China Voodoo Grow Log 2021

[ChinaVoodoo]

Hey folks, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to fill you in on what's going on for me because I haven't been all that active lately. I'm just about at the end of my first trimester of three years of a Master in Counseling. It went well. Tomorrow we have a group presentation, and that's it.

It took a while to get back into the groove of school and now I'm pretty excited, but it's ending. I'm going to use this energy to research the various theoretical approaches I plan to use in the future.

Next summer, the tentative plan is to grow mostly Kumanovo, & Goose Creek, which I've grown before, with a few Bosikappal, Staghorn, & Greenwood Madole to see how they fare.

 

[plantdude]

I look forward to seeing your opinion on staghorn vs GCR. It (staghorn) is a fun plant to grow (has personality) and air cures nicely - in our warmer humid climate anyway. It's been pretty resistant to most pathogens and insects down here.

 

[Davo]

I would also like to know how GCR feels after not being labelled ‘fun’? Any strategies for processing this doc?

 

[Charly]

Congratulations for your studies, I wish you success.
I will follow your blog with great interest.

 

[burge]

Have fun and enjoy your break.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I built a smoke room in my garage. The previous owners turned the garage into a living room, and I turned it back into a garage. So, there was a bar in the corner, with cedar paneling, a bar, which I'm using as a desk, and a big mirror on the wall.

I framed it out with 2x4", but not at 16" or 24", because I was planning on using spray foam anyway, AND because other boring reasons. Spray foam doesn't work in the cold, so I used rock wool hard board which can be cut like foam, but is less flammable. There's two 1.5" layers of it. It's rated at R-6.

I'm waiting on a door which is in use because I'm waiting on another door, so I used stick-on zippers.

There was fluorescent lighting. I replaced the plastic lenses with the cedar ply, but cut slits in it, which let's light through, and allows smoke to suck up into the ceiling.

There's a 6" exhaust pipe with a serious fan.

There's also that white pipe—it's the type of pipe that's meant for vacuum cleaner lines—which leads to the boiler room. There is nothing connected to it; air from the utility room travels through this to replace the air removed by the exhaust.

 

[Levi Gross]

I too am resigned to garage smoking. However, I am not complaining. I am comfortably set up. It’s a wonderful multi purpose shop and smoke lounge.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Plus one more tobacco in my grow. Is this N. rustica, based on the shape of the pod?

I met with a First Nations friend from my prior university, and her partner, last weekend and I talked to them about growing tobacco. She was given these seeds from a grower in Mascwacis who grows for traditional purposes. We made a trade. I shared diamond willow fungus, Isleta Pueblo leaf, Delhi-34 seed, and Delaware sacred seed. This could very well originally be a specific strain from a supplier. I don't know. But, I will call it Mascwacis unless I hear more about it. I have some relatives there, too, so that's cool.

 

[Alpine]

Rustica, 99.9% sure. What First Nation grows it? Very interesting indeed.

pier

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Rustica, 99.9% sure. What First Nation grows it? Very interesting indeed.

pier

Samson Cree Nation, Treaty 6.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

These seeds were already fallen out and were in the bottom of one bagged head of Viqueque, before actually opening the intact pods. I've never seed such bounty.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Now that I'm opening the pods, I see that they are already empty. I imagine that in a tropical country, with such free seeds, it would be difficult for such a strain to disappear.

 

[Oldfella]

I too am resigned to garage smoking. However, I am not complaining. I am comfortably set up. It’s a wonderful multi purpose shop and smoke lounge.

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Luv your tractor. Does it go and do you use for your baccy? Luv your fireplace too.
Cheers Oldfella

 

[Oldfella]

Plus one more tobacco in my grow. Is this N. rustica, based on the shape of the pod?

I met with a First Nations friend from my prior university, and her partner, last weekend and I talked to them about growing tobacco. She was given these seeds from a grower in Mascwacis who grows for traditional purposes. We made a trade. I shared diamond willow fungus, Isleta Pueblo leaf, Delhi-34 seed, and Delaware sacred seed. This could very well originally be a specific strain from a supplier. I don't know. But, I will call it Mascwacis unless I hear more about it. I have some relatives there, too, so that's cool.

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Interesting I will watch and see how it goes. Keep us posted with pics
Cheers Oldfella

 

[Levi Gross]

Luv your tractor. Does it go and do you use for your baccy? Luv your fireplace too.
Cheers Oldfella

Yes sir it runs. Like a top. lol... no I don’t grow enough to use it for tobacco growing. However, there's still a notion in my head that I will.

 

[Levi Gross]

These seeds were already fallen out and were in the bottom of one bagged head of Viqueque, before actually opening the intact pods. I've never seed such bounty.
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I must have one of those trays! How may I get one???

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I must have one of those trays! How may I get one???

All I can tell you is that this one is mine.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

My cucumbers look like a kick-ass reggae album.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Nothing to see here. Just posting that I started my tobacco seeds today so I don't have to write it down.

Simox - Hungarian
Kumanovo - Hungarian
Stag Horn - Dark Virginia
Greenwood - Fire cured
Bosikappal - Dark air/cheroot from India
Jasmine - (N. alata) ornamental
Edit: Maskwacis - N. rustica

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

The Simox ascension in ARS-GRIN is from Serbia Montenegro. I can't find Kumanovo. It just so happens to be a city in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Serbia. I'm left wondering where they are originally from.