[socioecologist]

You aren't missing much this winter, it has been pretty damn cold here! Good eye and thanks for the kind words; that was a client's farm in the Applegate valley. There are two varieties in that picture, our JH-1 (Special Sauce x Otto II) and JH-2 (AC/DC x Otto II). They had the most amazing mold resistance we have ever seen and proved their value in a wet, wet, wet fall.

[Bradley_Danks]

Originally Posted by socioecologist

We have released 5 new varieties in our "Early" series this year that, if all of our research and previous breeding work are correct, will give farmers the ability to have weekly, staggered harvests from early September through mid-October. When paired with our 2 "late" varieties, this increases the usefulness of a farmer's drying space by a factor of 7 and spreads the workload out over a longer period.

Test seeds were germinated in November, confirmatory leaf ratio sample results will be arriving soon, targets for future selfing have been ID'd and set aside, and now we begin the photoperiod sensitivity trials--something I've been waiting to do for years!!!

Space is at a premium at our farm right now due to a massive push for seed production in time for June planting, so plant numbers will be lower than I had hoped (wanted to run a full greenhouse, but nope!). For this experiment, I am growing out 45 plants (9 of each variety) in 10 gallon pots; lighting provided by Gavita and photoperiod manipulation made possible with a cheap Atlas programmable timer (minute resolution, battery backup. It's simple and I have to change the program once a week, but it should work.

The varieties (in order of hypothesized finishing):

(1) Special Sauce x SMGO
(2) Therapy x SMGO
(3) AC/DC x SMGO
(4) BaOx x SMGO
(5) Otto II x SMGO

The experiment starts with 9 hours of darkness to simulate conditions at our field (Willamette Valley, OR) on July 23rd, 2017. Hours of darkness increase a couple minutes a day, to approximate nature.

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I've been considering trying photoperiod testing trials for a few years now too. It always concerned me that factors like root restriction, different mediums, nutrients, light spectrum, environment, or other unknown factors could skew the results. It will be real interesting to see if your results indoors parallels your results outdoors this year!! Good luck

[socioecologist]

Originally Posted by Bradley_Danks

I've been considering trying photoperiod testing trials for a few years now too. It always concerned me that factors like root restriction, different mediums, nutrients, light spectrum, environment, or other unknown factors could skew the results. It will be real interesting to see if your results indoors parallels your results outdoors this year!! Good luck

Totally agree with all you wrote Bradley--the only true test will happen in the field next season. The first issue is (to me) the most important, since root restriction plays such a critical role in the flowering process. I'm transplanting the test plants from 3 gallon pots into 10 gallons to start, which I hope will reduce the impact of that variable. Time will tell!
We believe in what we are doing enough to have planned the drying of 60 acres according to the photoperiod sensitivity we ascribe to these lines and a colleague has committed to 150 acres for the same reason...definitely hope we are right! Hell of an experiment either way .

[socioecologist]

Wanted to provide an update on this experiment but have been waiting on our lab (OG Analytical, Eugene) to return our early CBD:THC ratio tests. They shut down temporarily in early December to move to their new facilities, but it is taking much longer than anticipated. We were able to get our samples in last week, but Rodger said no results until next week. I'll post those as soon as we get them.

Due to space constraints, I had to scale back total numbers to 40--8 of each early variety. They were transplanted on 1/21/17 into 10 gallon pots. Their light cycle draw-down began on 1/25/17 @ 15:25 hours of light (simulating the 2nd week of July here).

Here they were last night:

[Aether]

Originally Posted by socioecologist

Any other growers participating / interested in Oregon's industrial hemp program? The program is pretty awesome. $500 cost to register as a grower. Counties and cities can't ban it. Federally legal due to the 2014 Farm Bill

Wow, haven't heard any noise about that federal legalization for industrial hemp. It's totally legal now to grow industrial hemp at the federal level?

[Aether]

Originally Posted by PDX Dopesmoker

Here are some topical photos I took at Hempstalk

Beautiful golden hemp oil, 26% CBD. Those purple stalks in the background are from hemp purps.
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That's really beautiful colored hemp oil! And nice CBD percentage...

Originally Posted by PDX Dopesmoker

Various hemp textiles & other products
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Back to the OG...still, waiting for camouflage colored hemp thigh pocket trousers...

[einsteinlady]

Socio,
You're saying you fill a 20'x100' hoop house with females then spray them with sts while light depping then collect all the pollen from this hoop house to use on field crop?

To collect the pollen do you bend each branch into hash bag and shake it to collect?

[socioecologist]

Originally Posted by einsteinlady

Socio,
You're saying you fill a 20'x100' hoop house with females then spray them with sts while light depping then collect all the pollen from this hoop house to use on field crop?

To collect the pollen do you bend each branch into hash bag and shake it to collect?

It's for one of our summer projects this year using the auto flowering high CBD hemp lines we developed and tested last season. The plan is to run three 20x100 greenhouses full of our favorite female (pictured below--we all agree that it's the best smelling plant we've ever encountered), preserved and replicated via tissue culture, for outcrossing on a 100 acres worth of other CBD hemp autos we made (3 separate varieties). Have several different highly theoretical plans on large scale pollinating without males at the moment, but won't know what works until sometime next fall .

[yortbogey]

watching, and taking notes... if only WA state would get on board... w/ the quickness....

[Mukind]

I had no idea something that could be labeled "industrial hemp" might have such beautiful flowers

And so much of it

Thanks for sharing