chillardbee
Well-Known Member
So I thought I'd start my blog even though it's late. we're not quite half way through the season so I'll bring you up to par.
I'm a second year grower. Last year I grew 140 Del gold and they did good. So this year I ordered 12 more varieties and they are 1. White stem Orinoco, 2. Frog eye Orinoco, 3. White mammoth, 4. Big gem, 5. Bonanza, 6. Hickory pryor, 7. Gold dollar, 8. One sucker, 9. Virginia bright leaf, 10. Perique, 11. Gold burley, 12. Harrow velvet (burley), and the seed I save from the Del Gold last year makes 13.
I started them on germinating on march 31 in moist paper towels and they were germinated and trasfered to the soil about a week later. I had 20 trays with 48 cells each for a total of 960 plants. I sat the trays in cold frames with lights on a timer to go on over night to keep them warm. Through April, after they sprouted, I thinned them and reoccupied cells that didn't turn out and eventually hardened them off.
On may 21, I transplanted 500+ plants to the grond and eventually planted the other 400+ plants into the mountians (gurilla grow test). I've been watering faithfully everyday it's hot and fertilizing alternately with maricle grow 24-18-18 and an organic fertilizer 4-1-5.
Today is June 11 and it has been exactly 3 weeks since I transplanted into the ground here and 2weeks 1 day since planting in the mountians. The weather has been pretty good here too.
I'm a second year grower. Last year I grew 140 Del gold and they did good. So this year I ordered 12 more varieties and they are 1. White stem Orinoco, 2. Frog eye Orinoco, 3. White mammoth, 4. Big gem, 5. Bonanza, 6. Hickory pryor, 7. Gold dollar, 8. One sucker, 9. Virginia bright leaf, 10. Perique, 11. Gold burley, 12. Harrow velvet (burley), and the seed I save from the Del Gold last year makes 13.
I started them on germinating on march 31 in moist paper towels and they were germinated and trasfered to the soil about a week later. I had 20 trays with 48 cells each for a total of 960 plants. I sat the trays in cold frames with lights on a timer to go on over night to keep them warm. Through April, after they sprouted, I thinned them and reoccupied cells that didn't turn out and eventually hardened them off.
On may 21, I transplanted 500+ plants to the grond and eventually planted the other 400+ plants into the mountians (gurilla grow test). I've been watering faithfully everyday it's hot and fertilizing alternately with maricle grow 24-18-18 and an organic fertilizer 4-1-5.
Today is June 11 and it has been exactly 3 weeks since I transplanted into the ground here and 2weeks 1 day since planting in the mountians. The weather has been pretty good here too.