fertilizer

I've grown tobacco a few times, but everytime I seem to end up with a product that has very little, if any, nicotine. Smoking it in a cigarette gives no nicotine hit and the smoke itself is incredibly light (essentially feels like smoking air). This is from air-dried, unfermented tobacco, which...

I bought blood meal (12-0-0), bone meal (0-10-0), Muriate of Potash (0-0-60). What parts do I need when I mix this to create a ratio that is 6-6-18? So far I have not been able to figure it out. I only have 2 square feet of area that I need to be fertilized so by my math that's 1.101 ounces of...

I started out with a couple of packets of seeds--Burley and Virginia Gold, and later got some Yellow Orinoco and Lizard Tail. I struggled to get things going at first. I found that seeds either didn't germinate well, rose too quickly and damped off, or would mold. Turns out I needed to use a...

Anybody tried it on tobacco? What dilution can you recommend?

OK so for my second time growing tobacco, I am going to step up the amount of plants considerably. This year I will be growing these varieties and approximately how much: African red ( 5 )Sherazi ( 10 ) Virginia gold ( 20 ) Virginia bright leaf ( 20 ) Burley ( 20 ) Yellow twist bud ( 5 )...

It's my understanding that tobacco plants that have tough lives yield more flavorful tobacco. Does any one grow their crops under this theory? I can see if you are growing to sell you would care more about crop consistency and harvest yields but a lot of you guys are growing for yourselves so I...

This is different from adding wood ash. The wood or other dead plant material is burned with little oxygen, so it produces charcoal. Bob