coupon-clipping-granny
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is turkish a plant thats very hard to grow or something cause im not hearing or seeing anything about it
ok thanks im gonna give it a whirl i just ordered leaf and plants from bigbonner i cant wait im excited
I grew Turkish from BigBonners seedlings and they turned out great. They were Smyrna #9. They grew over six feet tall but the leaves were about half the size of the American types. I grew Virginia Bright Leaf, Burley, and Turkish in about the same proportion as a good cigarette blend and the cigarettes taste great. I'm really happy with how they turned out.
is turkish a plant thats very hard to grow or something cause im not hearing or seeing anything about it
My impression is that regardless of spacing, you end up with a similar quantity of finished tobacco per sq. ft. of garden space, but with the closer spacing, handling the higher number of leaves per pound is a bit more work.
Bob
Sky,
This season, I will attempt to calculate the weight of cured leaf per sq. ft. for Celikhan and for Xanthi Yaka, both of which are planted about as close as I dare go. Then next season, I'll gather some data on a widely-spaced grow of them.
The measurements I have done support your thesis. Big heavy stemmed leaves do lose a higher percentage of weight to the common ribbing I do for cigars. Some of the oriental used for cig blending had less than 4% loss. Big leaves have lost up to 25%. 15 to 18% is average.Sky,
I may be way off in my estimate. I did not do a weight comparison. My sense is that the larger leaves have a higher percentage of stem weight (thin though it be) than the smaller leaves (in which the stems may often be left in place).
Ah! For lack of a datum, a shoe was lost.
This season, I will attempt to calculate the weight of cured leaf per sq. ft. for Celikhan and for Xanthi Yaka, both of which are planted about as close as I dare go. Then next season, I'll gather some data on a widely-spaced grow of them.
I confess to being strongly biased in favor of those tiny, golden brown, fragrant Xanthi leaves. Just opening one of the Zip Locks of 2 year-old Xanthi from my humidor, and taking a sniff, is almost as intoxicating as the first spoonful of Oreo Blizzard.
Bob, the Biased Boffin
That's a depressing number of exclamation marks. I do appreciate your difficulties with the Bursa.whoa.... 9-inch spacing!!!!
I'm going to withhold any crazy statements until the end of the season. I think I'm going to be OK for most of my Turkish section, The Bursa and Ottoman are going to be trouble for sure. I don't have a problem with plant to plant spacing, yet. Row to row spacing looks like it's going to be about a foot short, going on a diet won't help me much. If it gets too bad I'll take out every other row. A staggered double row might leave enough room to work and keep the plant population the same. I've got a couple of varieties growing in two places with the same soil, one is planted by the traditional spacings and the other is planted kind of like DeluxeStogie has done. I used the traditional plant to plant spacing between the plants in all directions. It won't tell me exactly what I want to know, but it will give me some good clues as to what direction to go.
Sounds like your gonna have to harvest army sniper style..on your stomach. Lol