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Hi Guys
This will be my first try at tobacco

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These four was left on their own for 2 months on my father in laws farm
so they are bushy and stubby

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Sprouted seedlings

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Virginia Gold the ones behind are Vuelta Abajo and Timor Java

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Havanna

Hope i have all the name correct
and now we try to make the time fly so they can GROW!!!
 

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Healthy looking seedlings. Best of luck with your season. Thanks for allowing us to follow along.
 

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This is some of my first leaf of one plant(virginia gold) I planted mid winter and it survived....yeah
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the other one I tried stalk curing (oriental) very thick leaves........I want my errors if any to be with these so when my cigar veriety are ready there are less waste........I hope
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Thank you for the support guys!!!
It's exhilarating and nerve wrecking at the same time but i'm positive all will go well.
 

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I havnt done much stalk curing but the va gold is looking good
 

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Going to plant some seedlings out tomorrow on the farm and see how the other 4 plants are doing
They probably look more like shrubs now
 

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The one you're stalk curing with the thick leaves is not an oriental variety but a type of Nicotiana Rustica. Probably the same variety as the first photo in the first post of this thread.
 

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I dont know what type of pests ..inscets you have there..but make sure you have a plan...bugs will eat your whole crop if not controlled.
 

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By the way - good luck in the rugby ... I'm watching your guys against Samoa on the TV here in the UK.
 

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By the way - good luck in the rugby ... I'm watching your guys against Samoa on the TV here in the UK.
Thank you on the good wishes of the rugby .........its a very controversial topic here at the moment hahaha
I bought the seeds as Oriental but googled the leaf and thought it may be A rustica as wel.....i'm A noob so its all A learning curve
 

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I dont know what type of pests ..inscets you have there..but make sure you have a plan...bugs will eat your whole crop if not controlled.

Yes A plan is needed but first one for the gardener........I am only going to the farm again in A months time and the local caretaker is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Hope he doesn't weed out all my new seedlings
 

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Not much of A update but there are some development

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Decided to plant out some small seedlings in vegetable garden( under shade net) because we might be moving soon and I know they wont survive the move anyway.
Soil is about 50/50 clay and sand........the veggies grown there get huge so hopefully the tobacco likes it.
 

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Yeah our heatwave has been going on for 2 weeks now.......so im back to square 1........
 

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Some plants survived on their own
I will post the smaller ones as soon as my internet conection plays along
 

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Some plants survived on their own
I will post the smaller ones as soon as my internet conection plays along
 

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Good luck for the few survivors. Planted mine last week end, 319 plants, all by myself, absolutely knackered!!! Damaged my shoulder a few weeks back, so I had to employ a "landscape engineer":cool: to do the heavy digging, but wouldn`t trust him with my plants. Lets hope and pray the hail stays away. Here in G/dal we had lots of heavy hail storms. After Xmas I will send you the parcel.
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