ArizonaDave
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deluxestogie Grow Log 2014
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Nearly 2 months to go 90 miles
Yesterday, I received this postcard from rainmax. It was so expedited that they didn't even have time to postmark it. Note the date.
The image is of the famous Piñar del Rio plantation, in the Vuelta Abajo. All the extra signatures are members of Maks' production crew.
It will be framed, and hung on the wall in my living room.
Bob
Yesterday, I received this postcard from rainmax. It was so expedited that they didn't even have time to postmark it. Note the date.
The image is of the famous Piñar del Rio plantation, in the Vuelta Abajo. All the extra signatures are members of Maks' production crew.
It will be framed, and hung on the wall in my living room.
Bob
MarcL
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Wow, ... that is nice!
Nice post card. That leaf has a blue tint to it. Any idea what variety it is?
I would guess that the photo itself is a 30 or 40 year old Kodacolor, so that blue tint may not really be there. Due to various blights and catastrophes over the intervening years, they changed varieties a number of times. It's clearly a "Havana" type, judging from the leaf and veins, but there's no way to identify it more precisely.
It's interesting how low they topped the plants (maybe to 12 or 14 leaves). All of my Havana varieties will grow another couple of feet.
Bob
?Hail Damage?
Hail no! This is deluxestogie's tough love. These seedlings were clipped yesterday. Since I'm not mowing the tops the way commercial growers must do it, I can clip each leaf to a harsh minimum. This is the third time they have been clipped.
They will likely go in the ground over the next few days. There's not much there to wilt. All of the leaves that have been clipped would just end up being fliers and trash anyway.
The forecast through 5/22 looks good. Overcast or raining off and on over this week, with max winds of 10 mph. So, other than being hardly able to walk, and having to lower myself into a chair--part of the joy of prepping the beds, I ready to farm.
[No growth tips were harmed in the making of this post.]
Bob
Hail no! This is deluxestogie's tough love. These seedlings were clipped yesterday. Since I'm not mowing the tops the way commercial growers must do it, I can clip each leaf to a harsh minimum. This is the third time they have been clipped.
They will likely go in the ground over the next few days. There's not much there to wilt. All of the leaves that have been clipped would just end up being fliers and trash anyway.
The forecast through 5/22 looks good. Overcast or raining off and on over this week, with max winds of 10 mph. So, other than being hardly able to walk, and having to lower myself into a chair--part of the joy of prepping the beds, I ready to farm.
[No growth tips were harmed in the making of this post.]
Bob
Boboro
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That is tuff love.
Brown Thumb
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Them Stalks Look nice and strong, I hammered mine the last time also and it worked out great.
Good Luck, it looks like a good week to plant also.
Hope your back feels better for planting. I know mine Needs a Break.
BT
Good Luck, it looks like a good week to plant also.
Hope your back feels better for planting. I know mine Needs a Break.
BT
Bob, do you pull off some bottom leaves and plant deeper than they are now planted? How deep do you go?
I sink them 1-2" deeper than their current depth. There's not much to pull off, so I usually don't bother.
Bob
I laid yo mama in the ground aside the house
I'm sure that in some Latin language "Su matra" must mean "yo mama." Catalan? Romanian? Regardless, my FL Sumatra in now in the long bed beside my house--the one with a half-day of double-strength sun reflected from the white siding.
The Prilep 66-9/7, the reputed Cyprus Latakia, the Bolivia Criollo Black and my beloved Vuelta Abajo--all in the ground today. That totals...not very many plants. But, holy heat wave, Batman, even the robins were staying in the shade today. It was only 86ºF, but I'm a delicate old fart. Too hot.
More will go in tomorrow.
Bob
I'm sure that in some Latin language "Su matra" must mean "yo mama." Catalan? Romanian? Regardless, my FL Sumatra in now in the long bed beside my house--the one with a half-day of double-strength sun reflected from the white siding.
The Prilep 66-9/7, the reputed Cyprus Latakia, the Bolivia Criollo Black and my beloved Vuelta Abajo--all in the ground today. That totals...not very many plants. But, holy heat wave, Batman, even the robins were staying in the shade today. It was only 86ºF, but I'm a delicate old fart. Too hot.
