Workhorse's 2013 bacca patch

[Chicken]

just looked over your whole journal, i really like the old bacca signs with the negro's on it,

classic stuff there, could you imagine what would happen if someone did some advertising like that this day and time,?

you georgia people and your ROAD SIGNS kill me,,,,,i just visited the ALBANY BYPASS last friday,,,,,$###@#%$^^&&*** georgia signs,,,

completelly missed my exit, had to turn around, in TOWN<

and get back on it, to proceed to SMITHVILLE, hwy 19 north<&&^%^%$$ damn georgia signs,<<

soon i'll have my apportioned tags,,, so ill call ya when im coming your way.

and cotton season is coming up... i'll be in your area very soon,

 

[workhorse_01]

The advertising reminds me of a different time. I remember when some of those were still hanging in the Buckingham store in Fort Meyers Fl. The only sign your safe with is I-75! With the rest of them It will say US-1,23,401,223,59,12,93,101,401,219,113,45,39, and as many more numbers as the roadsign can hold! and lord forbid you ever come to a road repair project! I once counted 23 signs in a 1/4 mile, if I would have read each sign I would have driven a mile of road without looking at it.

just looked over your whole journal, i really like the old bacca signs with the negro's on it,

classic stuff there, could you imagine what would happen if someone did some advertising like that this day and time,?

you georgia people and your ROAD SIGNS kill me,,,,,i just visited the ALBANY BYPASS last friday,,,,,$###@#%$^^&&*** georgia signs,,,

completelly missed my exit, had to turn around, in TOWN<

and get back on it, to proceed to SMITHVILLE, hwy 19 north<&&^%^%$$ damn georgia signs,<<

soon i'll have my apportioned tags,,, so ill call ya when im coming your way.

and cotton season is coming up... i'll be in your area very soon,

 

[johnlee1933]

The only sign your safe with is I-75! With the rest of them It will say US-1,23,401,223,59,12,93,101,401,219,113,45,39, and as many more numbers as the roadsign can hold! and lord forbid you ever come to a road repair project! I once counted 23 signs in a 1/4 mile, if I would have read each sign I would have driven a mile of road without looking at it.

Yeah but the guy who makes signs is doin' just fine.

 

[workhorse_01]

So is the guy who supply's him his paint.

Yeah but the guy who makes signs is doin' just fine.

 

[workhorse_01]

I thought I'd post these for anyone wanting to know just hover over for names

 

[workhorse_01]

Tonight I begin the long journey of transplanting about 350 plants from start trays to individual cups. If I have any fingers left tomorrow I'll post pics

 

[DGBAMA]

Tonight I begin the long journey of transplanting about 350 plants from start trays to individual cups. If I have any fingers left tomorrow I'll post pics

I beleive I am going to try the "haircutting" method, trimming the leaves of my bigger ones so they don't shade out the smaller; as opposed to doing a second transplanting. Or I may get ambitious and cup plant half and haircut the other half, monitoring them to maturity to see which ones do better or if there is any difference at all. First year for me, so many options to think about.

 

[Fisherman]

Dont be scared to cut them BUT dont cut the main center bud is all

 

[workhorse_01]

I transplanted as many plants as I could last night and the night before. My son had a baseball game Tue. and my daughter had softball wed. so this has slowed me down. My plants are growing well and are on track for a planting about the first week of June. If I have offended anyone with comments on another page please accept my most sincere apology. If someone had of pm'd me I would have edited my comments myself. In the future I'll be keeping my posts strictly about tobacco and nothing else.

 

[Knucklehead]

That wouldn't have worked. I kept rethinking my wikipedia link and by the time I made up my mind to delete it, my edit button had timed out. So, I hit the "report post" button on mypost. By that time, your edit button would have been gone, too. Upon even further reflection, as a gov't employee, Jessica won't be able to continue posting here if we keep up with the controversial stuff. Sorry, brother. We were all wrong, but I want to accept my share of the responsibility.

 

[workhorse_01]

Not a problem. The posts I make in the future will be non offensive to anyone. This site is about growing curing and using tobacco, and that's how it should be.

 

[Chicken]

Not a problem. The posts I make in the future will be non offensive to anyone. This site is about growing curing and using tobacco, and that's how it should be.

