OldDinosaurWesH
Well-Known Member
Well, it's that time of year again. Seedlings are sprouting, soon it will be time to start turning soil.
Thanks to generous donations from the membership, I have multiple new varieties to try out this year. Since I am downsizing from 240 plants to 160 plants I am also reducing the number of varieties from 14 to 10.
I am going to plant:
Ternopolskii 7 (R)
Swarr-Hibshman (N)
Golden Burley (R)
Gold Leaf 939 (R)
Ostrolist 316 (N)
Piloto Cubano PR (N)
Corojo 99 (N)
Chillard's White Angel Leaf (N)
Delhi 34 (N)
Connecticut Broadleaf (N)
With the (N) being new to me, and the (R) being regrow.
My original tobacco plot of about 400 square feet is going into rotation this year, where I am going to grow Queensland Blue squash, Bozeman watermelons, and two different varieties of poppies for some color. I am trying to work myself into a two year rotation where I will plant about 120 tobacco plants and the other half of my space into something not of the solonacea family. Hence the squashes and melons and flowers.
Also this year I am going to add a smidge of Boron to my soil profile and see what kind of results (if any) that produces. Along with my usual assortment of N, P, K, S, Fe, and Cu nutrients.
Everyone have a good year and produce much leaf!
Wes H.
"If it was easy, everybody would be doing it." Quote from my late relative, and apropos to the subject of tobacco growing.
Thanks to generous donations from the membership, I have multiple new varieties to try out this year. Since I am downsizing from 240 plants to 160 plants I am also reducing the number of varieties from 14 to 10.
I am going to plant:
Ternopolskii 7 (R)
Swarr-Hibshman (N)
Golden Burley (R)
Gold Leaf 939 (R)
Ostrolist 316 (N)
Piloto Cubano PR (N)
Corojo 99 (N)
Chillard's White Angel Leaf (N)
Delhi 34 (N)
Connecticut Broadleaf (N)
With the (N) being new to me, and the (R) being regrow.
My original tobacco plot of about 400 square feet is going into rotation this year, where I am going to grow Queensland Blue squash, Bozeman watermelons, and two different varieties of poppies for some color. I am trying to work myself into a two year rotation where I will plant about 120 tobacco plants and the other half of my space into something not of the solonacea family. Hence the squashes and melons and flowers.
Also this year I am going to add a smidge of Boron to my soil profile and see what kind of results (if any) that produces. Along with my usual assortment of N, P, K, S, Fe, and Cu nutrients.
Everyone have a good year and produce much leaf!
Wes H.
"If it was easy, everybody would be doing it." Quote from my late relative, and apropos to the subject of tobacco growing.