Medium made from stalks, stems, and branches????

tags420

tags420

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I always look at all my stems and branches(specially after outdoors) and wonder if there was a way to make a medium out of it. kinda like a soilless coco fiber or something. Legalities might be why, I imagine with more legalization of marijuana and hemp it might get looked into. We have plenty of plant waste in CA I could start a national company using just my county's garden waste alone.

What do you guys think about it?
 
HolySmoke420

HolySmoke420

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I'm sure you could grind it up and use it like coco. I think it would have more of a mulchy feeling too it. I just compost all my trimmings n shit. Its worth a shot though! Who knows, you could be the next millionaire ;) I already have a slogan "grow your pot, in a pot, using pot" hahah.
 
Figong

Figong

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If it were me, I'd use the stalks, stems, and branches and toss them into the compost material for the soil grows.
 
tags420

tags420

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Stems just take for ever to decompose unless you grind them to dust...but after a harvest the last thing i want to do is grind stems for hours. I just want them gone. Years ago I just mulched it all...now I just have too much and know others that have way more than me.
It just seems like such a waste taking loads to the dump every year. Me and 1000's of others are just trashing it all, why not capitalize on the opportunity to really be a green company.

I'm thinking it could be a big business opportunity but thats one of the reasons hemp is illegal...too good of a resource for the politicians pockets.
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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tags420 said:
Stems just take for ever to decompose unless you grind them to dust...but after a harvest the last thing i want to do is grind stems for hours. I just want them gone. Years ago I just mulched it all...now I just have too much and know others that have way more than me.
It just seems like such a waste taking loads to the dump every year. Me and 1000's of others are just trashing it all, why not capitalize on the opportunity to really be a green company.

I'm thinking it could be a big business opportunity but thats one of the reasons hemp is illegal...too good of a resource for the politicians pockets.
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hemp fiber would not make a good media. look into straw and rice hull. there is a lot of issues that inherently would be involved in using hemp fiber as a media, not to say it cant be done, but it would not be as efficient or as beneficial as other fibers.

you could use the stems to make rope!:D actually/surprisingly its pretty easy to make twine. smash the stems against a hard surface with a hammers and split apart the stands/fibers by hand, braid, and make hemp wicks with bees wax to smoke your dope.
 
tags420

tags420

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polyarcturus said:
hemp fiber would not make a good media. look into straw and rice hull. there is a lot of issues that inherently would be involved in using hemp fiber as a media, not to say it cant be done, but it would not be as efficient or as beneficial as other fibers.

you could use the stems to make rope!:D actually/surprisingly its pretty easy to make twine. smash the stems against a hard surface with a hammers and split apart the stands/fibers by hand, braid, and make hemp wicks with bees wax to smoke your dope.
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What are the issues...that's what I originally wanted to know?

I've made twine and little crafts with it. I am thinking about when big out guys that have litereally three+ truck loads each of stems and branches. Thats a lot of basically free/cheap resources just going to a land fill.

I know selling beans in CA is technically a recycling business...unusable pant material... so I would think that it could legally be done with the stems/branches too, at least in CA.
 
jondamon

jondamon

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https://www.rollitup.org/organics/431416-100-hemp-stalk-growing-medium.html

From a little google search it appears as though hemp stalks decompose so IMO eventually using only hemp stalk you would end up with decaying matter if used solely.

Composting it appears to be the way to go.

However another possible business from the stalks etc could be building materials.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&ei=gKTEUZvLCPTu0gWBioDQAg&q=hemp+as+a+building+material&oq=hemp+as+a+building+ma&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.0.0j0i22i30l4.1872.7179.0.8346.21.20.0.0.0.0.344.4803.1j4j10j5.20.0...0.0...1c.1.17.mobile-gws-hp.fLErQbdnVPk



Happy researching.



J
 
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