deluxestogie Grow Log 2013

[deluxestogie]

It looks like a black hole slammed into your roof.

That's exactly what happened. It's lodged near the ceiling of the hallway. I never carry out the garbage any more. I just toss it up toward the hallway ceiling, and...foooph! It disappears in a flash of light. I'm not sure where it ends up. Maybe Philadelphia.

Bob

 

[johnlee1933]

It looks like a black hole slammed into your roof. I bet its a chimney.

I'm pretty sure you're right or actually the shadow of a chimney. Note the sun angle.

 

[johnlee1933]

That's exactly what happened. It's lodged near the ceiling of the hallway. I never carry out the garbage any more. I just toss it up toward the hallway ceiling, and...foooph! It disappears in a flash of light. I'm not sure where it ends up. Maybe Philadelphia.

Bob

Do you write sci-fi or humor?

 

[Boboro]

What little I know of black holes Im not allowed to speak of.

 

[Chicken]

we allways flush twice here,,,,

MIAMI is a long distance,

 

[ne3go]

That's exactly what happened. It's lodged near the ceiling of the hallway. I never carry out the garbage any more. I just toss it up toward the hallway ceiling, and...foooph! It disappears in a flash of light. I'm not sure where it ends up. Maybe Philadelphia.

How did you stick it in the roof? I need one for my house too... not for the garbage, more for annoying guests. Maybe they land in Philadelphia too...

 

[deluxestogie]

Back to earth

Nearly all of the tobacco is doing well after the 60+ mph winds. There are a few broken leaves. As of this morning, I have yet to see hornworms, budworms, aphids or a significant number of crickets and grasshoppers. Life is good.

Satellite view from StogieEarth®.

Sunny days are so photogenic. Too bad there have been so few of them so far.

Bed of Nicaragua Jalapa.

Although there is joy in sampling a gazillion varieties of home-grown tobacco, the problem is that there is usually just enough of the crummy ones, and never enough of the truly good ones. I cut the number of varieties for this year by more than half, compared to 2012. This year, most of my production varieties have 16 plants each (22 each for the Orientals), and occupy one full bed (60 sq. ft.) per variety. A conservative estimate of 1/4 pound of cured leaf per plant will yield 4 pounds of each major variety. (I know. That still won't be enough of some.)

This Prilep P66 9/7 is about 1 foot tall.

This is my first time growing Prilep (thanks to rainmax). As an Oriental, the leaves are somewhat large and crinkled. What seems distinctive is that the stalk distance between leaf nodes seems to be fairly short. So I'm expecting a modest height plant to pack in a lot of leaves.

Bob

 

[DGBAMA]

Love the uniformity of the jalpa. Beautiful.

Curious how the flavor of the prilep will Turn out. I was under the impression most of the orientals had smaller leaves requiring more plants for the same yield.

 

[leverhead]

It's looking very good after that kind of wind! Maybe the pests left town with the wind, never to return. It's a nice thought at least.

 

[istanbulin]

Bob, when did you plant the Prilep ?

 

[deluxestogie]

I was under the impression most of the orientals had smaller leaves requiring more plants for the same yield.

So many Oriental varieties; so few measurements.

Bob

 

[AmaxB]

Keep posting I love reading your grow like looking at the photos too.

 

[workhorse_01]

It is impressive the uniformity. Kind of a fing sway look to those squares.

 

[deluxestogie]

I have to say that it's a pleasure never to have to walk in mud, even when it's raining. The separate beds also make it a simple matter to do crop rotation. (Rotation would be even simpler if I didn't have so many tobacco beds vs. veggie beds.)

Bob

 

[workhorse_01]

I was thinking if you didn't have those veggies you could get at least 20 more tobacco plants! I plant my tomatoes in garden soil bags on the porch. My neighbor saw it and is growing egg plant that way. He already has two big purple ones.

I have to say that it's a pleasure never to have to walk in mud, even when it's raining. The separate beds also make it a simple matter to do crop rotation. (Rotation would be even simpler if I didn't have so many tobacco beds vs. veggie beds.)

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

My limiting factor is not growing space, but curing space. Somehow, I've ended up with 236 tobacco plants this year. I have room to cure about 180. If I removed all the veggies, and replaced them with tobacco, it would come to 92 more plants.

Bob

 

[workhorse_01]

We both need a bigger barn! I managed to get in a little deep also I'm knocking on the door of 500 myself. There will probably be about 200 plants worth of leaves hanging over my boat LOL.

My limiting factor is not growing space, but curing space. Somehow, I've ended up with 236 tobacco plants this year. I have room to cure about 180.

Bob

 

[DGBAMA]

Have not even figured curing space yet. Guess I will cross that bridge when I get there.

 

[istanbulin]

This Prilep P66 9/7 is about 1 foot tall.

This is my first time growing Prilep (thanks to rainmax). As an Oriental, the leaves are somewhat large and crinkled. What seems distinctive is that the stalk distance between leaf nodes seems to be fairly short. So I'm expecting a modest height plant to pack in a lot of leaves.

Bob, when did you plant the Prilep ?

May be I would ask like this. When did you transplant the Prilep on the ground ? They look like older than a month (?)

BTW, as written on papers Prilep has a lot of leaves with a high density.

 

[deluxestogie]

The Prilep was transplanted on May 7. So it's about 6 weeks old.

Bob