OK so I got sent a kilo of finola buds by a kind friend!
Purely for making CBD caps.
I have the buds powdered ready for making the caps but I have run out after making thc butter caps.
So I need to buy some more 000 caps.
As for the seeds, grind into flour, dry pan toast them??
I'm open to sujestions and I know you have some!
They are highly nutrious, so may as well get some goodness out of them.
I could go mooching around a church yard come Christmas Eve and see if I can bag a wife!
Hopefully she would work for a canna seed bank and not be chucking industrial hemp around but fine quality seeds (still in the sealed packet).
If she wants a husband then that's the way to go, I can get hemp seeds at the health food shop.
I'd be happy to sow the seeds, grow the seeds and smoke the weed with her, so win win and there maybe some yule tide stoned nookie, to boot! What's not to like!
Hemp seed I sow …
In the nineteenth century hemp (
Cannabis sativa) seed was widely used by girls in a love divination, in southern England and in the Channel Islands.
In Guernsey in the 1880s:
‘A vision of your future husband can … be obtained by the sowing of hemp-seed. The young maiden must scatter on the ground some hemp-seed, saying: Hemp-seed I sow, hemp-seed grow,
For my true love to come and mow,
Having done this she must immediately run into the house to prevent her legs being cut off by the reaper’s sickle, and looking back she will see the longed-for lover mowing the hemp, which has grown so rapidly, and so mysteriously.
At Wolvercote, Oxfordshire, in the early 1920s:
‘Mrs Calcutt’s mother was probably the last girl to try the charm of sowing hempseed … She, with a girl friend, went to the churchyard one Christmas Eve at midnight, carrying some hempseed, while throwing it over her shoulder said:
I sow hempseed,
Hempseed I sow,
He that is to be my husband,
Come after me and mow,
Not in his best or Sunday array,
But in the clothes he wears every day!
The friend with her was very much frightened; some people said she saw a coffin, but whatever she saw, it was certain she died soon afterwards, and the people in the village evidently connected her death in some way with the visit to the churchyard, as they forbade their daughters to try this charm any more’.
Variations in the custom appear to have been small, the main differences being the date chosen. Midsummer’s Eve (24 June) seems to have been the date most widely favoured, other dates included St Valentine’s Eve (13 February) in Derbyshire and Devon, St Mark’s Eve (24 April) in parts of East Anglia, and St Martin’s Eve (10 November) in Norfolk.
Hemp seed divination on Old Midsummer Eve (4 July) forms a pivotal scene in Thomas Hardy’s novel
The Woodlanders, first published in 1887. This event appears to be atypical in that his Hintock maidens sowed their seed in dark recesses in the woods, and although the village girls were the main participants, ‘half the parish’ turned up, young men positioning themselves so that after the sowing they would be the first to be seen by their potential lovers. Presumably Hardy adapted his account to bring it in line with his novel’s woodland setting.