Leverhead's 2013 T Patches; SE Texas

[indianjoe]

Re: Leverhead's 2013 T Patches

Those Southern Beauty's are already beautiful.

 

[Knucklehead]

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Those Southern Beauty's are already beautiful.

Those must be the ones his Granddaughter did. Great pictures in his album.

 

[leverhead]

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Those Southern Beauty's are already beautiful.

Thanks! I took that picture this morning, looking at them tonight they've grown "up" about 1/4 inch. I wanted to have them in the ground a week ago, I guess I need to leave more lead time next year.

 

[leverhead]

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Those must be the ones his Granddaughter did. Great pictures in his album.

She's in love with my seedlings, she'll pick all the crap that falls out of the trees off them. She's really into flowers! She was thrilled when I told her that I was leaving the flowers on a bunch of plants this year. I could go on all night, maybe I'll tell a story over in the group.

 

[leverhead]

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I went back and looked at a picture that I took 6 days ago and took another tonight. I cropped them, same plant, 6 days apart.

 

[BarG]

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I've been working on my callouses. Beautiful day, about 84 F and a nice breeze.

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Now I've got to wait for the Southern Beauty to catch up.

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Lookin good Leverhead, Them southern beautys would look real fine in my garden, I rarely see a tray that size with consistant size healthy plants.

 

[Chicken]

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that soil sure looks good,

 

[Fisherman]

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T Patches 1 and 2 have combined. T Patch 3 becomes T Patch 2, just a small raised bed at the house. Here's T Patch 1 Rev B.

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The first 19 rows are for Turkish/Orientals planted on traditional spacing, about 950 plants. Row 1 A and B are for Shirazi planted the same as the Southern Beauty. Rows 2 through 9 are for the Southern Beauty to feed the flue-cure fridge.

I got tired of chasing down leaking bottom trays and it was time for everything to go outside anyway, so I made a big bottom tray.

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This is same almost method I will be using for my grow bags. A 2x4 frame and plastic to make trough and a float valve. No wicking system like yours but will function almost the same.

Is nice system you have there for sure

 

[leverhead]

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that soil sure looks good,

Thanks! It grew everything well last year. I transplanted a Chinese Tallow tree to the burn pile and added 34 feet. I've still got to put a drainage ditch on the left side.

 

[leverhead]

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This is same almost method I will be using for my grow bags. A 2x4 frame and plastic to make trough and a float valve. No wicking system like yours but will function almost the same.

Is nice system you have there for sure

Thanks! It's still begging for a cheaper, better float tray.

 

[leverhead]

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It's a good thing I didn't get anything in the ground a week ago, it went down to 28 F this morning. Meanwhile back at la Casa, the Southern Beauties needed a hair cut. Anybody want some rather pale baby spinach tips for their salad?

 

[Seanz]

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For some reason I am thinking a peppery salad leaf.

 

[Knucklehead]

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Question : Of all the flue cure varieties in the seed bank, why did you choose Southern Beauty?

 

[Boboro]

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Eat some!

 

[squeezyjohn]

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I tried some green Rustica last year ... it's not disgusting - but it doesn't taste like an edible!

 

[Boboro]

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I thought the young stuff mite be edible.

 

[leverhead]

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Question : Of all the flue cure varieties in the seed bank, why did you choose Southern Beauty?

Do you want the short story? This time last year I didn't know Dick, still don't. From the information I could find (in a hurry), it had a very good yield and I had a limited space. This year, it's the only one I have experience with. I have enough variables left to solve for, I don't want any new ones (flue-curing). If that part of my grow goes well this year, next year I'll mess with some new (to me) varieties. I have some information about flue-curing Gold Dollar from just before and during WWII, it might be interesting to see if my experience connects with that. The reason I didn't send Southern Beauty to the seed bank was, that I thought it suckered real bad. Bad enough so that I wouldn't wish it on anybody. This year I had a new seed source for it and will give that a try. It may not make any difference, but I know enough now to keep records for suckers and will collect seed from the one(s) that sucker the least before flowering/topping. I want to do my best not to put a monster in the seed bank, but it does smoke pretty good.

 

[leverhead]

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Eat some!

I can't, I gave it to my neighbor.

 

[Knucklehead]

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Do you want the short story? This time last year I didn't know Dick, still don't. From the information I could find (in a hurry), it had a very good yield and I had a limited space. This year, it's the only one I have experience with. I have enough variables left to solve for, I don't want any new ones (flue-curing). If that part of my grow goes well this year, next year I'll mess with some new (to me) varieties. I have some information about flue-curing Gold Dollar from just before and during WWII, it might be interesting to see if my experience connects with that. The reason I didn't send Southern Beauty to the seed bank was, that I thought it suckered real bad. Bad enough so that I wouldn't wish it on anybody. This year I had a new seed source for it and will give that a try. It may not make any difference, but I know enough now to keep records for suckers and will collect seed from the one(s) that sucker the least before flowering/topping. I want to do my best not to put a monster in the seed bank, but it does smoke pretty good.

Yeah, lemme have the short story.

 

[rainmax]

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I can't, I gave it to my neighbor.

Good idea. We all have neighbors.