7 April 2022
I ain't done until I'm done, and I ain't done yet.
Just because every single one of the hemp seeds I've tried to sprout so far, all 40 of them, failed to sprout, I ain't done trying. I tossed another few in some water to soak for a few hours before I try to sprout them/ This time, I used distilled water instead of tap water, thinking chlorine in the tap water may be the problem.
Once I've soaked them until they sink, I'll dredge them out and try the wet paper towel method. I hate doing that, because they're delicate as hell once the tap root starts emerging and that makes them difficult to get into dirt without killing them.
Grace allowed as how the peat plugs may have had the wrong Ph, and that could well be, as I think peat is pretty acidic. So if I can get roots to pop out of any of the seeds, I'm going to drop the ones that sprout into potting soil instead, and see if that produces any improvements.
I've got a couple of one gallon plastic containers filled and ready to go to re-try the pampas grass.
I'm going to try the red quinoa next before I give up on the idea of getting grocery store quinoa to grow. it's supposed to be better for you anyhow.
ETA: just going over today's photos of the plantation, which is how I check for sprouts and health because I can blow a photo up enough for my old eyes to examine better than the actual plants, and found this on one of the hemp plugs:
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Now, both I and my eyes are old, and it's been over 40 years since I raised any hemp, but that big shiny round thing sure looks like a hemp seed hull to me. I don't know if one is finally sprouting, or if something else floated it up out of the peat plug, but the next day or two should tell the tale about it.
Just my luck that only ONE will sprout, and it will invariably be a male plant...
Now, cannabis tap roots usually emerge from the edge of the seed. When it swells as it grows, it cracks the seed along a seam at the edge, and pops out. Then it usually stands the seed up with that edge vertical (which is still horizontal in this photo) as it pushes up out of the dirt and spreads the cotyledons open. I see NONE of that here, so it may be a big fat nothing burger.
Tobacco, in contrast, pops the root web out of the end of the seed case. and stands up from there.
For all you legal beagles out there just a-chompin' at the bit for a kill, don't get yer panties in a bunch just yet. ONE plant (if it even IS a plant, rather than mechanical movement through the peat plug like a coffin floating to the surface in New Orleans) is still under the legal limit in VA for ANY type of cannabis, and that type of hemp is within the Federal legal THC guidelines for growing for any amount of cannabis, so we're good at both state and Federal levels.
Plus, I don't have any qualms about disappearing trespassers, so there is that...
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I ain't done until I'm done, and I ain't done yet.
Just because every single one of the hemp seeds I've tried to sprout so far, all 40 of them, failed to sprout, I ain't done trying. I tossed another few in some water to soak for a few hours before I try to sprout them/ This time, I used distilled water instead of tap water, thinking chlorine in the tap water may be the problem.
Once I've soaked them until they sink, I'll dredge them out and try the wet paper towel method. I hate doing that, because they're delicate as hell once the tap root starts emerging and that makes them difficult to get into dirt without killing them.
Grace allowed as how the peat plugs may have had the wrong Ph, and that could well be, as I think peat is pretty acidic. So if I can get roots to pop out of any of the seeds, I'm going to drop the ones that sprout into potting soil instead, and see if that produces any improvements.
I've got a couple of one gallon plastic containers filled and ready to go to re-try the pampas grass.
I'm going to try the red quinoa next before I give up on the idea of getting grocery store quinoa to grow. it's supposed to be better for you anyhow.
ETA: just going over today's photos of the plantation, which is how I check for sprouts and health because I can blow a photo up enough for my old eyes to examine better than the actual plants, and found this on one of the hemp plugs:
Now, both I and my eyes are old, and it's been over 40 years since I raised any hemp, but that big shiny round thing sure looks like a hemp seed hull to me. I don't know if one is finally sprouting, or if something else floated it up out of the peat plug, but the next day or two should tell the tale about it.
Just my luck that only ONE will sprout, and it will invariably be a male plant...
Now, cannabis tap roots usually emerge from the edge of the seed. When it swells as it grows, it cracks the seed along a seam at the edge, and pops out. Then it usually stands the seed up with that edge vertical (which is still horizontal in this photo) as it pushes up out of the dirt and spreads the cotyledons open. I see NONE of that here, so it may be a big fat nothing burger.
Tobacco, in contrast, pops the root web out of the end of the seed case. and stands up from there.
For all you legal beagles out there just a-chompin' at the bit for a kill, don't get yer panties in a bunch just yet. ONE plant (if it even IS a plant, rather than mechanical movement through the peat plug like a coffin floating to the surface in New Orleans) is still under the legal limit in VA for ANY type of cannabis, and that type of hemp is within the Federal legal THC guidelines for growing for any amount of cannabis, so we're good at both state and Federal levels.
Plus, I don't have any qualms about disappearing trespassers, so there is that...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’