Mad Oshea
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I'm going to tell You PO- You make growin tobacco so much fun when We see how far other Guys go to get them to the feild. Now how do You plan to get the leaf back? Your bucket may work just as good.
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The plastic tub is a great idea.
Bob
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Mad Oshea
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I agree! and That is as simple as it gets.
DGBAMA
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Plants look great. I am sure they will enjoy their new homes in the garden.
Mad Oshea
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I was afraid of snaping off the the crank pin on My pasta machine. So I took a 2 inch piece of gas line 3/8" for a car and sliped it on the crank side of the roller and put a radiator clamp on it. On the other end I put a 2" cross point screw tip in that end ( for a screw gun) and clamped that.(drill gun end) I left a space in the center for flex and if it hung up it would twist the hose and not break the shaft even with the clutch on, on the drill. The gas line can handle alot of torque and flex.
POGreen
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Have a pic MO ?
Mad Oshea
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No, My phone wont post. Working on that . It is just a short hose with two clamps on it. 3/8" It acts like a universal joint. but if it hangs up the hose will twist. I guess any real stiff hose that fits the shaft will work. I only had some gas line so I used it. It never hung up yet but stayed stiff and ran the baccy good.
POGreen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPDdJczVyUk&feature=youtu.be showing you what I did most of last weekend
grass in my barrels = nitrogen
grass in my barrels = nitrogen
Mad Oshea
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Thats what I call "Walking baccy holes"
POGreen
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Glad I COULD walk after all this plantin' , and thats just 60 or so plants , when riding home for lunch I was just wasted.
Gotta do some TABACUMS tomorrow cause the lower leaves are yellow on some of the varieties and means they have malnutrition , outgrowing the cups.
Somewhat cooler climate is coming in the day after tomorrow and I wonder how cool it's going to be , been up close to the 80's this weekend but that will soon change to something else.
Gotta do some TABACUMS tomorrow cause the lower leaves are yellow on some of the varieties and means they have malnutrition , outgrowing the cups.
Somewhat cooler climate is coming in the day after tomorrow and I wonder how cool it's going to be , been up close to the 80's this weekend but that will soon change to something else.
The piece of fuel line is a trick used when inserting a spark plug into a gasoline engine head, to avoid stripping the threads. It probably needs to be fuel line (since it's reinforced and relatively stiff) in order to transfer much torque.
Bob
Bob
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The piece of fuel line is a trick used when inserting a spark plug into a gasoline engine head, to avoid stripping the threads. It probably needs to be fuel line (since it's reinforced and relatively stiff) in order to transfer much torque.
Bob
That is so cool delux. One clamp on the end of the shaft- and one on the drill bit.and You got it.. Good call .Thanks for the pic help. Now think if it was on the grinder like that? Left- drill- Right and grinder left- with a clamp on each end and the (lets say) one inch in the mid.? Say Did that come out of Your car? It has a platinum tip. Hum?$$$$
POGreen
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We,ve had a substanstial setback degswise the last couple of days now , earlier this week we was up close 80 , now we're down to 50 daytime and 35 at night.
Planted most of my 16 varieties , just have 3 left to be done and snails have already started chewing on the plants.......
Don't really know how much I should care about it , as long as they just go for the lower leaves it might not matter that much , the plant will hopefully grow away from them.
Had a minor shower of rain the other late afternoon/evening and the lawn surrounding the patches was full of them , think I executed 75-100 of snals + shellsnails.
So , over here we've gone from summer to spring/winter........
From one thing to another , I'll take out Don's Latakia from the owen today , after a heattreatment at 240-200 for a week , normally used for smoking in a pipe now'll be used to be snus .
JBD , have you tried the firecured snus yet ?
Planted most of my 16 varieties , just have 3 left to be done and snails have already started chewing on the plants.......
Don't really know how much I should care about it , as long as they just go for the lower leaves it might not matter that much , the plant will hopefully grow away from them.
Had a minor shower of rain the other late afternoon/evening and the lawn surrounding the patches was full of them , think I executed 75-100 of snals + shellsnails.
So , over here we've gone from summer to spring/winter........
From one thing to another , I'll take out Don's Latakia from the owen today , after a heattreatment at 240-200 for a week , normally used for smoking in a pipe now'll be used to be snus
.JBD , have you tried the firecured snus yet ?
POGreen
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= A little experiment of mine with 2 plants of a German sort of Burley growing in Sand and Organic Waste in the bottom of the bucket.As u see , just made a '' haircut'' on one of'em.......
How are the plants coping, or do you have them protected? Any signs of ground frost?
POGreen
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Overall they seem to do OK , but I suspect that there is some leaves that are frostbitten.Most of them seem to cope with the lower degs.
I have not protected them in any way at all , I couldn't imagine myself something like this to happen.
A friend of mine further up the coast did protect his plants with nonwoven , and he's been down below zero , NOT he but the degs
I have not protected them in any way at all , I couldn't imagine myself something like this to happen.
A friend of mine further up the coast did protect his plants with nonwoven , and he's been down below zero , NOT he but the degs
AmaxB
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That is what I did last year POGreen before setting my plants I dug the hole and put poo mixed with a little potting soil in the hole. My tobacco did really well yours should too.
Keep posting to your blog here please, I have gone to page 1 and am reading through now. It is interesting to see how things are done in other parts of the world.
Good luck with your tobacco grow.
AmaxB
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Post #183 it gets her done.... if those in town think your crazy tell them you would be happy to sell them one for their bike.
POGreen
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I sure will do so Amax , don't look like much for now but I was pretty early planting and know that there is some 4 months for them to grow so I still hope for some wonders to happen
Your motto is a great one : '' Can't move a mountain but can toss a pebble - If I toss many I'll have a mountain where I want it.......'' it sort of got stuck in my head for some reason .
Have you tried any grassclippings in your waterbarrells if you have any ?
Grassclippings , being the second best fertilizer there is should absolutely release some good nitrogen for your baccy.
I see in my barrels that there is a lot of flies and bugs in and around just them , so there's gotta be somethin' with it.
Your motto is a great one : '' Can't move a mountain but can toss a pebble - If I toss many I'll have a mountain where I want it.......'' it sort of got stuck in my head for some reason .
Have you tried any grassclippings in your waterbarrells if you have any ?
Grassclippings , being the second best fertilizer there is should absolutely release some good nitrogen for your baccy.
I see in my barrels that there is a lot of flies and bugs in and around just them , so there's gotta be somethin' with it.
POGreen
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25 oz of Latakia made for snus for a week in the owen at around 200 F
Now these 25 oz will have a welldeserved rest in the fridge for some 2 or so weeks and boy is that going to be exciting to taste
Notice the very black colour it's got , this is due to the pretty high degs for quite a long time .
From my experience , baccy needs to be heattreated in high degs to be able to deliver you some really good aroma + taste , if not it isn't ready and you would get a snus that is Insufficient to use .
This change in making my own snus has meant the world to me , no boast or anything else , but this is starting to taste like snus did in the Good Old Days ( before 1997).
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