DGBAMA
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PS - that fertlizer smells like poo.
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Chillardbees Grow Em' Like A Pair 2015 Grow Blog (Season 4)
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chillardbee
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Well, I made a compost tea that I added a little bit of this and a little bit of that, some organic fert that has simple sugars to feed bacteria in the soil and such. I added 400ml to 15liters to apply giving 400ml of the solution to each plant. the first day I made it up, it didn't smell bad and I used 1/4 of the pail. A week later, after perculating in the hot sun, it smells like crap that was eatened then craped out again then composted the craped out again, in other words, a very bad smell. I have one more application of that stuff to do and boy do the plants love it, I think it's like wine to them and gets better with age.
On another note, I'm impressed with the izmir. I have 2 plants planted together in the same hole about 1 1/2 inch apart and they are growin' like the dickens. The leaves are bigger then what I thought they'd be (last years were smaller from the fact they were in a cluster grow.) they're aproaching the 4' mark with no signs of flowering yet.
Judgeing the different burley's I got this year, I think the Harrow 12 and Burley mammoth will be definate regrows, they look yummy, can't wait to try them. An honourable mention to Burley Com Var and Burley 21, They're looking good too.
Lemon Bright is turning out to be an old faithful, beautiful big plants. Delcrest looks a lot like delgold. Delhi 66 and 71 have and an old southern ruffled saggy leaf about them, they look like they are going to cure great. Golden harvest and yellow gold are exploding in growth. Carolina bright is much like the delhi's.
We are expecting a hot spell next week to the 38 deg celsius (108 ferinheight) through almost all next week. it's been hot and dry hear for almost 2 months now. junes only seen 9mm of rain. no rian in sight. I think BC could burn down this year with all the dry timber in the forests. BC has already gone through 80% of their budget fighting forest fires and we still have july and august. it's gonna be a bad year for fires this year.
On another note, I'm impressed with the izmir. I have 2 plants planted together in the same hole about 1 1/2 inch apart and they are growin' like the dickens. The leaves are bigger then what I thought they'd be (last years were smaller from the fact they were in a cluster grow.) they're aproaching the 4' mark with no signs of flowering yet.
Judgeing the different burley's I got this year, I think the Harrow 12 and Burley mammoth will be definate regrows, they look yummy, can't wait to try them. An honourable mention to Burley Com Var and Burley 21, They're looking good too.
Lemon Bright is turning out to be an old faithful, beautiful big plants. Delcrest looks a lot like delgold. Delhi 66 and 71 have and an old southern ruffled saggy leaf about them, they look like they are going to cure great. Golden harvest and yellow gold are exploding in growth. Carolina bright is much like the delhi's.
We are expecting a hot spell next week to the 38 deg celsius (108 ferinheight) through almost all next week. it's been hot and dry hear for almost 2 months now. junes only seen 9mm of rain. no rian in sight. I think BC could burn down this year with all the dry timber in the forests. BC has already gone through 80% of their budget fighting forest fires and we still have july and august. it's gonna be a bad year for fires this year.
chillardbee
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last 4 weeks have been like this and no sign of it letting up. I'm tired of the heat and dryness. The baccy is having to be watered almost every day. The baccy is looking real good though so thats good, I wish I could say the same for my bees, with everything so dry nothings producing and all they care about is water too.
many of the plants are starting to get buds on them. The first to bloom this year will be the haronova. quite a few of the flue cured is starting to get buds. the prelip and izmir just keep on growing. The burley mammoth and barnett special are starting to get stalk and the leaves are very big. they are yellowish where as the burley 21 and burley com var are way greener and have grown quite tall already.
buck
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I feel your pain as well but I have a very small grow so not as bad. The good news for me is that I'm getting ready to start priming tomorrow and should be done by end of July.
Colour curing will be a challenge with all this hot dry weather.
