Still going really good on the allotment! The sunny days are still with us this year - and the tobacco is loving it!
Here's the Silver River - most bottom leaves are two and a half foot by 16 inches. Some of it is beginning to show flower buds so I have a bag at the ready for the nicest specimen.
And here is my early rustica patch (Mohawk) - I'm going to bag the latest flowering one with the biggest leaves although there is no other rustica in flower at the moment (and nobody else growing that I know of) ... These were planted with a measly 20" spacing and the leaves are still pretty normal sized for any rustica that I've grown before.
Elsewhere on the patch I have Oxford 207 which is making a good effort - but still has smaller leaves than I'd like really. Also African Red which are looking very similar to the Oxford 207 - not as gigantic as the hype says for me - and most disappointing of all is the Yellow Twist Bud some of which has yellowed on the lower leaves and has bolted to flower without making it over 2ft tall - some of the leaves are quite big - but there seems something wrong with this area of the patch, I think it might be mineral deficiencies due to a lot of rain washing the nutrients from the soil early on in 2014.