What hemp genetics can I plant?

rechem supplies seed for fiber and seed for grain. Heartland chooses fiber seed by latitude: a northern planting seed and a southern planting seed. The Hemp Fiber and Grain Association talks about fiber, grain, and dual-purpose crops, and it says performance moves with climate and soil. rechem will name the lot when you order. This page does not invent a variety list.

Order the seed from How do I get hemp seed?. The season around the variety is How do I grow hemp for fiber and grain?.

Fiber, grain, or both

Pick the harvest you are selling. Fiber is a stand of stalks. Grain is a seed crop that has to flower and fill. A dual-purpose field can give both: Heartland describes taking grain off the top of a fiber crop with a combine, the way a farmer takes wheat, and still having the stalk. The buyer has to want both. If the contract is grain only, or fiber only, plant for that contract.

HFGA treats dual-purpose as its own choice, next to fiber and next to grain. Do it only when the variety was sold for that use.

Season length and the law

Long enough for your latitude. Heartland's split is northern and southern planting seed. HFGA says the right variety is a regional decision, which is why they want seed from a distributor who has seen it in North American fields. A season length that is not on the bag does not belong on this page.

Start with certified seed, and with the state or tribal hemp program. HFGA says industrial hemp is federally legal, and that state and county rules still apply. Their textile standard wants seed from the HFGA certified-variety register, or an AOSCA-certified equivalent, and it wants the seed-lot number kept.

The crop-shaped chemistry, once the variety is chosen, is Hemp fiber or Hemp grain.