So I haven't been growing too many years yet and would like some input from more experienced growers.
The story goes- I transplanted most of my tobacco starts 3 weeks ago after what was supposed to be our last frost date. Two days later we got a record low for the day of 26 degrees. It's been held since like 1945 or something and it frosted all my starts off. I picked the biggest and best plants to put out the first time around and was left with 10 or so plants that were very small and were wrote off as not good enough. I then put what plants I had left in the ground the next weekend. Somehow I swear they got smaller and smaller until they just started to disappear. (I can't explain it, it just happened) I have one mammoth left that is maybe the size of a freakin pinhead and doesn't even seem to be growing. I used all my seeds up inside earlier in the year when I started my other plants and hadn't ordered more because I didn't think I'd need more until next year. I still had a late stalk of some kind of a Havana veriety plant hanging in the shed. Turns out I had gotten lazy and left the flowers to turn to seed on this one so I scattered the seed pods in the garden to see what would happen. IT WORKED! I have probably 100 or more little green specks coming up. I have no idea what plant pollinated it so it will be interesting to see how they turn out but at least I have plants. My question to you guys is there any way of rushing these late bloomers to a mature enough place that I will be able to use them or will they be too young to be useful?
The story goes- I transplanted most of my tobacco starts 3 weeks ago after what was supposed to be our last frost date. Two days later we got a record low for the day of 26 degrees. It's been held since like 1945 or something and it frosted all my starts off. I picked the biggest and best plants to put out the first time around and was left with 10 or so plants that were very small and were wrote off as not good enough. I then put what plants I had left in the ground the next weekend. Somehow I swear they got smaller and smaller until they just started to disappear. (I can't explain it, it just happened) I have one mammoth left that is maybe the size of a freakin pinhead and doesn't even seem to be growing. I used all my seeds up inside earlier in the year when I started my other plants and hadn't ordered more because I didn't think I'd need more until next year. I still had a late stalk of some kind of a Havana veriety plant hanging in the shed. Turns out I had gotten lazy and left the flowers to turn to seed on this one so I scattered the seed pods in the garden to see what would happen. IT WORKED! I have probably 100 or more little green specks coming up. I have no idea what plant pollinated it so it will be interesting to see how they turn out but at least I have plants. My question to you guys is there any way of rushing these late bloomers to a mature enough place that I will be able to use them or will they be too young to be useful?
