Quote Originally Posted by personified
So what your saying is that hemp and Mj are not the same plant species. And it takes tons of hemp to make mulch.

Ok Bob :wtf:
No dude. I am saying dont use the old stems and leaves from your previous grow in your buckets. BAD IDEA.

They are the same species but are very ovliously CULTIVATED DIFFERENTLY. Thus the DIFFERENCE. Your example of using hemp mulch was on APPLE TREES. It would work great on apple trees BUT NOT IN BUCKETS OF CANNABIS. Because the environment of natural soil and the environment of your growing medium (peat, perlite, vermiculite) IS NOT THE SAME.

MULCH is not COMPOST. You do not use MULCH in buckets of cannabis, nor do you use MULCH when growing hemp. You could however use hemp or cannabis MULCH to grow a fine apple tree! You can use COMPOSTED HEMP in your growing medium, but this would not be "chopped up stems and leaves with a little fertilizer added for binder", nor would it be MULCH.

....GET IT??

If you are going to be a producer of medical cannabis and you are kicking around the idea of chopping up your old trash and introducing it into your buckets of medium then you have a long way to go to square one. Like I said, read any book out there on the subject and ask questions from there.