GusAvocado’s 2023 grow blog
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An hour of work with a hoe now, to remove the grass immediately surrounding those plants may double your yield from them. Grass quickly outgrows tobacco.
Bob
GusAvocado
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Long time out of the loop. Life got in the way, but the tobacco was on auto water so I have a crop. The plants at the farm got overrun in weeds, but there will be a crop of small leaves. Good harvest from 3 criollo 98 at the house. Little Dutch in pots did ok too. YTB in the ground stayed short, but nice leaves. Been triple digit temps with high 20’s humidity, so been picking late. Picked some criollo a little early and they dried green. Put some in a test pipe and it was like smoking an asparagus spear.
Looks like I will have some YTB, prilep, and cherry red for the pipe. Criollo and little Dutch for cigars. Working on a plan to kiln/rehydrate. Everything quickly goes to crumbly dry in this heat. Got an old CPAP machine that was recalled due to bad foam inside, but thinking about seeing if it would make a kiln fan/humidifier.
Looks like I will have some YTB, prilep, and cherry red for the pipe. Criollo and little Dutch for cigars. Working on a plan to kiln/rehydrate. Everything quickly goes to crumbly dry in this heat. Got an old CPAP machine that was recalled due to bad foam inside, but thinking about seeing if it would make a kiln fan/humidifier.
GusAvocado
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Criollo 98. Leaves still not turning. Are the little wrinkly ones at the top sucker leaves, or worth harvesting?
I see a lot of leaves with yellowing tips. As for the little, crinkled ones, there is no harm in giving them a try at curing.
Bob
Bob
Homegrowngoodnes
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Wouldn't the little crinkly ones at the very top be referred to as corona leaves? As in the strongest ones?
The crinkled top leaves indicate frenching. So they are abnormal corona leaves.
Bob
Bob
Homegrowngoodnes
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I always liked a corona better with a slice of lime! It always seemed to make it taste better.
GusAvocado
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We were triple digits temps all summer, so stress wouldn’t be a surprise. I’ll give them a try.
GusAvocado
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Kilning now. The warmer will eventually go to my buddy’s BBQ business, but in exchange for replacing the seals he is letting me use it this year. Holds temp like a dream. Might start trolling restaurant auction for a smaller one of my own. Better halfhas not even complained about the near eye watering off gas. I’ve assured her that it will decrease. It will decrease, right…