Isabel
Member
Hi all,
As some of you may know, we do not only grow tobacco but have planted several fruit seeds of which some have grown quite big already.
As it is now the rainy season and the humidity is extremely high we do not need to water them so often. Therefore, I am not checking them every day but usually once in a while to see how their doing.
The fruit plants that grow very fast are our Papayas. They differ in size and stand all together in the same spot so it is difficult to tell which branches belong to which Papaya plant.
The other day I did my round of inspecting all the plants and decided to take a closer look at all the Papaya trees to see how many we actually have.
What I then found was very surprising! In one of the smaller pots with Papaya trees was a tobacco plant growing!
In the first 3 pictures you see the tobacco plant in the pot with the Papaya. The tobacco plant is quite high. Higher than most of our other tobacco plants with the same amount of leafs.
It was probably reaching for the sun as it was growing in the shade of the other Papayas. As it is quite a healthy plant, except for the weird looking second leaf, we transplanted it to a big pot. I am very curious how it will mature.
The question now is what variety is this tobacco? We planted the Papaya seeds in our old house before we moved to our place now. They were probably planted in soil where this tobacco seed remained. This probably either one of the three Timor Leste varities or one of the varities that Bob sent us.
It is a pity that in a week I won't be at home for two weeks so I am not able to monitor its growth during these weeks. But I will keep you updated on how it will grow the coming time! Let's find out what variety this is..
As some of you may know, we do not only grow tobacco but have planted several fruit seeds of which some have grown quite big already.
As it is now the rainy season and the humidity is extremely high we do not need to water them so often. Therefore, I am not checking them every day but usually once in a while to see how their doing.
The fruit plants that grow very fast are our Papayas. They differ in size and stand all together in the same spot so it is difficult to tell which branches belong to which Papaya plant.
The other day I did my round of inspecting all the plants and decided to take a closer look at all the Papaya trees to see how many we actually have.
What I then found was very surprising! In one of the smaller pots with Papaya trees was a tobacco plant growing!
In the first 3 pictures you see the tobacco plant in the pot with the Papaya. The tobacco plant is quite high. Higher than most of our other tobacco plants with the same amount of leafs.
It was probably reaching for the sun as it was growing in the shade of the other Papayas. As it is quite a healthy plant, except for the weird looking second leaf, we transplanted it to a big pot. I am very curious how it will mature.
The question now is what variety is this tobacco? We planted the Papaya seeds in our old house before we moved to our place now. They were probably planted in soil where this tobacco seed remained. This probably either one of the three Timor Leste varities or one of the varities that Bob sent us.
It is a pity that in a week I won't be at home for two weeks so I am not able to monitor its growth during these weeks. But I will keep you updated on how it will grow the coming time! Let's find out what variety this is..