permit to grow it, but it costs like 5,000 dollars and a lot of rigamoroe. so sad for a plant that could be so useful. |
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Post by Alan on Jan 11, 2009 18:47:37 GMT -5
Yes, Hemp and Marijuana are closely related plants, but not the same. I am not sure of Hemp's legal status in the U.S. but I would like to grow it if I could, however the drug force fly over the farm and greenhouses enough as is and without cause, enough so as to litterally get on my last nerve and want to do something about it.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 11, 2009 19:53:39 GMT -5
Someone here mentioned going outside with a camera when the helicopters where nosing around and them leaving. Maybe if you appear to be about to do something about it they would back off.
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Post by bunkie on Jan 13, 2009 11:35:04 GMT -5
tried it and they just circled more and get in a little closer, flashing their cameras. i guess growing hemp is regulated in Canada sammy.... as far as the US, it's still not legal to grow here...but we can eat it from other countries! www.csdp.org/news/news/hempnews2.htm |
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