Hemp

About

Industrial hemp is Cannabis sativa grown for fiber, seed, and extract markets — not the lounge-chair marketing story, just a fast annual that eats sunlight and makes long bast fibers. Legality is a paperwork theme park: follow your state program if you plant a field, or you will meet people with badges. subtropical and tropical Americas humidity raises disease pressure; choose adapted cultivars and spacing for air flow. Full sun; competitive stand needs fertility and water early, then moderate through season. Well-drained soil; soggy fields invite root pathogens. Direct seed when soil warms; tight spacing for fiber, wider for seed. Transplants used in some systems for weed control head start. PermieBro: great in a rotation slot; still not a magic carbon credit tree. Fiber hemp: harvest at early to mid-bloom for long bast strips -- seed hemp follows combine moisture rules for that cultivar. CBD-type fields follow regional compliance testing windows -- legal paperwork is part of the calendar. Dry stalks in shocks with airflow; moldy hemp is landfill, not craft.

Permaculture Functions

• Fiber: Cannabis sativa grown for fiber forms long bast strips in the outer stem -- ret or decorticate at early bloom for cordage and textile feedstock, then dry shocks with airflow so mold does not trash the crop.
• Edible: Oilseed lines produce grain-grade achenes and pressing oil where cultivars and law allow -- harvest at correct moisture for combines and keep THC compliance testing on the calendar, not as an afterthought.
• Dynamic Accumulator: Deep taproots mine subsoil nutrients that return when stalks are chipped or composted -- pair with clover undersow if you want extra N fixation in the same season slot.

Companion Planting

Threats & Pressure