We’ve been separating the hemp from the hype since 1995!
Read brief descriptions of our hemp varieties, and order certified planting seed HERE
Current status of FINOLA and FINOLA2 in the European Union:
Perfectly Legal (even in Poland)!
If hemp samples are still collected in your country for THC testing, be sure to help your agricultural officials to plan for the correct times to take field samples of FINOLA (between 40 to 60 days after sowing in most places) and FINOLA2 (between 50 to 70 days after sowing in most places). The correct time of sampling is dependent on latitude and heat energy, with earlier sampling times at warmer latitudes. Earlier sampling times should also be considered for stressed crops.
Click HERE for a 12 page PDF (31MB) on FINOLA’s morphology and development with pictures.
Click HERE to download a two page PDF that describes some basic information about the FINOLA variety of oilseed hemp, the Finola company and the Finola® registered trademark.
SOME PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS on HEMP by Dr. JC Callaway:
Click HERE for a chapter on Hempseed Oil (36 A4 pages, 524 kB pdf), by JC Callaway and DW Pate. This revised version was published in 2009 as Chapter 5 (pp. 185-213) In: Gourmet and Health-Promoting Specialty Oils, Robert A. Moreau and Afaf Kamal-Eldin (Eds.), AOCS Press, Urbana Il, ISBN 978-1-893997-97-4.
Click HERE for a short new article by JC Callaway, entitled “Hempseed oil, in a nut shell”, published in the March 2010 Volume 21(3) of inform; a monthly publication of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS).
Hempseed Oil is a functional food: Read about the results of these two clinical studies:
For general information on hempseed nutrition, check out this publication:
With hemp come politics, and when sloppy science collides with careless administration, unfortunate things can happen, typically to individuals and small companies. This publication describes the real impact of institutional ignorance and bureaucratic bumbling with dubious scientific results.
Some history on the FINOLA varieties
FINOLA is the world’s leading producer of hempseed and useful flowers. It was developed in Finland in 1995 under the breeder’s code FIN-314, and independent agricultural trials for Plant Breeders Rights (PBR) began in the Netherlands during 1997. The PBR for FINOLA was eventually granted by the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) in 1999. The FINOLA oilseed hemp variety was finally admitted to the European Union’s list of subsidized crops in February of 2003, soon after the European Commission had officially recognized oilseed hemp as an industrial crop. Before that time, hemp was primarily used for fibre production. Before 2003, it was a completely new idea to grow hemp specifically for grain production. Although the situation was bleak in these early years, we decided to continue for two reasons; because we could, and because we thought this agricultural innovation was important to our health and to the health of our plant.
FINOLA2 is a new auto flowering dioecious hemp variety. Breeding for this variety began in 2006, and the PBR for FINOLA was eventually granted 2020. It was finally admitted to the European Common Catalogue in 2023. The flowering process typically begins between 35 to 40 days after sowing, with male flowers being the easiest to identify at first. In comparison to the original FINOLA variety, FINOLA2 is slightly taller, and the seeds mature approximately 10 days later. FINOLA2 also has a significantly larger seed, with a thousand seed weight (tsw) of approximately 16-18 g/, and a very low THC content (<0.10%) at maturity. CBD production is also low for this variety. With adequate fertilisation and favourable growing conditions, typical yields of grain range from 1.5 to 2 metric tonnes per hectare in Central Europe. FINOLA2 is suitable for cultivation in Southern Europe, the United States and other regions below 50 N latitude. Grain yields are less than optimal at latitudes above 50 N.
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The FINOLA variety of oilseed hemp is protected by OECD Plant Breeder Rights.
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