What to do with post-harvest waste?

I've searched a couple different ways and I didn't see anything on this:

What do you do with your leftover waste? (i.e. stalks and foliage, basically everything inactive)

I don't have space for composting (nevermind that it's winter after all), and I'd hate to waste such beautiful plant-matter.

I might make paper, but you don't exactly find how-to's on homemade hemp paper very often.

Thoughts?

pythiq said:

I've searched a couple different ways and I didn't see anything on this:

What do you do with your leftover waste? (i.e. stalks and foliage, basically everything inactive)

I don't have space for composting (nevermind that it's winter after all), and I'd hate to waste such beautiful plant-matter.

I might make paper, but you don't exactly find how-to's on homemade hemp paper very often.

Thoughts?

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your not searching hard enopugh because everything i come accross will tell you its hash or butter time baby........

well yeah, after hash, the waste, i mean.

pythiq said:

I've searched a couple different ways and I didn't see anything on this:

What do you do with your leftover waste? (i.e. stalks and foliage, basically everything inactive)

I don't have space for composting (nevermind that it's winter after all), and I'd hate to waste such beautiful plant-matter.

I might make paper, but you don't exactly find how-to's on homemade hemp paper very often.

Thoughts?

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dude, google rocks. http://www.ehow.com/how_4472282_make-hemp-paper.html

i now full understand what a "deckle" is. i had no idea. http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/how-to-make-paper-from-recycled-materials-213/

awesome....now i have to out and buy a deckle

fdd2blk said:

i now full understand what a "deckle" is. i had no idea. http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/how-to-make-paper-from-recycled-materials-213/

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haaahahahahaha...that was the first thing i did was google deckle

i realize now that i kind of set myself up for a justfuckinggoogleit.com moment

has anyone done it though?

any other ideas besides paper?

I use my leftovers to make hash then sometimes iso hash but my cat eats the leaves and chews the stems so I just let him have his way.

pythiq said:

i realize now that i kind of set myself up for a justfuckinggoogleit.com moment

has anyone done it though?

any other ideas besides paper?

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you learned me something though. and it was very interesting. i may just try this some day.

how about rope?

i'd suggest making art out of it? or stuff beanie babies with it donate it to charity jking. bury it, burn it, give it to a friend, give it to an enemy, pull it apart and make toothpicks, use it as a tooth scrubber to get cashed resin out of your teeth if your bowl poops. clean the roots and embalm them somehow make root art.. cool lampshades, im out of ideas, actually they just keep getting stupider and yeah, peace

fdd2blk said:

i now full understand what a "deckle" is. i had no idea. http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/how-to-make-paper-from-recycled-materials-213/

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OH the things we can learn! *cheer*

fdd2blk said:

you learned me something though. and it was very interesting. i may just try this some day.

how about rope?

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I watched a documentary about all the uses of Marijuana last night and I saw some people making hemp rope. it was pretty nuts.

okay... this is a basic rundown of how I understand it. you take the plants (it looked like they chopped em off but plucked all the budz and left the branches attached.) and then you throw them into a really shallow MUD pool. once in the pool you then jump around on top of the stocks barefoot like crazy. this is to loosen the fibers inside the stalks of the plant (you know that weird fuzzy stuff that comes out of the coffee grinder when you grind your stems.) after that you let it dry for some amount of time and then somehow pull the stem fibers apart.

then you get this really weird pedal contraption and feed the fibers through and on the other end it will be shitting out hemp rope.

thats my fucking how-to!! hope it helped all of you!

i think i'll stick to buying rope though i have made cordage in the past by twisting some inner tree bark together 'in opposite directions'...

its a good question though. i have two separate trash bags in my grow area. one of them is for anything legal... and the other is for any plant matter. sometimes i risk throwing the plant matter away, but i make sure to like triple bag it and then put it in a trash bag with nothing else to identify where it came from as much as possible. i have considered burying it. i'd burn if that was an option, but it isn't where i live.

maybe i should be grinding it up in a good blender and flushing that shite down the toilet.

i like the art idea. take all the large fan leaves and spread em out over a table them get a big piece if glass cut to fit over the table and glue it down on the sides and you've got a nice weed leaf table lol.

haha weed leaf table that wouldn't be innocuous or anything if cops showed up at your place

hmmm

well if cops are showing up at your place there's clearly something wrong already lol

CDN Kid said:

well if cops are showing up at your place there's clearly something wrong already lol

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Haha yeah that's probably true. And it could be a pretty cool glass-top table, but I'm not quick to advertise my supply of a certain plant material on a coffee table or some similar such furniture item.

Plus, even if it's not the cops, people could learn a lot from an authentic weedleaf table adorning your living room. Might send a little too strong of a message to guests unknowing of your secret garden