Rainmax 2015 season 4 (and 2016)

[rainmax]

Corojo99 for filler

150 Corojo 99 for filler planted today. It was beautiful day and of course I feel pain all over my body. the result is here. I needed to dig about 18 meters (16FT) by hand about 30 cm deep. I found lots of roots which I remove from the ground.



Seedlings are a bit small but hardened well. Counting on good wether and all the luck you was mentioning before. I started Early in the morning and in the middle of the day I was not sure If I'm gona make it.



Unfortunately my mother was there and she planted all the peppers and other stuff so she decide to help me. Lucky me.



Happy ...and sleepy

 

[Cigar]

Re: Corojo99 for filler

wow very cool..wish I had a plot like that or even half that size!!



Cigar

 

[deluxestogie]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

Looking good. Three cheers for your mother.

Bob

 

[Swedroller]

Re: Corojo99 for filler

Looks like a lot of hard work been done there. Looks very professional. Good luck to you

 

[Chicken]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

Welcome to the "" crooked row club""...

 

[rainmax]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

Welcome to the "" crooked row club""...

LOL. Even crooked lines are beautiful if they are nicely crooked.
So today I finished with seeding. My this years plants are in the ground. Woke up early in the morning and with my friends help I make another hale net for my filler selection.



When it was finished I plant 27 Criollo 98, 16 Criollo Collorado, 26 Pennsylvania Red, 18 Adonis. Most of the day I was in this position:



...or on my knees. Later, after lunch I prepare ciggarete tobacco field.



95 Prilep, 68 Virginia Bright, 30 Baldio Vera...

Happy ... not tired at all.

 

[leverhead]

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Damn! That's both a pretty place and a pretty garden. You'll recover in a few days. Any help is good help.

 

[rainmax]

Strings, shade and Habano 2000

Today I prepare strings for my shade grown Habano 2000. Lately we have very nice wether, lots of sun and high temperatures. Tobacco start to grow few centimeters each day. It is nice to observe the garden.



I found that tobacco plants looks different but I only planted Habano 2000. It looks like different strains, don't they?
Check on first picture upper left and bottom right plants.



Vuelta Abajo and garlic.



And some more green...

 

[Brown Thumb]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

Nice looking grow.
Those plants might have frenching, looks very similar to some seedlings I grew this yr.
long narrow Funkey edged leaves on the plants.

 

[DGBAMA]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

looking good.

You may have gotten a stray seed mixed in your Habano. Or that one might just be in a "dead spot" of soil making it grow different. I would give a few more weeks before judging if it is different.

 

[deluxestogie]

Re: Strings, shade and Habano 2000

I found that tobacco plants looks different but I only planted Habano 2000. It looks like different strains, don't they?
Check on first picture upper left and bottom right plants.

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The one on the bottom right looks like Long Red or Bolivia Criollo Black or Silver River, etc. It must have been the milkman.

Bob

 

[rainmax]

Habano 2000 issues

This is not the isolate case. My whole Habano 2000 batch looks different.
I did not mix it with other strains, like you see in post #2. In that case I will probably know which is the neighbor and I wouldn't bake my noodles. I germinate Habano 2000 in extra pot and prepare only 40 seedlings in multi plate. After transplanted in bigger pots. So, something went wrong obviously.



I will wait and see. Fourth year of growing and beginners mistakes.

 

[deluxestogie]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

What is the source of your Habano 2000 seed?

Bob

 

[rainmax]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

Sky...

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

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I had two plants in my Japan 8 batch which were clearly something different. I killed them dead. Could have been my mistake, or I wonder if perhaps it was a recessive gene, like gingerism that caused it.

 

[deluxestogie]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

A "pure" strain tobacco variety should have undetectable heterozygosity (there should be no variations in the plants).

Sources of mixed tobacco phenotypes:

• unstable strain
• open pollination in an uncontrolled setting
• contamination of seed at seed collection
• contamination of seed at germination
• mislabeled seedlings

Bob

 

[Knucklehead]

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I had two plants in my Japan 8 batch which were clearly something different. I killed them dead. Could have been my mistake, or I wonder if perhaps it was a recessive gene, like gingerism that caused it.

I had the same deal with the Japan 8. Sky thought he may have put some burley seed in the Japan 8 bin. I also killed off the ones that were clearly not Japan 8. Japan 8 was a very unique looking variety and there was no problem telling the difference between the two varieties. It was night and day.

Maks, talk to Sky and maybe he can remember something that may help in identification.

 

[rainmax]

Sun grown Corojo field

Yesterday night I visited my filler tobacco field. We haven't had rain for about month now. Here in heavy clay soil is not the problem but I have to water my plants in other locations.
Soil here is hard and heavy and also plants behavior is according to the conditions. Small, hairy, oily, in short beautiful leaf for filler. I hope it will be smokable.
I aerate the soil and remove as much weeds as I could. It was heavy and neck breaking job.



I have some space left and I put some Burley and Prilep aside. I'm not sure how to dry all those leaf in the end of the season but time will tell. It would be pity not to take advantage of this sunny field.



Prilep, Baldio Vera, Corojo ​and Corojo 99.

 

[Knucklehead]

Re: Rainmax 2015 season 4

Wow, nice patch. It looks like it's surrounded by some beautiful mountains. Peaceful setting.

 

[Hasse SWE]

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Very nice looking pictures