Burning Tobacco...... Volunteers

[DGBAMA]

So I have a burn pile for yard cleanup, all the tobacco stalks went in the pile last fall. Now I find I have unexpected volunteers. I'm half tempted to transplant them and see if they grow up as an identifiable type just for fun. See what this new "fire resistant" variety is.

 

[ArizonaDave]

So I have a burn pile for yard cleanup, all the tobacco stalks went in the pile last fall. Now I find I have unexpected volunteers. I'm half tempted to transplant them and see if they grow up as an identifiable type just for fun. See what this new "fire resistant" variety is.

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Heck, why not just let them grow where they are? It'll add to the mystery Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

 

[DGBAMA]

Heck, why not just let them grow where they are? It'll add to the mystery Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Dave, I would, but I need to burn the burn pile.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Dave, I would, but I need to burn the burn pile.

Make A new burn pile

 

[ProfessorPangloss]

Make A new burn pile

+1

here in Kentucky, the traditional method of seeding (as I understand it) was to burn a strip, build your enclosure over/around it, and seed into the burned patch, so you could be sure that only your tobacco was growing there.

 

[DGBAMA]

Yes, I could let them go. But the soil conditions of this burn pile are far less than ideal. They would grow out in soil with gosh knows what's in it. I burn everything in that pile.

 

[Knucklehead]

It's amazing that they survived all that heat. I have a burn pile also and know what you mean about the different stuff that is burned there. It's not just cardboard boxes. Old computers, vacuum cleaners, garden hoses, etc. Stuff the garbage man won't pick up, but it's thirty miles to the county dump. I have to occasionally rake out the metal that doesn't burn. It's amazing how little metal is actually in most small appliances, stereos, etc. nowadays. It's mostly plastic now.
The plants should transplant easy enough. It will be good practice for "Name that Variety". You could start a new game show. lol.

 

[Smokin Harley]

So I have a burn pile for yard cleanup, all the tobacco stalks went in the pile last fall. Now I find I have unexpected volunteers. I'm half tempted to transplant them and see if they grow up as an identifiable type just for fun. See what this new "fire resistant" variety is.

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Do you think they'll be fire cured right off the stalk???
Alabama Fire Cured ...sounds about right

 

[DGBAMA]

Do you think they'll be fire cured right off the stalk???
Alabama Fire Cured ...sounds about right

I fought about it, another possibility is it might make FSC Cigarettes, without any chemicals.

 

[deluxestogie]

I would consider volunteer, unidentified tobacco to be a weed. It's stressful enough, waiting to see what you ultimately get with a known and desired variety. Even if weed tobacco turns out to be a wonderful "find," it's likely an F1 hybrid, open-pollinated thing that is not genetically stable, and troublesome (5 to 7 years of grow-outs and observation and culling) to guide into a stable--and maybe very different--variety.

"Tend me, or I will kill myself."

Out of principle, I refused to buy a copy of this famous 1973 issue of National Lampoon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon_(magazine)

I would put them out of their misery, rather than waste a part of my life being held hostage by the little tobacco orphans.

Brutal Bob

 

[rainmax]

Doble fuego curado selection privada....

 

[DGBAMA]

Tobacco can grow anywhere. I decided to leave the burn pile alone, here they are currently.

 

[deluxestogie]

The plant in the foreground has some nice leaf.

Bob