US Nicotiana Germplasm Collection 2013 Nursery

[FmGrowit]

you missed the "dude is a lady" convo on another thread. lol.

...and she throws jabs too!

You're going to fit right in around here.

Oh, and thanks for the warning on the seeds. I'll be sure to be ready to give them a proper home.

 

[Knucklehead]

Ms. USNicotianaGermplasmCollection - Can we call you something besides USNicotianaGermplasmCollection? That's an awful lot of typing for a dumb country boy. (You certainly don't want this bunch coming up with a nickname, you'd never live that one down.)

 

[Boboro]

And you dont have a arrow at the end of your name cause it to long. The arrow is a quick linck to your post.

 

[leverhead]

...and she throws jabs too!

And lands them too.

 

[BarG]

How cool is that. Welcome, we have so few of the opposite sex take such an interest in our endeavors relating to tobacco and seeds. Given your extensive knowledge and position you are without a doubt a most unique member to FTT.

 

[Ishi]

Tobacco porn and great learning experience, thank you sir...

What do you do with the tobacco once the seeds are harvested?

First dibs...semi local... lol

I think he was wanting to hijack your leaf.

 

[holyRYO]

you missed the "dude is a lady" convo on another thread. lol. no worries tho.

i'm actually working on an arrangment to give the excess seed from my plots to fair trade so that you guys can have a ton of new varieties in your seed bank. look for them to be available for next year's growing season.

Sorry, I came in late as always.

Kidding aside, still curious what you/they do with the leaf?

Noble work you do... thanks again for your contributions.

 

[BarG]

Study and Evaluate! Definately hands on experience. Maybe Root stucture, plant health,disease resistance, leaf quality,genetics,. She is way over my head already in a couple posts. Who knows except the ones that do the research, and what they are researching. Good Question though. I doubt the results from finished cured leaf can be determined immediately without a few guinea pigs. You volunteering?

 

[rainmax]

It's become very popular thread here since "Queen" give us some positive feed back. Nice.
Dear MRS. USNGC (long name) I'm interest Why are some sorts of tobacco written only as PI****** or TI***** numbers?
After my research in original plant inventory data is very often written name of tobacco and region where it came from.
For example some varieties from ex Yugoslavia from TI 1320 to TI 1334 is hard to find in search engine of your site by name.
I'm just curious is there some reason You don't put names, like Jaka Kireciler, Ravnjak, Bajino Bastanska Yaka, Nova Crnja, Tance, Prilep,........, or ?

Btw. Can you share with us shorter name of you, Like Jessica, Ann,....? Welcome to the forum.

 

[holyRYO]

Study and Evaluate! Definately hands on experience. Maybe Root stucture, plant health,disease resistance, leaf quality,genetics,. She is way over my head already in a couple posts. Who knows except the ones that do the research, and what they are researching. Good Question though. I doubt the results from finished cured leaf can be determined immediately without a few guinea pigs. You volunteering?

Yes sir (oops, strike sir, BarG gender ?, in enough trouble), in the name of science, I am... smoking quality is what tobacco DNA is all about... lol

 

[BarG]

That sounds like a yes siree bub to me!

 

[workhorse_01]

And lands them too.

She has a pretty mean hook too. Thank you for the information on the thaw out process. I'll be storing about a hundred of each variety in vacuum storage bags @ -4*F.

 

[deluxestogie]

... smoking quality is what tobacco DNA is all about... lol

Not so lol. Smoking quality is why the USDA refuses to fund the germ plasm bank. Tobacco serves as a well-studied model for plant genetics as applied to many realms of botany.

Bob

 

[JessicaNicot]

Oh, and thanks for the warning on the seeds. I'll be sure to be ready to give them a proper home.

sorry, Bob and i had been talking about it over on the GRIN availability thread. i've got a list of what's growing but i need to add the PI#s to it.

