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Magash said:
Hemp seeds in the US have to be heat sterilized (I'm in Mendo myself) so the only place to get ones that grow is outside the US http://sensiseeds.com/reduceyourcarbonfootprintwithhemp/1p2010001.html

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pha3r0 said:
I may be wrong on this so don't take it for pure fact but this is my understanding of differences between commercial hemp and medical strains.

They breed hemp for quick growing plants not necessarily there individual size and for bug / disease resistance. Some stains also are partially ruderalis(sp?). These will not get hugely tall as a factor of their automatic flowering, somewhere around the size of a corn stalk. These plants are desirable in commercial growing because they can be harvested with existing equipment and grown in very short seasons. They can plant dozens of them per square yard so they don't care that they wont get 20 feet tall and they don't want to have to 'log' the field come harvest day. Many of these plants also look exactly like you would imagine, ditch weed.

Now take a sativa female and let her veg indoors leading up to your growing season then transplant her outside in early spring. You have a beautiful plant with long dark green leaves. It will get as tall as your house and you will get a pound to smoke. If you then want to make a few pieces of paper or some twine for kicks you have plenty of fiber still and any hemp fiber is strong. You wont be getting any seeds to use but you said you would use an unpollinated female any ways.

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Ruderalis is not suited for industrial hemp.  Those plants are tiny.    You are right about the breeding.  I would venture to guess that the specific variations on the breeding and strains that the industrial hemp companies overseas use are trade secrets at the least and patented at the most.  That's what is discouraging for the US wanna be hemp grower.  As soon as it's legalized over here all the overseas companies will take over since they are already established.  I bet they even have variations of strains that would fit our various climates and shit they may even already have land here in preparation for such event.  The US hemp industry should be solely US owned companies operating only in the US.  But the timber industry is a force to be wreckened with.  The small sliver of the anti-prohibition movement may be too weak to take on.  but i ramble.

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the man said:
i can say 100% confidence thats not why USA doesnt grow hemp. 1 they love huge companies that dont let people keep there own seed and have to buy "registered" seeds.more money to change hands that they can tax. 2 the whole conspiracy thing with the pulp paper. multi national companies are just that multi national and are who grow the majority of our food. if your buying the food or growing it doesnt really matter you still pay the piper. love the US pride or whatever you want to call it. but as far as patents etc liek i said not state or country owned corporatly owned.and hemp industry is  neat and has potential is not what these big companies worry about much from my understanding. they spend the genetic research on canola, wheat soy rice etc... hemp is hemp its more like a tree ya know we dont gentically modify the seedlings when re planting cut blocks. shit grows like a weed and pretty much is dialed in from centries of cultivation.

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I don't think I made any of those arguments you are making against me.