Lefty second try

[Leftynick]

Finished transferring my other bed now. Have to transplant early because next week is holidays, I will be back to hometown for a week. Hopefully a week will be enough for these transplant to develope some roots before the 1 weeks without watering.

The stack of stones around my plant is not a SOS message for people of outer space. It is actually to prevent the cat from making my garden bed as their personal waste chamber. I already lost 2 plants today because the cats dig it out.

In this bed I have virginia gold, havana 503, frog eye orinoco, corojo and samsun 85.



one of the benefit living in tropic is my compost heap mature really fast. It only took 2 months and 2 turning to attain this texture. I will be using this compost as soil amendment after harvesting my tobacco. And the bed will be planted vegetables other than nightshade family. (I am thinking of corn) this is an experiment to see if I can plant twice a year in a same spot, and also an experiment to see whether I can grow tobacco again next year.

my waterlogged bed is picking up the paces now.

 

[Charly]

This is a new bed ? Cool
Good idea to put stones against your plants to drive the cats away !

 

[deluxestogie]

I might consider using the stones differently, in driving off the cats.

Bob

 

[greenmonster714]

Great news about the new plot. I'd imagine sheet piles do break down fast in your part of the world. Lefty, you sure travel a lot..lol. Best of luck to ya on the new planting.

 

[Leftynick]

Actually this is the bed I prepared along with the waterlogged bed. I just transplant this later because I need to start new seed. Now I have 2 bed of tobacco with total of 48 plants. Not enough for stocking up but I think will be sufficient until next grow. I am thinking of twice tobacco grow in a year (in different bed) to make up the quantity. Just another thought at this point. Have to check the schedule for raining season.

Bob, i seriously think of that. But the mistress wouldn't allow it. So I have to take another preventive measure.

 

[Brown Thumb]

I might consider using the stones differently, in driving off the cats.

Bob

Agree, but I have a crossbow in mind. I won't stuff one of them critters in a crockpot either

 

[Tutu]

Just clearing up on something that was mentioned a little while ago, as to the origin of the Corojo that I sent you. That Corojo is not seed from deluxestogie. Although the original seed is Corojo, but the seeds come from a long line of plants grown in Honduras, taken to grow in Brazil, and many years later passed on to Indonesia. And yes, then crossed sea and borders to enter Malaysia.

 

[Leftynick]

Just clearing up on something that was mentioned a little while ago, as to the origin of the Corojo that I sent you. That Corojo is not seed from deluxestogie. Although the original seed is Corojo, but the seeds come from a long line of plants grown in Honduras, taken to grow in Brazil, and many years later passed on to Indonesia. And yes, then crossed sea and borders to enter Malaysia.

They have Corojo growing in Indonesia? Fascinating. What do they use it for? filler or wrapper? Wow, I hope I have some Corojo from Cuban seed to compare it with. Nevermind, I will post the pic of it to compare with other who was growing Corojo as well. I only have 2 plants growing from your seed this year. It doesn't seem to like my way of starting seed. Next year I will start my seed using compost. My late seed starting using compost seems to give me good result.

 

[burge]

I have been reading the forum seeing the struggles and even if I could have a spot to grow it may be cheaper to buy your tobacco.

 

[deluxestogie]

There is a sense of victory and liberation in growing one's own tobacco. It may take a year or two to get the most practical technique for a given location, but home growing is way less expensive than purchasing leaf. And instead of a couple of dozen varieties of tobacco to chose from, you have more than 2000.

Bob

 

[greenmonster714]

There is a sense of victory and liberation in growing one's own tobacco. It may take a year or two to get the most practical technique for a given location, but home growing is way less expensive than purchasing leaf. And instead of a couple of dozen varieties of tobacco to chose from, you have more than 2000.

Bob

I agree. Buying from a distributor limits your choices. Growing at home has a little start up cost involved but once you get things gathered up it's all just labor from there. I'm guessing that I've got about $100 wrapped up in this grow so far with buying seed, starter soil, trays, cells, fertilizer, bug juice, lime, and fuel for the tractor. I still have some expense coming to put together a kiln/flue chamber but even with that small expense I'll end up with way more leaf of the variety Ive chosen than I would if I bought it from any distributor out there. I think the only leaf I'll buy is some Latakia.

 

[Charly]

I agree too.
Growing your own tobacco IS already a pleasure ! it's not the same as buying, and it's not just about having more tobacco for less money.
As Bob said, you can be proud when you smoke the tobacco you grew and cured yourself

 

[Leftynick]

For me, living outside USA, it is a lot cheaper. There are no whole leaf vendor here. Don't use my grow log as reference. I only started gardening last year that is why too much struggle.

 

[burge]

There is a sense of victory and liberation in growing one's own tobacco. It may take a year or two to get the most practical technique for a given location, but home growing is way less expensive than purchasing leaf. And instead of a couple of dozen varieties of tobacco to chose from, you have more than 2000.

Bob

I kind of know what you mean but growing for me living downtown in a apartment is next to impossible. Laws and aging factor also come into play. I have written reviews on tobacco leaf companies WLT by far is the best and I wish sometimes there were more varieties on Virginias. I would like to open a bag of lemon that is 6 years old.

 

[burge]

I kind of know what you mean but growing for me living downtown in a apartment is next to impossible. Laws and aging factor also come into play. I have written reviews on tobacco leaf companies WLT by far is the best and I wish sometimes there were more varieties on Virginias. I would like to open a bag of lemon that is 6 years old.

If I lived in Toronto I would probably drive to the tobacco belt and get tobacco right from the farmer make a deal or something or if someone here in Alberta would let me grow or something that would be okay too. Then again the kiln and all that stuff would have to be arranged. It would probably the same price as buying tobacco especially when Don has a sale.

 

[Leftynick]

Update

My plant doesnt show any significant grow this past week. Apparently there are storm in my area and some place are flooding. Too much water make the grow really slow.


There are few plants topped and growing back up during my absence. Notice the main stalk. The plants also wilting due to too many rain.

Harrow velvet plant are yellowing. Although I read somewhere that Harrow Velvet can be yellow during growth but I dont think it should be this yellow. I think it is because of the too much rain.

my other bed also experience the same slow growth. I tried fertilizing them to see whether they will pick up the paces.

My sucker for Little Dutch seems to grow okay. Not quite as big as the first grow but sufficient to give me few extra leaves.

On the other hand, did someone know what happened to my eggplant? It is yellowing but not dying. Seems to me like there are nutrient lacking. I tried to add some chicken organic fertilizer with npk fertilizer and it grow vigorously but still all the new leaves yellowing. Might be something I miss.

 

[Leftynick]

I went home for lunch and my wife handed me an envelope.



a nice fellow from France send this. Thank you very much Charly. I am just about to wrap up this season grow but I think I will start few rustica plant to mix with this year harvest. Hopefully it will be done.

 

[Charly]

You are welcome Leftynick
I am happy the seeds arrived !

Have fun !

 

[Leftynick]

primed some mudlugs today. I discarded more than handful mudlug that dried on the plant. I primed the mudlugs because the aphids started to infest these lower leaves.

 

[Charly]

I primed some mud lugs today too
I took only those who were really yellowing/browning.
Why did you discard the dried leaves ? Were they already composting ?