Wind Toppled Hemp Plants

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We had 30mph wind gusts about a week ago that toppled about 500 plants. Tara and I spent at least two days cutting stakes from 8-foot 1x2 firring sticks and tying up the fallen. What’s really interesting is that none, as in zero, of the plants in the other field fell over even though they all came from seedlings started at the same time and are the same strains.

There is a slight difference in soil types. We have silty and sandy loams while the soil at the other site is a clayey loam – not much clay. We’re thinking that the main factor was that the field was rototilled about 5” deeper at the other site so the seedlings could be set deeper at the time of transplant and later, could more easily send roots lower down. Next year, we’ll cultivate deeper on our field to hopefully take care of this issue.