My window and balcony: 2024

[johnny108]

2 Vallejano have joined the ranks!

 

[johnny108]

Balcony view.
Farthest away is Trabzon-2, then One Sucker, the two tallest are Little Dutch, and then more One Sucker. Plus the in ground Kentucky to the right. Closest plant is MD609.
I gotta get more space!

 

[johnny108]

Trabzon-2 does well in containers (8” pot)

 

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Off balcony Trabzon-2 topped.
Very high leaf count for such a small container- about 1-2 liters. Plant on the left is in a wide bowl pot with maybe double the soil volume.
3 week date: Sept.11

 

[johnny108]

The perils of small containers:
The plants require watering almost daily. When dry, the lightweight containers tip over easily in the wind.
This plant was on its side for 4 hours a few weeks ago: I set it straight as soon as I found it, but it already grew sideways, and corrected itself once upright
(Small container Trabzon-2)

 

[johnny108]

The first Little Dutch has joined the ranks of the Honored Dead!
Replaced with a windowsill One Sucker.

 

[johnny108]

The hydroponic Kentucky was topped, and the 3 week date for harvest was August 17.
At the time of topping, I replaced the nutrient solution with brand new, full strength nutrients. This may have been a mistake- as the plant instantly greened up, and since I’m suckering it (surprisingly very little on this one), the leaves seem to have started to grow much larger…
The top leaf: 42cm long

 

[johnny108]

Small Stalk Black Mammoth (back row- tall plants) is being primed as the leaves go completely yellow, but I’ll probably stalk harvest sometime after August 31

 

[johnny108]

A balcony MD609. and 5 bonsai Trabzon-2 have begun their journey to the afterlife!

 

[johnny108]

3 more MD609 have fallen, to be raised in smoky Valhalla, again!
These are the last of this variety I have planted, and wow are they good producers, even in 10 liter containers, but you REALLY have to watch out for the winds tipping them, and priming some of your leaves…

 

[johnny108]

Big pot One Sucker, plus a few off-balcony plants were flowering, and have been topped! 3 week harvest date: 26 September. I’d swear One Sucker has some Rustica in its history. Never seen such dark, thick leaves!

 

[johnny108]

Priming continues on the Small Stalk Black Mammoth. Plus one gorgeous smelling mud lug I found yesterday.
The one sucker in the front row of the Small Stalk Black Mammoth looks like it’s starting to flower, as well, but can’t see into the growing tip, yet.

 

[deluxestogie]

With a bit of photo cropping, the tobacco against dappled sunlight would make your IMG_0872.jpeg into a magnificent mural photo.

Bob

 

[johnny108]

With a bit of photo cropping, the tobacco against dappled sunlight would make your IMG_0872.jpeg into a magnificent mural photo.

Bob

I just signed for a garden house. It’s about 600 square meters- a certain percentage of it needs to be set aside for “attractive flowers”- so that’s gonna be the Oriental patch. One section for veggies, and another section that’s going to be for me- about 75 square meters……I’m hoping for a more impressive picture next year!

 

[johnny108]

Since my Drosgi Black-Blue failed, I decided to do some late (I’ll bring them inside, later) Aztec, and a Virginia Gold that I hope to over ripen and harvest completely yellowed, to make what a few companies call “flavor Virginia “….

 

[slouch]

I just signed for a garden house. It’s about 600 square meters- a certain percentage of it needs to be set aside for “attractive flowers”- so that’s gonna be the Oriental patch. One section for veggies, and another section that’s going to be for me- about 75 square meters……I’m hoping for a more impressive picture next year!

I’m sure the wife is thrilled lol. Can’t wait to see the patch next year.

 

[Havok]

We have a long running joke in the office, always applied to RL scenarios, where the punchline is “…so I told the wife how it was gonna be”. Unfortunately the meaning was that the opposite becomes the reality.

 

[johnny108]

My wife really wants me to grow the tobacco in the garden- she’s under the impression that it would stop me from growing it around the house.
No idea why she thinks that…..

 

[johnny108]

Topped the last of the One Sucker today!
3 week date: 30 September.
Vallejano is still growing (white pots on the end, plus a few others around the building)

 

[slouch]

My wife really wants me to grow the tobacco in the garden- she’s under the impression that it would stop me from growing it around the house.
No idea why she thinks that…..

Swarm of the backups