Deluxestogie Grow Log 2024

[johnny108]

Nitrogen is a very mobile nutrient.
It’s very likely the rain brought them a bunch of fresh nitrogen. I’ve seen tobacco literature warn about adding nitrogen to the soil early, only have it washed away by rain.

Page 33 talks about losing it, but the whole nitrogen section (starting on page 30) talks about how soil types really affect the nitrogen’s movement in rain:

https://publications.ca.uky.edu/sites/publications.ca.uky.edu/files/ID160.pdf

 

[deluxestogie]

Despite all the rain toward the end of last week, my area of Virginia is still listed by the drought monitor as in "moderate drought".

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

Study suggests US droughts, rainy extremes are becoming more severe

Severe drought in the American Southwest and Mexico and more severe wet years in the Northeast are the modern norm in North America, according to new research—and the analysis suggests these seasonal patterns will be more extreme in the future.

phys.org

 

[Knucklehead]

Restoration of the rain forests would offset quite a bit of CO2. They absorb massive amounts of it. I rarely see them mentioned in these articles, just fossil fuels are bad and send money to my NGO.

 

[deluxestogie]

Restoration of the rain forests...

The "good news" coming out of Brazil is that the annual rate of rain forest destruction is decreasing. And just this past week, a "primitive" Amazonian tribe killed a couple of loggers with poison-tipped arrows.

Since the 1970s, about 20% of the rain forest has been deleted.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

The pre-hailstorm harvest:

The hail-damaged Long Red is ready to stalk-cut. The smallest upper leaves were just tiny targets during the hailstorm, and their subsequent growth is the best leaf on the plants.

Most of the leaves on my two Glessnor plants look like the one in the next image.

And this one is the happiest of the lot.

Bob

 

[Knucklehead]

Holey tobacco leaf, Batman!

 

[deluxestogie]

All my tobacco, except the porch corner L'Assomption 201, is now in the shed. I brought in the tattered Glessnor this morning.

I'll stalk-cut (in two pieces) the porch corner plant next week. It is too tall to hang as one stalk in my shed.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

The hail-tattered Long Red stalks and Glessnor stalks were cut and hung in the shed about a week ago. At the time, the Glessnor appeared somewhat more mature than the Long Red.

I was planning to cut the tattered, porch-corner L'Assomption 201 a few days ago, since the local hummingbirds seemed to show little interest in its blossoms. But then I noticed that bumble bees and hover flies are still visiting the younger blossoms. This is at a time when there is not much else blooming in the vicinity. So I'll wait a bit longer. If the leaves were lovely, then my upcoming, 15 October "average first frost date" would take priority. But if frost in the shed spoils a few of the chewed-up top leaves, that's not much of a loss.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

Here I am, sitting on my front porch in early afternoon, enjoying the sunshine beneath a blue sky. Since the forecast when I awakened today was for rain starting mid-morning, and lasting non-stop for at least 10 days (maybe 40), I went ahead and stalk-cut my porch corner L'Assomption 201, and hung it in the shed. Sorry, bees.

I might get rain. One of the neighbors is leading a seemingly endless collection of different animals (two by two) onto a huge, wooden ship he built in his front yard.

Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

Ask him to kindly leave off the mosquitos, roaches, and rats, please and thank you!

 

[DaleB]

Ask him to kindly leave off the mosquitos, roaches, and rats, please and thank you!

Mosquitos and rats feed dragonflies and owls. I could do without the roaches though.

 

[slouch]

Ask him to kindly leave off the mosquitos, roaches, and rats, please and thank you!

My snakes gotta eat man

 

[deluxestogie]

Today's Special:

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

The hail-tattered Long Red stalks and Glessnor stalks were cut and hung in the shed about a week ago. At the time, the Glessnor appeared somewhat more mature than the Long Red.

I was planning to cut the tattered, porch-corner L'Assomption 201 a few days ago, since the local hummingbirds seemed to show little interest in its blossoms. But then I noticed that bumble bees and hover flies are still visiting the younger blossoms. This is at a time when there is not much else blooming in the vicinity. So I'll wait a bit longer. If the leaves were lovely, then my upcoming, 15 October "average first frost date" would take priority. But if frost in the shed spoils a few of the chewed-up top leaves, that's not much of a loss.

Bob

The photo below shows the current state of hail-tattered Long Red and Glessnor, after about 3 weeks in the shed.

It appears to be color-curing normally. Other than the reality that all of it will become filler, the only significant problem I anticipate will be some difficulty in brushing off any debris and dirt.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

At 02:30 am this morning, I looked northward for the aurora. All I could see with my own eyes (vs. what a camera might capture) was the faint glow from the lighting of both towns north of me (~5 and 10 miles away), illuminating a low haze. I could have gotten in my car, and driven far away in the middle of the night, with the hope of seeing the aurora. Instead, I went back to bed.

Most of the photos posted on-line of last night's aurora visible in the southern tier of US states are likely not what the human observers saw. Instead, they show the farther reach into the red spectrum offered by camera sensors.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

This morning, I tested both my hallway smoke alarm as well as my kitchen bacon alarm. The latter always informs me that my bacon is cooked perfectly. (I limit my bacon consumption, in order to preserve my hearing.) By 10 am, I had set all of my clocks and watches backwards by an hour, so I can pretend that Daylight Shifting Trick is over. My bedroom alarm clock, purchased decades ago, always makes the time change a week early, since the time change was hard-wired into it. I just ignore its display for a week—twice a year. Now, only my computers and phone are still annoying me. This is that time of year when people always talk about how stupid and harmful the clock shifting is, but never do anything about it.

Bob

 

[Redleaf]

Twice a year I am thankful that (through the birth lottery and the fact that our square province is divided by an international time line) we here in Saskatchewan do not mess with our clocks. Half of our province is permanently on daylight savings time and the other on standard.

 

[Skafidr]

Twice a year I am thankful that (through the birth lottery and the fact that our square province is divided by an international time line) we here in Saskatchewan do not mess with our clocks. Half of our province is permanently on daylight savings time and the other on standard.

Lol I never knew! I'd gladly vote to get rid of this nonsense!

 

[Redleaf]

Just realized I made an egregious error calling our province square.saskatchewan is not “square” more of a trapezoid I think. I’d like to think we are kind of cool as well.