woody swacker Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 a farm i shoot over is growing hemp next year does anyone know if pigeons go for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltese Falcon Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 a farm i shoot over is growing hemp next year does anyone know if pigeons go for it? Maybe the Bob Marleys of the pigeon world ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 Maybe the Bob Marleys of the pigeon world ? Its industrial hemp doesnt work same genus but not the loopy weed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 a farm i shoot over is growing hemp next year does anyone know if pigeons go for it? Forgot to mention had a mate that fed his racing pigeons hemp seed so if this is the same stuff I suppose the answer would be yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 We have quite a lot of hemp growing here this year and yes it's a bit of a pigeon magnet (?) when it's first drilled through to about 3"/4" high then they leave it alone until harvest...then the plant is cut and left to dry on the field much like swathed rape. Birds will get on it then and once the dry stuff is collected they'll go bananas for it. A fairly versatile crop, it's used for making oil from the seed, paper and insulated building board from the fibres (used to be worked for rope making). What amazes me is that it looks very similar to the wacky baccy stuff (mind you you'd need to smoke the whole field to get high on this variety by which time your lungs would have given up ) and (as far as I can tell) no one has thought to put a square of the real mcoy in the middle yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody swacker Posted August 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 We have quite a lot of hemp growing here this year and yes it's a bit of a pigeon magnet (?) when it's first drilled through to about 3"/4" high then they leave it alone until harvest...then the plant is cut and left to dry on the field much like swathed rape. Birds will get on it then and once the dry stuff is collected they'll go bananas for it. A fairly versatile crop, it's used for making oil from the seed, paper and insulated building board from the fibres (used to be worked for rope making). What amazes me is that it looks very similar to the wacky baccy stuff (mind you you'd need to smoke the whole field to get high on this variety by which time your lungs would have given up ) and (as far as I can tell) no one has thought to put a square of the real mcoy in the middle yet! thanks for that highlander,happy swacking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 Isn't life funny like that...having replied to this post earlier today I was out and about driving down the track between the hemp fields when I found my way blocked by an old beat up 'S' reg VW golf. I stop (couldn't get past anyway) get out and can hear people running around in the hemp crop (it's about 5'/6' high) and they've obviously heard me pull up. I shout out OK come out whoever you are (probably a dumb thing to do if druggies are in there but hey what the hell)and out come 3 nasty looking skinhead type lads (Polish as it turns out) and I think oh oh I could be in trouble here. I ask 'em what they think they're doing (as if I don't know 'cause they were busy emptying their holdalls as they emerged from the crop) and get a load of what? what? what? 'no speaka da englis' OK say I; listen this stuff it NOT for smoking, you could burn the whole field and still not get high in fact it'd probably kill you so **** o** and don't come back. They get in their car and do just that (thankfully). Now what do you think; it was obvious they'd more than likely been there before so should I have let them just get on with it and let them find out the hard way, perhaps even get a good beating from anyone they sold the stuff to, or should I have phoned the 'old bill or? What do PW ers think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 Well it does look very much the same and the unsuspecting wouldnt know the difference anyway, these guys are probably performing the hit and run sell,they wont be around when its smoked but the cash is thiers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulpicide Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Collect the stuff your visitors left dry it bag it send it to people you dont like then phone cops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foghorn Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 It isnt any good for smoking, only the female plant produce the flowers, it is the flower part that's smoked.` Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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