Duzce is Turkish. Nobody knows anything about the management practices for it, unless you live in Duzce. I would (and in fact will) just go with the assumption that it should be handled like most small Orientals.
Bob
Bob
2018... My Most Challenging and Biggest Grow Ever--Levi Gross
- Thread starter Levi Gross
- Start date
- Status
ChinaVoodoo
Moderator
It will flower again later at a more appropriate time.
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
I have all good faith that everything will come back into it’s rightful order. I topped the biggest Düzce but have yet to top anything else. Seed bags are made up though thanks in part to my seamstress.
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
There has been a very unexpected addition to the garden. Actually 100’s of them Sarcred Cherokee Chicamagua Tobacco- Rustica I hoed most of them up because they were in the Düzce plot of the garden just popped up everywhere volunteers from last years three plants I grew. The only plants I grew and I didn’t even harvest them I just let them stand all winter. I am going to leave a few to grow this year in the random spots they have popped up. I just about come out of my skin with excitement when I seen them all! And to think all the crazy care and obsession with getting the other plants growing and in the ground this year even if everything failed I would have had a volunteer crop. I buried the tiller out there though and can’t believe they were not turned to far under to germinate.
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
And a new addition to my garage. I am obsessed with anything Cub Cadet and International Harvester. That’s all I was raised on using doing farm work with my grandpa.
BarG
Founding Member
You like the antiques huh, me too. one of my favorite trucks was an f 150 1950 flathead 8. I had the pleasure to restore a 1929 ford one time restoring all the wood parts.
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
Absolutely A Ford man!
Last edited:
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
My orientals and Primitives
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
Glass gem corn is up, and beets are up. All tobacco is doing well
Last edited:
ChinaVoodoo
Moderator
Nice looking tobacco, but if you don't figure out how to get your photos to stay upright, I'm going to send you my chiropractor bill. (just kidding)
On post 188, what's that thing on the left (bottom) that looks like a shrub? Looks like a couple plants in the same spot.
On post 188, what's that thing on the left (bottom) that looks like a shrub? Looks like a couple plants in the same spot.
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
I’m still struggling with the pictures... To answer your question everything pictured is tobacco except for the corn and beets. As Bob said in a previous post the road to good intentions is paved with weeds. You might be looking at a small patch of weeds on the edge of my raised bed not sure China
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
That is Samsun Maden before they were nearly uprooted yesterday in a storm. I staked them up and tied them with sinew very tightly. The wind was ridiculous and I have lots of damaged Leaf now. If I don’t start bagging plants I will soon run into possible crossing of varieties. Düzce and Samsun are flowering. Costa Rica 589 got topped. These are all at about 90 days and are acting like they are maturing rapidly. I wouldn’t mind an early harvest on them just so I can get them cured, seed stored and out of the way. I have bit off more than I am used to handling and am kinda stressed about the whole seed head bagging process. I had my bags made to DeluxeStogies specifications and they seem huge for the size of my orientals. I do have some 1x2 ft. bags but even they seem large. Next year my focus will be on only a few varieties.
My bags for Orientals are 15" long X 12" tall. Even then, I have to begin by rolling them to the interior when they are first placed. Within a week or two, they fill out the entire bag.
Counting days to maturity should begin from the time they are transplanted, rather than from germination date. That's the GRIN standard.
Bob
Counting days to maturity should begin from the time they are transplanted, rather than from germination date. That's the GRIN standard.
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
Moderator
Yes, the one with the white hoola hoop around it. I should have mentioned that.
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
That is six plants of Samsun Maden and this evening I actually harvested the top sets of leaves to make room for my seed bags made of ag-15. The leaves are starting to mottle Yellow spots so I thought what the heck go ahead and experiment a little they’re not as ripe as I want but it’s all about learning right.
Last edited:
Being the heartless person that I am, I would be inclined to thin those Samsun a bit. You can cut off a few entire stalks, and just hang them as is, to see what you get. I really think they're a little immature to amount to anything.
Bob
Bob
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
I’ve been entertaining the same notion just haven’t had the courage. They aren’t as cramped as the picture makes them out.
Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
I feel like I am way ahead of schedule this year and rapidly running out of time for curing arrangements. I am cramming my brain with so much information that it’s got me spinning my wheels on what I want to do. I will air cure a lot of it and sun cure my oriental stuff but I am not geared up for flue curing any of the flue cure varieties. I don’t believe any of them are true bright leaf so I assume it’s ok to just air or sun cure them? I’ve got more time to think about that but I am going to have to come up with a plan pretty soon. I desperately want to build my kiln and have yet to get a solid plan on that one too. Falling short of my goals this season is not an option, I have to much vested in this.
Last edited:
Very nice. Looks like a crop to me.
Bob
Bob
- Status
