Yes, it is nice to have a bit of green during the winter. What will you do with the plants in the pots...just let them grow through the winter? (I had a tobacco plant that lived for about 3 years or so on the windowsill - it flowered 2x a year. It was leggy, and the main stem had turned brown, looking like it was going to die, and then little green shoots would come from the brown stem, and the plant would continue on.) And what about your chamber air cure? How did that end up??
Nice looking yard ,Dgbama...looks very similar to my parents backyard (theyre over in G'ville) . Did you catch the Iron Bowl last night? good game. Roll Tide !GO BIG OR GO HOME.......theme for the year.
Cleaned out starting trays this weekend; almost time.
Even better though, I locked in my new growing area. Approx 20x100 almost level, well drained, and full sun.![]()
Can't wait to see the results of better plant spacing and more sun vs. last year.
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Nice looking yard ,Dgbama...looks very similar to my parents backyard (theyre over in G'ville) . Did you catch the Iron Bowl last night? good game. Roll Tide !
Looks Good, Shure beats running it thru a chipper. You have to at least hit 100 pounds this yr.
I have not even had time to pull my air dried down in the garage. Thank god it's not much 10 pounds maybe.
Damm straight on the Pride part. My wife's sister with her new boyfriend and mother were over yesterday for belated thanksgiving dinner. Rubin her boyfriend has been here twice before and put his Newports away and was smoking my smokes all day and night. He Said they tasted better.I wish it was close to 100. No scale but probably 70ish, lots of leaf cured thin and light. But there is a lot of pride in the smokes I tote in my pocket.
Damm straight on the Pride part. My wife's sister with her new boyfriend and mother were over yesterday for belated thanksgiving dinner. Rubin her boyfriend has been here twice before and put his Newports away and was smoking my smokes all day and night. He Said they tasted better.
I sold him a pinball machine but had to throw in a carton of smokes to seal the Deal.
You got a old Bingo machine?
Of course, your leaf is from known seeds, etc., but to what do you attribute to the thin/light quality of your leaf? Mine cured the same way. Also, in your photo, you have some pale green leaf in the top of the photo. What will you be doing with that? Some of my flue cured has cured that way, and I'm hoping it's salvageable....
Hoping kilning will give some nice dark brown leaf when it is done.
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