Seedlings falling over: @Kiwi Smoker grow log 2023-4
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Weak seedlings is typically the result of high temperature, low light and a lack of wind.
Wind will make a strong stem.
Low temperature will make the plant grow less but strong.
With strong light the plant will grow strong.
Maybe you can add artificial light?
Maybe you can add a fan?
Lower the temperature is another option but it is probably too difficult and you don't need it if you add a fan and/or lights.
Another option is to pinch the stem or brush it with a toothbrush, it is a bonzai technique.
This is not tobacco specific but for plants in general.
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Bottenslam
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Are you sure its not mechanical/light damage? Lower picture kind of looks like something scraped the leaf. Upper one could be lensing from water drops, have you given them more light resently?
Kiwi Smoker
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Here's a better example.
Kiwi Smoker
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Hi, is curing leaves in your home bad for your health with the gas they give off?
Most likely not, tomatos also release gas. The amount of gas is most likely minimal, I would worry more about the pollution from cars, definitively.
Bottenslam
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I wouldnt worry about it unless you got really huge amounts of tobacco compared to Air volume etc. If you do tho, small amounts of ammonia makes yo feel quite sick, im sure youll find out if its to much
Kiwi Smoker
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I currently 125 hanging my lounge, there is a bit of air movement but not much. Will leave some windows open now. Yes I do feel a bit unwell.
MadFarmer
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Acute non-carcinogenic effects
Maybe also go outdoors.Kiwi Smoker
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This is about benzine but I'm moving the curing process outdoors very soon. Thanks.
Kiwi Smoker
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When I say 125 hanging indoors I mean leaves not whole plants.
Kiwi Smoker
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I have a couple of Virginia Maryland plants that are looking mature and I'm wondering if it's a good idea to hang them as a whole plant to cure them. I've done this with my Izmir Ozbas which seems to work well as they didn't cure well as individual leaves. I've never grown these strains before.
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Virginia flue-cure varieties are best flue-cured, but can be sun-cured on the stalk. Maryland varieties are usually stalk-cut and air-cured on the stalk in a curing shed.
Bob
Bob
How long ago did you top the flower heads?
Kiwi Smoker
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I've been taking them off for about 3 months now and they are still coming. The plants are in buckets and I've read they mature differently.
Kiwi Smoker
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Hi all, I have deformed leaves at the top but the PH is about 5.8 so I'm wondering if the feed is to blame.
Kiwi Smoker
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Hi, is there any 
advantage of hanging the whole stick when color curing please. Thanks.
advantage of hanging the whole stick when color curing please. Thanks.
Stalk-curing, by cutting and hanging the entire stalk requires less work, and reduces the rate of leaf drying prior to color change. That is particularly useful when attempting to color-cure in low humidity conditions. Stalk-curing has been routinely used for commercial burley growing. The risk of waiting until the top leaf begins to mature, prior to cutting the entire stalk, is that any bottom leaf that fully cures out in the field may be damaged by wind. Also, for cigar wrapper and binders, individually primed leaves incur less damage.
With some of my taller varieties (e.g. Corojo 99), I have primed the lower leaves as they matured, then stalk-cut the remainder to a length that will fit within my curing shed.
I now also stalk-cut and stalk-cure any Oriental variety. If you are intending to flue-cure any varieties, then the leaves must be individually primed as soon as they show the first signs of maturation.
Bob
With some of my taller varieties (e.g. Corojo 99), I have primed the lower leaves as they matured, then stalk-cut the remainder to a length that will fit within my curing shed.
I now also stalk-cut and stalk-cure any Oriental variety. If you are intending to flue-cure any varieties, then the leaves must be individually primed as soon as they show the first signs of maturation.
Bob
