All of these sound like good ideas, but here are some thoughts... Tea tree oil would not be cost friendly for large amounts and I don't know if that would kill the mold. Vinegar is cost friendly but you would need a Ph kit to make sure it was acidic enough (Ph 2.5 or lower) . Alcohol is not cost friendly because you would need a 90% or higher to be effective at killing the mold. Iodine is not cost friendly and it would stain the fiber. Wood ash is a good alternative too.
When I was a kid, back in the 195Os, we would make fishing leaders by stripping the green bark layers off of green wild hemp. Yes, there were survivalists even back then, and we made whatever we needed from what we found in the woods. We fished with home made string, a foot of fine hemp leader, and a gorge hook. It works !
For those curious on why the medical marijuana stalk was as big as his forearm and not skinny like the rest of the Hemp: A common method of growing cannabis for THC production is to grow the biggest plant possible. Some people germinate in December and grow the plant indoors during the winter and then transplant them in early spring, so by the time October (Harvest Month) rolls around the weed plant looks like a tree! This also cuts labor in many ways as all the weed is in one spot. Great video! Can't wait for GA to legalize hemp so I can help protect the planet!
Im from Georgia and hope to grow soon and get my community involved I’m very excited, cheers to everyone following this ancient tradition that truly impacts everything in a great way.
Love this advice. And having the written instructions in the description alongside several methods and options for each step really helps! Thank you for this upload!
"Take care and spend time with that family" has to be one of the most wholesome outros I've ever heard on RUclips. ❤ I really appreciate this "small scale" video, it's nearly impossible to find videos or instructional info on hemp growing for non-industrial use. 😊
Thanks, we grew about 1/8 acre of hemp and 1/8 acre of flax last year. I can see from your video that our retting process was insufficient. We have leftover stuff in our friend's hay loft so we'll try again in the spring. Thanks for the video.
Sounds great! I am going to grow flax's this year because it costs too much to grow hemp up here in Maine. Cheaper to get the stocks from medical growers
Great video! I am interested in processing hemp fiber to make yarns for textiles that I plan on making! This helped me understand the process better so thank you!
Good for you, I am happy to hear your looking into utilizing this amazing plant for fiber production. I am going to be growing flax, stinging nettles and industrial hemp this year to try my hand at processing them all into usable fibers.
So cool! My mom was a spinner and weaver mostly animal fibers and cotton and I’ve always wanted to learn and now been super excited about the possibility of growing and processing hemp for fiber and would love to also try flax and nettle! Do any of you know of other people doing this and where I can find more info? Videos, websites, communities? Thanks!
Looking to grow soon and I don't want to waste any part of my plants (so I don't have to put illegal material in my bin and just because I don't want anything to be thrown out if it can be used). Cheers for the guide. Reckon ill skip the wool part and make some hemp wick 🌿🌿
Awesome! Thanks for the info. With all the booming medical marijuana in maine you're in no short supply of material. Cool to learn about the mmj fibers vs hemp also! Especially if they're outdoor the stalks get big and woody, plus the plants are taken care of so well. I plan on trying this with all our leftover stalks, this is such an easy and manageable method to get something useable out of what I usually just burn or let compost.
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks if only I could convince my wife, it's not an evil thing, I would. I'm still learning all I can about it. Thank you for your encouragement.
I’ve been looking for videos like this! Would love to start growing hemp to use for making fiber for clothing and other linens as well as making paper, do you know if I can use the left over stalks after the outer strands are removed for paper making? I’d love to use the whole plant and ideally even for food. Can this be done with a hemp plant grown for seed harvesting?
MA, Good work! But for completeness, you should include some harvesting details. When to cut it down, how long to let it dry, how to separate the fibers from the stalk, etc.
pretty sure the stalk is used for hemp hurds and building supplies, such as hemp bricks, lumber, insulation, not just for the wood burning stove. not sure which is used for the biofuel or the resins/ie plastics, and urethane but using the entire plant would be good to do.
