OldDinosaurWesH
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Yes, well, Kirkland Washington is hardly a major tobacco growing region. Since it is across the lake from Seattle, I'm guessing it's a major tobacco shunning region.
Wes H.
Wes H.
I think KY 17 would do fine, so long as you are not growing in a common tobacco growing region. TN 86 and TN 90 are so widely grown because of their multiple disease resistance traits.
If WLT doesn't have them, I know that BigBonner usually grows TN 86 or TN 90 by the acre.
Bob
TN 90 became popular when blue mold was bad . Leaves stood up right allowing more air and sunshine down tobacco rows helping to prevent blue mold .It is black shank resistant . A lot of Other varieties spread across the rows trapping moisture that feed blue mold .
I like growing HB4488 ( Black shank resistant ) and 14XL8 . Ky 14 X L8 is not black shank resistant but if you don't have a black shank problem then you can grow all varieties of tobacco .
Tn 86 , KY 209 , KY 206 , Ky 204 These are all good to grow
All modern tobacco has to be a Low Converter (LC) or big tobacco won't buy your crop .
I grow TN 90 mainly because that is what people want .
I see a few other interesting varietals on Skychaser's site:
Burley 21
Moldovan 456
Any first-hand experience with these?
On the site of Skychaser, it would be better to indicate the not interesting varieties that would be faster and much less long! Lol
Sur le site de Skychaser, il vaudrait mieux indiquer les variétés pas intéressantes... ça serait plus rapide et beaucoup moins long ! lol
I grew Moldovan 456 last year but managed to save only 2 seedlings. Of the two one had some kind of disease and I pulled it at half season. The other one did very well, and was very easy to cure, like Symbol4. I didn't save seeds because I prefer to have no less than 10 plants to choose from, I select the truest to type, less attacked by pests or diseases and, if at all possible, the first to flower and with less suckers. The one I had didn't suckered at all. I'll try to grow it again in 2018, it seemed very promising. As a side note, Polygon's web site lists Symbol4 as a burley, and Moldovan 456 as light air cured. I have no idea of the Moldovan taste, but S4 is definitely more "burleysh" than any other bright leaf I've grown.
pier
I grew Moldovan 456 last year but managed to save only 2 seedlings. Of the two one had some kind of disease and I pulled it at half season. The other one did very well, and was very easy to cure, like Symbol4. I didn't save seeds because I prefer to have no less than 10 plants to choose from, I select the truest to type, less attacked by pests or diseases and, if at all possible, the first to flower and with less suckers. The one I had didn't suckered at all. I'll try to grow it again in 2018, it seemed very promising. As a side note, Polygon's web site lists Symbol4 as a burley, and Moldovan 456 as light air cured. I have no idea of the Moldovan taste, but S4 is definitely more "burleysh" than any other bright leaf I've grown.
pier
-So true, but I also expect a bit different things with a Virginia and a Kentucky variant. So, even if you have a score, you feel a difference (at least for the different types I cultivated).I tend to agree with you on the nomenclature, but NW says sobolchskii 193 is flue cured. It could be like VA 509 which is a burley from Virginia, right, and not a "Virginia". I wouldn't exclude the possibility that the only sure thing about an Eastern European name is that it tells you where it's from.
You can stand with one foot in Virginia, and the other in Kentucky....I also expect a bit different things with a Virginia and a Kentucky variant.
You can stand with one foot in Virginia, and the other in Kentucky.
Bob
You can stand one foot in Norway the other in Finland and have a hand in Sweden. The other hand, will you need when you hunt mosquitoes in the summer time (so you should better try this in winter)..-know what you mean Bob but I think you are able to feel difference between for example KY:17 and TN:90..You can stand with one foot in Virginia, and the other in Kentucky.Bob