DGBAMA
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Looks great. Mine are behind this year.
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ArizonaDave
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Yup, they are usually in the clay here too, never harvested them either.
Rickey60
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I lost all of my first planting to damp off. I had to start over. There all up now I have to move them to trays. A little behind but I have time.
Sorry to hear that. Do you know what caused it?
You're in a good area also. I get to screw up and keep going. The further north you go, you less leeway you have.
Rickey60
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No I don't know what caused it, but I think I will be OK now.
Plants went outside today on an eastern facing porch that gets morning sunshine. I'll slowly work them to full sun over the next few days.
Brown Thumb
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That is a pretty picture, you should get it framed.
sansonPR
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Which you a very baccy productive season!!!
Thank you my baccy brother. When does your season start?
sansonPR
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WellWell I already harvested mine. Just waiting for some beens planted in the baccy area to be ready for harvest. Then start the second with the new seed you friends gived to me. Also I'm trying to ferment the 1st and 2nd primings of Havana(did not know which strain) and Conn shade in an old fridge tuns in to a kiln with a crock pot stile.
I just finished building my kiln. I'll finally be able to smoke some of home grown cigar tobacco in another three weeks. I sure am looking forward to it. I've been smoking Don's (FmGrowit) whole leaf from www.wholeleaftobacco.com. He owns this forum and the tobacco sales site.
sansonPR
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I see. This is my first time kilning also. If things goes wrong now I know were to buy the leaf to smoke some quality baccy.
Don't forget to allow kilned leaf to rest for at least a few days, preferably a few weeks, before judging its qualities. The rest makes a big difference.
Bob
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sansonPR
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Thank you Bob!
The seedlings are outside hardening off. The sun was really intense yesterday and I left them out a little too long and they got some slight sunburn. Today was mostly cloudy so they were able to stay outside all day and received no additional damage. I gave them their final haircut this evening and got rid of the sunburned portions of the leaf. I'm still hoping to plant into the patch in ten days if the patch dries out enough for the final tilling. It's been tilled under once already but some weeds are coming back and I want to till those under and powder up the soil before planting. Several days of thunderstorms are predicted over the next ten days so I may have to wait past my expected planting date.
DGBAMA
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Good to hear you are on schedule. My starts are slow this year, may not even be ready for ground until may 1, despite the early start.
I don't feel so bad now with the number of varieties I hope to get going come our season with my planned start in August. (Southern Hemisphere)
Looking at Knucklehead's list he has 15 varieties and going to be growing 148 plants.
My plan is instead of the two varieties I grew this year to have 20 varieties happen.
Now I have 6 beds can grow 40 in each that is 240 plants and if I purloin the bed my wife was thinking of growing tomatoes in it is bigger so another 60 can have 300 plants happen.
jealous of you all starting your season and going to be making your cigars while mine will still be little plants.
Good luck to all of you in the northern hemisphere with your crop this year and look forward to reading of your fantastic results
Looking at Knucklehead's list he has 15 varieties and going to be growing 148 plants.
My plan is instead of the two varieties I grew this year to have 20 varieties happen.
Now I have 6 beds can grow 40 in each that is 240 plants and if I purloin the bed my wife was thinking of growing tomatoes in it is bigger so another 60 can have 300 plants happen.
jealous of you all starting your season and going to be making your cigars while mine will still be little plants.
Good luck to all of you in the northern hemisphere with your crop this year and look forward to reading of your fantastic results
sansonPR
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Bob,
How does this rest time should be? In the drying area, in case, inside plastic bags or cardboard? How you normally do it?
Since the leaf is warm when it first comes out of the kiln, it usually dries out rapidly. I mist it in a plastic bag until it returns to low case (sometimes a day, sometimes a week of daily misting). I then allow it to continue rest in the plastic bag for at least a week.
Some varieties need a lot of additional aging, even following a month in the kiln. Bolivia Criollo Black is one of those that required more aging. I'm hoping that, if I live another 10 years, my Sacred Cornplanter rustica will finally have rested long enough to be smokable.
Bob
Some varieties need a lot of additional aging, even following a month in the kiln. Bolivia Criollo Black is one of those that required more aging. I'm hoping that, if I live another 10 years, my Sacred Cornplanter rustica will finally have rested long enough to be smokable.
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