Is that a Webley? Nice revolver. I'll trade you a genuine Barlow knife and some tobacco for it.
Good stuff.
I wonder if white buckets would make happier plants (cooler roots) and less watering?
I think you're probably right about color. I used black, only because I already had it and it was "Krylon, formulated for plastic" (about $7 a can). I think it was necessary to paint them with something because the Home Depot "Homer Buckets" are not heavy duty, food grade and are translucent when held up to the sun - I even painted the white ones while at it. Same was true about the yellow "SUN chlorine tab" pails. Before I painted them, the plants were yellowish and not doing well when it started to get really hot and the sun really intense. I hate to keep harping about this Phoenix Sun, but if you hold anything up to the sun in summer and look through it, other than steel, its translucent! The root systems do not do well if light can get to them, I think.
The painted pails and fertilizing that "Pre-Fertilized" potting soil really started them taking off. BTW, do not try picking up steel in the summer, in Phoenix, that was rhetorical!
I wish I could make some kind of joke here that para-phrases Chief Dan George: "There Not for Eat'in, There Just for Look'in Through". Was that not the greatest movie line ever?
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AZ Dave,
The sucker plants are growing now that it's under 100f consistently but the weather change (I think) is telling them to bloom and ripen NOW. They ARE blooming. All new growth is a new set of blooms and I just keep topping them out, so vertical growth is slow. The new plants are skinnier and the leaves are smaller. That may change when I finally cut the old stalk. I intend to cut them down to about 4' and use them for stakes for the new plants. Well, that's where things are now and I'll post a couple of pics.
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Glad to be watching your grow this year Old Putt Cigars..the reason is next year I will hopefully be growing my tobacco in buckets also..due to lack of ground/space..so its great thing to watch and learn how to grow this way..good-luck on rest of grow!!
Cigar
I'll be curious to see how using tobacco stalks as stakes works out. While still green, they are capable of putting out roots. When dried, they are not very sturdy.
Bob