This past week I got
the opportunity to go with the Mesa Verde Gardeners group on a tour of a brand
new local hemp growing facility. Colorado
has had legalized recreational and medicinal marijuana for a number of years
now, and the hope is that a hemp growing industry will start to take hold in
our state, too.
There are 2 ways to
grow the hemp. The first is called agricultural
which is for the fiber, where the plants are planted close together so that they
grow very tall with long fibers in the stems.
The second is called industrial hemp, which is used for medicinal hemp
oil. These plants are planted widely spaced
so that the maximum numbers of flower buds can be harvested from each
plant. These dried buds then go through
an extraction process to distill out the oil. Acres of these plants have to be harvested to get a relatively
small amount of oil, and that is why it is so expensive. The healing compound in industrial hemp is
CBD, or cannabidial. It is not
hallucinogenic.
So getting back to
the hemp operation, this facility clones plants to ship out to hemp farmers,
who then plant these very small plants in their fields. The facility has tens of thousands of cuttings in
tiny pots on racks under plastic domes to keep the moisture in. These clones are carefully tended with the
right amount of organic fertilizer, light and ideal temperature until they are
ready to ship out.
It took me a while
to get exactly what the cloning process was.
I was imaging some sort of weird genetic science taking place in a laboratory
in a secret back room of the facility! Not
so. It simply means that cuttings are
taken from the ends of the branches of the mother plants, and then inserted
into the dirt in the tiny pots.
There were 2 other rooms
where the mother plants were grown, with about 50 of them in each climate controlled
room. They were all at least 6 feet
tall, and when I asked how old they were, I was astounded to learn that they
had just been planted the previous November, so about 7 months old. Hemp does fall into the “weed” category, and
it grows very fast and aggressively, especially when all of its nutritional and
climate requirements are met.
Our group first entered
the room where most of the clones were being grown. Energetically, it felt like I was in a huge
stadium of kindergartners with all of them talking and yelling out at
once. Wow! It was a very energetically loud space. The rooms with the mother plants were calmer,
but with a more solid and somewhat aggressive energy.
It is interesting that
all of these hemp plants came from a single genetic strain, so they are all genetically
identical. I would naturally assume that
I would be dealing with a big group plant consciousness with a single voice,
not the many thousands that were in that building. Additionally, all of these plants were
female! This is because the female
flowers are what is used to extract the CBD.
Now, here is a weird
science twist. The owners of this
facility want to start producing seed, since at this point, it is illegal to
import hemp seeds into the state. Hemp
seeds and marijuana seeds are indistinguishable, hence the ban on the imports. To produce seeds, the female flower must be
fertilized with pollen from a male hemp plant.
But there are no males! One of the
owners told me that they can create male plants from female ones by applying
colloidal silver to the growth nodes on the mother plants. I wonder what the spirit of the hemp plant
thinks about that?
As I tune into the spirit
of hemp now several days later, I am still astounded by the energy, strength and
vitality of this plant. No wonder its
healing powers via the CBD are so strong as well. If any of you are taking hemp oil for health
reasons, I encourage you to tune into and communicate with the spirit of this
plant. It is my sense that if a dialog
can take place, a communion and mutual respect will be the result, and your healing
will be much more powerful.
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