What is the coldest anybody has grown tobacco and the plant lived. Im at the end of my growing the flowers or blooming on it and we will go from 83 today to 54 tomorrow? I would think they will be fine. But not sure what do you think? Im in Dallas Texas I have Connecticut shad, virginia, and Havana.
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Aaron
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they should all be fine as long as they don't freeze.
leverhead
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Contrary to the Texas lore, water does not freeze at 60 degrees here. Where I grew up, a high in the mid 50's wasn't that unusual in the summer. I wouldn't worry until a frost.
Randy
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A week ago I found some old tobacco seeds from 3yrs ago in a box in garge from newhope seed co "Little Yellow".so I planted them just see how long I can keep them going this fall and winter.They have just sprouted few days ago and the first true leaves are just starting to grow.Im
going to transplant them in 3-4 gal nursery pots and just experment with different potting soils and fertilers just to get a feel how to tobacco.
This will be good test seeding/growing experince for me until the real thing next year,who knows with another mild winter like last year and moving pots inside under lights/south facing windows when it get really cold in Dec/Jan they might grow ok.I know it will be alot of moving in/out but it should be fun to see if it works out.
Randy
going to transplant them in 3-4 gal nursery pots and just experment with different potting soils and fertilers just to get a feel how to tobacco.
This will be good test seeding/growing experince for me until the real thing next year,who knows with another mild winter like last year and moving pots inside under lights/south facing windows when it get really cold in Dec/Jan they might grow ok.I know it will be alot of moving in/out but it should be fun to see if it works out.
Randy
jeapadrenaline
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My plants all survived till temps hit 26... that killes them. Flowering fine till then.
I'm harvested but the suckers are growing still. The explosive growth typical of tobacco is absent. Days are drizzly overcast and cold. Nights are in the 30's. It's not dying but it ain't thriving either. I just do sucker crops for mix filler though. Even with a delayed freeze I just don't think they would ever get enough ounces of sunshine to finish.
COLIN
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Has anyone got any picture's of plant's that have been damaged by frost so i can compare my one's agenest COLIN
Aaron
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I had some suckers that I hung for experimentation that had some frost damage. I wish I would have thought to take some pics when it happened. It was very noticeable. To me, it seemed to give them a grayish color in the damaged areas and the texture is different. It does seem a bit leathery, as Skychaser mentioned in another thread.
http://fairtradetobacco.com/showthread.php?1285-frost-damaged-leaves
Hope this helps!
Aaron
http://fairtradetobacco.com/showthread.php?1285-frost-damaged-leaves
Hope this helps!
Aaron
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Yeah I let my suckers freeze too and brought them inside while frozen solid and crispy. Definite gray color, and when it thaws it is an incredibly dark green
Irishhorsemaster
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I have seen some pictures of a feller living somewhere in one of the Scandinavian countries up north growing them without any greenhouse out in the open. I know it gets below freexing up there but I think it was summertime when he grew them and the plants seem to thrive there. In ireland where the weather is always mild, tobacco used to be grown quite a bit in the past.
Somewhere I read that. How come not anymore? Maybe not enough sunny days?
John
Well, I didn't get a picture of my last plant, but she died on November 6th, too cold I guess. It was a low of 28*F that night. It turned a deep brown almost black, wilted, all the leaves drooped completely and the flower pedals fell off. It was a YTB, it was my "bait plant", it kept all the bugs on it instead of the rest of the garden (for the most part).
We had been having nights of ~32*F and it seemed to do fine, but once it got below that mark, hell froze over
We had been having nights of ~32*F and it seemed to do fine, but once it got below that mark, hell froze over
Irishhorsemaster
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I wish I knew. Ireland had a strong tobacco culture and the crops were grown in a lot of places there. I really don't know why they don't do it now but I think a combination of factors led to the demise of growing tobacco in Ireland.
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