chillardbee
Well-Known Member
As the years progress and I have more beehives to attend to and more things to do with them, it seems like I have less time to do anything but the bare minimal with the tobacco. I noticed last year my posting were not as many or frequent as it was in years before when I was still building the bees up from the massive loss of 2011/12. Maybe I'll just make a point of posting updates on the first and fifteenth of each month.As the name of this blog suggests, I'm growing with the very best of spacing and well worked soil with plenty of organic matter worked in to be able to achieve the very best and biggest plants and leaves I can. This will limit the amout of plants I can grow as well as that the wife will have half the garden for veggies. So I am planning on 50 plants here this year with other plants in my beeyards. The ones in the beeyards will be planted just regularly with only what they need to grow.I'm limiting the varieties to 10 which I have yet to select. I'm happy with prilep, bursa, and izmar for my orientals. Harrow 12 and harrow velvet for my burley. I'm likely going to grow some one sucker and greenwood for dark air. Yellow gold, bamboo shoot, African red, del gold, lemon bright, and white gold. Well, there ya go, I guess I did select them.Where as last year I proccessed my baccy last year per variety to make blends that will help determine what I like best (i'll be smoking this through this year) this years crop will be proccessed all together just to speed things up. I'm smoking the last bit of the year before last years (2014) crop and I would of had more (another 4000 cigerettes worth) but the last pail went moldy (bummer) but that was only a quater of what was proccessed last year and I still have 4 totes of whole leaf from that year. I've got half of last years crop rolled and will roll the rest within the next 2-3 weeks before the bee season gets under way.A note: I have really been enjoying the cigs from 2014 and I think it's because I used the marlboro recipe. It's to early to judge this years crop but I used the export A premium recipe on them with the addition of a little bit of tobacco flavoured E juice with the 24mg of nic (well see how that goes) I hope I didn't mess up.Anyway, Welcome to my grow blog this year and may ya'all have a good crop yourselves this year and good luck.