Half Moon Hemp specializes in cloning Indiana-specific genes of Cannabis sativa, meant for industrial hemp and CBD products.
Hemp production ramps up for Hoosier farmers like Halfmoon in Fortville, who have an eye toward shifting regulations in the future.Inside a nondescript warehouse east of Indianapolis, vertical shelving holds hundreds of cannabis plants with different genetic strains. A conspicuous, pungent smell hangs in the warm humid air as special grow lights hover inches from the tops of the lush green plants.
“I’m going to keep making great flowers,” he said, “but somebody else has got to figure out how they want to use them.”He grew up out in the country in central Indiana where his family raised cows, chickens, horses, rabbits and goats. Once he learned how important good food is to people and developing minds, he invested in an indoor growing facility that produced vegetables. The aquaponic and hydroponic facility grew everything from edible flowers to sprout mixes that Gilliatte would sell to all the big distributors in Indy.
But for decades in the U.S., including Indiana, restrictive laws created huge challenges for farmers who wanted to grow hemp as a crop. Marguerite Bolt, hemp extension specialist at Purdue, said the first year of commercial hemp production began during the 2019 growing year. As a specialist, Bolt works with hemp growers, industry members and the public to provide fact-based information from university resources.
To make clones from the mother plants, Gilliatte makes a 45 degree cut from the top of the plant near a thick part of the stem known as a node. This cutting is placed with others into a multi-section tray and fed a rooting hormone. The trays are kept in controlled environments with care put into the temperature and humidity ranges. It takes about seven days until roots form and the clones are ready for farmers.
Pay walks the warehouse each day monitoring humidity and checking on each strain to make sure it’s within limits. When plants are large enough, he moves them outside to “harden” them against Indiana’s natural environment. Sheltered beneath porous sheets that are designed to let in a controlled amount of light, the plants stay here until they are ready for a farmer to come and pick them up.
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