Frozenthunderbolt
Well-Known Member
Well I'm going to try something a bit mad and start my grow now.
Reason being I saw a self seeded baccy seedling with leaves 3-4 inches long growing in a sheltered spot outside.
Days averaging about 12-16 Celsius and nights anywhere from 2-8 C at the moment. But no real frost for about the last 6 weeks or so.
Going to seed in trays in my green house to germinate, then prick out and grow up some seedlings to 6 inches or so before planting outside in a 6-8 weeks time or so.
Planted seed today:
-Yellow twist bud (Burley - prime for cigs or stalk cure for cigars)
-Turkish Ismar (yay! finally an oriental!)
- Big Gem (virginia - air cure for cigs or kiln for cigar wrapper)
- Swarr (cigar filler)
- Havana 263 (Cigar binder [seed growout - only 20-30 seeds])
- GC-2 (cigar wrapper)
- Glessnor (all round cigar tobacco)
- Keller (maryland - for cavendish)
Will also plant:
- Magnolia (Grew so damn well for me i'd grow it again - Great wrapper - grown in full sun but still beautiful strong thin translucent leaf.
- Anything else that members want to send me! Particularly after more Orientals/Turkish and cigar varieties.
Most(?) interestingly, I had a Dutch Ohio (90% sure - long thin pointy leaves) plant survive three killer frosts (6-8 weeks back) that nuked everything else in the garden.
It's an interesting puppy - tons of long, thin, fairly smooth and fairly fine leaves, not very wide, all very sticky (vitamin N? ) easy to colour cure and colored up a rustish red/brown dashboard curing pretty easily.
It's suckering like mad at the moment, despite the cold weather so might be worth developing as a cold climate variety. I'll reduce it to a single stem and de-bud it for some more leaf and seed this year.
Reason being I saw a self seeded baccy seedling with leaves 3-4 inches long growing in a sheltered spot outside.
Days averaging about 12-16 Celsius and nights anywhere from 2-8 C at the moment. But no real frost for about the last 6 weeks or so.
Going to seed in trays in my green house to germinate, then prick out and grow up some seedlings to 6 inches or so before planting outside in a 6-8 weeks time or so.
Planted seed today:
-Yellow twist bud (Burley - prime for cigs or stalk cure for cigars)
-Turkish Ismar (yay! finally an oriental!)
- Big Gem (virginia - air cure for cigs or kiln for cigar wrapper)
- Swarr (cigar filler)
- Havana 263 (Cigar binder [seed growout - only 20-30 seeds])
- GC-2 (cigar wrapper)
- Glessnor (all round cigar tobacco)
- Keller (maryland - for cavendish)
Will also plant:
- Magnolia (Grew so damn well for me i'd grow it again - Great wrapper - grown in full sun but still beautiful strong thin translucent leaf.
- Anything else that members want to send me! Particularly after more Orientals/Turkish and cigar varieties.
Most(?) interestingly, I had a Dutch Ohio (90% sure - long thin pointy leaves) plant survive three killer frosts (6-8 weeks back) that nuked everything else in the garden.
It's an interesting puppy - tons of long, thin, fairly smooth and fairly fine leaves, not very wide, all very sticky (vitamin N? ) easy to colour cure and colored up a rustish red/brown dashboard curing pretty easily.
It's suckering like mad at the moment, despite the cold weather so might be worth developing as a cold climate variety. I'll reduce it to a single stem and de-bud it for some more leaf and seed this year.