BarG 2013 grow log; Texas, Brazos Valley

[BigMikeChevy]

Good Job man. like the drying room thinking about what Im going to use at the end of the season.

 

[Knucklehead]

Heck yeah BarG. Chalk up another good year for the man from Tejas. You Texas boys have it going on.

 

[leverhead]

Lookin' good! What are you doing with your spare time?

 

[BarG]

I have alot of leaf to play with.

 

[Boboro]

Some folks realy get in to this bacca producion.

 

[Mrs BeeKeeper]

Nice set up BarG! I hope Chillard can have an equally nice place to dry his leaf someday. Being that we're in a mobile home park, we are extremely space limited. Last year, because we live just north of Seattle where it rains all winter, it was so moist outside, I had leaf hanging in my livingroom! I think I have pics somewhere, I'll have to look.

 

[DonH]

How did you build that hanging rack? Are the two beams connected at the bottom? Looks like a good setup.

 

[workhorse_01]

You are liable to find tobacco hanging anywhere with us guys. Thank GOD we have good women to put up with us! Last year I had all the clothes hangers with leaf hanging around the kitchen. My wife just said "How long does it take to dry?" I got the hint and a week later it went outside.

Nice set up BarG! I hope Chillard can have an equally nice place to dry his leaf someday. Being that we're in a mobile home park, we are extremely space limited. Last year, because we live just north of Seattle where it rains all winter, it was so moist outside, I had leaf hanging in my livingroom! I think I have pics somewhere, I'll have to look.

 

[DGBAMA]

Would love to hear dimensions on the nice T-post rack and approximately how many plants worth of leaf you can get on it. Looks really nice.

I started out to grow 20-30 plants, ended up with 200+ starts and nowhere to plant them......had to make two more planting areas. Now it just hit me.......where/how am I going to hang leaf from 187 plants. Typical shortsightedness for me. Two years ago I decided to switch to wood stove for our winter heat; Bought a fireplace in September and installed it; then realized I needed wood to feed it all winter.......got wood, only to realize that I needed somewhere DRY to store that wood. That was a crazy fall season.

 

[BarG]

The rack is made to break down for storage. The 10' 4x4's are clamped to roof joists and a 4' 1x4 is placed between at bottom and clamped. The first tier starts at 3' from ground and 2' each one above that. the horizontal pieces are 6' long and the hanging bars are 4'. I have never counted actual leaves cause I have yet to be able to fill it up. I stalk cure a lot of my tops and some varietys. Its been a worthy investment for my leaf curing.

 

[Chicken]

very effeciant

 

[DonH]

The rack is made to break down for storage. The 10' 4x4's are clamped to roof joists and a 4' 1x4 is placed between at bottom and clamped. The first tier starts at 3' from ground and 2' each one above that. the horizontal pieces are 6' long and the hanging bars are 4'. I have never counted actual leaves cause I have yet to be able to fill it up. I stalk cure a lot of my tops and some varietys. Its been a worthy investment for my leaf curing.

How is the clamping done?

 

[DonH]

How is the clamping done?

Never mind, I see how you did it in this post: http://fairtradetobacco.com/showthread.php?1071-Stringing-Tobacco&p=13048&viewfull=1#post13048

 

[BarG]

The 4x4's were old and twisted so badlly they had to be clamped to help straighten them out.