Figured i’d start this thread today after pulling seeds from cold storage. I’ll keep them around fifty degrees till they get sown on April tenth or so.
After collecting these on Illinois / Indiana border been chomping at the bit for spring. All work moving forward will be conducted outdoors so the genetic integrity remains intact. Pathogen, virus, bacterial resistance has been natural evolving over the last seventy five years as this strain developed by U.S.D.A and head breeder Lyster Dewey. The United States used Mr. Dewey’s lines ten years later across midwestern United States and with trial and error, helpful tips and a little luck I found the fiber line I was searching for since 2014. The farm had a new home, new barns and had obviously been focused on corn production over many generations but it also had a few concrete pads from an era gone by that once supported structures from previous buildings and with an four to five acre parcel overgrown untouched for a century gone by.
As I backed my truck up on one of a thousand intersecting rock roads so I could double back towards another spot on map I notice the towering hemp plants high above the assortment of wild grass and flowers. If not for a random u-turn before I hit intersection two blocks down near farm house, my search would still be on going as it was well into harvest season. I’ve acquired a few other hemp strains during this three year journey but like most “ ditch weed “ it’s been hybridized and constitutes plants between five / seven feet not what I was searching for. From the second I laid eyes upon these plants the search was over. Because of natural selection and survival of the fittest this strain has acclimated itself over many generations battling all elements and detriments but still holding key elements like size and structure and node spacing all attributes built by Lyster Dewy for the U.S.D.A. Assumptions regarding plants no longer grown at high density losing attributes like height, node spacing, hollowness of stem all came crashing down as these sporadic fiber plants across one acre matched the sepia-tone images from Dewey’s life’s work. Also destroyed was the assumption that these Kentucky/ U.S.D.A lost forever....
I collected all the seeds possible over three or four trips because the location near farm house and being a massive contract commercial operation warranted a carful approach. Having plant material and thousands of seeds would have carried a very heavy price as no difference found between traditional marijuana or hemp as every seed would have counted against me.
In total I’ll be starting over four thousand seeds in my bulking / production patch at forty two degree latitude only a few degree over the origination point. I also segregated seed from the tallest plant ( seventeen feet. ) ruff guess five hundred to seven hundred of these will be grown at a different location. This year will consist of bulking only. I will do further selection moving forward at that stage running upwards of one million seeds. I’ve been in contact with a few people in government and our state of Illinois should be a legal hemp production state in the heart of the Midwest some time this year.
Fiber hemp production is a totally different ballgame then most of the hemp production being undertaken across Europe and USA Today. This is a fiber line only not for CBD etc. and the infrastructure needed for processes is not incorporated in the United States at this time. China is the leader today in this marketplace.....
I’ll be ready when this changes as advancement in technology and uses for fiber are being developed quickly.
So time is on my side. I hope in the not so distant futures I can help not only the Illinois farmers but farmers across the Midwest maximize yield per square meter with a few hemp varieties. ( feminized and hybrid with this line )
Let the journey begin. I’ll update this thread along the way as this year will see this first batch of seed broadcast in a “ Guerrilla “ landscape on untouched prairie lands. Pictures will follow once I start tilling area and the spring winds start blowing and the rains and warmer air come forth from winters cold.....
After collecting these on Illinois / Indiana border been chomping at the bit for spring. All work moving forward will be conducted outdoors so the genetic integrity remains intact. Pathogen, virus, bacterial resistance has been natural evolving over the last seventy five years as this strain developed by U.S.D.A and head breeder Lyster Dewey. The United States used Mr. Dewey’s lines ten years later across midwestern United States and with trial and error, helpful tips and a little luck I found the fiber line I was searching for since 2014. The farm had a new home, new barns and had obviously been focused on corn production over many generations but it also had a few concrete pads from an era gone by that once supported structures from previous buildings and with an four to five acre parcel overgrown untouched for a century gone by.
As I backed my truck up on one of a thousand intersecting rock roads so I could double back towards another spot on map I notice the towering hemp plants high above the assortment of wild grass and flowers. If not for a random u-turn before I hit intersection two blocks down near farm house, my search would still be on going as it was well into harvest season. I’ve acquired a few other hemp strains during this three year journey but like most “ ditch weed “ it’s been hybridized and constitutes plants between five / seven feet not what I was searching for. From the second I laid eyes upon these plants the search was over. Because of natural selection and survival of the fittest this strain has acclimated itself over many generations battling all elements and detriments but still holding key elements like size and structure and node spacing all attributes built by Lyster Dewy for the U.S.D.A. Assumptions regarding plants no longer grown at high density losing attributes like height, node spacing, hollowness of stem all came crashing down as these sporadic fiber plants across one acre matched the sepia-tone images from Dewey’s life’s work. Also destroyed was the assumption that these Kentucky/ U.S.D.A lost forever....
I collected all the seeds possible over three or four trips because the location near farm house and being a massive contract commercial operation warranted a carful approach. Having plant material and thousands of seeds would have carried a very heavy price as no difference found between traditional marijuana or hemp as every seed would have counted against me.
In total I’ll be starting over four thousand seeds in my bulking / production patch at forty two degree latitude only a few degree over the origination point. I also segregated seed from the tallest plant ( seventeen feet. ) ruff guess five hundred to seven hundred of these will be grown at a different location. This year will consist of bulking only. I will do further selection moving forward at that stage running upwards of one million seeds. I’ve been in contact with a few people in government and our state of Illinois should be a legal hemp production state in the heart of the Midwest some time this year.
Fiber hemp production is a totally different ballgame then most of the hemp production being undertaken across Europe and USA Today. This is a fiber line only not for CBD etc. and the infrastructure needed for processes is not incorporated in the United States at this time. China is the leader today in this marketplace.....
I’ll be ready when this changes as advancement in technology and uses for fiber are being developed quickly.
So time is on my side. I hope in the not so distant futures I can help not only the Illinois farmers but farmers across the Midwest maximize yield per square meter with a few hemp varieties. ( feminized and hybrid with this line )
Let the journey begin. I’ll update this thread along the way as this year will see this first batch of seed broadcast in a “ Guerrilla “ landscape on untouched prairie lands. Pictures will follow once I start tilling area and the spring winds start blowing and the rains and warmer air come forth from winters cold.....
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