Heartfeltgremlin Grow Blog 2024

[Heartfeltgremlin]

First time growing tobacco! Very excited! Only doing two varieties to start out. Planted some Burley 21 and Virginia 116. Can’t wait!

 

[GreenDragon]

Welcome to the forum! We have a lot of fun here.

Please feel free to introduce yourself, tell us a little about you, and your goals for the coming year.

Are you looking to make pipe or cig blends? What are your curing plans? Are you going to grow in ground, in pots, hydroponics etc? But above all else enjoy the journey and have fun!

 

[deluxestogie]

Welcome to the forum.

Bob

 

[Heartfeltgremlin]

Welcome to the forum! We have a lot of fun here.

Please feel free to introduce yourself, tell us a little about you, and your goals for the coming year.

Are you looking to make pipe or cig blends? What are your curing plans? Are you going to grow in ground, in pots, hydroponics etc? But above all else enjoy the journey and have fun!

I’m hoping to make some pipe tobacco! I plan on air curing both of the types I’m growing, but I’m going to form carrotes with the Virginia 116. And I’m going to grow in containers!

 

[Alpine]

Welcome to FTT

pier

 

[Old Gasman]

Hello and welcome from the UK.

 

[Heartfeltgremlin]

Seedlings are doing great! Gonna wait for them to get a little bigger before separating them into individual small pots. Then once they’re 4-5 inches tall I’ll transplant them outside after the threat of frost is gone.

 

[Old Gasman]

Looking good pal.

 

[deluxestogie]

Gonna wait for them to get a little bigger

They look healthy. They also appear to be of a size that they are competing with one another.

Bob

 

[Heartfeltgremlin]

They look healthy. They also appear to be of a size that they are competing with one another.

Bob

I did one round of thinning, but could probably do another round now that they’re a little bit bigger.

 

[Heartfeltgremlin]

All my tobacco plants look like this pale greenish yellow. I’m watering them regularly. Do they need fertilizer or something? Or am i overreacting?

 

[GreenDragon]

What potting mix are you using? Assume it is well draining and you let the soil dry between waterings. If so, they definitely look chlorotic to me - I'd hit them with some Miracle Grow or other liquid fertilizer.

 

[MadFarmer]

All my tobacco plants look like this pale greenish yellow. I’m watering them regularly. Do they need fertilizer or something? Or am i overreacting?

If it's Burley they just look like that for awhile.

 

[Heartfeltgremlin]

If it's Burley they just look like that for awhile.

I have five plants of burley 21 and five of Virginia 116. They all look like this :/

 

[Heartfeltgremlin]

Applied some fertilizer, so hopefully they perk up soon!

 

[Heartfeltgremlin]

So my plants haven’t flowered yet, but the bottom leaves are starting to turn light green/yellow. Should I start harvesting the bottom leaves? The first two plants are Virginia 116 and the last three are Burley 21.

 

[Alpine]

I would wait a few more days to begin to harvest the first few leaves of the Va (I prefer to harvest ripe rather than mature leaves) and more than a week for the burley. Keep in mind that 99% of my tobacco ends up shredded and rolled in cigarettes, if you intend to use your leaves for cigars you may prefer mature leaves instead of fully ripe ones.

pier