Processing Hemp on a Small Scale at Home Part 1
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- 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 TH-cam 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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Straight to the content, no clickbait and well done!
agreed
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
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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.
"Take care and spend time with that family" has to be one of the most wholesome outros I've ever heard on TH-cam. ❤ 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.
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!
You can also process, s the hurd (woody core) into wood chips and make the same as hempcrete I think.
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!
Very good video, got alot of information.
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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!
Thanks for the educational video I’m going to give it a try
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 interesting
Hemp fibers can be processed into a silk like material, soft and beautiful.
Yes, they can
I pray that whoever reads this lives a healthy long life and I pray you do well financially :)
Awsome. Great job. Hemp is gold.
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.
They look very familiar, when you pull them apart to the root systems to me at least.
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.
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!!
Very informative thank you for showing the process
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!
Just found your channel. have subbed, I am very interested in sustainability, so well done
A fuckin pirate is processing hemp! Yes! Finally!
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@@MainelyAcresFarmBrooks Cool vid, I am definitely doing this at home!
I look forward to seeing more videos on this. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you!
Take care and spend time with that family : )
Damn. Literally thank you
No worries, I am glad you enjoyed it
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
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.
3 seconds in and I’m subscribed
Awesome, Happy to have you
Like your eye patch. Great stuff
Thank you! Cheers!
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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Great video! Very informative. Thanks i'm wanting to start a hemp farming business . Starting out small and going from there.
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.
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: th-cam.com/video/7Q68945QDuA/w-d-xo.html
Thank you this is cool
Great video!! Thanks for sharing.
Btw you can also use vinegar and baking soda instead of bleach.
Bleach is king
Thank you.
No worries!
thank you so much for the knowledge - very generous
My pleasure!
You had me at "biochar"
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,
Good.
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.
Great information, thanks!
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.
5:29 when u cracked that joke, it kinda looked like ur chicken laughed at it haha wholesome
Thank you
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.
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’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?
Really well explained and interesting Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Yeh I did , Thanks
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
Very informative. I appreciate your time and effort. 😎
Thank you 👍👊
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.
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.
Please tell me the way how could i make this stage to fine fibre
Thank youuuu
So the woody core is what they use for hempcrete.
Yes
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 helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great Video, Thank You! 👍
Glad you liked it!
Awesome video!! thank you! liked and subscribed.
Beautiful information. Return to our God given roots and land.
Amen, thank you for commenting.
Quite a collection of egg boxes.
They make for a good fire starter. LOL
Fun video…. Hate the Dixie sound bite so I won’t be back
Sorry you feel that way, have a nice evening.
I'm inspired , thanks. Budah of Birmingham
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.
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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!
It would tough turning some huge two inch hemp stalks into hemp hurd. mmmm.
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?
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.
Wouldn't nano or colloidal silver handle the mold as well?
So does the entire plant get uprooted? Or you just take the branches off and the plant keeps growing?
Outer is Bast. Inner is Hurd
I swear if you put on a pirate hat you'd look like Captain morgan... pretty good liquor
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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.
+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.
Can oil be extracted from the mass?
Can you make hemp boards?
Please tell me you are in New Jersey:))
Sir make sure you make it clear that not just anybody can grow it my friend was growing it here in New York state because he makes hemp necklaces and the cops came and charged him with growing marijuana and it was not Mary want you cannot get high on it so he still spending his time in jail as I speak but otherwise Love You video just don't want anybody else to get in trouble like my friend did for nothing all he did was make hemp necklaces and bracelets and sold them
I am sorry to hear about your friend. It sucks that some state's are dragging their feet when it comes to allow it's citizens to grow industrial hemp. I don't see how they can prosecute a plant that has been taken off the control substance list by the Federal Government.
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!
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What lea count of hemp yarn are you intending to produce?
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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.
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.
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.