[socioecologist]

Watering isn't bad once you get the hang of it. The first two weeks are easy, but you must wield a deft watering wand after that to avoid breakage--the good news is that plants are very, very strong and hardy when they hit the field!

120k pounds is dry, destemmed (23% of wet weight). So delete that previous question; the real one is: how do you dry 520k pounds (wet) of high CBD cannabis (edit: and maintain terpene content)? The early hint: it involves a lot of air!

If the design works out this season, we're confident that we can hit 1 million pounds of dry material next year. That's 106 straight days of harvesting and 10k pounds of dry flower per day. If we've learned anything though, it's the truth embodied in an old fable about chickens, eggs, and premature counting.

[oldchuck]

Will this drop prices, I hope?

[Oneloverebel]

How many pounds per acre do you average ? What's the national spot price per pound ?

Really like this thread. Very interesting

[socioecologist]

Finally got some preliminary test results back on four of our "early" series lines, happy overall and stoked to see them flower out to full completion this summer in the fields across Oregon (these didn't finish all the way and I'm not the world's best grower...).

ET: 11.45% CBD, 27:1 (chunky flowers designed for trimming)
EOII: 12.55% CBD, 29.5:1 (huge yielder, unrivaled vigor)
ES: 14.62% CBD, 27:1 (strongest terp profile)
EA: 14.85% CBD, 29.7:1 (highest overall content scores, see below)

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Originally Posted by socioecologist

Finally got some preliminary test results back on four of our "early" series lines, happy overall and stoked to see them flower out to full completion this summer in the fields across Oregon (these didn't finish all the way and I'm not the world's best grower...).

ET: 11.45% CBD, 27:1 (chunky flowers designed for trimming)
EOII: 12.55% CBD, 29.5:1 (huge yielder, unrivaled vigor)
ES: 14.62% CBD, 27:1 (strongest terp profile)
EA: 14.85% CBD, 29.7:1 (highest overall content scores, see below)

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Nice!
This lab report which you exceeded is the winning entry at the Cultivation Classic last week (indoor CBD). There was a Swiss Tsu with a good ratio too, from East Fork Cultivars. Their Snoozy Cat is worth looking at for a half a minute too.



You can enter your material in these competitions if you want, they aren't OLCC exclusive & the electronic medals & awards will look snazzy on your website.
Our OMMP material apparently came in 3rd in the indoor THC section.

[socioecologist]

Thanks for that PDX and congrats on placing in the CC! We don't do festivals or a whole lot of self-promotion...we're considering it for this year though, just so word gets out about where the bar actually is. Our average CBD content on field produced plants is on par with what shows up at festivals...and those are from last year's breeding projects, designed to pass field inspection below 0.3% THC. Can't wait to unleash the lines we designed specifically to maximize resin content in 2018 (they are in our field this year).

More results from 2 separate "early" lines (again, I'm not a great grower, these could be even higher!):

[idiit]

I started growing early '70's in the wild hemp area of Kansas. hemp pollen there is dominant and turns seed stock to total shit for smoking. fields of hemp with males left to shower out pollen could devastate geographic proximity smoke quality bud ( seedy product, ruined seed stock).

every grower in Kansas hated hemp for seeding up smoke buds and ruining seed stock. the best growers bought their seeds from some local growers who moved to the Missouri Ozarks where the hemp at that time wasn't a problem where they were growing in the Ozarks.

big difference between academic postulates and years, decades of hands on street experience/knowledge.

i'm likely to get some bad reactions to this post but what I just posted was the consensus opinion of the growers and smokers in the hemp fields areas back in da day.

[idiit]

i'm not bashing socioecologist . I am bashing hemp pollen for the devastation it can wreck. socioecologist is operating in an ethical manner. I love hemp. I want hemp in concrete, clothing, etc. it's the possible unethically run hemp fields that cause my concern. I've been on other hemp threads and ppl are reading stuff that is totally the opposite of the growers and smokers experiences operating in areas where there is hemp pollen in the air.

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Originally Posted by socioecologist

Thanks for that PDX and congrats on placing in the CC! We don't do festivals or a whole lot of self-promotion...we're considering it for this year though, just so word gets out about where the bar actually is. Our average CBD content on field produced plants is on par with what shows up at festivals...and those are from last year's breeding projects, designed to pass field inspection below 0.3% THC. Can't wait to unleash the lines we designed specifically to maximize resin content in 2018 (they are in our field this year).

More results from 2 separate "early" lines (again, I'm not a great grower, these could be even higher!):

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One of the people selling hemp paper at the Cultivation Classic told me that so much of the region's hemp production is going to CBD production now they're worried that there might be a hemp fiber shortage soon. Those are all nice labs results. EA4 is the prettiest one, a field of that turning color in September would be an impressive sight. Which one is the tastiest? Is anyone going to give you a hard time over the THC numbers or is it safe to assume the outdoor lab results will be in the limit? Outdoor field test are done around 4 weeks before harvest, I'm pretty sure I remember reading that somewhere (probably this thread) so I guess that also makes a big difference. Have you found out anything of interest in how harvest time affects THC:CBD?

[oldchuck]

Idit, your bad feelings about hemp pollen are understandable. Consider though that your experience with wild midwestern hemp is not the unethical behavior of anybody. The feds have been trying to eradicate it for several generations now and utterly failed. And not so long ago wild hemp has been discovered to be vital food sources for certain birds.

Ethical practice is called for and is also practical. Cannabis is a remarkable species in many ways so the challenge is more difficult than other crops. Growers will work it out, sometimes in court maybe. It's the CBD hemp demand that is new in this. Resinous flowers are not in the traditional definition of "hemp". New stuff is fun.