Prosechenskaya (Prosechye, Makhorka No. 8): @johnny108

johnny108

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I managed to get these seeds from Polygon’s site, last year.
His description (Google translate):

Prosechenskaya (Prosechye, Makhorka No. 8)

Belongs to the variety type Pekhlets (Gumilis). The variety is not resistant to diseases. Medium-sized rare-leaved shag. The number of leaves is 12, light green in color, the length of the middle tier leaf is 20.2 cm, width is 21.4 cm. The shape of the plate is heart-shaped and elongated. The surface of the leaves is smooth or has shallow folds. The stem is rounded. Productivity is low. The quality of the raw material in terms of materiality and smoking properties is good. The percentage of badyl is 32, nicotine is 10. Damage to burn and grouse is weak. Thanks to the thin stem, drying of the raw materials ends quickly. Length of the growing season: from planting to flowering - 36 days, from flowering to ripening - 34 days (70 days in total). The yield of air-dry mass of one plant is 59.0 g. Materiality is 1.24 g/dm2.

July 27:
five seeds were planted in Wruckmix, but peat was mixed 50/50 with an expensive soil from Amazon that made some very dark green One Sucker seedlings. Watered with 1/10 strength triple-20, and placed on heat mat.

Aug 1:
One seed popped. Polygon warned me to give 8 days for germination on this variety.
Sprout was transferred to a mix of 2 parts perlite, 1 part vermiculite, and 2 parts Amazon “Krauter” soil. Bottom watered with 1/10 strength triple-20, and put under display cabinet LED lights at night, sunny window during the day- 6 hours of darkness.

Aug 3:
2nd seed popped. Turned green and opened leaves much faster than the first.
Germination pot returned to heating mat.
2nd seed treated the same as the first.



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Out of curiosity, do you leave water at the bottom of the tray all the time?
Not all the time- I let it go through a dry cycle, but, I don’t let Rusticas get as dry as regular tobacco. Regular tobacco uses a dry cycle to send out more roots (tobacco in a self watering pot will have stunted root development and overall growth). Rusticas tend to get stunted if they get starved for water, or root bound in the pot.

The water in the picture is actually full strength triple-20 fertilizer. Giving seedlings this small so much could be risking fertilizer burn, but Rusticas, in my experience, can handle it. And these seem to be growing faster, with no ill effects.
 
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