You are absolutely right, the stocks is often chopped up and they are called hemp hurds. The hurds are then used to make animal bedding, paper and Hempcrete which is a awesome insulator. I was just saying I throw my stocks into the woodstove because we use the wood stove for heat, so nothing is wasted. If I had a hemp decorticator I would turn my stocks into hemp hurds.
I have seen some people mixing the fiber with bio plastic, but nothing on making plastic straight from the plant material. I would need a lab to be able to test something like that
Can't wait to see your next video, I grow hemp for my personal use, I'm in Colorado and would like to try doing this next with my plants. Thx for sharing
This process was done in colonial times, by many farmers, including George Washington. They saved the flowers and gave them to the slaves, who liked to smoke them.
thank you this is a great video and you explain things so well ...but i was left confused as to how many times you redded the fibres in water and bleach...it seemed to me to be two times ...is that correct?
While it is true, you may use any variety of cannabis and get useful fiber, the best plants to grow are bred specifically for industrial cannabis (cannabis sativa). Those plants will grow tall and thin. The thin stalks are easier/faster to the process. The reduced footprint allows for denser planting.
this ia wonderful, but ive found breaking the stalks dry is also effective in removing the fibers, if done with a set of dumbells and some effort it doesnt take that long at all
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks i have to admit, the rope ive been braiding hasnt been nearly as strong as some cordage that was given to me by a caregiver once upon a time, maybe just memory but um definitelt missing smthing. but i process it all with nail boards and weights and i maintain around 8in to 12in lengths with some fine fibers mixed in,
I wonder if using a water ozonator and a bubble Stone in the barrel would be a better alternative to combat mold? Food-grade peroxide is good but expensive.
The ozonator would be a good idea, but it's costly and the gas it gives off is not good to breathe. If you ran it outside I wouldn't see that being a problem, but if it was inside you would need an exhaust fan.
Thanks for sharing this info. Just curious if you would know if High CBD yielding Hemp, High Grain yielding hemp, and high fiber yielding hemp can be grown on the same property? Or would doing so cause some sort of weird cross pollination? Thanks!
If your saving seeds from your crop you will defiantly have cross-pollination issues, but if you use new seed every year I wouldn't worry about it. The high grain/high fiber wouldn't be so bad cross-pollinating, but the high CBD would eventually lose that trait after a couple of years.
Would feeding the stalk along the length of the stem into rollers help speed up the drying process by squeezing out the moisture? Does it mess up the final fiber by squeezing out to much oil?
I have not seen anyone processing hemp that way, but it would make sense that it would cut down the drying time. Nowadays people are processing the hemp while its still green, but you will need a decorticating machine and a way to degum the fiber. I use the old school hand method because the machinery to process hemp is way out of my budget range.
Where can I go buy hemp fiber. Please let me know where I can start looking. I live in Idaho but I am 30 minutes from Oregon. I just have no idea where to find this.
So was it hemp or cannabis plant that you showed us where you lifted the fiber in your hand? Sorry for asking, but in that part of the video you talked about how the plants were given to you by medical cannabis grower and it got me confused.
Great question, where is part two, where You actually get fabric out that hemp thread? I can't seem to find any low scale tech version on RUclips that does not use industrial scale devices.
@@RonaldsMazitis Well, if you're looking for information on low-tech weaving, look up "backstrap loom," one of the oldest and simplest ways to make a loom.
@@rebeccatrishel I googled or RUclipsd that, and basically none of the videos have good raw explanation, where people would even come with each detail from source - natural resources. It has to be way better explained. My causins family has that device at home, and none of the fabric they can make on it is silky or like modern day fabric, aswell. So, my idea was not just basic rough fabric it can do, but something that still would do. Technology for loom is much older than any digital device, yet those explanations are worse than ever.
