Colin new zealand 2012 grow log

[leverhead]

Yeah right Head and next you'll try to sell me a bridge, probably in Brooklyn. LOL

John

I've got a contract on that one, Would you be interested in a toll road?

 

[Seanz]

Yeah right Head and next you'll try to sell me a bridge, probably in Brooklyn. LOL

John

No actually its down here in southland, Only 40k NZ Its a good one has a road and everything. lol
New info is that unprocessed leaf can be sold though from what i have been reading Customs like to hassle you about it, There is a guy down here who seems to be in the paper every now and then for it. but never gets charged they just take his crop and hold it then he gets it back, Though the layers fees and shit makes for expensive aging

 

[leverhead]

Seanz, I like the way you think! Southlanders seem to be a hearty breed.

 

[BarG]

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Hi there weekly update running out off room had to build a propergating house . Hope to have finished tomorrow so i can move the virginia gold in third picture into it. Have been very busy repoting young seedling second picture Maryland.Monty calm yellow. and Sharman's have another four tray's to do tomorrow.Second lot off seed's that i got off Don have all germanated and progressing well hope to be repoting them in two week's time.Well that's it for now catch up with you nex week.

Colin

thats cool/ I like that, It will work.

 

[COLIN]

Hi weekly update just finished rotary hoeing up my growing area.The soil is coming good i will wait one more week and go over it again hopefully will get some rain. Seedling coming along slowly start potting them up next week that's all for now catch up with u all next week.

Colin

 

[johnlee1933]

In Pic #2 several other fields can be seen. What's growing/planned for them?

John

 

[indianjoe]

Colin,
that dirt looks good enough to plant tobacco in, lol.

 

[Chicken]

that is some fine looking soil.

what do you plan to use for fertilizer,?

 

[COLIN]

Hi john the orther paddock is getting prepard for growing pumkin's .spud's leek's, and onion's

Colin

 

[Chicken]

Hi john the orther paddock is getting prepard for growing pumkin's .spud's leek's, and onion's

Colin

are they going to be normal pumpkins,

or some of them kind that get 100+ lbs.?

 

[COLIN]

Hi Chicken i will be useing a product called Nitrofoska Blue TM it has a N;P;K ratio 12.8.10. plus trace mineral's

Colin

 

[Chicken]

Hi Chicken i will be useing a product called Nitrofoska Blue TM it has a N;P;K ratio 12.8.10. plus trace mineral's

Colin

is that a spray, or granualuor fertilizer,?

 

[COLIN]

No just normal pumpkin's

Colin

 

[COLIN]

Granualar fertilizer

 

[Chicken]

you should do some of them '' huge'' pumpkins,

i did some one year, i cut of, all but 2 pumpkins on each vine, '' so they would get all the '' good'' stuff ''

i had to rotate them every 3 days, so they didnt develop a flat spot,

they grew to be over 100 lbs.

i donated 5 of them to a '' big'' local church for thier halloween decoration,

this church has a big '' shin-dig'' for halloween and invites the whole town to come,, it's quiet the event for the kids,

 

[Kaneo]

You have got the place tilled up nicely Colin. I see your seedling are at different stages, are they just different varietys or have some been under lights longer?

Also I'm keen to find a garden centre fert ( brand ) that I can put on without fear of chlorides, will need to do some more investigating on that one

 

[Seanz]

The only thing I have ever added has been blood and bone to my soil that and compost, I find it more than enough for what I am doing.

 

[DonH]

The only thing I have ever added has been blood and bone to my soil that and compost, I find it more than enough for what I am doing.

I agree. Commercial phosphate fertilizers tend to be radioactive and that gets picked up by tobacco. May be the prime cause of lung cancer.

 

[COLIN]

Hi weekly update the weather has'nt been that good for the last two day's so it was a good time to do some repoting.As u can see in picture one moved most off my first lot plant's into my climatisation house hopefully this will have them ready to start planting in the first week off November.In picture four is the seed i got from deluxestogie had just finished putting it into tray's.This will now give me thirteen different variety's .P a red.Little Dutch. F L Sumatra. Bafa. Hickory Fryor. Kelly Burley. Maryland. Monty Calme Yellow. Shaman's Rustica. Orinoco. Kentucky Burley.Rose.and Virgina Gold.This should cover cigar filler.rapper. binder.pipe blend's. and cigarettes. Well that's it for this week and i will see u next week. Colin

 

[SmokesAhoy]

Wow. This are looking real nice down under. Between single variety samples to mixing ratios you're going to be very busy after harvest! The good kind of busy though, tobacco sampling is real high on the "life's favorite pastimes" list