El Cubanitos 2016 Florida grow

[deluxestogie]

PA Red is a wonderful cigar tobacco. Good choice.

(Abbr. are alws. troublsome. I live in the Commonwealth of VA, use the VA Medical Center, and make sure the relays on my tobacco kiln are rated for a sufficiently high va [volt-amp, which is an abbreviation for volt-ampere] for the connected devices. So many entities in the world; so few abbreviations.)

Bob

 

[El Gallo]

PA Red is a wonderful cigar tobacco. Good choice.

(Abbr. are alws. troublsome. I live in the Commonwealth of VA, use the VA Medical Center, and make sure the relays on my tobacco kiln are rated for a sufficiently high va [volt-amp, which is an abbreviation for volt-ampere] for the connected devices. So many entities in the world; so few abbreviations.)

Bob

Well I'm not sure what the abbreviation is for Panama but I actually wrote Panama on my row marker and as you can see from the seed pack picture it's clearly Pennsylvania.... So I'm just gonna go out on a limb and blame it on my home brew! I know for sure I was drinking when I made my markers in anticipation of puttin my tobacco in the ground. The Popsicle sticks I used for my grow trays had PA red written on it and and I looked at it and Wrote Panama Red on my row marker. So if there's a moral to this story, oh heck I was drunk... No moral... Beer on board. It's like I keep on typing CGZ and not CG2 for one of my tobaccos... Life is Good!

 

[Brown Thumb]

The Pa Red is Good Chit Too.
i have not heard of Panama Red in over 30 Yrs.

 

[El Gallo]

That's whacky tobaccy! Don't have any of that growing

 

[El Gallo]

Hung some shade cloth over the GC2, Scantic and some Habano 2000, only had 30% filter hope it's not too much shade.

 

[Jitterbugdude]

40% is pretty standard so I think you're covered. I used 70% once and the leaves had a noticeable lack of oils in them.

 

[Chicken]

That's whacky tobaccy! Don't have any of that growing

Soon my friend....it.will be legal across all the states...I may have to make my spot bigger.."" To accommodate the new crop "".

 

[El Gallo]

Tobacco growing well, just looks a bit light, except for the corner plant that a put catfish guts under when I planted it. I side dressed everything with some vermiculite two days ago.

 

[El Gallo]

Not vermiculite, milorganite. Smells pretty bad but supposed to be good source of nitrogen.

 

[Smokin Harley]

I used Milorganite last year...excellent stuff, my crop did very well . I'm told (by Deluxestogie ?)though that too much nitrogen can affect the leaf flammability problems. Even though Milorganite is only 5-2-0 . It lacks any potash ,which is good because it won't promote flowering/seed which is optimal for lawns. I tried to get some actual tobacco formulation 6-6-18 fertilizer but due to haz-mat laws and regulations no one will ship it or if so its way expensive. So, I had to look for a more easily found local stuff. This year I'm using this ....Alaska by Pennington Vegetable fertilizer pellets. Found it at Menards. its a 4-6-6 . Slow release,Organic,with kelp and fish and calcium (prevents blossom end rot in tomatoes,hope it won't negatively affect tobacco) . The garage smells mildly like my grandfathers old boat house , hope when I apply it (maybe today)that it doesn't attract coyotes, coons or possums .

 

[Gavroche]

http://www.milorganite.com/using-milorganite/what-is-milorganite

Heavy metals, antibiotics, medicine we find all this in waste water here in Seine et Marne Paris and the surrounding area, the farmers spread muds of water-treatment plants on fields, the water of the groundwater is totally polluted, we cannot give her(it) to the pregnant women and to the infants...

XMétaux lourds, antibiotiques, médicaments... on trouve tout cela dans les eaux usées... ici en Seine et marne île de France, les paysans répandent les boues des stations d'épuration sur les champs, l'eau de la nappe phréatique est totalement polluée, on ne peut la donner aux femmes enceintes et aux nourrissons...

 

[El Gallo]

Tobacco is doing pretty good, fought off horn worms and grasshoppers, chickens are fatter because of the critters. Started picking first prime and curing, fingers crossed.

 

[El Gallo]

I think I will grow all next years tobbcco under shade cloth seems to do much better than the rest, too hot here in Florida.

 

[Smokin Harley]

I thought the same thing here in Illinois . Our weather here is its own microclimate, in fact there has been a tomato that was specially bred to adapt to our quirky little weather patterns here in the midwest/great lakes region. Spring can and usually are slow to progress. One day in February we get the unseasonal 70 degree day or few in a row and it will snow a blizzard the next. But our summers can get downright hot (near 100)and tropical humid(80-100%rH)for a few days on end then it will be cool and pleasant again. My parents live in north-central Alabama and we often have the same weather.
Makes me wonder why in history tobacco didn't make it this far west. Different time I suppose and the corn and beans were more appropriate and valuable .
Your plants look great . In a couple weeks I should be priming mine as well.

 

[El Gallo]

Well it's not too bad for the first prime, gotta string these up to dry and hopefully next week will pick second group of leaves.

 

[Smokin Harley]

View attachment 18279I think I will grow all next years tobbcco under shade cloth seems to do much better than the rest, too hot here in Florida.

That plant in the foreground needs suckering... just sayin' .
Looks awesome . what varieties have you primed so far?

 

[El Gallo]

Tobacco is curing well my makeshift tobacco shack. Two primes down