@@RonaldsMazitis I've done a lot of research on this myself and I'm hoping to put up some videos on my channel on it. Even simple weaving setups are pretty complicated, but you have backstrap looms, upright looms and horizontal looms, both with and without heddles. I think the oldest version of weaving done by prehistoric people was most likely similar to the Chilkat "twining" weaving technique, but there's not a lot of information about it. There's plenty of looms for sale of many different sizes and shapes, but all weaving is complicated to set up and very time consuming. By contrast, knitting only takes two sticks and very little set-up. Oddly enough, knitting is a pretty recent invention, although I think ancient people did something called "needle-binding" a lot, which is kind of knitting in reverse.
Can all methods be used for all different processing types without difference in quality of the fiber or shives? That process with water, it doesn't damage the shives for later use? Amazing information! Thumbs up!
I am not sure what your asking with the first question... But the water process/retting is needed to help release the hemp fibers from the shives/stocks. It does not damage the stock/shives
This is my first year growing hemp. I hung the plants up in my barn to dry. I estimated them to dry in about 5-7 days. With the extreme dry hot conditions they dried to an almost crisp condition in 2 days. Now I'm having a real hard time processing them cause their too dry. Most of the flower is just crumbling. The Cbd potency is strong but plants are too dry to work with. What can I do to salvage my crop?
Thanks for the video~ especially the part about the medical cannabis stalk. We've been told you can't make fiber out of the medical only industrial hemp plant. Assuming this is also tru for the CBD hemp plants? Obviously shorter fibers. We are considering small scale bedding and hemp building materials but hadn't thought muck about fiber- or biochar for that matter. Have you a video on making biochar?
I do not have a video on making biochar, but that sounds like a good video idea. Yes, you can make fiber from any hemp plant even Indian hemp(Dogbane). The only reason the fibers I processed were so short was due to the way the growers grew the plants. Growers top their plants to get them to bush out and produce more per plant, which sucks for long fiber making. To get nice long fibers you need a single tall stock to harvest. I am going to put up a few more videos on fiber processing using hemp, flax, and stinging nettles this summer.
+MainlyAcres why don’t you save the pulp?! The pulp/cellulose (what you said to make into biochar) is some of the most important part, you use the pulp to make into paper.
I use the ground hurd's for chicken bedding and the larger pieces I use in our wood stove. I am looking into making paper as well, but I was going to use the bast fibers.
I grow medical cannabis for myself but I have a bunch of that stock of course it's from the cannabis plant can that be used also? I was going to just use it as Tinder to start fires in my fireplace. If there's a better use for it, I'm open to it.
@@crazycloud2 I've heard it's a great insulation but I just don't know the process of making it into the insulation. I should probably look it up here on RUclips they probably got tons of video information on it haven't had time or as of yet as I'm in the middle of manicuring for three solid months and I still have another three months to go. It is going to be extremely dry when I get to it and I tried to do one to plant at a time harvesting so I wouldn't have it all up at once and I'm still buried. Nothing is easy when you have a debilitating case of Crohn's disease that cannabis is the only thing I can treat it with as biological medications and everything else I've tried has failed miserably many with side effects that are horrible almost causing death from one of them.
Cool video Hempcrete! I have seen small scale videos on paper making so i would assume its same process Cannabis flowers are 30% of the plant 70% roots,leaves stalks And seeds The "unusable " parts are Now marketable
It all depends on where you live... Up here in Maine, it cost over 1,000 dollars in licenses fees for just one acre. I would jump on board with it, but it's still considered a controlled substance by the Federal Government. If they get a wild hair up their butt they can shut everything down and freeze accounts. I am going to go with flax or hops growing for fibers.
If i had your amount of room for sure id have two greenhouses, one with food to decrease that necessary expense, another with hemp for harvesting oils and fibers. As of now hemp is legal! CBD's legality in products is still off limits according to the FDA.
Tea tree oil may be the best natural alternative to prevent molding, instead of using bleach.
Creek da sneak how much tea tree oil would you recommend for a batch that size?
@@LorcanLegoLoonatic I was thinking maybe vinegar could be another alternative.
