ProZachJ's 2024 Grow Log
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Those are looking amazing! Especially after what they've been through. Just curious, is that the native soil in the rows you planted them in or is that all non-native soil you brought in? Already I am contemplating how I want to tackle next year.
The rows are made of biocompost that I brought in. For the three long rows cardboard was placed over some mowed cover crop. For the short ones I ran out of cardboard and just put the compost on the ground.
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Spoke too soon. After a pair of 99% humidity nights and forgetting to close the greenhouse door, the stalk curing experiments have gone to mold. It seems the leaves where the midrib had mostly dried already were the most prone to starting it. I guess I need to remove the leaves once they hit that point as individual leaves in a similar state of cure that were on the racks or hanging individually have not shared the problem.
You can see the last 2-3 days did not have the benefit of sun and therefore no daytime humidity drops towards 75%. I guess I'll call this chart "recipe for mold"
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@ChinaVoodoo my tentative plan for all these lugs was to make "mixed mud lug" carottes. Is there more I need to do after they color cure before following your approach in the video? Or just get them into medium case, wrap them up tight and wait as long as I can manage before unwrapping?
furryfreek
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One thing I'd suggest, especially in the case of mud lugs, is to clean the leaves as best you can before binding them up. Too much crud can make the leaf crackle and pop an awful lot as it burns and there's no getting rid of it once pressed.
My new remote temp/humidity sensors came in today. They sync with my weather station and it broadcasts everything to my base station and phone. I think I'm really in business now, using the heater on low and using the thermostat setting to manage the humidity during the night. Zeroing in on trying to keep the humidity in the 75-85% range vs outside of 95-99%
WillQuantrill
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Ever hear that song by George Jones " High Tech Redneck "? Haha
Here's the approach I've come up with. I've setup one of the greenhouses to do everything I can(vents, shade cloth, evaporative cooler) to keep it cooler and more humid (cool being relative, it's still going to be around 100 through the summer) and the other is setup to be hotter and drier. My plan is to prime and hang in the "CoolHouse" for several days and then after the color looks good move them into the "HotHouse". If this works decently I will be very happy to no longer have empty useless greenhouses through the summer months. If it doesn't, well, I can always clean out and outfit my tractor shed for curing. First non-lugs and in the CoolHouse now.
I'm in trouble.... 
Half way through hanging my second priming last night. Judging by the looks my P1 + P2 harvest so far represents between 1/4 and 1/3 of what I'm going to end up with. Here is what is still in the field.
I realized that the door side of my greenhouses cannot handle any weight. So the CoolHouse is now pretty much full...maybe can handle one more stringer.
In the lurch, my little dutch ended up hanging from my front porch.
It looks like a tractor barn clean out is in my near future.
Half way through hanging my second priming last night. Judging by the looks my P1 + P2 harvest so far represents between 1/4 and 1/3 of what I'm going to end up with. Here is what is still in the field.
I realized that the door side of my greenhouses cannot handle any weight. So the CoolHouse is now pretty much full...maybe can handle one more stringer.
In the lurch, my little dutch ended up hanging from my front porch.
It looks like a tractor barn clean out is in my near future.
Your flue cure and orientals can be sun cured. I used an extension ladder and was able to get alot of leaf on there in at least a double row. You can also extend it as much as nessessary.
PressuredLeaf
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Your harvest is looking real long good!I'm in trouble....
Half way through hanging my second priming last night. Judging by the looks my P1 + P2 harvest so far represents between 1/4 and 1/3 of what I'm going to end up with. Here is what is still in the field.
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I realized that the door side of my greenhouses cannot handle any weight. So the CoolHouse is now pretty much full...maybe can handle one more stringer.
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In the lurch, my little dutch ended up hanging from my front porch.
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It looks like a tractor barn clean out is in my near future.
+1 to sun curing orientals and flue cured if you need it.
Honestly, with how hot your greenhouse gets you could probably do a partial flue cure on your oriental and flue cured varieties.
That was my thinking. Once I've got a working evaporative cooler, the CoolHouse should be able to stary very close to the color curing portion of the flue curing schedule. I doubt Ill get the HotHouse up to full flue curing temps, but I wouldn't doubt I can get it into the 130s. Today is supposed to be 95 and full sun so I've shut it up and will see what it hits. Yesterday it was 117 with the doors open and fans on.
After I do a bit of reorganization tomorrow, my Staghorn and Perique will probably all end up either on the porch or in the barn.
This morning while the humidity was high, sun was low, and the leaves in reasonable case, I took the opportunity to pick through the best of the lugs. I smoothed them out over my knee and used a very fine, soft bristle brush to clean them up. I got a couple dozen that look reasonable for the effort. I think this evening I will wrap a carotte.
Alpine
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Very nice and well cured leaves, my compliments!
@Alpine thank you!
I couldn't resist the urge to try it. I can say that based on the color, texture, and flavor the information that says perique is a red burley seems concordant. I'm honestly surprised a how decent this smokes as is. I'm feeling pretty confident now that it will be very delicious after some time wrapped up tight.
I couldn't resist the urge to try it. I can say that based on the color, texture, and flavor the information that says perique is a red burley seems concordant. I'm honestly surprised a how decent this smokes as is. I'm feeling pretty confident now that it will be very delicious after some time wrapped up tight.
Heat Index ("feels like") is semi-meaningful only to average-proportion humans with a "typical" percentage of exposed skin, but not to other animals or plants. 123°F may cook some living plants.
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