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Dan · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:06 pm Post subject:

Okay - will do.

goldfishpondmaster · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject: some are in tha ground

hey guys, just thought i would at least post something, well i have 120 plants in the ground, have little over 400 more to go

good luck all
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Dan · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 8:51 am Post subject:

That's a beautiful set up. Here check this one out. When you all stop laughing I'll tell you what it's all about. The name of this photo is "I'm growing milk jugs"

Another view of my milk jug garden:

Okay now here's the story. I have a flea beetle problem. A big one. I can't keep those little SB's off my sprouts. I dust them with seven. I dust them with diatomacious earth and I dust them with a mix of the two. These products work fine until it rains then the little buggers attack. Mercilessly. I put my plants under milk jugs till they're almost pushing out the top then I take the jugs off. I've won. . . LOL

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These next two pictures are my answer to someone who asked a few weeks ago about seeds freezing. Are they still viable if they get caught outside and freeze. Here are sprouts from seeds that spent all of last winter out in my barn. We had several nights in the low single digits.

Here they are in the pot one over to the left of the ones in the upper right hand corner of my cold frame.

bob_kemp · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:09 am Post subject: Goldfish

hi,

Thanks for the pic! Can I ask how for between the plants in-row these are? I would also like to see a close up of a plant in the ground with something for scale so I can see how big they are and some details, like what kind of tobacco is it? Where are you and have you grown it before? How much cured leaf do you expect per plant and how do you cure it? How do you store it once cured for aging?

I'm planting about 240 - 300 plants myself in N. Central Texas, clay soils I amended with much horse manure compost and the 120 plants I have out so far seem to be doing ok.

Thanks in advance for your reply,

Bob

russ · Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 29 Location: n.mi

dan gave the mail man the cash today like i said i would by the way did you adapt #5 for colder climates and beginners like me thier tuff and faster growing than my other 3 kinds and like i said way more turnout than my others

russ · Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 29 Location: n.mi

bob do you have any silk leaf seeds for sale if you do how much for them i live to far away to buy a house plant from you i will keep the seeds for next years crop russ

Dan · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject:

No I didn't do anything special to them. But it is a very hardy plant.

russ · Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 29 Location: n.mi

dan if you could add a #5 packet of seeds to my order russ

bob_kemp · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:10 am Post subject: silk leaf seeds

Russ, no I don't have any ....yet! As I said on the other forum, this is the 4th time I've grown tobacco and the last 3 times I grew a burley, which I saved seeds from but can't seem to locate now. This tobacco seed was bought recently from New Hope seed company and I'll make plenty of seeds to use for next year and to pass around.

Dan, cool milk jug garden. Some day I'll post a pic of my Old Appliance garden....

Bob

goldfishpondmaster · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 6:36 am Post subject:

i have 12 diff strains going, this is wisconson seedleaf
this is the first year of growing tobacco for me

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