cangrow
New Member
Hello all,
As a rookie to most gardening and especially to tobacco, I thought I'd share my experience so far to see if all is normal.
Ordered seeds a few weeks ago out of Lethbridge, 1.5 hrs drive to the south. They only had 3 varieties, so I got burley, virginia gold and bolivian black criollo. Man, those seeds are small!
Followed directions on the package and from another website tobaccoseedscanada.com, which has a lot of information about growing tobacco, though not as much as here.
On Sunday May 24, Used a 72 cell seed started tray, seed starting mix, saturated the mix, let drain, then placed 1-3 seeds in each cell, and placed the plastic cover on. It took about 4 days to see a little bit of white trying to escape the sand-grain-colored seeds, then some green appeared about a day or two after that. 18 cells per variety.
Now, we're 9 days in and my little seedlings are tiny but luckily are easily observable with the naked eye.
It's been raining and cold since day 7, so I bought a grow light here on day 9 as I was worried that these little guys could use a boost.
Looks like the sun might return tomorrow evening and highs of 18 C so maybe I'll take these guys outside then. Hopefully they're not too small.
Bought some fish emulsion tonight, apparently I could throw some one when they start showing their first true leaves.
Eager to see them grow more, seems they've stalled in the last few days. Thanks for reading. By the way, the tall plants on the right of the photo are of basil. Can't tell any of the tobacco varieties apart yet.
As a rookie to most gardening and especially to tobacco, I thought I'd share my experience so far to see if all is normal.
Ordered seeds a few weeks ago out of Lethbridge, 1.5 hrs drive to the south. They only had 3 varieties, so I got burley, virginia gold and bolivian black criollo. Man, those seeds are small!
Followed directions on the package and from another website tobaccoseedscanada.com, which has a lot of information about growing tobacco, though not as much as here.
On Sunday May 24, Used a 72 cell seed started tray, seed starting mix, saturated the mix, let drain, then placed 1-3 seeds in each cell, and placed the plastic cover on. It took about 4 days to see a little bit of white trying to escape the sand-grain-colored seeds, then some green appeared about a day or two after that. 18 cells per variety.
Now, we're 9 days in and my little seedlings are tiny but luckily are easily observable with the naked eye.
It's been raining and cold since day 7, so I bought a grow light here on day 9 as I was worried that these little guys could use a boost.
Looks like the sun might return tomorrow evening and highs of 18 C so maybe I'll take these guys outside then. Hopefully they're not too small.
Bought some fish emulsion tonight, apparently I could throw some one when they start showing their first true leaves.
Eager to see them grow more, seems they've stalled in the last few days. Thanks for reading. By the way, the tall plants on the right of the photo are of basil. Can't tell any of the tobacco varieties apart yet.
