It's a fire-cured variants from the start and just like KY:171 It doesn't turn yellow when it is time to harvest the leaf's.It was one of my first favorite tobacco's in snus.Bigbonner do you known if it is the mosaic resistant variant you have or if it is "small stalk black mammoth" or one of the older version?
I received the seeds from a viable source and I have them stored away now . I believe it said small stalk Black Mammoth on the bag .
I don't know if it is resistant to mosaic or not .
If you have a plant infected with mosaic , I would pull the plant and get rid of it .Mosaic can live dormant in dead tissue and can infect growing plants in years ahead .
Before when I grew a lot of burley , I did not have to worry about a diseased plant . We may have only had a few diseased plants in a field . But with cigarettes tobacco , it did not have to be top notch quality .
Blue mold hit our crops hard at times even destroying some crops . But tobacco hit hard with blue mold was still sellable .
One year early spring I had outside soil beds and blue mold hit my plant beds . I called my county extension agent and told him I found blue mold . He said "no its not blue mold" , but I will come and take a look .
After he saw my beds , he brought in a University specialist to take sample plants . Those test came back that I had two types of blue mold . Regular blue mold that you could see on the leaves and a systematic blue mold that works on the inside of tobacco plants . I was the first to get blue mold that year and to get it in early spring was very rare and un heard of . Blue mold has to come from spores coming up from Florida , Texas and the gulf coast . From what I understood blue mold was living there on wild tobacco and made its way up north by the weather .