Leverhead's T Patch

[leverhead]

leverhead,
My first impression is that the plant in the photo is infected with tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). I can't really tell for sure. The problem with TMV, as with other tobacco viruses, is that whenever you handle an infected plant, you can then transmit the virus to healthy tobacco plants, as well as to tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and eggplants.

If you leave them in place, then I would suggest that you tend to them only after taking care of all your other plants, then promptly wash your hands and sterilize any tools that contacted them. If the number of affected plants is insignificant, compared to the overall size of your planting, then you may want to remove them.

Again, I'm not really certain of the cause, but TMV is a prime suspect.

Bob

Thank you! Should I take the soil in the root ball out also? The plants are only on a 2' spacing so there going to be touching soon. That and the Deer wander through at night.

 

[deluxestogie]

Removing the soil may be overkill, or it may be essential. Since TEV and TMV can, in some instances, lead to root rot, I am assuming that the virus particles are (at least occasionally) circulated within the plant from the leaf to the roots. If the roots are infected, then it will surely spread to the remainder of the plant. My thought on removing the soil is that doing so will also remove many of the smaller roots that would otherwise be left behind.

Bob

 

[leverhead]

Ahh... what a difference a day makes!



Mutha F@#&'n nature!

 

[Chicken]

thats a good looking grow area,

 

[leverhead]

With some corn based elixir in my system, I think I'm feeling not so bad, I'll keep telling myself that. I got the Turkish section propped back up before I ran out of light. I got about 2" of rain in 30 min. and some real small hail. The wind is what really got me, the rain came fast enough to mostly run off. The plants in the foreground were about knee high. Any thoughts about what to do with them in the morning?

 

[Chicken]

i'd prop them back up.

perhaps you may want to do what i did,

and have a support stake for each plant,

it can be as simple as a cut piece of bamboo,

 

[leverhead]

I wish now I had put stakes in at transplant. How far away do I need to set a stake to minimize root damage?

 

[BarG]

Thats my first chore this morning is uprighting all my tobacco plants and second planting of corn. I just gently raise the plant and refirm the ground around it with my foot. I got hammered [thank goodness] with about a 4-6" rain yesterday afternoon and early evening. We needed it bad.

 

[johnlee1933]

We have had on and off light rain here for the last three days. The baccy is loving it. It is supposed to rain hard today and tonight and then be sunny for a few days. I'll bet it really takes off then. It's about a foot tall now. I'm a bit surprised the CT shade is doing poorly so far. The MCY & YTB are doing the best.

I found two weeds. They were promptly executed.

John

 

[Grundle]

we have had on and off light rain here for the last three days. The baccy is loving it. It is supposed to rain hard today and tonight and then be sunny for a few days. I'll bet it really takes off then. It's about a foot tall now. I'm a bit surprised the ct shade is doing poorly so far. The mcy & ytb are doing the best.

I found two weeds. They were promptly executed.

John

murderer!!!!

 

[johnlee1933]

murderer!!!!

Yep. Guilty as charged. So sue me.

NE Kansas. Is that Dorothy and Toto land?

John

 

[Grundle]

Yep. Guilty as charged. So sue me.

NE Kansas. Is that Dorothy and Toto land?

John

Ahahaha, I have NEVER heard that one before

 

[leverhead]

Ahh, what a difference another day makes!



I can't help it, I'm a noob. Last night I thought all was lost,I even checked out my seed situation. By this afternoon one of the Turks still looks pretty tough, I think it has some broken roots. Thank you BarG and Chicken! I got in there this morning, straitened them up and pushed the soil up with my foot. Cleaned them off and sprayed them with BT. Next year there will be stakes at transplant. A few more days and you'll have to look pretty hard to tell anything happened.

 

[BarG]

Those plants in back are putting it on, what variety are they. It looks like that rain gave a good growth spurt, thats what it does here. You get alot of minerals in rain water that they seem to love.

 

[leverhead]

From the left, there's 9 Black Sea Samsons, about 12 Ottoman HYs, about the same number of Ottomans and 1 lonesome Yellow Twist Bud filling in an empty spot. The tallest seem to be the Ottoman HYs, tomorrow they'll be in the ground a month.

 

[Grundle]

I am glad to see it recovered nicely. Big sigh of relief!

 

[leverhead]

Thank you! I had images of Armageddon in my head that night, I slept much better last night.

 

[Chicken]

those ottomans will be the biggest plants in your patch,,,

stake those first,, stake them now, mine are 6' right now, and some have got laid down,,, most are staked though,,,, and the ones that laid down have stakes, i just aint tied them to thier stake,

i thought they were sturdy enough, but we had a good wind today, and i got about 6 plants down,, i'll fix it tomorrow, '' WORK STARTS AT4 A.M. '' so i wont be up much longer,

 

[leverhead]

Thanks Chicken. I put an overhead line above the Turks and ran a line down almost to the ground, spiraled around the stalk. I'll see how well it works.

 

[johnlee1933]

Thanks Chicken. I put an overhead line above the Turks and ran a line down almost to the ground, spiraled around the stalk. I'll see how well it works.

It'll work just fine. My professional guy does exactly that for tens of thousands of plants every year. I did it last year for mine and got thru everything but the hail storm.

John