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Crushed Hemp

Jason McAdam

Jason McAdam

Senior Member
Hi Folks,

I am being a bit of a thicko at the moment, so please go easy!!!:rolleyes:

I have a stack of hemp in the shed and was wanting to make crushed hemp to go in my groudbait as opposed to buying the stuff.
My question is......do you cook it before crushing or do you just crush it raw aiming to retain as much oil as possible, the reason i ask is cause i know raw hemp is a huge no no but when crushed into small particles does it become safe???

Thanks in advance

Jason
 
I think it's best to cook it first and use a brick to crush it, then either stick it in the groundbait or dry it out and store it for future use.

Sam
 
Jason, crushed or whole, it only becomes (safe) WHEN BOILED. IT JUST STOPS THE RAW SEED GERMINATING AND GROWING turning into nice plants:cool: in and by the waterway.
The best way IMO is to cook it crush it then freeze it untill required, easier to crush whilst still warm.
Dont add loads into your groundbait if your not putting the groundbait in straight away, as if you leave it to use thruought the day it dries the crushed hemp and it just floats away.
 
Is it my imagination or is the packaged crushed hemp groundbait additive in t'shops grilled / roasted?
 
Thanks for the replies, I was not sure about using it raw!!

Wonder if you could crush it then cook it in hemp oil...oily stinky crushed hemp, prob pva friendly??
 
Richard Burton said:
Jason, crushed or whole, it only becomes (safe) WHEN BOILED. IT JUST STOPS THE RAW SEED GERMINATING AND GROWING turning into nice plants:cool: in and by the waterway.
The best way IMO is to cook it crush it then freeze it untill required, easier to crush whilst still warm.
Dont add loads into your groundbait if your not putting the groundbait in straight away, as if you leave it to use thruought the day it dries the crushed hemp and it just floats away.
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By eck, you must get a strange variety of hemp up where you come from Richard :D

Properly crushed hemp has no chance of germinating, period, and hemp in any state can not grow in water anyway :p

Cheers, Dave.
 
I thought the hemp we buy now has been made sterile anyway after that farmer got done on the trent for having a massive 6ft high cannabis plants all along the river bank, from anglers chucking there unused hemp behind them, if only we knew !!!!!!!!!!!! still makes me laugh to this day.:D
 
Richard Burton said:
Wana bet, try it in the shalows of the Teme in the height of summer:)
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Ah...whole hemp, in shallow water in summer, possibly...a lot of otherwise dry land plants will grow in those conditions. What I was referring to was the ludicrous old wives tales that used to abound about hemp growing in the main river, forming dense weed beds :rolleyes:

The 'anti hemp brigade' would have it, whenever there was a particularly heavey growth year for ranunculus etc., that it was in fact the hemp growing. They would also claim that hemp should be banned, because it worked by drugging the fish....and on the H. Avon they claimed that so much was being used it was building up into drifts like sand banks, blocking the river :eek:

Cheers, Dave.
 
The seeds that druggies grow produces a plant with 5%-20%+ THC.
The stuff you buy in the seed merchant, tackle or pet shop is industrial hemp and typically has less than 1% THC (it couldn't get a fly higher than the table top). It does make a nice plant down the river though.:D

I used to lightly toast my hemp seed under the grill or in a medium oven at 180c before crushing it and mixing it with my ground bait. Tbh the whole process was a pain in the bum and hardly worth the effort.
I would simply soak the hemp in boiling water in an old cooler box and use it in the time honoured fashion, if you want a crushed hemp ground bait buy a bag of hemp and hali crush from your local tackle shop and bulk it out 50/50 with brown crumb.
 
Crushed hemp bought commercially is uncooked.
I have found through many years of using hemp, toasting it or roasting it makes not one jot of difference to captures. It just smells nicer to us. :rolleyes:
 
A nice mixed response to the question......and the answer is........everyone does it there own way cooking, soaking, toasting or crushed raw:rolleyes:

I will stick with cooking in some form or other, if the stuff grows in the shallows then next year i should have a forest in my pond:D:D
 
Hemp

Crushed hemp is dead , it is no more, it is an ex seed . It won't grow.
If you crush it as you need it and just cover it with boiling water you will end up with a lovely oily mush in a few hours( overnight perhaps).
My seed merchant (Titmus in Wheathampsted), wants a name address and postcode if you buy a sack with an undertaking not to grow the stuff. Hemp is no longer iradiated as was once the case so unless crushed or boiled it will grow.
 
The fact is, if all you are worried about is that your hemp splits, and thereby looks 'pukka', then soaking it in cold water will do the job. But, as has been said, you will then run the risk of it growing if spilled (except crushed hemp, which IS dead)

However, what has not been mentioned is that way back when, we were always told that the only way to release the attractive oils in hemp (which, let's face it, is why it works)....was to boil it. Now, I have no idea if that is scientifically correct, but that was the claim by the 'experts' back then.

If that IS true, then I would think it would also be true for crushed hemp?

All in all, it would seem boiling all forms of hemp before use will certainly do no harm...but could well be beneficial in several ways...so go for it :D

Cheers, Dave.
 
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