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total newbie question....what happens afta afta?

bobsakamoto

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sooo don't laugh but everything i've ever read, here and other places, talk about everything up to and including harvest and skips to drying and curing, for obvious reasons. but nothing talks about what happens in that in between space, except off hand comments i've seen about being careful about how you "dispose" of your plants. so what i'm asking is, what happens to the plant itself, after being harvested. and i'm not asking about drying or curing. i'm asking specifically, what happens to the lady plant that you just took all the buds off?

again, don't laugh, i really don't know, other than the obvious, duh, don't set it out with the garbaahhge.

thank you.
 
Mine goes into the composter. If you don't have a composter, then cut it up in pieces and toss it in the trash.
 
From here to the burn barrel
 

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We just let them dry a slow death by depriving them of water, then disposed of entire root ball and soil in the gardens out back.

Are you asking if you can reveg it and get another harvest.........I don't think so or everyone would be doing that. Consider it like a tomato plant. You don't keep it for the next year.
 
thanks, insomniaczz, i wasn't really asking w/a purpose in mind, i just literally didn't know what to do. as in, i'm reading along, harvest harvest, etc., etc., dry, dry, cure.... oh yeah, when you throw it out don't be a dumbass. that's why i assumed i was asking something obvious. yeah, of course everyone would do that if it were possible. ;) i just was asking i guess theoretically, would the plant die on its own or do you actively have to kill it. if that makes sense....

thanks, SSD. so it wouldn't die unless you kill it...is what you and insomiacazz are saying? i'm not trying to be dense, i swear.
 
I would like to save the stem fibers and use them to make cordage. Then use that cordage to braid a duck call lanyard. Just some of the stuff I think about when a little high.
 
Hi Bobs

​​​​​​125 years ago, 70 to 90 percent of all rope, twine, cordage, ship sails, canvas, fibre, cloth, etc., was made out of hemp fibre. It was replaced by Dupont’s then newly discovered petrochemical fibre (nylon) .
beginning in 1937.
It was banned in the USA under the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. In a blatant case of mistaken identity, industrial hemp was banned along with it. so we live with inferior products today so the rich could get richer.

I'm still reading through literature on making salves and anything I can with the stems. Medicinally they have taken a powerful healing agent away from us , the old days it was Tincture (the green dragon) they sold it to everyone for pain to headaches because it worked on everything.
 
thanks, karlee. yep, hemp usta be US biggest cash crop bc of its incredible hardiness and versatility. and then yes, we have good ol' mr. anslinger to thank for that. he is almost singlehandedly responsible for the prohibition of marijuana in the US. really shows you what one crazily driven singleminded obsession can accomplish in this world.

fun fact: in my state, marijuana is BOTH illegal to grow, sell, use, etc, and YET is also taxed...god bless the USA (lee greenwood voice) (preemptive <--this is a joke. it is only a joke. if used in any other way than its intended usage, provider is not responsible for user outcome.)
 
You can let the stems cure, grind them up, and extract the resins from the plant (using your favorite method) and have yourself a nice 'tea' or hash. The stems and twigs have useful stuff in them, just not as concentrated as the buds. In sparse times past, I have been known to actually smoke them, very harsh indeed, but, effective none the less.
 
Thanks for the correction. Do you know how long it would take to reveg and reap another harvest? Can you get as much as first harvest?
 
I've never cloned a plant. But by definition a plant is a mother once you take a cell from her and reproduce another cell via mitosis with that child cell. The fate of the mother does not change it. Take one clone once once or take hundreds overtime it's still mother.
 
gottdang DUDE, thank you! that was exactly the missing piece i couldn't figure out. everything i read makes so much more sense now!!!!!
 
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