When does the outdoor cbd hemp harvest begin. I realize different states have different dates but generally speaking is it prime time now?
Chop-tober
I have started harvesting. Processor bound hemp is a thing of the past, for me anyway, so I am going for a smokeable product, which necessitates it being picked before frost.
At first I thought all the variance in the cross I am growing out was a bad thing, and it would be for someone wanting to pick a field all in one pass, but with so many phenotypes, they finish in a staggered fashion, so I think I can spread my harvest out over about a month.
typically hemp is harvested a bit early because alot of the strains have a potential to be uncompliant.
Only the ballsy/condident growers will take their hemp till the end or mid october.
Usually if its biomass or just winging it, they harvest around now. Most will finish properly first and second week of october
How’s everyone running CBD cultivars testing this harvest?
My buddies farm just harvested 60 acres of smokable flower. They decided no biomass this year after sitting on all their biomass from last year.
So what did they do with the biomass
I know some people already harvesting.
Here in Ohio our lifter was testing at .29 total T around August 15th. GIven our harvest window of 15 days, once the state takes its sample, we had til Sept 1st. Traditionally 25% reach maturity the 1st wk of Sept and the remainder finish the following wks with the last being the 3rd wk of September according to their site. Our Kush hemp will be harvested within 15 days of Tuesday after testing around .25 with our personal testing. Total t keeps us from the traditional dates.
How many hemp farms are there in the Buckeye state? I did read about you had a 15 day window to get it in. What part of Ohio are you located?
We re just outside of Columbus, southeastern. We had 191 receive licenses but likely far less that actually put something in the ground.
So you’re in hill country? Athens area? That’s some nice country down there. Spent entirely too much time in Athens.
We re over by Zanesville. Land of Tom’s ice cream.