Colin new zealand 2012 grow log

[FmGrowit]

Great job. Spring can't get here soon enough for me.

As for the yellow plants. When you pull the plants, try to pull out as much of the root system as possible. Look at it closely and see if there are any knots or tuber looking things growing in the roots.

I'm thinking you might have nematodes. Nematodes affect areas like what you have and are usually not found in an entire field. The other thing that might be the problem is and old chemical spill in that spot, but without seeing the roots, it's a tough call.

 

[deluxestogie]

The tobacco looks wonderful. You may be growing the only examples of many of those varieties on your half of the world. They seem to like New Zealand.

I think you'll find that the bud bags are too small to contain an entire bud head. My bags were 30" tall x 24" wide. Some were only half-filled, while others were splitting at the seams.

Bob

 

[Frozenthunderbolt]

Hoping to buy some seed from Colin this season for next year so I can develop some acclimatised for the Upper north island - gotta stick it to the govt somehow!

 

[Randy]

Nice looking plants there Colin

Randy

 

[Markw]

What a fantastic looking plot you have there Colin. Those plants are loving their holiday down under . I am just thinking what size drying area you have got, there be a lot of leaves. Fantastic job and we can see all the hard work you have put in,
I hope the weather stays fine for you.

Markw

 

[COLIN]

Have just completed my first prime on eight rows and have 775 leaves hanging in my colour curing area. My intentions is to leave the leaf in this area till i have the water contence down to 30% then move it to inside my stable area for the final process.

 

[marksctm]

Looks good to see fresh leaf hanging, and a nice looking crop of 2013 tobacco.
All I see out my window is SNOW!

 

[COLIN]

How do you think Little Dutch leaf would go for cigar wrapper.

 

[Knucklehead]

Bob has good intel on Little Dutch. Go to deluxestogie grow blog, press search thread, and type in little dutch. I'm pretty sure JBD also grew some.

 

[deluxestogie]

Little Dutch, after kilning, makes a deeply flavorful, yummy wrapper. The drawback is the narrow width of the leaf. If you use a fully intact binder leaf (no pinholes), then the narrower wrapper will work well.

Bob

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Little Dutch makes an excellent filler!

 

[rainmax]

Great video and plants. Thanks for sharing knowledge. Good seeds, great teacher, best tobacco. We all can change tobacco law again. Regards from Slovenia.

 

[oceansgreen]

@ approx 6min in:
i say leave em and if they die, cut off the leaves and use em for mulch, but leave the roots in the soil to rot!
since you left it up to me and others

btw, awesome mallet, looks pretty cool

 

[Knucklehead]

@ approx 6min in:
i say leave em and if they die, cut off the leaves and use em for mulch, but leave the roots in the soil to rot!
since you left it up to me and others

btw, awesome mallet, looks pretty cool

Depends on whats killing the plants. If it's disease you want every shred of the plant out of the patch. Not only out but burned. Otherwise it could come back next year and kill the whole crop.

 

[COLIN]

Had some high winds here for last week up to 100k a hour done a lot off damage to the leaf.So i have 2nd primed some little dutch for some good binder and wrapper leaf before that gets damaged to.

 

[marksctm]

Had some high winds here for last week up to 100k a hour done a lot off damage to the leaf.So i have 2nd primed some little dutch for some good binder and wrapper leaf before that gets damaged to.

Colin That's some nice looking leaf, I'm putting out some Little Dutch and Dutch Ohio this spring, along with my other strains.
Good Grow'en.

 

[BarG]

Looking at the leafs I see a fine leaf harvested with care, from observations on the variety it will make for a great cigar. I want to try some of the little dutch myself. While yours is color curing we wil be stating our germination. With a bit of practice and experimenting you can try using any leaf for any purpose.

 

[COLIN]

Can anyone tell me what sort off tabacco this is .It;s ment to be virgina gold but looks nothing like the virgina gold that i have been looking at .It has a very thick leaf much like leather and very sticky.

 

[Markw]

Hi Colin
To me it looks a little like Sacred Cornplanter .I expect that someone will have a better idea,Anyway it looks interesting what ever it is
Markw

 

[deluxestogie]

Sacred Cornplanter produces roughly circular, petiolate leaves, a bulky ribbed stalk, and robust suckers at each node. The plant in the photo has no petiole, and in fact displays a full, flat leaf ruffle that descends completely to the node below. Its leaf shape is large, long and accuminate, with angled venation and a somewhat rugose surface.

To my eye, your photo suggests a "Virginia" type--that is, it is Orinoco derived--that is either over-fertilized or has no nearby competition. Since even pure varietal seed contains genetic variants, it may just be a "Virginia" type that is particularly rank.

Bob