Small Farms - Hemp Clone Propagation

Hemp; Propagation; Clone; CBD Welcome to the 3rd annual Small Farm Education Field Day hosted by Purdue Extension and the Purdue Student Farm. I am Dr. Petrus Langenhoven, vegetable Extension specialist in the department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and co-director of the Purdue Student Farm, and host of this Small Farm Education Webinar Series. The topic featured in this video include: Hemp Clone Propagation presented by Mitchell Ankney and Petrus Langenhoven, Purdue University. Hemp clones are in high demand ever since the hemp industry has been legalized in 2018. From past experience, growers have been purchasing poor quality clones, clones that are not rooted well and not hardened off properly with low uniformity, all at very high prices. We will present indoor production experiences about the propagation of hemp clones using different light spectra, substrates, tray cell counts, plug shapes, mother plant care for starting material, and the methods that have achieved us the highest success rate of healthy vigorous cannabis cuttings with high uniformity.