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Old 10-10-2007, 03:53 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Hemp (Corn-to-Ethanol: US Agribusiness Magic Path To A World Food Monopoly)

On Oct 9, 8:07 pm, Billy wrote:
In article fc.003d094102317f103b9aca006e8d30bb.2317...@pmug. org,
(Glenna Rose) wrote:

Hemp: Bio-fuel source, clothing source, etc., and all the industries that
spring up around it. If the smokers want to smoke it, let them providing
what I hear about hemp for smoking is correct (that is is not at all like
smoking its near cousin).


No, but from the air, it will drive the DEA crazy. I presume it's
infared fingerprint looks an awful lot like the local wacko weed.


Fiber hemp is planted close together, so that the individual
plants will compete for sunlight and grow tall, producing
longer fibers (aka bast). Such plants can exceed 20 feet in
height, with few or no branches. Shorter C. Indica strains are
given more breathing space so that the plants can bush out
and produce more flower clusters. Additionally, male plants
will be culled out early to prolong the females' flowering stage,
boosting THC content. The two subspecies look nothing alike,
save for the characteristic fingerlike leaves, and then only
vaguely so.