@@ZodiYak369 Or an alcohol spritz?
what about iodine?
All of these sound like good ideas, but here are some thoughts... Tea tree oil would not be cost friendly for large amounts and I don't know if that would kill the mold. Vinegar is cost friendly but you would need a Ph kit to make sure it was acidic enough (Ph 2.5 or lower) . Alcohol is not cost friendly because you would need a 90% or higher to be effective at killing the mold. Iodine is not cost friendly and it would stain the fiber. Wood ash is a good alternative too.
Day whatever of quarantine: a friendly pirate is teaching us how to make hemp.
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You sir won the internet
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I did a RUclips search for “how hemp fabric is made” and this video perfectly answered my question. Thank you.
I only need to make strands to secure the seats and middle bar to the sides of a 100 year old birch bark canoe. Perfect video!
रावत जी अगर इस बारे ज्यादा जानकारी हो तो कृपया शेयर करें
Me too, 7 years later lol thank you sir
Straight to the content, no clickbait and well done!
agreed
Love the example of small-scale processing! Especially since your goal is to make it soft enough to use for clothing!
When I was a kid, back in the 195Os, we would make fishing leaders by stripping the green bark layers off of green wild hemp. Yes, there were survivalists even back then, and we made whatever we needed from what we found in the woods. We fished with home made string, a foot of fine hemp leader, and a gorge hook. It works !
Good to know, thanks for sharing!!👍
Bro you are probably a kid if you was from the 50's you probably would be dead
@@scottyfaye1150 Are you possibly some sort of idiot
Scotty faye, Math is not your best subject is it?
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For those curious on why the medical marijuana stalk was as big as his forearm and not skinny like the rest of the Hemp: A common method of growing cannabis for THC production is to grow the biggest plant possible. Some people germinate in December and grow the plant indoors during the winter and then transplant them in early spring, so by the time October (Harvest Month) rolls around the weed plant looks like a tree! This also cuts labor in many ways as all the weed is in one spot.
Great video! Can't wait for GA to legalize hemp so I can help protect the planet!
That is true!! Plus they top the plants when they are in the vegetative stage. That way they will grow more like a bush.
Like a Christmas 🎄 tree. Its beautiful. Wish a speedy legalization process soon for you, take care🙏🌿
Im from Georgia and hope to grow soon and get my community involved I’m very excited, cheers to everyone following this ancient tradition that truly impacts everything in a great way.
Need to put the government back where it belongs and out of our lives.
Love this advice. And having the written instructions in the description alongside several methods and options for each step really helps! Thank you for this upload!
Thank you for your support!!
Thank you for sharing. This video is very helpful to me because I am a new Hemp farmer who is researching how to process fiber from Hemp.
You are so welcome!
"Take care and spend time with that family" has to be one of the most wholesome outros I've ever heard on RUclips. ❤ I really appreciate this "small scale" video, it's nearly impossible to find videos or instructional info on hemp growing for non-industrial use. 😊
Thank you for your support and kind comment.
This is exactly what I wanted to learn. Thank you so much! And then you mentioned Doug and Stacy--SWEET!
Thanks, we grew about 1/8 acre of hemp and 1/8 acre of flax last year. I can see from your video that our retting process was insufficient. We have leftover stuff in our friend's hay loft so we'll try again in the spring. Thanks for the video.
Sounds great! I am going to grow flax's this year because it costs too much to grow hemp up here in Maine. Cheaper to get the stocks from medical growers
Great video! I am interested in processing hemp fiber to make yarns for textiles that I plan on making! This helped me understand the process better so thank you!
Hey thank you; I've been wanting to learn how to process hemp fiber so I can spin it like flax into linen.
Good for you, I am happy to hear your looking into utilizing this amazing plant for fiber production. I am going to be growing flax, stinging nettles and industrial hemp this year to try my hand at processing them all into usable fibers.
Me too! Interested in spinning nettles also.
