What are your plans for next years grow,,,,

[Chicken]

list some things you did,,, that next year you may do differentlly...

list your goals.....

are you going bigger,,,

building a kiln....

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i made a lot of errors this year....next grow im starting them at the end of febuary...im starting a lot of them.. [ may try to sell some at the local flea-market ]

i got 6 bags of tobaccoo fertilizer that i didnt use this year..and im sure ill deliver a lot of it, and get more bags

..i got a new tiller 3 days ago.... and will be using it shortlly for the fall garden.

i got 2 bottles of hornworm killer [ gotta figure out what im gonna do about the aphids ]

the kiln is working fine, but i may have to use my bigger camper for a kiln next year. if i get the ammount of plants that im hoping for,,
which means fixing the roof [ winter time project ]

i got more seed trays [ plastic and floating ] than i know what to do with,,,,i got the grow lights ill be using to start them under,

im gonna try and get a bigger tank for the well so i will have better water pressure, to run the irrigation system im gonna install...

im not gonna use a greenhouse next year... i had issues with pests in it this year..

got the backpack sprayer,,,,

i think im set.. just waiting on febuary......

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so whats your checklist consist of,,,,?

you may help someone prepare by what you list

 

[DGBAMA]

Looking into Admire (what Big B uses) for aphids.

Make sure that sprayer is CLEAN!

 

[Knucklehead]

Looking into Admire (what Big B uses) for aphids.

Same here on the Admire or generic.

I plan to pull up my stalks soon and pile them in the patch to dry so I can burn them along with some boxes. Add more compost, till in, and sow with Crimson Clover as a cover crop over the winter.

Next year will be my leaf grow. No big seed grow outs for next year. I plan to grow:
Reams 158
TN 86
Maryland 609
VA 355 dark air
Izmir

 

[DonH]

Same here on the Admire or generic.

I plan to pull up my stalks soon and pile them in the patch to dry so I can burn them along with some boxes. Add more compost, till in, and sow with Crimson Clover as a cover crop over the winter.

Next year will be my leaf grow. No big seed grow outs for next year. I plan to grow:
Reams 158
TN 86
Maryland 609
VA 355 dark air
Izmir

That sounds like a good cigarette. How many of each? I'm planning on doing something similar, but I can't stick to one flue cured and one Turkish. Probably 4-5 of both types and a small seed growout of new varieties. We'll see.

 

[buck]

My wife decided she wants to take over part of my patch so I'll be growing fewer plants but maybe I can squeeze in a second crop or sucker crop.
I ended my harvest pretty much late August and frost date is not until November 5th.

I will label my plants/seedling better and be more organized than this year I was very excited and just wanted to get a grow going but next year I'll plan better.
Recording my progress, putting up more/better pics and details to my grow.
Contribute more to the forum, I have some of last years seeds to distribute and seeding my swarr and scantic from this years grow.

I grew, Scantic, Japala, Olor but only 1 Swarr (sucker crop looking good) but next season I plan to grow more Swarr and if I can get some Vuelta Abajo, little Dutch seeds I'd be happy.

A very successful first grow this year , kiln is in the planning stage now.

 

[Knucklehead]

That sounds like a good cigarette. How many of each? I'm planning on doing something similar, but I can't stick to one flue cured and one Turkish. Probably 4-5 of both types and a small seed growout of new varieties. We'll see.

My cigarette blend is 40% flue cure, 20% Burley, 20% Maryland, 10% Dark Air, and 10% Izmir. I'm going to try to figure out a number of each plant to give me about those percentages in leaf after harvest. Izmir will be planted with traditional spacing. If I do 200 plants, that should be close to 80-Reams 158, 40-TN 90, 40-Maryland 609, 20-VA 355 dark air, and around 30 or so Izmir due to close space and smaller plants. I'm just assuming everything except Izmir will have similar yield.

Reams 158 flue cure variety sun cured wonderfully for me last year. I can sun cure my Reams 158 and Izmir, air cure the rest, and have plenty of hanging space in the shop due to half the leaf being sun cured.

I might work in a few Costello Negro from Skychaser. I tasted a sample that air cured as golden as the best flue cured, and was probably the best single variety stand alone cigarette that I've smoked. Sky claimed the same thing and he wasn't joking. It had a slight floral taste as though it were a flue cure/oriental blend, but without the oriental. To me, as Samsun Maden is to pipes, Costello Negro is to cigarettes. Great stand alone variety.

 

[deluxestogie]

Before finalizing your plans for 2015, please take the time to read the new thread on the FTT Seed Bank refresh grow-outs:

http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/5100-Refresh-Grow-Outs-for-2015-from-the-FTT-Seed-Bank

...and add your comments and suggestions to that thread.

Thanks,
Bob