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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Wrong "crop." <g> In a hot climate you can get multiple crops to seed in a 
year.

Lynda, in the Green Triangle but quite familiar with the differences.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> I don't want to appear too familiar with its cultivation, but you can get 
> 3
> to 4 crops a year if you don't let it fully mature to seed and are growing 
> it
> for ... uh ... other purposes.  And the type of yields one hears bandied 
> about
> in excess of 100 gallons per acre of oil are not accomplished with little 
> or
> no fertilizer or water.
>
> Our 'fuel' crop here is field corn, fuel for us and draft animals.  It is 
> OP
> corn which gets only a little manure as fertilizer and althought it is 
> waist
> high and deep enough green, it hasn't had a drop of rain in five weeks.  I
> might say based on this that corn does quite well with little or no 
> fertilizer or
> water.  It does, so long as we are content (and we are) to get 1/3rd to 
> 1/4th
> the yield per acre that fields with high inputs of energy realize.
>
> Same with hemp.  It will indeed grow with little inputs and little care, 
> much
> less than corn.  But the yields will be proportionally modest as well. 
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