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[workhorse_01]

If I was a smoker and saw this video it would make me roll my own. I wonder how many people Know they're smoking stems instead of leaf? My dad always said that " snuff was made from stems and chewing tobacco was sand lugs, but cigarettes were the nice leaf " This video says different.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fO5ZjUmyOR0

 

[holyRYO]

If I was a smoker and saw this video it would make me roll my own. I wonder how many people Know they're smoking stems instead of leaf? My dad always said that " snuff was made from stems and chewing tobacco was sand lugs, but cigarettes were the nice leaf " This video says different.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fO5ZjUmyOR0

Maybe in the old days, lol... now you would be lucky to get all stems and sand lugs in a cigarette, lol... even the low cost dual purpose RYO tobacco out there, I suspect is mostly sand lugs, lol... whole leaf is the guarantee...

 

[workhorse_01]

I've seen a lot of questions about tobaccos ability to self pollinate, when bagged do we have to bump or shake it? do we need to have an insect in the bag? The answer is no it will self polinate. There are others with a lot more knowledge than me here that have grown tobacco for many years and saved seed. They have said that there is no danger of a wind driven cross pollination. Insects are the main culprits. Here is a study on self pollination. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15086797/

 

[deluxestogie]

Workhorse,
That's an interesting article, but is a bit off the direct question of self-pollination in tobacco.

In the spring of 2012, I started a number of tobacco varieties in 3-1/2" pots. These were maintained exclusively indoors, inside an enclosed, sunny back porch. The porch had no fan, and no exposure to wind or other means of mechanical jostling. Each plant grew as a narrow, spindly thing, with understandably runty leaves. By mid-winter, each had produced a diminutive bud head, which yielded a small number of fat, normal appearing seed pods by self-pollination (without insects, or movement). The seed yield was excellent.

Of course, this method of seed production does not allow the grower to identify a "true to type" plant from which to collect seed. But it does allow the production of genetically identical seed. I'm not sure if it would be a useful approach for any but unusual situations.

It does, however indicate that an outdoor grown tobacco plant that is bagged does not require either insects or intentional jostling.

Bob

 

[JessicaNicot]

It does, however indicate that an outdoor grown tobacco plant that is bagged does not require either insects or intentional jostling.

in general i find this to be true of most tobacco cultivars as the tip of the stigma and the anthers are generally in close proximity. HOWEVER, there are a number of accessions i have found where this isnt the case and either the stigma protrudes far beyond the anthers or vice versa. these accessions are best hand pollinated because they will not usually set seed on their own. i have also come across a couple accessions which are simply poor pollen producers. i have been working on one in the greenhouse for a while and even manual self pollination produces only a trivial amount of seed.

 

[BigBonner]

in general i find this to be true of most tobacco cultivars as the tip of the stigma and the anthers are generally in close proximity. HOWEVER, there are a number of accessions i have found where this isnt the case and either the stigma protrudes far beyond the anthers or vice versa. these accessions are best hand pollinated because they will not usually set seed on their own. i have also come across a couple accessions which are simply poor pollen producers. i have been working on one in the greenhouse for a while and even manual self pollination produces only a trivial amount of seed.

Years ago my Wife in here early teens 1978 or 79 , worked for Clay tobacco seeds . They would gather pollen then go back with a Q-tip and pollinate tobacco plants .

 

[JessicaNicot]

Years ago my Wife in here early teens 1978 or 79 , worked for Clay tobacco seeds . They would gather pollen then go back with a Q-tip and pollinate tobacco plants .

they do something similar at GoldLeaf in SC. they harvest unopened anthers a day prior to doing their pollinations. i think they put the shed pollen in tiny scintilation vials though and just poke the stigmas in the vials. it may have just been for male sterile varieties. its been several years since i was there on a tour.

 

[workhorse_01]

I've polinated cumquats where the stigma was too far out. My que tip sure did some nice work there. Each year my wife laughes at me for pollinating my oranges and tangellos. I say I'm just helping out. Once a Floridian always a Floridian no matter where you live.

in general i find this to be true of most tobacco cultivars as the tip of the stigma and the anthers are generally in close proximity. HOWEVER, there are a number of accessions i have found where this isnt the case and either the stigma protrudes far beyond the anthers or vice versa. these accessions are best hand pollinated because they will not usually set seed on their own. i have also come across a couple accessions which are simply poor pollen producers. i have been working on one in the greenhouse for a while and even manual self pollination produces only a trivial amount of seed.