Colour curing will be a challenge with all this hot dry weather.
chillardbee
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For cigar varieties it will be but I'm looking forward to brighter than usual flue cured varieties since they'll since they'll be drying as fast as they yellow up. The burleys will even likely be a bit brighter.
Actually, the way we have out AC vented out the window blowing hot dry air, I'm going to try yellowing the leaf then move them into the stream of air to dry faster, see what happens.
Actually, the way we have out AC vented out the window blowing hot dry air, I'm going to try yellowing the leaf then move them into the stream of air to dry faster, see what happens.
chillardbee
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This was the patch as of early june.
The patch and the method of watering I've opted for.
A fairly good overveiw of the patch.
Izmir
Prelip p66
Haronova
Haronova leaf stem and stalk.
update photos coming soon.
The patch and the method of watering I've opted for.
A fairly good overveiw of the patch.
Izmir
Prelip p66
Haronova
Haronova leaf stem and stalk.
update photos coming soon.
chillardbee
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on another note, saw this guy just a stone throw away from my house and baccy patch.
Question: will deer eat my baccy?
Question: will deer eat my baccy?
Birage
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I am not a grower, but I have a friend who lives in the country and plants tobacco (that he got off of a menonite farmer) around his vegetable garden like a living fence, so to speak, to keep the deer away from his garden. He says it works. I believe the farmer recommended doing that. If it does work, one could assume deer do not prefer, or possibly even like tobacco. Just thought I would pass that on.
leverhead
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I've had a few plants pulled out of the ground a week or so after planting, but not eaten. Trampling was my biggest problem, until the plants get a foot or so high.
The leaf stem of the Haronova appears petiolate, and is a surprise.
Deer generally don't eat tobacco. Here's a whole thread on the subject: http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/473-Do-deer-browse-tobacco
Bob
Deer generally don't eat tobacco. Here's a whole thread on the subject: http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/473-Do-deer-browse-tobacco
Bob
chillardbee
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Thanks bob, in my worries I googled it and was brought to that thread, I think I'll be alright.
Haronova was a surprise to me too and doesn't look like any burley I've ever grown. The leaf is the size of a well grown samson. it looks more oriental than burley really but even on the grin site the photos are identicle to this plant so i guess it is what it is.
Haronova was a surprise to me too and doesn't look like any burley I've ever grown. The leaf is the size of a well grown samson. it looks more oriental than burley really but even on the grin site the photos are identicle to this plant so i guess it is what it is.
No telling what those inscrutable researchers bred in the deep recesses of Harrow.
Bob
Bob
ProfessorPangloss
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"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. It was very quiet there. At night sometimes the roll of drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river and remain sustained faintly, as if hovering in the air high over our heads, till the first break of day. Whether it meant war, peace, or prayer we could not tell. The dawns were heralded by the descent of a chill stillness; the wood-cutters slept, their fires burned low; the snapping of a twig would make you start. We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance, to be subdued at the cost of profound anguish and of excessive toil."
ProfessorPangloss
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+1
Bob said "inscrutable" and "deep recesses" and I couldn't shake the feel of Heart of Darkness. Was that allusion intentional, Bob?
Ok, Will, you can have your thread back now. But only if you behave.
Bob
Bob
chillardbee
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~Yoink!~
The following pics were taken about 5 weeks ago. It's just the way it's all working out time wise, sorry.
The patch at the start of the heat wave.
burley 21 on the left and burley com var on right.
another angle of the patch. izmir in the fopr ground.
standing behind the fence looking into my patch.
Haronova.
The following pics were taken about 5 weeks ago. It's just the way it's all working out time wise, sorry.
The patch at the start of the heat wave.
burley 21 on the left and burley com var on right.
another angle of the patch. izmir in the fopr ground.
standing behind the fence looking into my patch.
Haronova.
chillardbee
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Harrow 12 burley.
Burley mammoth.
golden harvest.
Delhi
Chillards angel leaf.
Beautiful grow, Will. Have you left some way to get in and out of your home?
Bob
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