Grundle
Well-Known Member
Reserved to record this years experiences. I am starting late so this should be interesting. I don't have any tobacco photos for you so I thought I would post a teaser with some grapevine porn.
I have been growing these for 4 years now and this year will be the first good crop. I am excited =]
NOTE: This front page serves as a summary for my growing log. If you want to see pictures or more detailed information, just flip through the log and you will find what you are looking for.
06-07-2012
I have been growing these for 4 years now and this year will be the first good crop. I am excited =]
NOTE: This front page serves as a summary for my growing log. If you want to see pictures or more detailed information, just flip through the log and you will find what you are looking for.
06-07-2012
- Ordered 3 CT Broad Leaf and 3 Kelly Burley seedlings. They should arrive in 3 days, most likely early next week.
- Decided to use no-dig gardening approach to prepare for the seedlings. The weekend will be a perfect time to prep before they arrive.
- Received my seeds today (Did a happy dance). Filled a tray with peat moss, moistened it with a spray bottle and sowed approximately 50 seeds. Seeds are the strain "Small Stalk Black Mammoth" (SSBM). I am left with a surplus of 950 seeds. I will find something to do with them.
- Bought Peat Moss, Mushroom Compost, and ganked a bunch of newspapers for building the no-dig beds tomorrow.
- Built one no-dig bed.
- Got an email today saying my plants have shipped.
- Decided to try a second method of germination. Place seeds on a moist paper towel and then enclose inside a sealed plastic bag. I am interested to see if the germination rate is quicker, and also which method has a higher percentage germination.
- Saw the first signs of germination
- Note: Wife threw away my second method germination attempt mentioned above, so no data will be obtained from that experiment.
- Received and transplanted the seedlings into the no-dig beds.
- First leaves appear on SSBM germinated seeds.
- Transplanted 8 SSBM seedlings using tweezers into peat pots.
- All 8 seedlings were dead by morning. NOTE: On the next try I will try to scoop up under the seedlings as to not disturb the rooting. Most likely, it was probably too early to try this since the seedlings are still at a delicate stage.
- Temperatures hitting 100 F, plants are showing signs of stress.
- Perforated the newspaper layer beneath one of the plants with a long rod.
- Added Nitrogen fertilizer to the same plants. Will be monitoring this plants to note any difference in growth.
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