Brown Thumb
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Are you sleeping ok at night with weeds like that in your baccy patch?
Deluxestogie Grow Log 2019
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Dr.Pierce
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Around here, we say, " I haven't seen you in a dog's age".
Reminds me of the time- looking over the dept budget-a colleague said, "Dont be so niggardly..." meaning: meanly small; scanty or meager. The fireworks started when the supervisor who happened to be an African American gentleman took great umbridge. The guy could have reached up to tickle a snake's belly when that happened.
Reminds me of the time- looking over the dept budget-a colleague said, "Dont be so niggardly..." meaning: meanly small; scanty or meager. The fireworks started when the supervisor who happened to be an African American gentleman took great umbridge. The guy could have reached up to tickle a snake's belly when that happened.
Unfortunately, all that grass (just plain old grass) around the Lancaster Seedleaf will reduce the leaf size. But that was the price of my vanishing for 9 days mid-season. I might get to it. I might not. It's just tobacco.
On Umbrage and Ignorance
I have an utter lack of sympathy for etymological ignorance. The word, "niggard" (please notice the letter 'd'), is a noun from Old Norse, meaning a miser. There are many slang terms that are indeed racial slurs. Niggardly is not one of them.
Bob
On Umbrage and Ignorance
I have an utter lack of sympathy for etymological ignorance. The word, "niggard" (please notice the letter 'd'), is a noun from Old Norse, meaning a miser. There are many slang terms that are indeed racial slurs. Niggardly is not one of them.
Bob
Brown Thumb
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Wow , I won’t ask any simple questions anymore.
I just know Bobs not a fan of weeds in his patches.
I just know Bobs not a fan of weeds in his patches.
Moth
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Perfect
We had a much needed rain today, ~2/3". It was pretty windy. As soon as it let up, I walked the tobacco to check for blow-downs. To my delight, there was just one Corojo 99 leaning a bit. I searched for a nice rock, squatted beside the leaning plant, and braced it upright. There was no more rain, and no wind at all.
Before I had time to stand again, right before my eyes, a half-dozen more plants tipped over by about 20°. Astounding. They just decided to fake being blown over, and apparently didn't realize that I was watching them do it.
More rocks, more bracing. Nothing really laid down, but it was a unique experience. Malingering tobacco. Authentic Cuban tobacco, no less.
At least the rain brought the temp down a few degrees--and raised the humidity to 99%.
I'll spray BT again tomorrow, after which we should have most of a week without rain.
Bob
Before I had time to stand again, right before my eyes, a half-dozen more plants tipped over by about 20°. Astounding. They just decided to fake being blown over, and apparently didn't realize that I was watching them do it.
More rocks, more bracing. Nothing really laid down, but it was a unique experience. Malingering tobacco. Authentic Cuban tobacco, no less.
At least the rain brought the temp down a few degrees--and raised the humidity to 99%.
I'll spray BT again tomorrow, after which we should have most of a week without rain.
Bob
GreenDragon
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It had nothing to do with the rain, they were leaning away from you. They've figured it out... seen behind the curtain and realized it's no garden of Eden they're living in - They know what you are going to do to them!!!
This is an auroraceratops. It's a relative of the triceratops, but walks on two legs, and weighs only 35 pounds. It's kind of cute. I'm thinking about maybe getting one as a pet. It eats only plants, and would be certain to keep the deer away. The question is whether or not it might consider tobacco plants as a delicacy.
They don't seem to have any at the local pet shelters.
Bob
Oh gosh, it's hot today. At least my kitchen is only 86°F. There will be no cooking for dinner tonight.
My cute, coffee can Trabzon doesn't seem to notice that it has almost no dirt. The speckles are from a sputtering first spray of the week from my BT sprayer the other day.
My Dominican Olor has been bagged, and a few of them topped. Nice size plants this year.
The Piloto Cubano PR looks like it will get nowhere near as staggeringly tall as last year, but it's not budding yet.
Little Yellow is "little" like Little Dutch is "little". Just short distances between the nodes of an otherwise full-size plant. This is my first dark-air in about 8 years.
The leaf shown is the 10th from the bottom of the stalk.
My beautiful little bed of Trabzon.
My grass bed is doing well. I really need to pull those Nicotiana weeds.
And finally, my three beds of Corojo 99. One bed has begun to bud, while the other two have not. I suspect it may be related to the incessant urban street light behind my neighbor's house. Different beds get different exposures to the abnormal light through the night.
Bob
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CobGuy
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Looking really good!
I just finished my peanut butter sandwich, heaped with very chilled peach preserves. There may be some milk and cookies in my future.
Bob
GreenDragon
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I tend to do a lot of cooking on the gas grill during the summer to prevent the use of the oven. When it’s 110 F outside you don’t want to put additional stress on the AC! I’ve cooked bread, cobblers, pizza, casseroles, and stews in addition to your traditional grilled/roasted beasts in my grill. Note - aluminum foil is your friend.
I like to roast a whole chicken (or occasionally a small turkey) on the weekend, pull off and bag all the meat, and put the bones in the freezer for making stock. Then the rest of the week is easy to make meals as the protein is already cooked.
