Fisherman's grow blog; Port Lavaca Texas ,Gulf coast

[BarG]

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WOW! had an idea!

An electric planer for shredding tobbacco............................

Would have to make a frame and make a pressed block of leaf but i bet the blades and motor would really tear up some leaf! You can get a 2 blade one from skill for $70 and a Bosh for about the same but is counter balanced and 1 blade.
Blades on ebay for like $10 . They are gear driven also.. If it can plane down a 4x4 it can for sure so a lil ole block of smokes.

Maybe mount planer on bottom and make sheet metal housing to feed in the block or brick or maybe even whole leaf...........................

Well hell. they probably thought a pasta maker was a dum idea once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thickness_planer

http://fairtradetobacco.com/showthread.php?1088-Powermatic-testing-summary

 

[AmaxB]

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I thought of a Planer many many times, I got one think it is a Bosh or maybe Makita been in it's box for years now has 3 blades. Got it over 20 years ago when I did an Dining room addition to the house my girl lives in now.
The walls I put up were solid 6"x6" PT used it to even em and get a hand hued look. Man it would eat some wood! Any way the cutters are only bout 4 - 5" wide. I think big tobacco (just a guess) uses something like it a big drum cutter.
Man I like your plants get that fert / watering worked out! Your going to have some leaf to smoke up

 

[Fisherman]

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R they pb6 black bag pots u have there or r they bigger??

They are 5 gallon bags and hold over 5 gallons of mix easy. A 5 gallon bucket wont fill them

 

[Fisherman]

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4-30-13:
Good and bad news

Good news first. plants will recover from my "extra care" with the iron foliar spray but will cost 2 plants and 3 leaves on rest.



some leaves 26" long and 12" wide





Bad news.................. I swear i think i got a flower growing on one of the plants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Knucklehead]

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Jeez Louise, Your plants are looking awesome!

 

[Boboro]

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Now Im lookin at 5 gal. buckets.

 

[Fisherman]

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I wonder if leaving the lites on 24/7 until I moved them outside mita caused the early flower?
Lord knows what chemical coulda caused it I sure used a lot of the transplant root formula on a few too.

 

[Seanz]

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Jeez how old are they they are awesome!

 

[Boboro]

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Ive been told to never leave lites on at nite. But I have. On indoor plants.But not right before I put them out side.Last year my plants put out suckers right after I put them out.I dont think it was the lites. But some kinnda stress.

 

[AmaxB]

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Lookin good man

 

[Fisherman]

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Jeez how old are they they are awesome!

They were born on 2-16-13 and germinated on 2-19-13 and put in buckets on 3-31-13 [ at least some]

Is funny how giving them room and fertilizer makes so much difference. I still have 60 that are in solo cups and the are small. The ones in the grow bags are 2 weeks behind the buckets and all from same hatching.

So they are 10 weeks old and 4 weeks in buckets.

BTW........... I had enuffa that sissy sprayer so I cranked up compressor and used paint gun to spray the BT on the plants. Used soap today a little for some aphids. It is supposed to rain which will probably help the plants in case I overdid it like the iron spray. But ToolMan Tim woulda been proud of the coverage 120# will deliver. 2 rows over and soaked to the bone

 

[Knucklehead]

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Don't hold me to this, but I think rain washes off the BT. Hopefully someone else will weigh in cause I have no idea where I thought I read that. lol I do know the worms have to eat the leaves for BT to kill them.

 

[jekylnz]

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to much stress would make them flower early..but ud think more light wouldn't...maybe less would,but to much potassium will to...

 

[workhorse_01]

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Yes, rain will wash it off and yes the worms have to eat some of the leaf to die from the BT but it takes about the size of a pencil eraser. I sprayed last year and came out the next morning and found a bacca worm hanging by his mouth from a fresh started whole the size of an eraser DEAD!!!! That stuff stinks like the rotten tree pulp that it is, but man does it kill worms!

Don't hold me to this, but I think rain washes off the BT. Hopefully someone else will weigh in cause I have no idea where I thought I read that. lol I do know the worms have to eat the leaves for BT to kill them.

 

[Fisherman]

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Yes, rain will wash it off and yes the worms have to eat some of the leaf to die from the BT but it takes about the size of a pencil eraser. I sprayed last year and came out the next morning and found a bacca worm hanging by his mouth from a fresh started whole the size of an eraser DEAD!!!! That stuff stinks like the rotten tree pulp that it is, but man does it kill worms!

Dam that lil bastid! May he burn forever in hell

 

[workhorse_01]

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Haha he can burn where ever he wants as long as it ain't on my bacca

 

[Fisherman]

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I found another plant or 2 that have bloom in terminal shoot..

Did a lil research and found that waterlogging will cause premature flowering as well as other information on lighting. Samsun was mentioned in paticular and Maryland tho not sure which cultivars.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Zc...e&q=how to delay flowering in tobacco&f=false

Also mentioned is that nitrogen can prolong vegetative growth phase and hold off flowering in some cultivars.

I am going to start 6-8 more strains this week and won't try to hold them to long before going into ground and see if that helps.
I got some OneSucker coming cuz someone told me it smells like Levi Garrett And some Xanthia that someone told me he liked and maybe I will have something unique to pass out among friends and smoke.

 

[AmaxB]

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Was an interesting read Fisherman could be water maybe

 

[Fisherman]

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Just pinched off a piece of green leaf I found hanging here [was small leaf but dry] and fired it up. It smelled like that other leaf to me

 

[Fisherman]

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Haha he can burn where ever he wants as long as it ain't on my bacca

I found one like you were talking about just now. Hanging by his foot of mouth I couldnt tell but I plucked him and he was deader than a doornail for sure. Course I sprayed hell outa the plants with that plant sprayer and it looks like I didnt over dose em neither. Less than 24 hours and cheap to spray also. The soap I sprayed worked on the aphids I found on that few plants too. I read somewhere that they leave their sucker in the plant and if you just hosed them off they would die . Like a bee after they sting you the article said.. Cant prove it true tho at the minute.