ChinaVoodoo
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This is my second serious year of tobacco. Last year's crop of Burley Gold Seal, and Black Sea Samsun are about ready to smoke. They have been in the kiln a little over a month, and I already know that the quality that I was able to achieve was beyond what I expected a simple gardener like me could do at home. I have an itch to get started, but it would be too early to plant my tobacco just yet, so yesterday I planted some deer's tongue plant to calm my trigger happy green-thumb. Nothing serious, just one pot of them, but enough to get a couple plants going in order to learn something about them. I don't even know what they will look like.
The details of the arrangement of my tobacco plants is yet to be determined. I have gotten several friends on board, and quite possibly an acreage owner with 13acres of relatively unused land. So I could be looking at anywhere from 60 plants to 500plants. Fingers Crossed. This is my tobacco seed list: Kumanovo, Japan 8, Symbol 4, Cuban Criolo 98, Adonis, One Sucker, a non-specific Maryland, and Orinoco (the primitive one).
Fortunately, my wife got me one of these cute greenhouses from Ikea for Christmas.
I like it; cats can't ruin my plants, and it will keep some humidity in, considering the house is around 10-30%RH.
What I planted is the Deer's Tongue Plant Carphephorus Odoratissimus, and is neither Deer's Tongue Lettuce, nor Deer's Tongue Grass. It is a long standing, and traditional tobacco flavoring. I intend on curing it in different ways, and using different parts of the plant in order to perhaps discover some new flavors from it.
The first thing to do was to try to save my wife's neglected aloe vera plant. There wasn't many options for soil at the HD, seeing as its winter, and cactus soil seemed like the best choice for both plants. Deer Tongue, from what I understand is a coastal plant which generally lives in sandy soil. This may not be because that is best for them; it may simply be that they have an advantage over other plants in sandy soil. Nevertheless, I think they will do fine.
So now, I get to sample my 2014 crop of baccy, and watch these plants grow.
The details of the arrangement of my tobacco plants is yet to be determined. I have gotten several friends on board, and quite possibly an acreage owner with 13acres of relatively unused land. So I could be looking at anywhere from 60 plants to 500plants. Fingers Crossed. This is my tobacco seed list: Kumanovo, Japan 8, Symbol 4, Cuban Criolo 98, Adonis, One Sucker, a non-specific Maryland, and Orinoco (the primitive one).
Fortunately, my wife got me one of these cute greenhouses from Ikea for Christmas.
I like it; cats can't ruin my plants, and it will keep some humidity in, considering the house is around 10-30%RH.
What I planted is the Deer's Tongue Plant Carphephorus Odoratissimus, and is neither Deer's Tongue Lettuce, nor Deer's Tongue Grass. It is a long standing, and traditional tobacco flavoring. I intend on curing it in different ways, and using different parts of the plant in order to perhaps discover some new flavors from it.
The first thing to do was to try to save my wife's neglected aloe vera plant. There wasn't many options for soil at the HD, seeing as its winter, and cactus soil seemed like the best choice for both plants. Deer Tongue, from what I understand is a coastal plant which generally lives in sandy soil. This may not be because that is best for them; it may simply be that they have an advantage over other plants in sandy soil. Nevertheless, I think they will do fine.
So now, I get to sample my 2014 crop of baccy, and watch these plants grow.