 

[JessicaNicot]

Ms. USNicotianaGermplasmCollection - Can we call you something besides USNicotianaGermplasmCollection? That's an awful lot of typing for a dumb country boy. (You certainly don't want this bunch coming up with a nickname, you'd never live that one down.) View attachment 4876

my name is Jessica

 

[JessicaNicot]

Kidding aside, still curious what you/they do with the leaf?

the nursery isnt cultivated as a traditional commercial field would be and we dont harvest any leaf. we obviously need the flower heads for seed production and without topping the leaf is generally worthless in terms of quality, plus it doesnt get as much fertilizer and such.

however, nc ag research stations get some of their budgets from whats known as "receipts"- money generated from selling surplus commodities produced on the stations. at a number of stations in the state, our plots and the fill they use to finish out the rest of a partially used field are harvested and the leaf is sold. the money generated goes back into the pool for resources for the next year's expenses.

 

[JessicaNicot]

and for Maks-

I'm interest Why are some sorts of tobacco written only as PI****** or TI***** numbers?
After my research in original plant inventory data is very often written name of tobacco and region where it came from.
For example some varieties from ex Yugoslavia from TI 1320 to TI 1334 is hard to find in search engine of your site by name.
I'm just curious is there some reason You don't put names, like Jaka Kireciler, Ravnjak, Bajino Bastanska Yaka, Nova Crnja, Tance, Prilep,........, or ?

the PI#s are the official ID given by the usda for a line and almost everything in GRIN has one. anyone who comes across a PI# can go to GRIN and view any known info/data for that accession. the TI/TC/TW/TH/TM/TR #s are my local inventory numbers and divide the collection into subgroups (and provide an ID for those accessions which do not currently have a PI). i do not believe there was much interest among the tobacco researchers when GRIN was started for the names of accessions (except those in the cultivar collection; the TCs), as there are many TIs for which no name is known (eg, they were found growing beside the road in south america in the 1930s and someone collected seed and sent it back to the US), and there are a lot of instances where the info was not entered or wasnt entered into a readily searchable field.

i know that searching GRIN can be hard. they are moving to a new platform later this year that i hope will solve many of the issues. there are many inaccuracies/omissions/typos in GRIN and one of the things i have spent a lot of time doing is combing thru the records/literature and gleaning information to update GRIN. because im a non-usda newbie and they are moving to a new system, they arent going to waste time training me on how to use the old database. when the new database comes online, i will work very hard to make sure that the most complete and accurate info/data are included, including the accession name if it is known.

 

[SmokesAhoy]

however, nc ag research stations get some of their budgets from whats known as "receipts"- money generated from selling surplus commodities produced on the stations. at a number of stations in the state, our plots and the fill they use to finish out the rest of a partially used field are harvested and the leaf is sold. the money generated goes back into the pool for resources for the next year's expenses.

i wonder if that is something our founder would be interested in for his store.

 

[workhorse_01]

I'm very interested in checking out the new platform. The work you do wont go un-looked at, or unappreciated sometimes the history is worth more than the product.

and for Maks-


the PI#s are the official ID given by the usda for a line and almost everything in GRIN has one. anyone who comes across a PI# can go to GRIN and view any known info/data for that accession. the TI/TC/TW/TH/TM/TR #s are my local inventory numbers and divide the collection into subgroups (and provide an ID for those accessions which do not currently have a PI). i do not believe there was much interest among the tobacco researchers when GRIN was started for the names of accessions (except those in the cultivar collection; the TCs), as there are many TIs for which no name is known (eg, they were found growing beside the road in south america in the 1930s and someone collected seed and sent it back to the US), and there are a lot of instances where the info was not entered or wasnt entered into a readily searchable field.

i know that searching GRIN can be hard. they are moving to a new platform later this year that i hope will solve many of the issues. there are many inaccuracies/omissions/typos in GRIN and one of the things i have spent a lot of time doing is combing thru the records/literature and gleaning information to update GRIN. because im a non-usda newbie and they are moving to a new system, they arent going to waste time training me on how to use the old database. when the new database comes online, i will work very hard to make sure that the most complete and accurate info/data are included, including the accession name if it is known.

 

[Boboro]

We do look forward to seein your work. It will be over my head but I will try to get as much as I can from it.