StoneCarver
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Y'know, for being a dental floss tycoon, I figured you'd use dental floss to string up your leaves. You must have lots of it to spare. Or am I missing something?
ShiniKoroshi Grow Blog 2025
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ShiniKoroshi
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Too thin and will easily cut into the stem.
ShiniKoroshi
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Be like this Tofta and never stop growing!
This is from the first plants at the beginning of this grow and its way over my head.
Meanwhile, I planted 12 Ahus about 6 weeks ago and topped last week. Everything else are suckers that have been topped.
We will see if I have enough time to cure. Its been unusually chilly after two weeks of clouds and rain.
Im using low concentration copper to mitigate the growth of rust/target spot. If sunshine continues these should ripen well.
One lonely oriental sucker from a stump I missed.
This is from the first plants at the beginning of this grow and its way over my head.
Meanwhile, I planted 12 Ahus about 6 weeks ago and topped last week. Everything else are suckers that have been topped.
We will see if I have enough time to cure. Its been unusually chilly after two weeks of clouds and rain.
Im using low concentration copper to mitigate the growth of rust/target spot. If sunshine continues these should ripen well.
One lonely oriental sucker from a stump I missed.
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Is this plant bed exposed to nighttime light that differs from your other beds?
Bob
ShiniKoroshi
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ShiniKoroshi
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Ive decided I need better soil and a lot more of it. Farmville somewhere in the South and someone can take my place in Central Florida.
StoneCarver
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Your soil does appear to be sandy which is tricky as the nutrients will quickly percolate out.
Maybe mulch around your plants during the growing season and pile on the compost in between growing seasons.
For getting more land, just find some Indians, round them up and put them on a reservation. Then their land is yours!
Maybe mulch around your plants during the growing season and pile on the compost in between growing seasons.
For getting more land, just find some Indians, round them up and put them on a reservation. Then their land is yours!
ShiniKoroshi
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Feather or dot?
StoneCarver
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Depends on which continent you're on.
ShiniKoroshi
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Florida is in North America.
ShiniKoroshi
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Looks like most of these will be ready for harvest this week. Ill give the plants in the back another 5-10 days.
Largest Ahus leaf is 19" x 15" and rather thick but not sticky.
Largest Ahus leaf is 19" x 15" and rather thick but not sticky.
ShiniKoroshi
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Half of my ancestry is of Colonial stock. The other side post WW1 European refugees except for my Grandmother who was Cherokee. With that being said, the very spot you are standing is my land no matter how you slice it.
Seriously though, for all the SJW drumbeats re:immigration not a single one has stood up for the native Nations of North America. Not one! Think about that.....it won't cost you a thing.
StoneCarver
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I jest but I'm mixed too; a person would have to put a lot of thought into why I jest the way I do in order to understand what I'm really saying but I think you get it. I don't like seeing history get whitewashed as it is these days but I'm willing to joke about it. I probably have native ancestry from 4-5 different tribes including Cherokee of course. My ancestors had been living in the Appalachian mtns since prior to the American Revolution. It was Cherokee land then.
Growing tobacco is more than making something nice for myself to smoke but also as a way to pay respects to who we owe for having tobacco.
Consider it an act of remembrance.
I'm amazed your growing season is still going down there.
Growing tobacco is more than making something nice for myself to smoke but also as a way to pay respects to who we owe for having tobacco.
Consider it an act of remembrance.
I'm amazed your growing season is still going down there.
ShiniKoroshi
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I do get you and we are not as mixed as "the science" would have us believe. Europeans and North American natives share a common ancestor, Cro-Magnon.
As to the long growing season, its really been a mild summer/fall and Ive never seen it this chilly in October. Daytime temperatures are still in the 80's but I am cutting it really close. Ahus is a fast grower and I wanted these suckers from everything else so why not? Worst that can happen is funky tobacco. Meanwhile Im having a blast!
Returning to and connecting with nature, I totally get that hence my willingness to leave Florida. I miss seeing the stars and the edge of the Galaxy and hearing the sounds of hooting owls for miles. Jefferson was right, cities and dense population are toxic to humans (not an exact quote).
As to the long growing season, its really been a mild summer/fall and Ive never seen it this chilly in October. Daytime temperatures are still in the 80's but I am cutting it really close. Ahus is a fast grower and I wanted these suckers from everything else so why not? Worst that can happen is funky tobacco. Meanwhile Im having a blast!
Returning to and connecting with nature, I totally get that hence my willingness to leave Florida. I miss seeing the stars and the edge of the Galaxy and hearing the sounds of hooting owls for miles. Jefferson was right, cities and dense population are toxic to humans (not an exact quote).
I live above the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwest Virginia. I used to enjoy those as well. But living in the very same spot for 27 years, I have heard fewer and fewer owls, and the stars have mostly vanished, due to generalized light pollution, even in this once rural location. Despite my being able to name scores of constellations, the last time I could actually see most of them was on a trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, six years ago.
Bob the Sad
ShiniKoroshi
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Here we are come full circle only to find we are more alike than different. This is the way!
ShiniKoroshi
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Harvested some of the Little Dutch and Japan 8 but Ahus still isn't ready.
Not bad for suckers! 8" x 29" for LD.
9" x 20 for Japan 8. (background- row-1 LD & LY just came out of the kiln)
White fuzz on my leaves is the silk from a milkweed seed pod. Can you spot the caterpillars? There is more than 20.
Behind the milkweed my daughter planted Purple Perfume Tobacco.
Not bad for suckers! 8" x 29" for LD.
9" x 20 for Japan 8. (background- row-1 LD & LY just came out of the kiln)
White fuzz on my leaves is the silk from a milkweed seed pod. Can you spot the caterpillars? There is more than 20.
Behind the milkweed my daughter planted Purple Perfume Tobacco.
ShiniKoroshi
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Closer pic of two fat Monarch caterpillars.
My daughter has grown milkweed and other butterfly host and nectar plants yearly since she was 6. When Monarch were more plentiful we would start tagging in October as they make their way to Mexico.
Learn more about butterfly tagging and becoming a Monarch waystation at MonarchWatch.org
My daughter has grown milkweed and other butterfly host and nectar plants yearly since she was 6. When Monarch were more plentiful we would start tagging in October as they make their way to Mexico.
Learn more about butterfly tagging and becoming a Monarch waystation at MonarchWatch.org