AnxiousCowboy
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First time ever growing this stuff. Third year actually gardening seriously. I moved to TN this passed year from the north east and figured, “when in Rome...”
ANYWAY, I order a few of NorthWood’s multipacks and figured I’d get them going ASAP with some left over shitty potting mix I had. Regrets. I also hardened them off too soon I think. It got warm early here and I have just been bringing them inside only when there is a frost and think they would have done better staying inside under lights for longer than they did. It was a month and a half before I pricked them out into individual cells and should have done that sooner...but it took me awhile to find a compost source to make my own potting mix. Their growth seems to have retarded as a result but I’m hoping they arent delicate and will spring back. When is it too late in the season to start tobacco??
This week I put 96 seedlings in their own cells and followed the guide of northwoods to keep them out of the sun a couple days after. I need to reference that guide more often so I can avoid issues like my slow seedlings start (he recommended pricking them out as soon as the seed breaks). I hit them with compost tea when they started yellowing before transplant and they are greening back up already... I think I should find myself a decent soluble fertilizer to hit them again soon. When they are this young is KCL an issue? Can I hit them once or twice with reduced strength standard miracle grow? If not, is KCL inorganic? I don’t always see a listing of what’s in the bags of fertilizer... I recently got a big back of Jobes Organic granular fertilizer that I was hoping to use but can’t find if it has potassium chloride... if it isn’t organic I was hoping I could just avoid it by looking at organic solubles...
As for varieties I have at least four of each but I went heavier on Black Sea Samsun, Shirley, Virginia Bright Leaf, Catterton, Little Dutch, and Green Brior...
Florida Sumatra
Wisconsin 901
Izmir Ozbas
Habano 2000
Havana 142
Golden Burley
PENNSYLVANIA Red
And I got some Jasmine Tobacco flowers going too. Speaking of which, does anyone on this forum NOT top their tobacco and still harvest leaf? I know you keep it for seed and remove it to increase yield... but does letting it flower affect the taste/smokability?
Bonus pics on how I’ve been getting my beds ready. I have a 5x10 mobile pen for my quails... there are about 4 in there. I usually move them every day or so but I’ve camped them in any spot I want to make a bed and they eat and shit all over the grass and I bed them down with straw as the mess up the place so they stay clean in lieu of having clean fresh grass to walk on. After a few weeks I move them to the next spot, till the 5x10 area, cover it with a layer of cardboard, wet down the cardboard with my homemade compost/fish tea, clean out my four rabbit pens and put their old bedding (usually straw and pine) on top of the card board, water it down again, then put a few inches of compost on top of the rabbit bedding and Then sprinkle with clover seed as a living mulch. We will see how it goes... I’m on the last 5x10 space around the perimeter of the fenced in garden (you can see my 10x10 boxes of tomatoes in the back... put them out too fucking early too but they are doing better) I’ve done 7- 5x10 beds around the garden total
ANYWAY, I order a few of NorthWood’s multipacks and figured I’d get them going ASAP with some left over shitty potting mix I had. Regrets. I also hardened them off too soon I think. It got warm early here and I have just been bringing them inside only when there is a frost and think they would have done better staying inside under lights for longer than they did. It was a month and a half before I pricked them out into individual cells and should have done that sooner...but it took me awhile to find a compost source to make my own potting mix. Their growth seems to have retarded as a result but I’m hoping they arent delicate and will spring back. When is it too late in the season to start tobacco??
This week I put 96 seedlings in their own cells and followed the guide of northwoods to keep them out of the sun a couple days after. I need to reference that guide more often so I can avoid issues like my slow seedlings start (he recommended pricking them out as soon as the seed breaks). I hit them with compost tea when they started yellowing before transplant and they are greening back up already... I think I should find myself a decent soluble fertilizer to hit them again soon. When they are this young is KCL an issue? Can I hit them once or twice with reduced strength standard miracle grow? If not, is KCL inorganic? I don’t always see a listing of what’s in the bags of fertilizer... I recently got a big back of Jobes Organic granular fertilizer that I was hoping to use but can’t find if it has potassium chloride... if it isn’t organic I was hoping I could just avoid it by looking at organic solubles...
As for varieties I have at least four of each but I went heavier on Black Sea Samsun, Shirley, Virginia Bright Leaf, Catterton, Little Dutch, and Green Brior...
Florida Sumatra
Wisconsin 901
Izmir Ozbas
Habano 2000
Havana 142
Golden Burley
PENNSYLVANIA Red
And I got some Jasmine Tobacco flowers going too. Speaking of which, does anyone on this forum NOT top their tobacco and still harvest leaf? I know you keep it for seed and remove it to increase yield... but does letting it flower affect the taste/smokability?
Bonus pics on how I’ve been getting my beds ready. I have a 5x10 mobile pen for my quails... there are about 4 in there. I usually move them every day or so but I’ve camped them in any spot I want to make a bed and they eat and shit all over the grass and I bed them down with straw as the mess up the place so they stay clean in lieu of having clean fresh grass to walk on. After a few weeks I move them to the next spot, till the 5x10 area, cover it with a layer of cardboard, wet down the cardboard with my homemade compost/fish tea, clean out my four rabbit pens and put their old bedding (usually straw and pine) on top of the card board, water it down again, then put a few inches of compost on top of the rabbit bedding and Then sprinkle with clover seed as a living mulch. We will see how it goes... I’m on the last 5x10 space around the perimeter of the fenced in garden (you can see my 10x10 boxes of tomatoes in the back... put them out too fucking early too but they are doing better) I’ve done 7- 5x10 beds around the garden total
