Hi! This year has been my introduction to the art of growing tobacco. I'm just an observer, other than playing the part of water girl, and photographer. I love to watch plants grow, and am very excited to take my first photos of tobacco flowers later in the season. I am enjoying the stories on here of current and past tobacco related projects. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your group. Thank you to Leverhead for the introduction to homegrown tobacco and all it's exciting and frustrating aspects!!
Hello from Brazos County, Texas!
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Welcome to the forum. Photographing tobacco is engrossing, from the barely visible trichomes (leaf hairs) to the details of the relative positions of pistil to stamen in the blossoms of different tobacco varieties. And the bugs! Lots of stuff happening.
Bob
EDIT: We love pictures on this forum.
Bob
EDIT: We love pictures on this forum.
I LOVE to photograph bugs on plants! Yes, the fine hairs on the leaves were a pleasant surprise to see, and I am very much looking forward to capturing cool photos of the blossoms.
In mid to late June, tobacco hornworm eggs may appear on the leaves. They are typically individual, often just one per leaf sometimes on the upper surface, but more often on the lower. They are a glistening, green (from seafoam to parakeet green), and about the size of Abe Lincoln's chin on a penny.
There are flea beetles, aphids, and numerous less frequent visitors.
Bob
There are flea beetles, aphids, and numerous less frequent visitors.
Bob
Excellent! I'll be looking for it all. I would expect if there is that much insect activity, there will be spiders too. Yea!
ChinaVoodoo
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Wouldn't his chin be the same size if he put it on, like, anything? Granted, based on his hat being a 7 1/8, it probably wasn't a particularly large chin, so I gather you're saying the eggs are fairly small relative to a normal man's chin. But that's a pretty big egg.
It's his beard that makes it a perfect match.
Bob
Well, Honest Abe probably couldn't take it on the chin, but when he was 21, he was county wrestling champion!
Bob
Bob
Alpine
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Welcome to FTT
Pier
Pier
leverhead
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LOL, welcome from Grimes county! You're in a good bunch here, they'll wish all kinds of trouble on me for you to get a good picture. If you know what variety that was in your avatar, you'll be able to get a new picture of it in the ground this week.
Thank you.
The varity was Bitlis, of course (thanks to a well labeled seed bed-LOL), and I'll be watching it grow as much as I can!
CobGuy
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Welcome from AZ! 
~Darin
~Darin
Thanks!Welcome from AZ!
~Darin
MarcL
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Welcome to Fair Trade Tobacco.
GreenDragon
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Welcome from Williamson County! If you enjoy photographing flowers, you really need to go to the Antique Rose Emporium in Independence, TX. I try to make a yearly pilgrimage each Easter, which is usually the perfect week to catch the most plants in bloom. They have beautiful gardens of thousands of different plants, not just roses. And the bluebonnets / wildflowers are usually peaking around that time too.
https://antiqueroseemporium.com/
https://antiqueroseemporium.com/
Thank you! I have been there and adore their setup. I am planning to visit the A.R.E. next weekend when my mother is visiting. The only downfall to going there is the overwhelming temptation to bring home more plants!! As for the wild flowers, I'm already in heaven!
Youn
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Welcome! As a photographer too, I've been engrossed with the colors and the aspects of tobacco leaves during curing
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