Leverhead's 2013 T Patches; SE Texas

[Jitterbugdude]

Re: Leverhead's 2013 T Patches

I have tiny tobacco plant envy right now. I won't be planting mine till next weekend

 

[Jitterbugdude]

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Leaverhead, In your post about your fertilizer formula, does "1.1 Gr" mean grams or grains?
JBD

 

[leverhead]

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Leaverhead, In your post about your fertilizer formula, does "1.1 Gr" mean grams or grains?
JBD

Grains! Its a tiny amount per gallon. If you google "grams to grains", you should see, 1 gram = 15.4323584 grains and some charts and calculators.

 

[Chicken]

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i really like your seed starting trays,, bigger holes are better,

i '' aqquired'' some professional floating trays but i believe the holes may be too small. or i could just be a fan of bigger is better,?

but i got 5 trays of '' bigger'' holes so im good,

and on the topic of '' fertilizer'' lol... i bet you guys are envious of my profession,

and leverhead, if you want a '' specific'' type of fertilizer, maybe a lb. or more, just let me know, i can mail you a '' perfect blended mix'' or something '' straight;; be it pure ammonium nitrate, or pure '' bulldog potash''

or a 3-8-24- mix they sell just for bacca. allthough i havent delivred any of that, it mainly goes to georgia, and i only have florida tags [ i cant run legally in georgia ]

p.m. me, ammonium nitrate isnt something you discuss openly,

 

[Jitterbugdude]

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Grains! Its a tiny amount per gallon. If you google "grams to grains", you should see, 1 gram = 15.4323584 grains and some charts and calculators.

Just making sure. A lot of people often use the wrong abbreviation. I figured you did not but just wanted to make sure.

 

[leverhead]

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I don't blame you, it would be a shame to kill them with Boron when you're just trying to stay away from urea.

 

[leverhead]

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T Patches 1 and 2 have combined. T Patch 3 becomes T Patch 2, just a small raised bed at the house. Here's T Patch 1 Rev B.



The first 19 rows are for Turkish/Orientals planted on traditional spacing, about 950 plants. Row 1 A and B are for Shirazi planted the same as the Southern Beauty. Rows 2 through 9 are for the Southern Beauty to feed the flue-cure fridge.

I got tired of chasing down leaking bottom trays and it was time for everything to go outside anyway, so I made a big bottom tray.

 

[BarG]

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What is the spacing on those orientals and how will you be able to tend them that close together? I'm planting about 400 orientals my self.

 

[leverhead]

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What is the spacing on those orientals and how will you be able to tend them that close together? I'm planting about 400 orientals my self.

I spaced them by the table here, http://fairtradetobacco.com/showthread.php?1799-FAQ-about-Turkish-tobaccos/page3

Turkish By Plant and Row spacing, I assigned a letter to each row in the table top to bottom.

Smyrna, 9 A
Izmir Ozbas A
Basma B
Kavala B
Yenidje B
Xanthi Yaka 18a B
Bafra C
Bursa C
Ottoman C
Samsun, Black Sea C
Samsun, Canic C
Samsun, Maden C
Samsun, 15 C
Tasova C
Tabzon C
Bitlis D
Yayladag D
Adiyaman D
Shirazi E

Hungarian

20 Haskowo D
21 Herzegovina Lecce MI 411 D

I'm going to do a Kennedy (cross that bridge when I come to it) on the tending.

 

[deluxestogie]

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Impressive collection of Oriental varieties. Maybe Emre can make you an honorary Turkish citizen?

Bob

 

[leverhead]

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Impressive collection of Oriental varieties. Maybe Emre can make you an honorary Turkish citizen?

Bob

Thanks! I'll stay a Texan. At Least some of the list is there because of you. Emre does want some seed.

 

[Knucklehead]

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What is the spacing on those orientals and how will you be able to tend them that close together? I'm planting about 400 orientals my self.

I'm going to try the traditional growing and curing method this year to compare with some planted "American style" If I understand correctly, you don't top them so there's no suckers. No fertilizer and no irrigation. Basically, plant them inches apart and leave them to nature. If hornworms really like them, then I've got a problem.

 

[istanbulin]

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I'm going to try the traditional growing and curing method this year to compare with some planted "American style" If I understand correctly, you don't top them so there's no suckers. No fertilizer and no irrigation. Basically, plant them inches apart and leave them to nature. If hornworms really like them, then I've got a problem.

Wallace they may give some side and ground suckers so you may get rid them for better leaves.

 

[istanbulin]

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Thanks! I'll stay a Texan. At Least some of the list is there because of you. Emre does want some seed.

Actually it's not so easy to get an honorary Turkish citizen. You're just growing some tobacco, huh ! LOL Anyway there's a good list of Turkish tobaccos there, I wish you a happy and succesful growing !

 

[indianjoe]

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Knuckes,
you better worry bout them hornworms, a few days and you will not have a crop. Get you some BT now to be ready, they are comming.

 

[leverhead]

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Actually it's not so easy to get an honorary Turkish citizen. You're just growing some tobacco, huh ! LOL Anyway there's a good list of Turkish tobaccos there, I wish you a happy and succesful growing !

Thank you Emre! When are you starting your grow blog?

 

[istanbulin]

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Thank you Emre! When are you starting your grow blog?

I've seedlings now, when they grow enough and ready for planting I'll start my blog.

 

[Jitterbugdude]

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" If I understand correctly, you don't top them so there's no suckers.

You'll still get suckers.... lots and lots of them, just not as many as a topped plant.

 

[Knucklehead]

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You'll still get suckers.... lots and lots of them, just not as many as a topped plant.

So how the heck do you tend them with traditional spacing? Plant two rows with the spacing by the chart, skip 3 feet and then go two more traditionally spaced rows?

 

[leverhead]

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I've been working on my callouses. Beautiful day, about 84 F and a nice breeze.



Now I've got to wait for the Southern Beauty to catch up.