Processing Hemp on a Small Scale at Home Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Today I am going over the beginning stages in processing hemp stocks into a fiber.
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Step one:
Dry the hemp stocks
Step two:
Retting the hemp stocks:
I have found two ways of retting hemp stocks. One way is water retting, that's where you place the stocks under water and allow them to ret for a couple weeks.
The second way is called dew retting, that where the stocks are laid out flat on a field and allowed to ret for a couple weeks. If you use this method the stocks need to be flipped over every other day. A good way to know if your stocks have been retted long enough is by doing a test pull of the outer fibrous skin. If it comes off clean your good to go, if not just allow more time for retting.
Step three:
After drying the retted stocks it's time to remove the outer fibrous skin. Traditionally the fiber was removed by large hemp brakes, these hemp brakes were made out of heavy hardwood and were made to pulverize the hard woody stock of the hemp plant. I went with simply peeling the outer skin off using my hands. If the stocks have been retted correctly this process is very easy. This way I saved my arms and back a lot of pain!!
Step four:
Place fiber into a bucket/barrel filled with water add a cap full of bleach and allow the fiber to soak overnight. After the fiber soaked overnight its time to dry the fibers out on a large window screen.
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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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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!
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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
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Straight to the content, no clickbait and well done!
agreed
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!
This is exactly what I wanted to learn. Thank you so much! And then you mentioned Doug and Stacy--SWEET!
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!
Love the example of small-scale processing! Especially since your goal is to make it soft enough to use for clothing!
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
Hemp fibers can be processed into a silk like material, soft and beautiful.
Yes, they can
They look very familiar, when you pull them apart to the root systems to me at least.
Thanks for the educational video I’m going to give it a try
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
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
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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A fuckin pirate is processing hemp! Yes! Finally!
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@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks Cool vid, I am definitely doing this at home!
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?
I look forward to seeing more videos on this. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
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.
Great video! Very informative. Thanks i'm wanting to start a hemp farming business . Starting out small and going from there.
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,
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.
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.
Take care and spend time with that family : )
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!
Very informative thank you for showing the process
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.
Very interesting
Btw you can also use vinegar and baking soda instead of bleach.
Bleach is king
5:29 when u cracked that joke, it kinda looked like ur chicken laughed at it haha wholesome
Thank you
Please tell me the way how could i make this stage to fine fibre
Just found your channel. have subbed, I am very interested in sustainability, so well done
3 seconds in and I’m subscribed
Awesome, Happy to have you
Very informative. I appreciate your time and effort. 😎
Thank you 👍👊
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.
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.
Damn. Literally thank you
No worries, I am glad you enjoyed it
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?
Thank you!
Wouldn't nano or colloidal silver handle the mold as well?
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.
Great information, thanks!
+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.
Awesome video!! thank you! liked and subscribed.
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!
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
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.
Great Video, Thank You! 👍
Glad you liked it!
What lea count of hemp yarn are you intending to produce?
Good.
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.
Can oil be extracted from the mass?
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.
Beautiful information. Return to our God given roots and land.
Amen, thank you for commenting.
Can you make hemp boards?
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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
I'm inspired , thanks. Budah of Birmingham
It would tough turning some huge two inch hemp stalks into hemp hurd. mmmm.
Quite a collection of egg boxes.
They make for a good fire starter. LOL
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+
I swear if you put on a pirate hat you'd look like Captain morgan... pretty good liquor
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I read that land retting returns Potassium to the soil tho!
100% correct
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.
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.
So the bleach is not still on the fibers?
There's bleach on them after I pull them from the barrel, but I rinse them off with a hose.
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Welcome aboard!
Fun fact: Here in Georgia a processing license cost $25,000. Lol
Yeah, it crazy how the states are taxing the growers!! That's why I grew flax this year.
I dried for village fields last year, was the plant manager before they packed up camp and headed back to G.A. miss those guys, they are some of the most awesome people to work with. Hope y'all have a successful season, save a tree grow some hemp!
Ive stripped the green bark off fresh stalks washed the fibres let them dry out on a plate and made a couple of bracelets of an extraordinary small amount of the fibres.
Good use for the fibers!! I bet those bad boys will last a long time.
Did you grow this yourself?
The stocks in this video were given to me by medical growers in my area. I plan on growing industrial hemp this year
Outer is Bast. Inner is Hurd
I’m trying to buy hemps seeds to grow but they all sell in thousands any tips?
I would find someone who needs a lot of seeds and go in with them. I find that getting good hemp seed is dang near impossible because it is still highly regulated through the federal government. Have you checked online seed banks?
Dont cross pollinate all the herb for miles with that. It kills potency.
Bulk Hemp Warehouse has viable hemp seeds for sale!!
Hello great video! I am thinking about trying to do hemp fiber and testing the material in my architectural studies in university this year. I don't know where to order hemp branches like yours, could you please help me with some information? I live in the UK
I would try to get your hands on some industrial hemp branches to do your testing. The medical marijuana branches have shorter fibers than industrial hemp. I use medical marijuana branches because it's a waste product to the growers in my area and it's free. I would send you some medical branches, but i think there would be some issues legally.
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks Thank you for responding. I think the wooden cores you are using in the video shouldn't be a problem to ship. I don't think there would be a problem legally, they don't have leaves on so they shouldn't have as much drug properties. It would help me a lot if you could do that... I can pay you how much you need.
