workhorse_01
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I feel your pain brother. It'll be wilted, scalded tobacco all the way through this grow season it seems.
Workhorse's 2013 bacca patch
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AmaxB
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I'll be spraying myself today maybe, the VA Gold how do you like it? Does it look anything like the photo at ARS-Grin?
workhorse_01
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Yes, It's very hearty. The rain yellowed it a bit but I have the fix for that. I put three pieces of 34-0-0 on top of the dirt in each cup and in three days booyah! How's that good lookin tobacco doin today amax?
DGBAMA
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3 pieces? Does your fertilizer come in cubes our larger pieces? Not the usual bb sized prills.
workhorse_01
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No its the usual sized but in 18oz. Dixie cups there's not much soil to distribute the fertilizer so to keep from burning them up I place about three bb sized 34-0-0 pills at the edge of the cup and three days later, whalla! green leaves and about an inch higher. You gotta love ammonium nitrate!
DGBAMA
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Thanks for that. Did not realize such a small amount would have such an effect.
AmaxB
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I'll be growing some of those next year than. Some of my plants in the patch are a little to the light green side maybe I'll try this on a few of those.
DonH
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Have you tried Epsom Salts? If you have a magnesium deficiency it will really turn the leaves green. It's cheap, too.
workhorse_01
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Don, You're right living in S.Florida we had palm trees that would yellow. We had heard enough times that our ground was low in magnesium, so we would buy epsome salts and the tree would green real fast.
Fisherman
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Iron also helped me a lot. Just dont use it as a foliar spray. Tobacco reacts quick and foliar spray is over kill on a broadleaf plant I think.
workhorse_01
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Yesterday, I found where something has been eating a few of my plants, so I sprayed for the first time this year with BT and Cyonara . If it's caterpillars I'm ok, If It's grasshoppers I'm ok. I've seen no evidence of the little dead critters walking other than where they ate. The plants are taking off nicely this year and I'll upload some pics tonight. I need to plant the other 250 plants or so but duty calls, I've got a big freezer to go fix. It seems like every time I get on here or have plans to plant my beautiful little tobacco plants something happens and I cant do it. What makes him think his 5 door freezer at the chain grocery store is more important than my tobacco plants finding their permanent home? They just want to be adopted in to the ground just like all the other ones!
Yesterday, I found where something has been eating a few of my plants, so I sprayed for the first time this year with BT and Cyonara . If it's caterpillars I'm ok, If It's grasshoppers I'm ok. I've seen no evidence of the little dead critters walking other than where they ate. The plants are taking off nicely this year and I'll upload some pics tonight. I need to plant the other 250 plants or so but duty calls, I've got a big freezer to go fix. It seems like every time I get on here or have plans to plant my beautiful little tobacco plants something happens and I cant do it. What makes him think his 5 door freezer at the chain grocery store is more important than my tobacco plants finding their permanent home? They just want to be adopted in to the ground just like all the other ones!
When it rains, it pours. And it's sure been pouring lately!
workhorse_01
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The spraying put a halt to the holes in my leaves. There is no sign of what it was, but the workhorse vegetarian diner is officially closed for the summer! We've said Cyonara to all our invertebrate friends and cant say we'll miss them. On to better things. It has started to mist rain for about ten minutes each day, just enough to make it so muggy that I need my pocket knife to cut a path through the air when I walk out the door. It's perfect tobacco growing weather 90's during the day and 80 or so at night with high humidity. The plants in the pine tree rows have caught their stride and are doing very well. The plants in the cups on the porch are a day or two past ready and GOD willing will be planted in the morning. I'm trying very hard to avoid the bolting that I've seen so much of this year.
DGBAMA
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A bunch of my starts stayed in cups too long and took off for the sky. Long and spindly; big gaps between leaves. If they start throwing ground level suckers, I beleive I will just clip the spindly main stem and let the lowest sucker grow as a new main stem, hoping for a stronger plant.
workhorse_01
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It will work. I did it three times last year, and the cured product no one can tell which is which. How about those water beaten plants? All ok?
DGBAMA
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Too early to tell. Killed pretty much all leaves (had been less than 12 hrs since planted) but the stems and "terminal / growth bud" seem to have revived and turned skyward on a majority of them. Ugly little plants at the moment but they are trying. Our weather/rain has not exactly been cooperative either.
workhorse_01
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Some pics from yesterday and today. 
I got a little carried away with the camera. Sorry if it's too much.
I got a little carried away with the camera. Sorry if it's too much.
DGBAMA
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I miss that loamy south georgia soil. Grew stuff good when I lived in Albany.
I wonder about planting amidst the pines if years of needle fall might mean the soil is too acidic; have you had it tested?
Looking better than mine.
I wonder about planting amidst the pines if years of needle fall might mean the soil is too acidic; have you had it tested?
Looking better than mine.
workhorse_01
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I've had to replace quite a few due to a 200lb dufus mastiff, who thinks running down the middle of the rows is ok, and two teenagers who cant seem to keep him out of the bacca.
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