jekylnz
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You could recruit all the neighborhood kids..suit them up send then out with their instructions what to pick.lol
growing turkish
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leverhead
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The kids don't want to work, they have too much gaming to do.
jekylnz
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thats the times we live in..virtual living!! tell them youll by them a new game??.
leverhead
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I'd be lying, I'm too cheap
workhorse_01
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Ask them if they want to eat? Then point to the patch. LOL. I have to hunt mine down at about 8:00pm They never want to stay inside. You should see their faces when it rains. They say can we get in the pool? and I say yes if I don't hear thunder or see lightning.
BarG
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Im hoping to follow last year and stalk cure bursa and ottoman. I was pleased with the results.
But then again I'm all about cutting my labor costs down. You still get to tie all the hands.
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Bob,
I had a very busy week so I couldn't visit the forum frequently, now I see that you forgot to write my forum name correctly
"Istanbulin" is not in my spell checker dictionary. I'll have to add it. The spell checker always wants to change your forum name to Istanbul, so I always click "Ignore." My real embarassment is when I misspell "Bob," which I've done twice.
Boob
Boob
Not to worry. We do it all the time.
jekylnz
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So I they best way to stalk harvest Turkish? ?
I prime all of my Oriental varieties, typically in groups of 3 or 4 leaves, as they mature. Occasionally, I will stalk-harvest the upper quarter of the stalk, and just leave that hanging in the shed, as is, for the entire winter.
Bob
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jekylnz
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Is it better to let the leaves prime up as you go?? I here it can be hard to color cure without too much green? Does no one sun cure it??
I think it's usually primed when it really ripe, rather than just mature. Crinkley leaves with a good bit of yellow.
jekylnz
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Sounds like the best way to be done
leverhead
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Hopefully, there will be some good stabs at it this year.
If you watch a dozen tobacco videos from the regions of the old Ottoman Empire, you will see Turkish tobacco being harvested, often as mature, sometimes as ripe (yellow).
Bob
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Maybe I don't have the "fine culture" that the rest of you gentlemen have but I've stalk cured and primed and never could tell the difference. Therefore, I stalk cure all my Turkish. When I strip the leaves after curing I tie all the leaves from each stalk into a hand. I shred the entire hand when I'm ready so maybe since all the leaf positions are mixed together that's why I can't tell a difference... or maybe it's my lack of "culture"
I agree 100%. It's probably your lack of culture. ROFL
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