You would think that sending some branches to make fiber wouldn't be such a big deal but it is. In the UK cannabis is a class B drug and is still illegal. Here in the USA, some states have allowed marijuana/cannabis to be legal, but it's still illegal on a federal level. The US mail is controlled by the federal government so sending cannabis/marijuana via the US mail could land you some time in the slammer. Here in the U.S, they don't separate the two plants (Industrial hemp) (Medical Marijuana) so anything that comes from these two plants is illegal on a federal level.
Are you on twitter or instagram?
@@TheUreka yeah instagram @burcuoglakci
I hope u don't mind me asking what happened to your eye?
I got shot with a 22 pistol
The real question is how is this process mechanized so practical production levels can be achieved. Making enough thread for one jacket is one thing but making enough for thousands of jackets or miles of roap should be the goal. This is just self indulgence.
It would take a lot of money up front to buy all the machines needed to process the fibers. You would need a hemp decorticator, Scutching Machine, and Hackling Machine.
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks hey man can you recommend any books that explain these things in depth?
I have been doing my research on the internet, RUclips and farming magazines.
LOVE IT!!!!
awesome!
Thanks!
Your mega farm competitor (older white brothers who wear 'clown cap' in logo) promote investing in mega farm industrial machines that spray out tons of pesticides every hour. Best Wishes to All for 2020
So harvest, let them dry then redded it?
Yap
please natural hemp Fibers make to want to do
I am not sure what you're asking?
Aye aye Captain 😂
Awesome!
thansk
I'm curious about the retting process where you leave it in the water. You said you put a little bit of bleach in. How much did you use? I ask because you said you want it to rot, but too much bleach will prevent it rotting. how do you tell when it's rotted enough, or if you put too much bleach in?
I used about a cup of bleach to the 55-gallon barrel so it would stop any mold from getting a foothold. I don't think adding too much bleach will stop the rotting process, but it may cause a breeding ground for bad bacteria. I was told that if you use too much bleach in a solution that it causes more bacteria growth, that's why it's important to always follow the dilution directions on the back of the bottle.
If your using city water I wouldn't add any bleach, but if you're using well water I would go ahead and add a cup.
Thank you!
Mainely Acres can you use baking soda?
If you can do the retting in running water, ive found you don't need the bleach.
Will you do a new vid now that hemp has been legalized?
Yes, I plan on shooting a couple videos on processing fiber this summer. I am going to be growing flax, stinging nettles, and hemp.
Thank you so much for this video, If it’s not a problem I would love to ask you some further questions on the hemp production do you have Facebook or a email I can contact you on please. Thanks again. Marc
Yes and yes. Mainely Acres on Facebook and mainelyacres@yahoo.com
What did you use the hemp for? A new pirate flag?
Zack Tenney 😂😂
Na, I need to make some more rope to hang my mutinous crew!!
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks Hell yeah! Great video by the way. After watching it im gonna give it try
'Scuse me, sir, I'm new here and was wondering if you were a pirate in your past life/career?
You know it 😄
The difference between cannabis and hemp is purely semantic propaganda. Hemp is just cannabis with >.03% delta 9 thc. There is no separate species, it's all cannabis sativa/indica. Hemp was simply the name for cannabis before the racist anti mexican propaganda team started calling it marijuana , and to make it look like our forefathers didnt grow cannabis they called their cannabis hemp and the cannabis od their time marijuana. There is absolutely no difference aside from thc content and propagandizing.
But awesome video, i want to process my cannabis into hemp fibers eventually.
Whatcha do with all the flowers huh? ;)
I flowers in this batch where use for medical marijuana. I was given these for free to try my hemp fiber processing. This year I plan on growing industrial hemp to get the good fibers I am after.
i make canes, staffs, pipes, eyepatches, shift knobs, cudgels, beads...... and i dont use any of those fibers.
Funniest comment ever!!! Thanks for the laugh
what laugh? im serious. i use the wood hurd in its whole form. so. you're a farmer and a jerk or...? not sure how you want me to take that comment. @@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks you post a video on your small batch hemp processing and laugh at other people doing it? narcissism much?
hell, mail me a clay mold of your eye and cheek bone and id make one for ya that would last till the grave. @@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks
I am not a jerk. Your last comment was "i make canes, staffs, pipes, eyepatches, shift knobs, cudgels, beads...... and i don't use any of those fibers." Reread your comment and see if you can see why I laughed. It seems like you commented on this video to sell your products. No where in your comment did you mention you using any part of the hemp plant. Instead you said I don't use any of those fibers. I showed the hurds in my video, so why didn't you just say what you said in your second comment "i use the wood hurd in its whole form".
You on instagram or twitter?
Yes, we are but we don't really use those accounts that much
I want to discuss an idea with you, maybe you should give me your email then?
harrison.hightower@earthlink.net
@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks
I just sent a mail!
Email received and one sent back to ya
I am hemp product and you me idea hemp fiber make
I am not sure what you're asking?
Your way too fucking high
Too bad he didn't give more detail on the size plot of land, what's smal scale to him there wasn't enough info I know it's too late, I come out with more questions than answers
You put bleach in it that’s awful. You didn’t want to put chemicals on stuff
You are 100% correct, if you don't have to use harsh chemicals it's better not too. I made the decision to use bleach in this batch due to the mold that was already starting on the stocks before harvest.