So cool! My mom was a spinner and weaver mostly animal fibers and cotton and I’ve always wanted to learn and now been super excited about the possibility of growing and processing hemp for fiber and would love to also try flax and nettle! Do any of you know of other people doing this and where I can find more info? Videos, websites, communities? Thanks!
Chicken had perfect comedic timing ! 😊
Yes it was!
Awsome. Great job. Hemp is gold.
Looking to grow soon and I don't want to waste any part of my plants (so I don't have to put illegal material in my bin and just because I don't want anything to be thrown out if it can be used). Cheers for the guide. Reckon ill skip the wool part and make some hemp wick 🌿🌿
Good Idea!!
Very good video, got alot of information.
Love from India
Love the patch brother wish you the best Godspeed my man
You can also process, s the hurd (woody core) into wood chips and make the same as hempcrete I think.
Love your enthusiasm! keep up the good work.
Thank you
Great video. Thanks for doing this on a small scale.
Thank you for your support.
Thanks for the educational video I’m going to give it a try
Great video! Very informative. Thanks i'm wanting to start a hemp farming business . Starting out small and going from there.
Very informative thank you for showing the process
Like your eye patch. Great stuff
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome! Thanks for the info. With all the booming medical marijuana in maine you're in no short supply of material. Cool to learn about the mmj fibers vs hemp also! Especially if they're outdoor the stalks get big and woody, plus the plants are taken care of so well. I plan on trying this with all our leftover stalks, this is such an easy and manageable method to get something useable out of what I usually just burn or let compost.
This was very informative and good information. I, also live in Maine. Very interested in starting to grow hemp.
You can do it!
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks if only I could convince my wife, it's not an evil thing, I would. I'm still learning all I can about it. Thank you for your encouragement.
I look forward to seeing more videos on this. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Hey I'm in Maine also!!!!!! and very interested in getting into the hemp industry this was a wonderful video thank you so much
No problem, thank you for commenting. 😀
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I’ve been looking for videos like this! Would love to start growing hemp to use for making fiber for clothing and other linens as well as making paper, do you know if I can use the left over stalks after the outer strands are removed for paper making? I’d love to use the whole plant and ideally even for food. Can this be done with a hemp plant grown for seed harvesting?
Please tell me the way how could i make this stage to fine fibre
Boil in lye and brush
Thank you so much for this. I would like to try hemp farming but the equipment for large scale farming seems expensive and intimidating.
Yes, to process hemp on a large scale requires large and pricey equipment.
So the woody core is what they use for hempcrete.
Yes
MA, Good work! But for completeness, you should include some harvesting details. When to cut it down, how long to let it dry, how to separate the fibers from the stalk, etc.
I agree, I plan on doing that this year. The reason I did not cover that in this video is I did not grow those stocks they were given to me.
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks Thanks!
pretty sure the stalk is used for hemp hurds and building supplies, such as hemp bricks, lumber, insulation, not just for the wood burning stove. not sure which is used for the biofuel or the resins/ie plastics, and urethane but using the entire plant would be good to do.
You are absolutely right, the stocks is often chopped up and they are called hemp hurds. The hurds are then used to make animal bedding, paper and Hempcrete which is a awesome insulator. I was just saying I throw my stocks into the woodstove because we use the wood stove for heat, so nothing is wasted. If I had a hemp decorticator I would turn my stocks into hemp hurds.
Super helpful! I would love to see how hemp is made into biodegradable plastic, if you ever head in that direction!
I have seen some people mixing the fiber with bio plastic, but nothing on making plastic straight from the plant material. I would need a lab to be able to test something like that
this is really neat. looking forward to your finished product.
Thank you!!
Can't wait to see your next video, I grow hemp for my personal use, I'm in Colorado and would like to try doing this next with my plants. Thx for sharing
No worries, I glad you enjoyed it. Here's the next video if you haven't checked it out yet: ruclips.net/video/7Q68945QDuA/видео.html
Take care and spend time with that family : )
Hemp fibers can be processed into a silk like material, soft and beautiful.
