I made a whizbang chicken plucker years ago. The thing is absolutely amazing. It will pluck the feathers off of 2 chickens in about 15-20 seconds.
deluxestogie Grow Log 2014
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Patenting is fine imo, you are free to choose other plants. And patents expire. But before they do it gives companies incentive to create something that does something unique.
A good example is the roundup resistant corn. You can buy any corn you want but if you want to spray it with roundup to kill the competition you pay their price and use their seed. You still have the choice to choose something else and find another way to weed.
RR tobacco would be pretty cool, I have an attack of the crabgrass going on right now in my patch but weeding is nearly impossible due to the massive leaves and me not wanting to break them. Be great to give it a spray and be done with it.
A good example is the roundup resistant corn. You can buy any corn you want but if you want to spray it with roundup to kill the competition you pay their price and use their seed. You still have the choice to choose something else and find another way to weed.
RR tobacco would be pretty cool, I have an attack of the crabgrass going on right now in my patch but weeding is nearly impossible due to the massive leaves and me not wanting to break them. Be great to give it a spray and be done with it.
Morning dew.
Bob
There's nothing like sipping a mug of coffee on the porch, while the sun comes up.
I am so delighted with the PA Swarr-Hibshman (cigar filler) plants. They are full-leafed, medium height, and healthy.
Brasil Dunkel was ordered from Germany by Knucklehead, who provided me with some of the seed, for which I thank him. I planted eight of them. Six appear generally to be the same: medium-size plant with smooth, dark green leaves. Good vein angles for wrapper.
Curiously, two of the eight are different, as shown below (the plant above is the one in the center of the photo below). The plant on the right could easily be a white-stem burley--maybe I goofed. But the plant on the left is an intermediate type--lighter leaf color than the others, and more burley-like.
Here's the blurb from the seed's vendor, in Germany.
tabakanbau (tobacco farmer) said:
I guess that I am confident I didn't mis-plant two of them. My assumption is that either the seed is mixed, or the variety is not fully stable (homozygous). So, I'll have to separate the leaves of each of these two black sheep (?whiter sheep?).
Below are two more cigar varieties from Knucklehead. They are both promising and unique in appearance. As you can see, the Amarillo Parado holds its leaves upward. The Columbia Garcia has relatively thick and rigid leaves. They are being a bit slow in maturing, but the Amarillo Parado is showing signs of budding at a shorter height than the Columbia Garcia.
At last, there is leaf out of the weather. The FL Sumatra has produced beautiful wrappers this season.
Under my guidance, the Besuki has put on less height than its Timor neighbor, but the leaf seems to cure as easily as a white-stem burley.
Bob
My four Brasil Dunkel look like the majority of yours and uniform in height and growth. They reached about six feet tall. The Amarillo Parado from the Dominican Republic also reached around six feet tall with very dark green leaves. My Colombian Garcia just keeps growing, they are almost seven feet tall now and have just begun to bud, I bagged the first plant today. The leaves on the Colombian Garcia are gorgeous and it was one of my most insect resistant plants of the year. Very, very few holes in the leaves. My Besuki leaves are also curing with ease. My problem with my Besuki this year is seed production. They have put on tiny little seed heads and are producing a very small number of pods. Bud worms got to two of mine, so I'm hoping I have time to get seed from some suckers I've just started to let grow. Have you managed to bag your Besuki?
My Besuki is still fairly short, and not yet ready to bag. I just noticed today that it has a white stalk and white stems. Odd.
Bob
Vuelta Abajo
There are a number of "Vuelta Abajo" varieties floating around. Below are detail photos of my Vuelta Abajo, for comparison with others. In viewing the photos on Skychaser's seed site, this appears to be the same variety, though it's just a visual resemblance.
Bob
There are a number of "Vuelta Abajo" varieties floating around. Below are detail photos of my Vuelta Abajo, for comparison with others. In viewing the photos on Skychaser's seed site, this appears to be the same variety, though it's just a visual resemblance.
Bob
skychaser
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.."In viewing the photos on Skychaser's seed site, this appears to be the same variety, though it's just a visual resemblance."...
I'm not so sure they are the same. The first photo I have is when they were in their growth spurt. They looks somewhat like yours then, but as they grew more all the leaves turned down. Mine have smoother leaves and to me look more like some orientals or a primitives. I also had a lot of suckering where your plants appear to have little or none.
I'm not so sure they are the same. The first photo I have is when they were in their growth spurt. They looks somewhat like yours then, but as they grew more all the leaves turned down. Mine have smoother leaves and to me look more like some orientals or a primitives. I also had a lot of suckering where your plants appear to have little or none.
