Yeah it’s hot as Hades here, too. With humidity off the charts. I put out some fertilizer around the yard the other evening and was just drenched. Ready for some rain.
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I would water the poor things deeply every morning, before the heat cllimbs.
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yo1dog
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I was worried I wasn't watering them enough. But I was also worried about over watering! And the top leaves looked like they were doing fine, so I assumed they were OK. But these bottom leaves keep getting worse, and I wasn't sure if that was expected or not (to this extent)
My water is chlorinated so I fill up some buckets and let them sit for 2 days before watering. I fill 2x 5 gallon buckets and a 2 gallon bucket and use the 12 gallons to water my 22 plants. So just over 1/2 gallon of water per plant. I was doing this once every 2 weeks or so. Sounds like I should be watering much more often.
Maybe my thick clay was holding sufficient water from the good rains we got early in the season but has finally dried out.
I was worried I wasn't watering them enough. But I was also worried about over watering! And the top leaves looked like they were doing fine, so I assumed they were OK. But these bottom leaves keep getting worse, and I wasn't sure if that was expected or not (to this extent)
My water is chlorinated so I fill up some buckets and let them sit for 2 days before watering. I fill 2x 5 gallon buckets and a 2 gallon bucket and use the 12 gallons to water my 22 plants. So just over 1/2 gallon of water per plant. I was doing this once every 2 weeks or so. Sounds like I should be watering much more often.
Maybe my thick clay was holding sufficient water from the good rains we got early in the season but has finally dried out.
Bottom leaves begin to grow old way before the upper leaf. That's normal.
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That makes sense... Soooooo, do you think they are under-watered? lol
Even late in the afternoon on 100+ days, the plants look perfectly happy and healthy except those bottom leaves despite me only watering them with 1/2 gallon every 2 weeks.
Even late in the afternoon on 100+ days, the plants look perfectly happy and healthy except those bottom leaves despite me only watering them with 1/2 gallon every 2 weeks.
Probably not.
Oldfella
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To water or not to water, hmmm the problems I have. No not water, maybe.
Monsoon season???
85mm last night.
Cheer's Oldfella
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Beautiful though.
yo1dog
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You can smoke it in a pipe. In the mornings when the leaf is in proper case you can roll a puro cigar if you have one nice enough to wrap. I didn‘t use a binder when I tried it. It was a Burley puro but it was pretty mild since it was the mud lugs. You will need to mist that dry stuff with a little water until it softens up enough to work with.
If you want to directly smoke it, it needs to be fully cured in the field.
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yo1dog
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I broke out my 2x4 pipe to try it out, but I hard time keeping it lit.
I topped this plant not long ago, and it’s already got a new bloom. Now I’m not sure which side so the sucker and which is the growth stem. I assume it’s the blue side. Yellow is were I topped the first bud.
I topped it again. Maybe I am not going low enough. Here’s the before and after.
I topped this plant not long ago, and it’s already got a new bloom. Now I’m not sure which side so the sucker and which is the growth stem. I assume it’s the blue side. Yellow is were I topped the first bud.
I topped it again. Maybe I am not going low enough. Here’s the before and after.
yo1dog
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Hell yea I did. It's SYP (southern yellow pine), the most common cheap building material around here. I got lots of it laying around. Adds a heavy pine flavor to your smoke at first, but after a few you build up a cake in the chamber and it doesn't affect the taste anymore (at least to my untrained pallet).
This was a practice run before cutting into a (relatively) very expensive piece of briar. I would suggest using cherry as it's not too expensive and readily available but still a very good and popular wood for pipes.
Just avoid treated lumber.
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yo1dog
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Right. Great point to make explicitly. Nothing pressure treated, laminated, glued, MDF, plywood, etc.
I too have an untrained pallet so this is right up my alley. I'd like to see more of ppls homemade pipes. There's a thread but it looks like it died. Good show friend!
yo1dog
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Top below the crow foot.
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Forgive my ignorance, but how exactly is the "crow's foot" defined? I tried to read up on it, but despite finding numerous references I could not find what it means.
My Connecticut Broadleaf stems look quite different, so I am not sure how to find the crow's foot on my plants.
With no topping, the crow's foot is the point in the stem at which the "branches" of bud heads begin to originate. It's a vague term, until you watch a number of differing varieties generate their bud heads. With the first bud head emerging from the central stalk, you can identify the lower bud heads as suckers that begin as a small stalk, rather than as a small leaf.
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