More will go in tomorrow.
Bob
DGBAMA
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Good start. Hope yours were well hardened off.
Three days of sudden 85 deg and full sun taught me a hard lesson about hardening off.
Three days of sudden 85 deg and full sun taught me a hard lesson about hardening off.
They came directly from my enclosed back porch. Although there is a pane of glass that separated them from the sun, they were otherwise reared in natural sunlight. They are also fairly closely clipped. Each of them is planted deeply, with only about 1-1/2" extending above the ground. I did give each plant a full cup of water after transplanting. They will just have to accept their lot in life.
The batches planted in the morning still looked perky by evening.
Bob
DGBAMA
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I quit clipping a couple weeks before planting to make sure each plant had a couple FULL leaves for transplant, maybe I need to rethink that.
leverhead
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You're having warmer weather than I am.
Markw
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Good to see you getting them out there Bob, Let's hope the weather is kind to you all out there this year. hopefully we have had most of our rain over here this year.
We Often Fear the Wrong Enemy
Should I have "hardened-off" my transplants?
Prilep 66-9/7 after 2 days of full sun.
FL Sumatra after 1-1/2 days of full sun.
Vuelta Abajo after 1 day of full sun. These are my gangliest transplants.
I inspected all my transplants at midnight last night, and again a 10 am this morning. Zero slug damage. Two cutworm damaged plants. I was away for 2 hours, and when I returned, I went out to prep another bed.
Gone in 2 hours
Curious. A plastic plant marker showed in an empty adjacent bed. The marker said, Bolivia Criollo Black. It was the bed of Bolivia that I put in yesterday evening, and inspected just two hours earlier. Not a plant in sight. On close inspection, each plant had been cleanly severed at the ground, and completely removed.
Bolivia Criollo Black, missing in action.
Well, slugs and cutworms won't work in the daylight. (It's a union thing.) High above the Bolivia bed (~25' away as the dastardly bird flies), are several starling nests. I've never watched a starling steal a tobacco transplant, but I have witnessed starlings raiding tomato transplants in years past. They steal tender green things for nesting material.
The starlings ate my homework! I have 4 extra Bolivia plants left. Boo. Something else will have to go there.
This year was going to be an attempt at putting in all my plants without covering the beds in Agribon. I have thought of the Agribon as a guard against insects and harsh weather, though it has no effect on cutworms, and actually seems to encourage slugs (in the bed beside the house). I guess I'll need to put out the laundry again this year.
Bob
Should I have "hardened-off" my transplants?
Prilep 66-9/7 after 2 days of full sun.
FL Sumatra after 1-1/2 days of full sun.
Vuelta Abajo after 1 day of full sun. These are my gangliest transplants.
I inspected all my transplants at midnight last night, and again a 10 am this morning. Zero slug damage. Two cutworm damaged plants. I was away for 2 hours, and when I returned, I went out to prep another bed.
Gone in 2 hours
Curious. A plastic plant marker showed in an empty adjacent bed. The marker said, Bolivia Criollo Black. It was the bed of Bolivia that I put in yesterday evening, and inspected just two hours earlier. Not a plant in sight. On close inspection, each plant had been cleanly severed at the ground, and completely removed.
Bolivia Criollo Black, missing in action.
Well, slugs and cutworms won't work in the daylight. (It's a union thing.) High above the Bolivia bed (~25' away as the dastardly bird flies), are several starling nests. I've never watched a starling steal a tobacco transplant, but I have witnessed starlings raiding tomato transplants in years past. They steal tender green things for nesting material.
The starlings ate my homework! I have 4 extra Bolivia plants left. Boo. Something else will have to go there.
This year was going to be an attempt at putting in all my plants without covering the beds in Agribon. I have thought of the Agribon as a guard against insects and harsh weather, though it has no effect on cutworms, and actually seems to encourage slugs (in the bed beside the house). I guess I'll need to put out the laundry again this year.
Bob
DonH
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I had the same thing happen last year, Bob. The bird explanation makes sense. I couldn't figure out why there wasn't any markings or paw prints around the plants.
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