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[SmokyO]

Hello all. I'm new to WLT and glad to have found you folks. Got tired of the chemical laced baccy I been buying and grew my first crop of six whole plants this year. local forest critters got some of it and I trashed most of the rest learning to process it.
Since then I've found Don at www.wholeleaftobacco.com and this forum. Will be lurking here this winter looking for ideas I can adapt to a remote homestead in the wilds of Washington State. Well, It's not that remote but growing season is short and fire wood the only energy source. Will be enjoying Dons' Cig Sampler as well, quite unique being able to blend to your own taste.


Thanks to Don and the forum for being here. Dave

 

[Chicken]

if you do enough research, and looking at different grow journal's [ from this past year ]

and learn as much as you can, from dropping the seed,,,to fert's,,,when to pick,,,,how to cure,,,,kilning? [ not all kiln thier bacca]

you'll have guranteed sucess, on your next grow,

and grow many, you want to be able to supply yourself with enough bacca to get you to next years harvest,,,

think of about 100+ plants, and gear your planting site, up for that many plant's if not more,


i look forward to seeing you around,

and feel free to ask any questions, about any part of the process of making your own bacca

 

[johnlee1933]

Welcome SmokyO to FTT. You'll find a bunch of good guys here and knowledgeable folks too (Sometimes in the same skin ). If you haven't already found them the FAQ's at the top of the page are a great place to start. We've got members from Alberta to Vermont to New Zealand so on climate I think we've got you covered. Tell us a little bit about your soil and if you grow tobacco for cigs, cigars or what?

As an aside I burn about 4 cords of hardwood each year and stay in shape the rest of the year hauling, splitting and stacking it.

Again Welcome,

John

 

[skychaser]

Howdy SmokyO,

What part of the state are you in? I'm in the six cord per winter zone myself. If it's an average year.

 

[SmokyO]

Howdy SmokyO,

What part of the state are you in? I'm in the six cord per winter zone myself. If it's an average year.

NE also SkyChaser. I can see Forks from my rooftop. 6-10 cord here too depending how long the minus 20 stuff lasts, AND how much we run the smaller cook stove for canning/homebrewing. I'll probably put up more next fall in case my rocky but "ok" ground produces a bunch of Cigarette-leaf to process as well. A 16x20 cabin gets hot real fast and it costs wood to open windows.

 

[johnlee1933]

NE also SkyChaser. I can see Forks from my rooftop. 6-10 cord here too depending how long the minus 20 stuff lasts, AND how much we run the smaller cook stove for canning/homebrewing. I'll probably put up more next fall in case my rocky but "ok" ground produces a bunch of Cigarette-leaf to process as well. A 16x20 cabin gets hot real fast and it costs wood to open windows.

Just a little off topic -- You burning hard wood or soft? What stove do you have?

John

 

[skychaser]

Forks ?? That's in the far NW corner on the Olympic Peninsula. You must have a tall roof to see it from here. lol We are in the Mt. Spokane area.
Forks is my favorite place to go fishing though. We stay down at Three Rivers. I wish I was there now.

 

[skychaser]

Just a little off topic -- You burning hard wood or soft? What stove do you have?

John

For us it's mostly Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir. We get some Bitter Cherry, Black Hawthorn and Birch on occasion but there isn't a lot of hardwoods here. Not like you have in the East.

Our stove in an old Oakland model sold by Marshall Wells about 75 years ago or more. You won't see many of those for sale any more. I welded up a new firebox for it a couple years ago. It was getting pretty warped after that many decades and was developing gaps in the seams. Damn good ole stove.

It heats the whole house with no problem. I added some intake ducts inside the wall cavities in the room it's in up near the ceiling, with circulating fans located under the house, and ran insulated ducts underneath to vents on the far side of the house in the living room and bedroom. Got nice even temps throughout the house now. No hot spots or cold spots. And the entire heating system uses 80 watts of electricity. I did that about 10 years ago now. We also have a small wood cook stove in the kitchen we use on occasion when the power goes out. Our house has one foot in the 21st century and one in the 19th. Kind of like me.

 

[SmokyO]

Forks ?? That's in the far NW corner on the Olympic Peninsula. You must have a tall roof to see it from here. lol We are in the Mt. Spokane area.
Forks is my favorite place to go fishing though. We stay down at Three Rivers. I wish I was there now.

Nah, Grand Forks, up where da big wind hit July 20 north of you..

 

[johnlee1933]

Our stove in an old Oakland model sold by Marshall Wells about 75 years ago or more. You won't see many of those for sale any more. I welded up a new firebox for it a couple years ago. It was getting pretty warped after that many decades and was developing gaps in the seams. Damn good ole stove.

Mine's an old Jotul #3. This summer I was given another one so now I have spare parts. My house is a replica of a 1750's midwifes 1600 sq. ft. and I keep the second floor closed off in the winter. Fire the sucker up at -10 outside and pretty quick it 85 inside. It does not bank down real well but there is so much cast iron in it it stays hot a long time. Typically in cold weather I get up once a might to stoke it (and pee! ).

John

 

[Boboro]

I piss more than stoke cause I'm a beer dranker and It selldom gets in the teens here any more.I love climite change.In a few 1000 years I'll have ocean frount property and it'll be hot all year. Makes me want to go burn some old tires tonite.

 

[skychaser]

Nah, Grand Forks, up where da big wind hit July 20 north of you..

That was a hell of a wind storm you had up there. Should be no problem finding down trees to cut for wood. From what we saw on the news here it looked like half the forest was blown down.

My grand parents had a place on Pierre Lake on the other side of the Kettle Mountains near Orient. Lived there for nearly 40 years. I grew up stomping around the mountains in The Wedge. I know them like I know my own back yard. Its like home to me, and still my favorite place on this Earth.

 

[Ltngstrike]

Welcome Dave! Nice to see another neighbor join up here! I'm down in Newport.

 

[Knucklehead]

hello Dave.

 

[SmokyO]

Thanks AlabamaKnucklehead for the welcome feeling and also my neighbors to the south and East. Beware! I'm searching your grow logs whenever I have power to run LapTop. -5 Degrees this AM with a bit of snow and I have a bucket in upstairs window with suckers still growing after I clipped the main plant. Something to look at until grow time. Later, Dave