OldDinosaurWesH
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China Voodoo 2017 Grow Blog
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All is picked. It's tarped in the back yard until I have time to deal with it.
Although there were the same amount of plants, I got about twice as much Delhi compared to the Piloto. Being columnar, next time I'll plant more of the Piloto closer together. That really tall one was quite impressive though. Good sized leaves. 28 usable of them. The bud bags are hanging in the garage. I've organized the leaves from that plant separately so it'll be cured, the entire plant, top to bottom on one stick.
Although there were the same amount of plants, I got about twice as much Delhi compared to the Piloto. Being columnar, next time I'll plant more of the Piloto closer together. That really tall one was quite impressive though. Good sized leaves. 28 usable of them. The bud bags are hanging in the garage. I've organized the leaves from that plant separately so it'll be cured, the entire plant, top to bottom on one stick.
Tutu
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Wowh that bagged stalk is impressive indeed! Have you measured it lately?
ChinaVoodoo
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Last I checked it was 9' 3" to the top of the bag.
greenmonster714
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Wow, what a beast. It will be interesting to see what you get next year from that plants seed. Interesting indeed.
My tallest Piloto Cubano produced narrower leaves than many of the shorter ones. I bagged two: the tallest and the one with the overall largest leaf.
Bob
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ChinaVoodoo
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We'll get this line straightened out, eh. I'm most curious what the next generation will be like.
It may take 3 or 4 more years of selfing to get it settled into a stable variety.
Bob
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Tutu
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For me they did not germinate. Yet...
ChinaVoodoo
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Oh boy. Don't remind me. It took 3-+ weeks
greenmonster714
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I was poking around on this Internet Archive site and came across this about Gigantism in tobacco. Interesting read. Could ya imagine a plant almost 5meters high?
Gigantism in Nicotiana tabacum and its Alternative Inheritance
ChinaVoodoo
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Thanks, Greenmonster. I'll have to read it on a computer. Can't seem to get resolution with my phone.
I have copied greenmonster's post (with the link to Tobacco Gigantism) into a new thread under Tobacco Science. This is a significant topic, and discussion of it will be easier to locate there in the future.
http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/7673-Genetics-of-Gigantism-in-Tobacco
Bob
http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/7673-Genetics-of-Gigantism-in-Tobacco
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Last year I was able to do 3 successive runs of tobacco before doing the final, oh shit, it's going to freeze, pick everything pick. This year I got one pick in before the italicized pick on Monday. So yesterday I filled the shed from completely empty to almost full before rushing off to my parents for Thanksgiving.
This is the only photo I got of my work.
An update on the airlock jar perique. It has reabsorbed all the juice. Clearly stage one is over. Since I read Pichia anomala is grown in the lab at 98F, I thought I'd take it out of the basement and move it to the curing shed which is set at 90F.
I have one Piloto plant left in a pot. It's kinda cute.
Here is some of the first run of Piloto.
This is the only photo I got of my work.
An update on the airlock jar perique. It has reabsorbed all the juice. Clearly stage one is over. Since I read Pichia anomala is grown in the lab at 98F, I thought I'd take it out of the basement and move it to the curing shed which is set at 90F.
I have one Piloto plant left in a pot. It's kinda cute.
Here is some of the first run of Piloto.
Fine looking Piloto Cubano.
Bob
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Tutu
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The Piloto Cubano in the pot, has it been in there all along? Have you only moved it inside? Or have you moved it from outside, into the pot?
ChinaVoodoo
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It was in the pot outside. I moved the pot inside because of sub zero weather. It was originally a tiny little seedling that had just sprouted in June when all the others were a decent size. I had found that pot while waking in the alley, and thought what the hey? I honestly can't believe it survived the first month.
I understand your feeling about this year's weather... here in France we had a heat wave in May and June, then half July the sun decided to go away and we had rain, cloud, cold... only a few days of good weather in about 2 month...
So my plants had a slow growth since mid July... and I have still some leaves to pick... but with the weather they are not very mature... and the temperature is lower and lower each day, I hope it won't freeze too soon.
I hope next year we will have a better weather !
P.S. Your piloto cubano leaves are looking good ! Hope they will be good
So my plants had a slow growth since mid July... and I have still some leaves to pick... but with the weather they are not very mature... and the temperature is lower and lower each day, I hope it won't freeze too soon.
I hope next year we will have a better weather !
P.S. Your piloto cubano leaves are looking good ! Hope they will be good
ChinaVoodoo
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I understand your feeling about this year's weather... here in France we had a heat wave in May and June, then half July the sun decided to go away and we had rain, cloud, cold... only a few days of good weather in about 2 month...
So my plants had a slow growth since mid July... and I have still some leaves to pick... but with the weather they are not very mature... and the temperature is lower and lower each day, I hope it won't freeze too soon.
I hope next year we will have a better weather !
P.S. Your piloto cubano leaves are looking good ! Hope they will be good
We actually had the best summer on my personal anecdotal gardening record. I think my tobacco matured faster last year because the Piloto is unusually slow growing, and because the Delhi got started over a month late. Also, my fertilization rate was probably higher. I'm gong to get my soil tested now that the season is over.
I didn't have any extended poor weather, like you did. Fall hit a couple weeks early, that's all. But first frost is a thing here every gardener has to watch unless they only grow brassicas. Previous two years, I was able to endure multiple frosts based on temperatures staying above minus 2, the freezing point of tobacco. This year it went straight to minus six. I still have cabbage and sui choi growing away.
I am fairly certain I will end up with next to zero green cured leaf. The crop is fairly mature.
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