Workhorse's 2013 bacca patch

[workhorse_01]

[h=2]PI 612391[/h]Nicotiana tabacum L. SOLANACEAE (tobacco)
'METACOMET' Developed in: Connecticut, United States
Maintained by the Nicotiana Collection. NPGS received: 26-Nov-1999. PI assigned: 2000. Inventory volume: 209. Improvement status: Cultivar. Reproductive uniformity: Highly inbred. Form received: Seed. Accession backed up at second site.


Accession names and identifiers


METACOMETIdtype: CULTIVAR. TC 652Type: Inventory. Intellectual Property and Material Transfer Agreements

Crop Science Registration
Identifier: CV-120 Crop: TOBACCO. Date issued: 01-Sep-2000.
Reference: J.A. LaMondia. 2000. Metacomet Shade Tobacco. Crop Sci 40(5):1504.

Availability

Material is available for distribution. The normal amount distributed is 1000 seeds.
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Narrative

Shade tobacco with resistance to the tobacco cyst nematode (Globodera tabacum tabacum) and tobacco mosaic virus. Nematode resistance conferred by the VA81 parent. Mosaic virus resistance derives from Nicotiana glutinosa. Nematode resistance expressed as reduced nematode development and reproduction. Nematode populations reduced by approx. 70% after production.

Source History

• Accession was developed. Connecticut, United States.
  Developers:
  1. LaMondia, J., Connecticut AES.

Pedigree

0-30 shade x VA81 flue-cured - inbred selection F2 to F12

 

[workhorse_01]

I spent the morning priming leaf, and the afternoon tieing and loading the curing chamber. It's half full now and maintaining 95*F. In a week they will be a beautiful yellowish gold. The sucker crop is already bigger than some of the originals. The late starts are fine and growing in 5 gal buckets.

 

[DGBAMA]

Sounding good. I handed my last run this morning and just got done filling with what i could salvage from the back patch.

 

[workhorse_01]

Wow what a difference a week makes when it's dry outside. My plants have taken off and the growth is over the whole patch. I have VA Gold that is 8' tall. The Metacomet has finally decided to join the party, and the Hi burley 21 is growing out of control. I still haven't watered them and probably wont for the rest of the season. We've been dipping down in to the lower 70's at night, and I'm a little worried about that slowing down the growth now happening. I wish we hadn't had the rain we had this summer as I'm finally getting a glimpse of what could have been. If all goes well I'll be stick hanging a lot of big leaf soon. It's almost time to put that curing chamber to it's real use.

 

[johnlee1933]

Wow what a difference a week makes when it's dry outside. My plants have taken off and the growth is over the whole patch. I have VA Gold that is 8' tall. The Metacomet has finally decided to join the party, and the Hi burley 21 is growing out of control. I still haven't watered them and probably wont for the rest of the season. We've been dipping down in to the lower 70's at night, and I'm a little worried about that slowing down the growth now happening. I wish we hadn't had the rain we had this summer as I'm finally getting a glimpse of what could have been. If all goes well I'll be stick hanging a lot of big leaf soon. It's almost time to put that curing chamber to it's real use.

Good for you Hoss. Sounds like things are finally coming around. You've worked and sweated over it so now enjoy it. John

 

[Knucklehead]

That's great hoss. A country boy can survive.

 

[workhorse_01]

I'm at staples and am going to set all the home pages on their computers to FTT. LOL

 

[Aaron]

I'm at staples and am going to set all the home pages on their computers to FTT. LOL

That's hilarious!

 

[Knucklehead]

I'm at staples and am going to set all the home pages on their computers to FTT. LOL

You get the employee of the month plaque. Did you get any rain from the storm today? I have about 50 plants blown over that will give me something to do tomorrow.

 

[workhorse_01]

Well that will give their tech. dept. something to do. He'll have to reset all the pc home pages. No rain yet. I hope I don't get any, everything is growing like it should have all summer. I could stand another month without any rain.

 

[johnlee1933]

Well that will give their tech. dept. something to do. He'll have to reset all the pc home pages. /QUOTE] Think of it the other way. He/She might like the idea. And a lot of folks may see it before that, If we have a burst of new members we can blame it on you. LOL John

 

[workhorse_01]

I'll keep it up each visit. LOL

 

[AmaxB]

Staple's gonna give you a job - PC Admin.....

 

[workhorse_01]

You guys should have seen there were a lot of tobacco leaves on the screens.

Staple's gonna give you a job - PC Admin.....

 

[Boboro]

Staple's gonna give you a job - PC Admin.....

Or search the site for his pic. and hang it on the wall with BANNED! from computers on it. Then yould have to crawdad outa thar.

 

[workhorse_01]

Would that be just the one Woolworth's or all of them. LOL.

Or search the site for his pic. and hang it on the wall with BANNED! from computers on it. Then yould have to crawdad outa thar.

 

[workhorse_01]

I pulled any and all grass from the back patch last weekend. It killed my back but it is done now. When I look at it, it looks like the moonscape with tobacco growing in it. The plants are growing well and i'll get some pics up soon. Zimmer Spanish doesn't make a good sucker plant, at least not for me. The leaves are much smaller and the tips curl under. The Metacomet plants are more rounded leaves that resemble lettuce when they are growing out the top, but are impressive when the get bigger.

 

[Boboro]

Now would be a good time for Teflan.

 

[Southern Planter]

Workhorse said:
"I pulled any and all grass from the back patch last weekend. It killed my back but it is done now."

I'm old, fat, and gimpy. I found the best way for me is to sit on my but and use a hula hoe, a tool I used to think was worthless. I reach out near horizontal with the handle, and with one hand pressing hard in the middle of the handle pull with the other. The blade works down about and inch whacking the roots. The weeds sit there like nothing happened, but the next stroke is rake like and the weeds come out near effortlessly. I can work the tool around the bacca like a doc with a scalpel.

 

[Boboro]

I think chem. grass control is what us old broke down mfs need. All that orgasmic stuff is for the kids.