China Voodoo 2020 Grow

[ChinaVoodoo]

Somewhere out there a moose is probably basking in the sun after a nice afternoon swim thinking this is more like it

He's going to be shoulder deep in a bog, keeping the bugs off.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Viqueque:

 

[POGreen]

Whats that varerty on the big pictuire ?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Whats that varerty on the big pictuire ?

It's one of the varieties that @Tutu collected in East Timor a couple years ago. A couple plants were growing on someone's property. He named it after the village, Viqueque. It remains to be determined, but based on appearance, it appears to be a flue cured tobacco. It grows better—thicker leaves, more leaves, larger leaves, significantly fewer suckers—than the Delhi-34 I'm also growing.

 

[deluxestogie]

That's a relief. My only viable Viqueque is in a coffee tub, and will likely need to come indoors prior to seed production. I have Ainaro and Liquiça growing in a bed, and seem to be progressing, but they are even further behind than the Folgers Viqueque.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I suppose I have to smoke this for science 'n all. Viqueque mud lug.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I had a few Delhi 34 leaves that were ripe and broken off. I put them in the shed for a couple days, hung them outside for a couple, then decided to make rajangan. It's not a lot of tobacco, obviously. Took me a couple minutes.

De-stem, roll, cut up, spread out, leave in sun, in tray with vents open.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I'm trying to tell what Viqueque is by smoking a lug. Heck. I don't know. I'm tasting all sorts of interesting notes, one being jasmine, another being camphor, but I have been fooled by lugs before. These flavours don't stay. Nicotine is not as low as I would expect from a flue cured mud lug, but it makes my saliva sour with a ever so slight tongue burn like a flue cured. It burns the nostrils if French inhaled, and leaves an after taste similar to sun cured Canadian bright tobacco. I would put my money on flue cured variety which if correct would mean it does not decend from Portuguese traders, but from a more recent commercial crop. This would make sense given the uniformity within my grow and the near absence of suckers.

But you can't always tell from the bottom leaves, so this is only a tentative conclusion.

 

[deluxestogie]

The tiny slugs that attacked my potted Viqueque avoided the very bottom leaves. They may be more clever than we assume.

Bottom leaf can be so deceptive. Smoking the mud-lugs of my Sacred Cornplanter (rustica), I thought, for one brief moment, that it was nice.

And congratulations on 5000 posts!

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Has not been a great year so far, and I'm trying to be chill about the fact that I don't know exactly how I'm going to cure yet.

Hail. Sooo many suckers on the Delhi-34. Like, no growth on the Lumajang. And getting nervous about limited ripening on the Viqueque.

Here's the proceeds of my first pick. Left to right, Viqueque, Delhi-34, Lumajang.

 

[deluxestogie]

Those primed leaves look fine.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Isn't this part fascinating?
Like, the leaves are green, right?

 

[deluxestogie]

You're not getting the chlorophyll on your hands. It's nicotine (et al.) from the leaf trichomes. Nicotine + O2 = brown fingers.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

... (et al.)...

Bob

The poor colleagues of nicotine never get the credit they deserve. Like, what about the anaba twins?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

 

[plantdude]

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Is that the northern lights or did the vinegar distillery blow up?
Pretty neat. We never get to see that down here.
About the closest thing we get to a light show at night is fireflies over the bayou and lightning storms... or the neighbors meth lab blowing up.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

... or the neighbors meth lab blowing up.

Lmao.


Well here's this year's first bit, 3 leaves worth, of finished rajangan. Gonna smoke some.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Needs more than 4 days of aging, but it is good enough that I will smoke the whole bowl. Rougher around the edges than Bob, so it's pretty rough, Don, or possibly BarG level even, but she's tasty and doesn't bite.

 

[deluxestogie]

That rajangan looks like you simply tore up one of the leaves I just put into my kiln today (for a 2 month sentence).

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I need to get some soil testing done. The darker coloured, larger tobacco plants on the right are in a space where there had been a steel shed for decades. There is a clear line in both rows, even with that 4x4 post. I do recall it being easier to dig than the left which had been used as a garden.