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September 6th, 2010, 5:08am Home | Help | Search | Login | Register    Tobacco Forums    General    Your pictures    photos of my crop (Moderators: admin, coffinails, Aquila, michelle) Pages: 1 Reply | Notify of replies | Send the topic | Print     Author  Topic: photos of my crop  (Read 661 times) thomas_usa Coffinails Newbie Posts: 33 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail photos of my crop « on: September 1st, 2009, 10:10am » | Reply with quote | Modify this is my first year growing tobacco. these are my burley originals, some are 8 feet tall and still growing. i have a total of 45 plants, 10 of the plants are virginia gold.  my virginias only grew 4 to 5 feet tall, is that normal? maybe burley is called burley for a reason. according to webster (spelt this way) burly: strongly and heavily built, husky,muscular,brawny, beefy,hefty. the fence is  to keep out the blunt smoking city kids. barbed wire also helps                                                                          « Last Edit: September 1st, 2009, 10:50am by thomas_usa » Logged thomas_usa Coffinails Newbie Posts: 33 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #1 on: September 1st, 2009, 10:14am » | Reply with quote | Modify my crop as seen from my porch. my virginias are the first 5 on the right of the photo. another 5 are directly behind them.                                                                      « Last Edit: September 1st, 2009, 10:22am by thomas_usa » Logged thomas_usa Coffinails Newbie Posts: 33 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #2 on: September 1st, 2009, 10:26am » | Reply with quote | Modify strung up on wires. proper spacing reduces the risk of mildew. i've been picking some of the not so green bottom leaves for some time now                                                                                « Last Edit: September 1st, 2009, 10:31am by thomas_usa » Logged thomas_usa Coffinails Newbie Posts: 33 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #3 on: September 1st, 2009, 10:34am » | Reply with quote | Modify  i let one of my burleys flower. dont pay attention to the date on the picture. REALITY IS ONLY AN ILLUSION CREATED BY A LACK OF ALCOHOL.                                             « Last Edit: September 1st, 2009, 10:39am by thomas_usa » Logged burner Coffinails Full Member Posts: 102 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #4 on: September 1st, 2009, 2:23pm » | Reply with quote | Modify Great job Thomas you should be proud of your results Logged thomas_usa Coffinails Newbie Posts: 33 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #5 on: September 1st, 2009, 2:46pm » | Reply with quote | Modify on September 1st, 2009, 2:23pm, burner wrote: Great job Thomas you should be proud of your results thanks. Logged wydeboi Guest E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #6 on: September 1st, 2009, 3:21pm » | Reply with quote | Modify Most excellent, way to go!   Logged Nordbo Coffinails Newbie Posts: 23 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | Re: photos of my crop « Reply #7 on: September 1st, 2009, 3:24pm » | Reply with quote | Modify . Nice locking  . Tobacco is likes gold,maybe soon we can have some leaf in wallet, instead of money.   Logged thomas_usa Coffinails Newbie Posts: 33 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #8 on: September 1st, 2009, 5:10pm » | Reply with quote | Modify on September 1st, 2009, 3:21pm, wydeboi wrote: Most excellent, way to go!    thanks, just a couple of questions. what would happen if we got a frost? would the leaves still be good? « Last Edit: September 1st, 2009, 5:11pm by thomas_usa » Logged wydeboi Guest E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #9 on: September 1st, 2009, 5:50pm » | Reply with quote | Modify Frost is not good. If you get a frost before you harvest, try to be out in the patch before the sun hits them and wash the frost off. A light frost won't kill them but it will damage the leaves if the sun hits it. Logged thomas_usa Coffinails Newbie Posts: 33 I love YaBB 1 Gold!     View Profile | E-Mail Re: photos of my crop « Reply #10 on: September 1st, 2009, 5:55pm » | Reply with quote | Modify on September 1st, 2009, 5:50pm, wydeboi wrote: Frost is not good. If you get a frost before you harvest, try to be out in the patch before the sun hits them and wash the frost off. 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