Yes, they can
Very informative. I appreciate your time and effort. 😎
Thank you 👍👊
Really well explained and interesting Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Yeh I did , Thanks
Great video!! Thanks for sharing.
This is great progress.
Thank you
This process was done in colonial times, by many farmers, including George Washington. They saved the flowers and gave them to the slaves, who liked to smoke them.
thank you this is a great video and you explain things so well ...but i was left confused as to how many times you redded the fibres in water and bleach...it seemed to me to be two times ...is that correct?
Cool set up! Subbing your channel. Thanks. I won't have $ for big machinery for a while, so this is what I was looking for.
While it is true, you may use any variety of cannabis and get useful fiber, the best plants to grow are bred specifically for industrial cannabis (cannabis sativa). Those plants will grow tall and thin. The thin stalks are easier/faster to the process. The reduced footprint allows for denser planting.
I agree 100% If you can get your hands on industrial cannabis that will be the way to go!!
They look very familiar, when you pull them apart to the root systems to me at least.
So hemp makes your eyes fall out, great👌
It sure does, better be careful!!
This is so amazingly beautiful and helpful! Can I come live on your farm!? haha thank you for this
As long as the boss lady is on board. LOL
this ia wonderful, but ive found breaking the stalks dry is also effective in removing the fibers, if done with a set of dumbells and some effort it doesnt take that long at all
Do you have any issues with the fiber breaking or being too brittle?
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks i have to admit, the rope ive been braiding hasnt been nearly as strong as some cordage that was given to me by a caregiver once upon a time, maybe just memory but um definitelt missing smthing. but i process it all with nail boards and weights and i maintain around 8in to 12in lengths with some fine fibers mixed in,
Just found your channel. have subbed, I am very interested in sustainability, so well done
Very interesting
Very helpful thank you. Looking at creating community based businesses in some Maya villages here in Southern Belize.
I am happy I could help out
Eye would love to see this on a large scale. Could potentially help with the global issues. Pretty sure we can make everything we use
From hemp.
thank you so much for the knowledge - very generous
My pleasure!
thank you for your video. Very helpful. one day i'll make some hemp string/thread
Thank you, Let me know how yours comes out.
I wonder if using a water ozonator and a bubble Stone in the barrel would be a better alternative to combat mold? Food-grade peroxide is good but expensive.
The ozonator would be a good idea, but it's costly and the gas it gives off is not good to breathe. If you ran it outside I wouldn't see that being a problem, but if it was inside you would need an exhaust fan.
small ones run $80 on Amazon.
Thanks for sharing this info. Just curious if you would know if High CBD yielding Hemp, High Grain yielding hemp, and high fiber yielding hemp can be grown on the same property? Or would doing so cause some sort of weird cross pollination?
Thanks!
If your saving seeds from your crop you will defiantly have cross-pollination issues, but if you use new seed every year I wouldn't worry about it. The high grain/high fiber wouldn't be so bad cross-pollinating, but the high CBD would eventually lose that trait after a couple of years.
In order to get a good yield on your fiber hemp make sure to plant them close together, so they wont branch out. Just like planting flax
Def cross pollination, the fiber and seed plants will over take the CBD plants
True
So does the entire plant get uprooted? Or you just take the branches off and the plant keeps growing?
You had me at "biochar"
Would feeding the stalk along the length of the stem into rollers help speed up the drying process by squeezing out the moisture? Does it mess up the final fiber by squeezing out to much oil?
I have not seen anyone processing hemp that way, but it would make sense that it would cut down the drying time. Nowadays people are processing the hemp while its still green, but you will need a decorticating machine and a way to degum the fiber. I use the old school hand method because the machinery to process hemp is way out of my budget range.
Wow... Great vid!
A fuckin pirate is processing hemp! Yes! Finally!
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@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks Cool vid, I am definitely doing this at home!
How about putting the links to ALL of the videos in the description above!
