So, I’m huge on old ways of things and using all of everything I take. The old ways of doing things fascinates, I love traditions. So Im curious if anyone has some traditional methods for using cannabis other than flower, and other uses for all the parts of the plant.
I’m looking at teas, tinctures, oils, hashish, and such. I’ve recently been studying Bhang, and intend to try that. But as my plants near harvest, Id love to be able to make some teas n tinctures from the bits that would usually be compost or waste.
But if anyone knows books, or has some light to shine, I’d be very keen on learning!
It might not be such a traditional thing. But I think I will do some Bubble Hash with all my trim later on. The Rastafaries or Malan rub there hands over a living plant while flowerig and scratching the good stuff off with a warm knife.
Take a look at these simple steps to make hemp paper:-
Step 1 - Soaking Hemp Fiber
Take a large pot, put hemp fiber into it, and pour water enough to cover the fiber. Let it soak water overnight. Now, it’s time to add soda ash into the pot of fiber and water. You can buy soda ash from any nearby store. Follow the instructions on the soda ash container to acquire a perfect ratio of soda ash and water. Mix it up until it’s blended perfectly with water. Once it’s mixed perfectly, put the mix again into the pot and place it on a stove for 4 hours and after that let it sit and cool down.
Step 2 – Cleaning Hemp Fiber
The next step is to put the mix in a strainer and rinse it with clean water to remove soda ash from hemp fiber. Now make small chunks of hemp fiber and beat it into a pulp for approximately two hours in a beater. After that, place it in a bucket or tub.
Step 3 - Making Pulp Slurry
Be attentive now, as the next step is very important for making your hemp paper. Now take a large container or a vat and fill it half with clean water. Put the pulp into the container to make the pulp slurry. Now take a wood board, place it next to the container.
Step 4 – Setting up the Frame
Make sure that the wood board you are using is larger than your deckle. First, place wet blotting paper and then felt on wood board. Take deckle and mold and hold it together. Dip it into the container and lift it up carefully with slurry pulp. Tilt the deckle and mold together from side to side to drain the extra water and make sure that the pulp is coated on the top evenly.
Step 5 – Drying the Pulp
To dry the pulp, remove the deckle and flip the mold down. Press it gently to remove extra water from the wet hemp paper. Now, first put a cotton interfacing on wet hemp paper then a wool fabric sheet, and lastly, wood board and press it for 8-9 minutes.
Take one more wood board, cardboard, a blotting paper and felt and place it on one another in the same order then take out a sheet of hemp paper from the mold and place it on the top of it and cover it with felt. You can repeat this order for as much paper as you require. At last, place a heavy and even thing on the top of it. It would be better to put bricks on it and allow it to dry for 1-2 days. Lastly, separate the layers and gather the finished paper.
I’m totally going to be trying all these out, and then some. It almost seems like one could cover a lot of bases from growing cannabis! I keep at this path, ill never hafta leave my woods! Haha