(I have two teenage boys, don’t even ask about our grocery bill!)
I like to roast a whole chicken (or occasionally a small turkey) on the weekend, pull off and bag all the meat, and put the bones in the freezer for making stock. Then the rest of the week is easy to make meals as the protein is already cooked.
(I have two teenage boys, don’t even ask about our grocery bill!)
Brown Thumb
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Holy Chit Batman they are looking Sweet.
Almost as nice as wonder woman’s Breasts.
Almost as nice as wonder woman’s Breasts.
Bob has only one kitchen. It's inside the house. My A/C is never strained, since I don't have A/C. I do have windows that open and close. And electricity! Oh, and a washer and dryer, and a tobacco kiln. Just the basics. My gas stove is an isobutane backpacking stove, single burner, that I haul out and use to make my morning coffee when the power goes out. My teenager is now 41, and lives in another state, so my grocery bill is only slightly higher than my prescription bill. (I love excellent coffee, but purchase the cheapest swill that I can get to go down. Note the can in which my Trabzon is growing on the front step. It's a "great value," but at least it's all Arabica. My current plastic tub of Floger's is not. I confess to making Taster's Choice Instant coffee at my Arizona campsites. Gag.)
Like Henry David Thoreau, I live a quiet, simple life, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and rolling fat cigars from home-grown tobacco. (Yesterday, I made up a 4-ramekin batch of chucrute, with kraut, potatoes, bacon and brat slices, but it languishes in the fridge, uncooked, where it will remain until the kitchen is below 85°F in the afternoon.)
My Trabzon (25 plants in a 5'x6' bed) was still quite droopy by early evening, so I pulled the hose down there--an ordeal, and thoroughly watered just that bed. Too many plants crowded together with not a drop of rain in sight. The rest of the tobacco perked right up as the sun fell in the west.
Bob
Worm Sign, but no Worm
With my weekly, haphazard spraying of BT since 22 June this season, I have seen examples of isolated pinholes that always indicate a baby hornworm lurking on the undersurface of the leaf. But really no hornworms, other than several minuscule, black, shriveled things. I have found one leaf with larger holes in a pattern consistent with a young, adolescent hornworm, but no hornworm to be found.
My conclusion is that the hatchlings complete their usual task of eating a tiny hole in their host leaf, but then immediately drop dead. Because of my sloppy application of BT, at least one baby bit into a leaf that had not received any BT spray. That lucky one ate for a short while, then made the unfortunate decision to move on to a new leaf. Boom! The larger ones tend to become moribund for hours to a day or so, prior to dying. That creates an opportunity for birds and other predators of hornworms to chow down. Hence the missing juvenile hornworm. BT does not affect insects (non-larval), birds and other critters that may want to eat a hornworm.
The BT has made my daily task load much easier.
Bob
With my weekly, haphazard spraying of BT since 22 June this season, I have seen examples of isolated pinholes that always indicate a baby hornworm lurking on the undersurface of the leaf. But really no hornworms, other than several minuscule, black, shriveled things. I have found one leaf with larger holes in a pattern consistent with a young, adolescent hornworm, but no hornworm to be found.
My conclusion is that the hatchlings complete their usual task of eating a tiny hole in their host leaf, but then immediately drop dead. Because of my sloppy application of BT, at least one baby bit into a leaf that had not received any BT spray. That lucky one ate for a short while, then made the unfortunate decision to move on to a new leaf. Boom! The larger ones tend to become moribund for hours to a day or so, prior to dying. That creates an opportunity for birds and other predators of hornworms to chow down. Hence the missing juvenile hornworm. BT does not affect insects (non-larval), birds and other critters that may want to eat a hornworm.
The BT has made my daily task load much easier.
Bob
We had an unexpected rain last night. (One of those "occasional, widely scattered pop-up showers.") No rain predicted for the next 4 or 5 days (Ha!). So this morning, I've re-sprayed my BT, but in the most perfunctory manner ever. With dew covered leaves, and a gentle breeze, I'm trusting it to disperse fairly well.
Bob
Bob
Burleys in general (other than so-called "red burley") tend to be more pale than most other varieties. Below is my Kelly Burley (foreground), in the same bed as a non-burley variety.
From 2010.
Nevertheless, it always easily color-cures to a lovely, medium brown.
Bob
From 2010.
Nevertheless, it always easily color-cures to a lovely, medium brown.
Bob
We got about 1/4" of rain this evening. (The Trabzon will be happy about that.) I suppose I'll wait for the minimal remnants of Tropical Storm Barry to pass, then spray BT again Friday or Saturday. The evil worms themselves are still MIA.
I bagged Lancaster Seedleaf today. Only the Piloto Cubano PR (broad) has not yet begun to bud. I still need to go out with my clipboard and a yard stick, and record measurements on Trabzon, Little Yellow and Lancaster.
Of my 3 beds of Corojo 99, plants in the one bed exposed to the neighbor's urban blight street light budded early, while the other two beds are a couple of weeks behind.
Bob
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