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The ladies in purple picking the saffron is quite beautiful. Honest. Pure. Simple work.*GHETTOBLASTER » 18 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Yes.....Give your slaves lobotomies and drugs that make them happy...!
I've grown my own hops vines for making beer.
The cone shaped flower has to be pulled off the vine.
The hops cones are sticky..similar to a marijuana bud.
Each cone is practically weightless and you need a wheelbarrow full of 1000s of these little cones to have enough to make a small batch of "hoppy" ale.
No doubt the professional growers have perfected a way to make harvesting hops much less labor intensive than the "hobby level" grower.
Here's a look at how saffron is done....https://youtu.be/p4NaR3H65SU?si=wXGsYWEYcaApGzA7