Markw
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Thanks to JBD I grew Vuelta Abajo last year, the plants looks nearly the same as mine did last year, what I can remember that there was hardly suckers at all on my plants. I must agree that it as a fine plant.
None of my plants have any suckers. I remove all of them as they appear, when they are tiny. That may also account for why the leaves are not as smooth, which depends on fertilization, degree of maturity and presence of budding structures, the phase of Venus and the political winds.
Bob
Pest Fest 3: Blue Mold
Back in 2011, the last time I grew CT Broadleaf, I noticed several mature leaves that developed necrotic patches, which I attributed to sun-scald. Maybe it was. Now, for the first season since then, I'm growing CT Broadleaf again.
This evening, in walking the tobacco for the second time today, I saw 3 leaves of CT Broadleaf exhibiting a slight discoloration in several areas. Nothing very dramatic. But with the report of Blue Mold in the far-west tip of Virginia, I removed those leaves entirely.
After thinking about it for a while, I reviewed the numerous photos of Blue Mold on tobacco in the tobacco image websites, and came to the conclusion that Blue Mold is what I was seeing on my CT Broadleaf. I salvaged the discarded leaves, and shot these photos in the dark using a flash. Under natural light, the affected areas are not nearly as obvious, nor are they "blue."
In the daylight, I saw no fuzzy hyphae or spores on the underside.
Tomorrow, I will more thoroughly search the tobacco. I may get some Serenade (Bacillus subtilis) if I see any more.
Blue Mold thrives in moist conditions, and prefers younger plants to older ones. My CT Broadleaf is planted in an area that is shaded for the first few hours each morning. We've had fog and heavy dew for the past week each morning.
Bob
Back in 2011, the last time I grew CT Broadleaf, I noticed several mature leaves that developed necrotic patches, which I attributed to sun-scald. Maybe it was. Now, for the first season since then, I'm growing CT Broadleaf again.
This evening, in walking the tobacco for the second time today, I saw 3 leaves of CT Broadleaf exhibiting a slight discoloration in several areas. Nothing very dramatic. But with the report of Blue Mold in the far-west tip of Virginia, I removed those leaves entirely.
After thinking about it for a while, I reviewed the numerous photos of Blue Mold on tobacco in the tobacco image websites, and came to the conclusion that Blue Mold is what I was seeing on my CT Broadleaf. I salvaged the discarded leaves, and shot these photos in the dark using a flash. Under natural light, the affected areas are not nearly as obvious, nor are they "blue."
In the daylight, I saw no fuzzy hyphae or spores on the underside.
Tomorrow, I will more thoroughly search the tobacco. I may get some Serenade (Bacillus subtilis) if I see any more.
Blue Mold thrives in moist conditions, and prefers younger plants to older ones. My CT Broadleaf is planted in an area that is shaded for the first few hours each morning. We've had fog and heavy dew for the past week each morning.
Bob
rustycase
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Bob, have you tried one of these?
They work dandy, for $10 !
rc
They work dandy, for $10 !
rc
I can't get the link to work.
leverhead
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JessicaNicot
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Bob, I would suggest you contact Charles S Johnson ([email protected]), a tobacco pathologist at Virginia Tech (he's actually stationed at a research station in Blackstone). Blue mold is a very serious issue in tobacco.
JessicaNicot
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I saw that NCSU runs the plant disease forecasting center (http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/bluemold/) but they stopped updating on blue mold in 2012 for some reason.
Jessica,
I understand that the annual dispersal of Blue Mold in the US is attributed to wind-borne spores trekking their way northward (into areas where the spores cannot over-winter). Do you know if anyone has explored the possibility that it could be dispersed in the droppings of migratory birds?
Bob
I understand that the annual dispersal of Blue Mold in the US is attributed to wind-borne spores trekking their way northward (into areas where the spores cannot over-winter). Do you know if anyone has explored the possibility that it could be dispersed in the droppings of migratory birds?
Bob
rustycase
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Sry knuck, tnx LH!
Bob, is the blue one of those thing a baking soda wash will fix?
...in solution thru a sprayer over the crop, periodically?
rc
Bob, is the blue one of those thing a baking soda wash will fix?
...in solution thru a sprayer over the crop, periodically?
rc
JessicaNicot
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not that im aware. reading that blurb on the ncsu page made it sound like there is a lot that is still unknown. also, my colleague just told me the blue mold forecasting center hasn't been funded since 2012.
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