The "life cycle" of tobacco?

[Anders A]

The "life cycle" of tobacco?

Can I assume/calculate that the tobacco plant has a certain amount of time from sowing until it is mature (flowering), and until the leaves are ripe for harvest?

What I'm looking for is whether it can simply be "harmful" if you sow too early, and let the plants sit in pots indoors for an unnecessarily long time before planting them out, with the result that the plants flower too early and the growth of the plants and leaves is poor.

/Anders

 

[deluxestogie]

Nicotiana tabacum is a sub-tropical, perennial plant. I have experimentally kept a number of seedlings in 3-inch pots, indoors, for up to two years. Each of them was severely stunted, with tiny leaves. They attempted to blossom repeatedly.

Then in the second or third year, I pruned them each to a single, bottom sucker, and transplanted them to the garden for growing in normal outdoor conditions. They grew like freshly germinated transplants, completely healed over their topping scars, and produced fairly nice leaf of a reasonable size.

It's documented in one of my grow logs, but I'll have to search for it, since I can't recall how I named them or which year that was.

Bob

 

[StoneCarver]

Each of them was severely stunted, with tiny leaves.

Sounds like a bonsai. Its interesting that they lived for so long.

 

[DaleB]

Then in the second or third year, I pruned them each to a single, bottom sucker, and transplanted them to the garden for growing in normal outdoor conditions. They grew like freshly germinated transplants, completely healed over their topping scars, and produced fairly nice leaf of a reasonable size.

That is fascinating. I had no idea.

 

[deluxestogie]

It's documented in one of my grow logs...

I finally located this in my 2014 grow log.

Old Fogies

Bob