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If you plan on smoking any of the plants - you may want to top one or two. This way you can see the difference in growth. Flowered plants will grow taller with slightly narrow leaves - topped plants will have fuller richer leaves. Looking forward to your pics - Ron |
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Scott, great to see this thread. You are off to some healthy plants. Like you said, no need to worry about constructing the tobacco barn and hiring field hands.
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That's great Shilala! It will be cool to see how they turn out! If you need a guinea pig.... I'll smoke anything!
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Its work getting them going and keeping them right but its something holding a full size tobacco leaf in your hands.
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Awesome Scott! I have thought about trying it but wasn't sure I could successfully pull it off.
Look forward to following your progress.
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Nice...looks like they are very healthy.
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This is a good comparison...
The tray on the right in the top pic is the same as the tray on the right of the bottom pic. (Same goes for the tray on the left.) The top one is one week ago, the bottom one is now. ![]() ![]()
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Looks like they're of to a roaring start.
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I'm amazed at how fast they're growing.
I'm gonna let them get a little bigger and then I'm gonna have to start holding them back. Otherwise I'm gonna have to pich them back and I don't know how they'll respond, being as I never grew tobacco before.
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Hmmmm. Have you asked Richard about that?
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![]() I figured it'd push more leaves and they'd be smaller as a result. I didn't imagine it'd create multiple heads. I thought they already put on lots of heads, kind of randomly. I'm already thinking of an alternate place to plant these monkies because they're going to be a lot bigger plants than I imagined. I had imagined them to be somewhere around 2-2 1/2 feet wide, but it looks like they're going to be more like 4 feet wide. Height isn't a problem as they were going to be planted next to the house, but the flower bed they were going to be in isn't deep enough to host them. I think I'll companion plant them in the garden with my watermelons and pumpkins. The melons will like the shade and it'll slow up my pumpkins so they aren't ready so early. I live in a river valley and the soil is crazy fertile, and there's some clinkers and potash mixed in that really helps the soil drain very well. Add to that the water table is only about 12-18 inches down and I have an awesome ecosystem for them. There's going to be lots more sun in the garden than beside the house, too. I have a perfect place to shade-grow a few plants by the front porch, although I'm going to have to amend the soil. Which is the best variety for wrapper, Richard? I was thinking about using the 2000.
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Yep, every time you pinch a head 2 more grow back. I would recommend the Havana for wrapper. It is much more elastic than the Mexican Maya Mopan or Louisiana Perique. The Havana seed I have shared also offers a lighter shade of brown on the first fermentation.
Your betcha those plants are going to be huge. Here are a few visuals form last years leaf and it was not even a huge year, due to the long month of smokey fires preventing full sunlight. ![]() ![]() Doing the math your plants could easily have a circumference of 5 feet ![]() They are going to be beauties. The tobacco road is a wondrous one with many rewards. —Richard Quote:
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