How to make cordage from Milkweed
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Common milkweed is abundant and makes great cordage. It can be harvested green or later in the season. Be sure to dry out green milkweed for a few hours for best results. All parts of milkweed can be eaten as a wild edible. The young shoots especially are my favorite. Boil in a couple changes of water to remove the bitterness.
Great video -- you explain it well and the camera work makes everything easy to see -- well done, and thank you. Also, I agree with Hani Karam that it might be better to wait until the Monarch butterfly breeding season is done with before harvesting plants. People could be inadvertently harvesting eggs or small caterpillars. The Monarchs are in trouble right now due to habitat loss -- mainly meaning there aren't enough milkweed plants to support them in their breeding range.
better yet plant your own milkweed then make cords in late fall. #Best of both worlds
Only time I've succeeded in getting monarchs to nest at the community garden is when I combine milkweed and mexican sunflower (tithonia).
Thank you for this Well-made Video! You explain the techniques better than anybody else I’ve watched. You Rock!
Absolutely stoked to try this. Tried to find text re the Miwok tradition, but good ole CZcams had enough for this beginner. Many thanks for the vid! Oh, and my milkweed was yellowing/dead and the local Monarch lady gave the okay! Nobody panic!
Very good advise using natural and abundant materials.
Thanks man, have a ton of milkweed in my surrounding area
LOL, no cutting down a few milkweeds isn't going to endanger the Monarch population.
Cool vid. I just learned the other day from a different youtuber that you can eat milkweed, if you cook it, and today I learned you can make rope too. Good job.
Right? You see all these mental midgets trying to virtue signal by correlating cutting down a couple of milkweeds to KILLING ALL THE BUTTERFLIES?
Ridiculous, I hope he mowed that whole field afterwards.
Awesome step by step. Thanks!
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You can also work the finer fibers in a drop spindle. to make one you need clay (airdry or fimo), a piece of dowel, a hook, and some hot glue. Sure it doesn't have that fine cordage twist, but it looks like actual homespun yarn rather than a rope. Currently I'm working in dogbane rather than milkweed. Much much stronger but you can abraid your fingers a bit from the fine slivers of stem you end up having to remove.
I'm allergic to milkweed unfortunately but I still liked the video 👍✌️
You get your strips from cat tails! And no not house cats. Go out to the swamp and pull them up. Then pull the leaves apart in strips.
The inner pith is edible. Cool video
Are you sure, isn't it toxic
Yes ! Thank You . Great info / demo. Mtn Mel Ret USN SERE/ VN.
Thank you! 😁👍
Wow, excellent. Good to know this.
If you take the milkweed ,and bend it 1/4 way of the fibers ,, and twisting it till it turns back on itself .Then, you twist ,till you need to splice. the stalks ..Then you won't was so much tying the end off..
At the home of (apparently) a Leprechaun, we see bows that need to be hung up vertically to prevent limb damage, a need for baseboards, and an otherwise very good tutorial.
Thanks!
Needs a box of tissues too
@@Completionism Claritin. Apparently, he's allergic to weed.
Love the video, clearly explained. It's ok to put it in your mouth?
The whole plant is edible, so it should be safe to put in your mouth. Good question!
Thanks for showing thiis
well this is a good video on how to make cordage unfortunately milkweed was listed as a noxious plant but is actually a natural habitat for the monarch butterfly which is an endangered species. not the best choice of material i prefer using cedar myself
Amazing!
Could you use this for bowstring for a hunting bow? I've heard animal sinew is ideal but I was wondering if this could be used as well. It's supposed to have a similar consistency to flax
JusT LIkE IN OnE hoUr oNE LIfE
Dogbane* makes for a better cordage and is not food for the monarch butterfly which has a declining population due to human development. It looks almost the same as milkweed but with a red stem
There is plenty for all, GOD is in charge here...
What is that noise?
I'd rather leave the milkweed alone and prosper for the monarch butterfly to lay its eggs on it so it regenerates more butterfly why destroy the specific plant of the monarch butterfly ?
hani karam omg... get over it.... fack
The Milkweed is an extremely common plant, And From late august, no more monarchs will be born in that year. As long as you take the milkweed after the second week of August, you are not threatening the monarch caterpillar's staple food. Do not take the plant during monarch season. Once all the Monarchs begin to migrate south, they will no longer need the milkweed.
@@fourteencrows1244 Why don't you be more learned and that might get you to be more understanding.
Don't worry. I agree with your line of thinking but milkweed is pretty resilient. Hopefully people are looking for monarchs and viceroy before harvesting and not cutting the whole plant. That's irresponsible for sure. 20% harvest rule.
Where I live this plant is an invasive and it harms others plants and insects. So I'll be happy to find a good use for it
How do you avoid getting the toxic sap on your hands?
You might be thinking of another plant. Milkweed is entirely edible.
@@Katya75RN milkweed is toxic unless thoroughly boiled and cooked
@@Zelleram55 interesting! I knew dogsbane was toxic, but I watched video of a guy making cordage from raw milkweed with his bare hands. 🤷♀️
Don't do this to living plants. Wait till they are done and dried.
This can't be milkweed, there is no sap.
Is the plant not dogbane, Indian hemp?
#NoNationalBorder
@Blayr Lekavich Dogbane is Indian Hemp. But its not milkweed
Here I am buying milkweed seeds and painstakingly growing them by stratifying the seeds and putting under grow lights to germinate for the butterflies and they get decimated to make cordage.
LOL
I know this is a whole year later than your comment, and unlikely to reach you CT, but I appreciate you.
Also, head out to your nearest prairie wildlife area about mid-late October and harvest the seed pods! Saves you money :)
Also also, if this guy were to wait a few months he could harvest the stalks and make his cordage long after the Monarch larvae have moved on and completed their metamorphosis. Of course, then it would affect the bees and other insects that rely on said stalks to make it through the winter.
Nature, you cruel mistress.
Save the milkweed for the butterflies and go to the Dollar Store. 🙄
The butterflies will be fine. Also going to the dollar store to buy string ruins the whole idea of being able to make it yourself
Yep. Let’s use shit that’s processed in mills with chemicals.
You’re a moron. Grabbing a few milkweed plants late in the season will not hamper butterfly’s in any way.
Im not sure you understand what bushcraft is. The butterflies will be okay. I doubt hes using thousands of the plants.
Wonder how many plants were destroyed to build the dollar stores