I harvested wet fibre, will it be okay it I lay it out evenly to dry? I'm worried about it molding.
Yes, that should be fine. Just make sure to completely dry it so it doesn't mold.
3 seconds in and I’m subscribed
Awesome, Happy to have you
5:29 when u cracked that joke, it kinda looked like ur chicken laughed at it haha wholesome
Thank you
Where can I go buy hemp fiber. Please let me know where I can start looking. I live in Idaho but I am 30 minutes from Oregon. I just have no idea where to find this.
You can order some hemp fibers from Bulk Hemp Fiber Wearhouse in California.
Wouldn't nano or colloidal silver handle the mold as well?
why do you dry it before retting? cant you ret fresh? also can you peel the bark/fiber part fresh and then dry it without retting? thanks a whole ton!
So was it hemp or cannabis plant that you showed us where you lifted the fiber in your hand? Sorry for asking, but in that part of the video you talked about how the plants were given to you by medical cannabis grower and it got me confused.
Great question, where is part two, where You actually get fabric out that hemp thread? I can't seem to find any low scale tech version on RUclips that does not use industrial scale devices.
You have to weave it or knit it
@rebeccatrishel I understand that, it's just absurd broken raw visualizations on RUclips.
@@RonaldsMazitis Well, if you're looking for information on low-tech weaving, look up "backstrap loom," one of the oldest and simplest ways to make a loom.
@@rebeccatrishel I googled or RUclipsd that, and basically none of the videos have good raw explanation, where people would even come with each detail from source - natural resources. It has to be way better explained. My causins family has that device at home, and none of the fabric they can make on it is silky or like modern day fabric, aswell. So, my idea was not just basic rough fabric it can do, but something that still would do. Technology for loom is much older than any digital device, yet those explanations are worse than ever.
@@RonaldsMazitis I've done a lot of research on this myself and I'm hoping to put up some videos on my channel on it. Even simple weaving setups are pretty complicated, but you have backstrap looms, upright looms and horizontal looms, both with and without heddles. I think the oldest version of weaving done by prehistoric people was most likely similar to the Chilkat "twining" weaving technique, but there's not a lot of information about it. There's plenty of looms for sale of many different sizes and shapes, but all weaving is complicated to set up and very time consuming.
By contrast, knitting only takes two sticks and very little set-up. Oddly enough, knitting is a pretty recent invention, although I think ancient people did something called "needle-binding" a lot, which is kind of knitting in reverse.
Damn. Literally thank you
No worries, I am glad you enjoyed it
5:31 your joke even made your family animal laugh. 🤣 Awesome lesson. Thank you. I’ll sub to your channel. Stay safe & stay blessed.
Awesome! Thank you!
Can all methods be used for all different processing types without difference in quality of the fiber or shives? That process with water, it doesn't damage the shives for later use? Amazing information! Thumbs up!
I am not sure what your asking with the first question... But the water process/retting is needed to help release the hemp fibers from the shives/stocks. It does not damage the stock/shives
This is my first year growing hemp. I hung the plants up in my barn to dry. I estimated them to dry in about 5-7 days. With the extreme dry hot conditions they dried to an almost crisp condition in 2 days. Now I'm having a real hard time processing them cause their too dry. Most of the flower is just crumbling. The Cbd potency is strong but plants are too dry to work with. What can I do to salvage my crop?
You need to ret them after you dry them out. You can field ret or soak in a barrel of water.
Btw you can also use vinegar and baking soda instead of bleach.
Bleach is king
Hi Mainely Acres, I have been trying to figure out how many plants you would need to make pants. What are your thoughts?
I would guess somewhere around 20+
Can oil be extracted from the mass?
Very helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the video~ especially the part about the medical cannabis stalk. We've been told you can't make fiber out of the medical only industrial hemp plant. Assuming this is also tru for the CBD hemp plants? Obviously shorter fibers. We are considering small scale bedding and hemp building materials but hadn't thought muck about fiber- or biochar for that matter. Have you a video on making biochar?
