Plan your hemp god clone

Hemp is the cloth crop: every harvest gives Cloth, and cloth is what the Mixing Table turns into Low Grade Fuel.

Hemp growth stages and times

Base times from the game files (minutes at default server settings). A hemp seed is a Seed for 1 min and already counts as a neighbour, a Seedling for 10 min, then a Sapling for 10 min: from about 11 to 21 minutes after planting its cuttings copy its genes exactly, before any crossing. At 21 min the hemp enters Crossbreed for 1 min; its new genes are worked out once, as it enters, from the plants touching it in the same planter. Hemp's Mature stage lasts 1 h, tied for the longest of any crop: the time to read the genes and take cuttings. Fruiting takes 30 min, so a hemp plant is ripe about 1 h 52 min after planting, stays Ripe for up to 24 h, and then turns Dying: the harvest and cuttings are gone, and 1 h 40 min later the plant dies. Poor light, water, temperature or soil stretch all of that for hemp; each G gene speeds its growth by 25%.

What hemp goes into

Cloth is an ingredient in one recipe on Godclone's Recipes page. Mixing Table: Low Grade Fuel. See the hemp recipes with their ingredients and craft times.

When Hardiness matters for hemp

H Hardiness copes with cold, heat and poor soil, so it earns its place in a snow or desert base, where GGGYYH hemp beats a plant that dies before it fruits. Anywhere else it is the weakest green for hemp too: the calculator scores H at 0.5 against 1 for G and Y, and you can raise it in Options when you farm in the cold. A hemp plant's water intake is 5 in the game files; each W Water gene adds 10% to it, which is why W counts as a bad gene.

How to breed a hemp god clone

1. Plant hemp seeds in one planter and wait about 11 minutes for the Sapling stage, then take a cutting from each and read the genes in its name.
2. Add the clones above (the calculator on this page is already set to hemp) and press Calculate. It tries every way of putting your hemp clones around a centre plant and shows the layouts that give GGGYYY or GGYYYY, the planting order when a tie needs it, and the chance of each.
3. Plant the layout in a planter with nothing but hemp in it. The centre crosses once, about 21 minutes after it went in (12 if it has 3 G); from Mature (1 h long for hemp) read its genes and clone it.
4. Clone the hemp while it is Mature or Ripe. A hemp plant gives 2 cuttings a cut with no Yield genes, 3 with GGGYYY and 4 with GGYYYY (one more per two Y, game code), so the god clone multiplies itself.

Which of the two to aim for with hemp depends on what you want from it: more Y means bigger harvests and more cuttings, more G means a faster bed. When to plant and the triangle planter cover the timing for hemp and the small planters.