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He is a good bug - he eats bad bugs
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Yes thats the Cherry Red. I was too busy to get it today anyway.
I harvested 5 lil dutch, 1 fl sumatra, 4 mystery plants and primed 10 corojo 99 (was gonna stalk harvest but the tops weren't ready and everyone else was)
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Hard to get anything by them
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The assassin bugs are great bio control, but also painful if you grab one by mistake
Wasps are wonderful too early in the season for catepillars but get a bit grouchy when the weather gets hot. Looks like the sun curing turned out well . I'm just trying it for the first time myself with some Florida Sumatra.
Wasps are wonderful too early in the season for catepillars but get a bit grouchy when the weather gets hot. Looks like the sun curing turned out well . I'm just trying it for the first time myself with some Florida Sumatra.
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Yeah never grab one, they make a wasp sting seem like nothing.The assassin bugs are great bio control, but also painful if you grab one by mistake
Got stung by a wasp on the wrist Saturday and my arm is still swollen
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. I welcome the wasps until about early July then it's wasp tennis time with the hand held bug zapper.
Congratulations on the good season. Since your in my neck of the woods I was curious about how the little Dutch worked out for you in our area. I'm toying with the idea of possibly trying a few of those next year if they are fairly hardy to the heat, humidity, and disease.
Just went back and read most of your thread, sounds like I was telling you stuff you already new about the wasps
. I welcome the wasps until about early July then it's wasp tennis time with the hand held bug zapper.Congratulations on the good season. Since your in my neck of the woods I was curious about how the little Dutch worked out for you in our area. I'm toying with the idea of possibly trying a few of those next year if they are fairly hardy to the heat, humidity, and disease.
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What part of AR are you from?Just went
Just went back and read most of your thread, sounds like I was telling you stuff you already new about the wasps
Congratulations on the good season. Since your in my neck of the woods I was curious about how the little Dutch worked out for you in our area. I'm toying with the idea of possibly trying a few of those next year if they are fairly hardy to the heat, humidity, and disease.
Little Dutch has done very good for me.
Most of my plants stalled early on due to flooding, but aftet it dried out they have done real good.
I'm in "beautiful" Stuttgart. We hold the title of the rice and duck capitol of the US - and formerly the mosquito capitol as well, but I think the chamber of commerce decided that wasn't good for business and dropped that title Our soil is a little different than yours, we have the impenetrable hard pan about two feet down that doesn't let water flow through (hence the good rice growing conditions), but the weather, insects and diseases are probably pretty similar to your area.
Like every where else around here the south will rise again - in early spring when the water levels recede anyway I hear you about the flooded conditions. Half my backyard is in underwater most of winter and we pretty much have to do raised beds to keep things from rotting out during moist springs.
This is my first year growing much tobacco and I was negligent about planing and getting a decent bed put in this spring so most of my plants were pot grown. A handful from a latter planting got stuck in the ground and are doing ok with amended soil. The ones in just our straight clay soil aren't doing so well though (go figure). I've got the usual insect pests, but our big one here is the flea beetles.
The lines I currently have in the ground that are doing well despite the late planting are Conneticut broadleaf, Florida Sumatra (like you), habano 2000 (seems to do a little better than the others in the heavy clay soil), perique and staghorn. I've got madole in pots and they seemed to be doing well (no obvious diseases despite the less than perfect conditions anyway). The plan for next year is to put in a (mostly) no till compost bed and try a few plants of the same varieties I grew this year plus a few new varieties and orientals and see what happens.
Our soil is a little different than yours, we have the impenetrable hard pan about two feet down that doesn't let water flow through (hence the good rice growing conditions), but the weather, insects and diseases are probably pretty similar to your area.Like every where else around here the south will rise again - in early spring when the water levels recede anyway
I hear you about the flooded conditions. Half my backyard is in underwater most of winter and we pretty much have to do raised beds to keep things from rotting out during moist springs.This is my first year growing much tobacco and I was negligent about planing and getting a decent bed put in this spring so most of my plants were pot grown. A handful from a latter planting got stuck in the ground and are doing ok with amended soil. The ones in just our straight clay soil aren't doing so well though (go figure). I've got the usual insect pests, but our big one here is the flea beetles.
The lines I currently have in the ground that are doing well despite the late planting are Conneticut broadleaf, Florida Sumatra (like you), habano 2000 (seems to do a little better than the others in the heavy clay soil), perique and staghorn. I've got madole in pots and they seemed to be doing well (no obvious diseases despite the less than perfect conditions anyway). The plan for next year is to put in a (mostly) no till compost bed and try a few plants of the same varieties I grew this year plus a few new varieties and orientals and see what happens.
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I know exactly where Stuttgart is, excellent duck hunting!I'm in "beautiful" Stuttgart. We hold the title of the rice and duck capitol of the US - and formerly the mosquito capitol as well, but I think the chamber of commerce decided that wasn't good for business and dropped that title
Like every where else around here the south will rise again - in early spring when the water levels recede anyway
This is my first year growing much tobacco and I was negligent about planing and getting a decent bed put in this spring so most of my plants were pot grown. A handful from a latter planting got stuck in the ground and are doing ok with amended soil. The ones in just our straight clay soil aren't doing so well though (go figure). I've got the usual insect pests, but our big one here is the flea beetles.
The lines I currently have in the ground that are doing well despite the late planting are Conneticut broadleaf, Florida Sumatra (like you), habano 2000 (seems to do a little better than the others in the heavy clay soil), perique and staghorn. I've got madole in pots and they seemed to be doing well (no obvious diseases despite the less than perfect conditions anyway). The plan for next year is to put in a (mostly) no till compost bed and try a few plants of the same varieties I grew this year plus a few new varieties and orientals and see what happens.
Good luck with your grow.
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Found this guy in the garden - he's a pretty wheelbug
That is amazing. Its legs seem to be transparent, and its body translucent, as though it is made of glass.
This is a 3D model of a honeybee that I "transformed" into a glass bee.
But it is entirely fake. Your glass wheel bug is alive!
Bob
This is a 3D model of a honeybee that I "transformed" into a glass bee.
But it is entirely fake. Your glass wheel bug is alive!
Bob
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Thats pretty cool.That is amazing. Its legs seem to be transparent, and its body translucent, as though it is made of glass.
This is a 3D model of a honeybee that I "transformed" into a glass bee.
But it is entirely fake. Your glass wheel bug is alive!
Bob
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Got a few leaves and plants hanging
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Its another assasin bug - he is a friend to the garden - just dont handle them.
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