Seed

We are currently in the process of certifying the 2011 Finnish planting seed production. We will begin to take your order in early February of 2012. For information on how to order your certified FINOLA planting seed for 2012, please click here to download a two page PDF (92 kB).

Our planting seeds are NOT genetically modified, nor treated with ANY nasty chemicals!

For basic info on FINOLA, and general farming info, please click HERE

Description of the FINOLA oilseed hemp variety:

FINOLA is the shortest, and earliest to bloom of any variety of hemp (i.e., non-drug Cannabis), and is dioecious, with distinct male and female plants. The crop typically begins to flower at 25-30 days after sowing, with males flowers being the easiest to see with the unaided eye, and mature females do not branch significantly during their subsequent development, even when standing alone. Click HERE to download a 2.6 MB pdf that shows the development of FINOLA in pictures, with special emphasis on typical morphologic features of males and females, according to days after sowing. FINOLA produces abundant grain at high latitude (e.g., 62 N), where most other varieties of hemp do not even set seed. It is typically planted in May and harvested about 135 days after planting. FINOLA has been developed with traditional methods. It is NOT a product of genetic manipulation!

FINOLA supports natural biodiversity, where ever it is grown; from honey bees and other insects that take pollen from mature male plants in mid-summer, to migratory song birds that fatten up on mature seeds during harvest time, and even the falcons, hawks and owls that come to feed at leisure on smaller birds and field rodents.

Other Information on hemp in the EU:

See Annex I of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1122/2009, which describes the EU methodologies that are supposed to be follwed for sampling industrial hemp fields and analyzing for THC (288 kB pdf). Be sure to understand that FINOLA hemp fields should be sampled for THC about 60 days after sowing! Sampling should be even earlier if the crop is under stress from drought or other reasons.

Click HERE for practical information on EU regulation 1122/2009, and how this has been applied and mostly misapplied to the evaluation of THC in FINOLA (672 KB). This information carefully describes the inherent problems in EU regulations that concern THC in hemp, and helps us understand why these regulations unfairly favor monoecious varieties of fiber hemp over dioecious oilseed varieties, and also how these regulations favor hemp varieties from Central Europe over varieties from Northern and Eastern Europe.

Click HERE for a detailed publication (164 kB pdf) on the mis-application and mis-administration of EU hemp sampling regulation in Annex 1 or 1122/2009, with examples using FINOLA and other hemp varieties, especially with worldwide THC results from 2006, which was the last year that FINOLA was eligible for a subsidy in the EU.

25 kg bags of EU-certified FINOLA planting seed will be available in 2012. This official blue C1 label, pictured above, is issued for planting seed produced in Finland. FINOLA is the only seed that needs to be covered in the warehouse, because the song birds will spend all winter pecking holes in the bags to get to the seed if they are not properly protected. The birds do not need to be informed on the nutritional value of FINOLA seed!

The Finola name and the seed-drop logo are trademarked.

The FINOLA variety of oilseed hemp is protected by OECD Plant Breeder Rights.