workhorse_01
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I started out with over 500 plants this year. I now have around 280, due to SE Ga. being 24" above normal rainfall. But i keep plugin away. All for the golden sweet smell coming from my barn.
Workhorse's 2013 bacca patch
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bonehead
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wow that is a lot of flats of seedlings. i wish i had the means to grow one half of that. i grew more than i did last year and had around seventyfive and i had a hard time keeping up with everything. i am done with the harvest but trying to grow a sucker crop but don't know if it will mature in time to be worth anything.
Rickey60
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How long does it take to grow a sucker crop after you harvest the main crop? Is it better to do a sucker crop verses a new crop of seedlings?
workhorse_01
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That's a time of year question. If you harvest early ,then you can get a new crop. I think about a giant rootball and a small plant, add Sun and stand back.
DGBAMA
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Or in the case of us southern growers this year.........stand back and watch the rain pummel them into the ground. Got hit good again today.
Rickey60
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I agree, it's raining here right now. It's been cloudy and raining all week from what ever that thing in the gulf is, lol
Rick
workhorse_01
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Me too! My buddy told me today that we are 24" above normal for us. I know we're way above average, but I'm not sure of that statistic. I went ahead and brought in most of the Va.Gold a lot of it was drowned and wilted with a few scald spots. I thought there's nothing to loose by bringing it in now. Either I get it smaller or the scald gets it.
Boboro has a good sucker crop coming along in Miss. There are pictures in his grow blog.
Boboro
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Yes.
workhorse_01
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The Zimmer Spanish is curing beautiful! The leaves are a goldish brown and smell like a cross between caramel and baccy. The sucker crop seems to have grown over night. What a difference one overcast day without rain makes, and a full moon.
workhorse_01
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Oh yeah, We're doin some seed swappin this year.
workhorse_01
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The rain just keeps coming. I thought we were getting to the end of it but every day now it rains. My backyard patch wilted bad this weekend and then the sun came out, and now the sun scald. I couldn't get out to cover them, but on the sucker crop I'm going to shade them next heavy wilt and see if it helps.
workhorse_01
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Four days with no rain!!!!! Thank you GOD! If all goes well I'll be headed to Dothan, AL. to pick up a ride-able, pulling mule. Now when the grass and weeds start to grow in my garden and bacca patch and the plants are too high for my tractor out comes Bessie.
Boboro
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I hope it want be afeade of spirders and snakes.
workhorse_01
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I'm not afraid of snakes, I respect them as a working part of the environment. Spiders are a totally different thing. I had a roommate once who got bit by a black widow in the stomach, after the third day and an emergency surgery, they let him go home from the hospital. They left the hole open and packed and unpacked it daily with 38 feet of gauze, after rinsing it with salean solution. It took 6 weeks for it to heal over. With all the non poisonous spiders we have why do we need them?
workhorse_01
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Mixed with horse, chicken, goat, and rabbit it should be good. I told the wife I want something to plow, ride and pull the wagon at Halloween.
Boboro
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A trackter want try to kill ya.
workhorse_01
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I have a 1957 john Deere 420 2 row tractor in perfect working order, but when the crop gets to three feet or so you cant run the tractor over it anymore. A mule will walk down the middles and never break a limb off.
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