I do not have a video on making biochar, but that sounds like a good video idea. Yes, you can make fiber from any hemp plant even Indian hemp(Dogbane). The only reason the fibers I processed were so short was due to the way the growers grew the plants. Growers top their plants to get them to bush out and produce more per plant, which sucks for long fiber making. To get nice long fibers you need a single tall stock to harvest. I am going to put up a few more videos on fiber processing using hemp, flax, and stinging nettles this summer.
Great Video, Thank You! 👍
Glad you liked it!
+MainlyAcres why don’t you save the pulp?! The pulp/cellulose (what you said to make into biochar) is some of the most important part, you use the pulp to make into paper.
I do save the pulp/hurd's
Mainely Acres oh nice! What do you do with your hurds? I really want to start making paper and plastics with the hurds.
I use the ground hurd's for chicken bedding and the larger pieces I use in our wood stove. I am looking into making paper as well, but I was going to use the bast fibers.
Great information, thanks!
I grow medical cannabis for myself but I have a bunch of that stock of course it's from the cannabis plant can that be used also? I was going to just use it as Tinder to start fires in my fireplace. If there's a better use for it, I'm open to it.
That's what I am processing in these videos. I get these stocks from medical growers in my area.
Insulation
@@crazycloud2 I've heard it's a great insulation but I just don't know the process of making it into the insulation. I should probably look it up here on RUclips they probably got tons of video information on it haven't had time or as of yet as I'm in the middle of manicuring for three solid months and I still have another three months to go. It is going to be extremely dry when I get to it and I tried to do one to plant at a time harvesting so I wouldn't have it all up at once and I'm still buried. Nothing is easy when you have a debilitating case of Crohn's disease that cannabis is the only thing I can treat it with as biological medications and everything else I've tried has failed miserably many with side effects that are horrible almost causing death from one of them.
What lea count of hemp yarn are you intending to produce?
I wonder if you could make your own lye from hardwood ash + water to replace the bleach. Thoughts?
Yes, That would be a good idea!! Anyway to cut the cost down
Make a small rope from each kind(hemp vs med) with same diameter and test to see if there is a strength difference between the two.
Thanks for the idea, I will try that out next harvest season.
Thank you this is cool
Awesome video!! thank you! liked and subscribed.
Thank you.
No worries!
Cool video
Hempcrete!
I have seen small scale videos on paper making so i would assume its same process
Cannabis flowers are 30% of the plant
70% roots,leaves stalks
And seeds
The "unusable " parts are
Now marketable
Yes, sir!!
I have built structures with hempcrete. great stuff, however there is also hemp Adobe, which is the same principals, but also load bearing.
Hemp. Not cannabis
Same family but dif
Dave Burkey I wouldn't use hempcrete for load barring walls or supports. It does not have good compression strength.
Do you dried it before you remove the fiber from stem?
Yes
With all the boiling & cooking needed for this process, I need to ask, how big of a carbon footprint was made to produce this one sheet of paper?
The only energy used was the stove top for an hour boil.
Im looking for a way to make extra income on my property. I am wondering if hemp is a viable option. I have approx 3 acres.
It all depends on where you live... Up here in Maine, it cost over 1,000 dollars in licenses fees for just one acre. I would jump on board with it, but it's still considered a controlled substance by the Federal Government. If they get a wild hair up their butt they can shut everything down and freeze accounts. I am going to go with flax or hops growing for fibers.
If i had your amount of room for sure id have two greenhouses, one with food to decrease that necessary expense, another with hemp for harvesting oils and fibers. As of now hemp is legal! CBD's legality in products is still off limits according to the FDA.
Do you or anyone know if you’re able to make smoking paper with stems and stalks or are leaves better for that?
You can make smoking paper from the hemp fiber, but not the stocks or stems.
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks
Thanks!!
Can we have .3 %< THC industrial hemp informations
Please tell me you are in New Jersey:))