MadFarmer's 2021 Grow

[MadFarmer]

Pot grown bahia has slightly larger leaves than the two in the bed. I'm guessing this is due to spacing, the bed plants are ~16" apart.

Corojo is a beast. I realized this week I haven't smoked a cigar with Corojo in it. Any recommendations for a store bought stick featuring Corojo?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Any recommendations for a store bought stick featuring Corojo?

I googled that. Outof the list I saw, the only ones I've smoked are the Rocky Patel Edge which I kinda remember not being impressive, and the Camacho Corojo which I've always enjoyed.

 

[deluxestogie]

Today, most Cuban cigars are mostly Corojo 99.

Bob

 

[MadFarmer]

Picked a dozen of these guys off my plants:


Dispatched them to the bird bath.

Also found this:

 

[MadFarmer]

Three Bahia plants just beginning to flower. I expected them to be first. What I didn't expect was the Hacienda del Cura flowering right along with them.

Two of them haven't grown much more than a foot tall. The one in the back looks fine, twice as tall and no flower head showing. Could the nearby Bahia be influencing the two Curas?

 

[MadFarmer]

 

[Knucklehead]

How much sun do you get and what fertilizer?

 

[deluxestogie]

Could the nearby Bahia be influencing the two Curas?

I have never noticed any timing influence from adjacent plants.

Bob

EDIT: Do you have any "security" lights shining on them?

 

[MadFarmer]

I put down tomato fertilizer, like a 3-2-3 a week before I planted them. I also applied fish emulsion six weeks ago. They get full sun for 8 to 9 hours with an additional two hours of dappled light first thing in the morning.

Bob, I keep all my lights off at night. The neighbors have security lights but they're not on every night, neither are they on all night.

 

[Knucklehead]

I put down tomato fertilizer, like a 3-2-3 a week before I planted them. I also applied fish emulsion six weeks ago. They get full sun for 8 to 9 hours with an additional two hours of dappled light first thing in the morning.

Bob, I keep all my lights off at night. The neighbors have security lights but they're not on every night, neither are they on all night.

I’ve had different varieties flower early with no rhyme or reason. As best as I can recall they usually end up with nice healthy looking leaves of the typical number of leaves and end up with a nice harvest. They are usually just shorter but with closer spaced leaves. They will be fine.

 

[deluxestogie]

I agree with @Knucklehead that it's difficult to pinpoint a rhyme or reason. My sense is that a combination of flip-floppy ambient temperature and lighting trigger blossoming. There may also be an epigenetic component, remaining from conditions occurring during the previous grow.

As for night-period sensitivity, it takes just a momentary flash of light from a vehicle headlamp to restart the night-length timer. It's all confusing to me (and to the poor plants). It's a wonder that any plants survive modern civilization.

Bob

 

[smallwanderings]

It's a wonder that any plants survive modern civilization

- or people, for that matter

 

[MadFarmer]

Bahia blossoms before sunrise. This is the unfiltered version. Has anyone that's grown Bahia let it shrub out like it wants and does that effect the finished leaf in any way? I'm going for size this first time around.

 

[deluxestogie]

Nice photo.

let it shrub out like it wants

I'm not sure what you mean. Suckers ultimately reduce the final size of the primary leaves. Not topping reduces the alkaloids in the primary leaves.

Bob

EDIT: The lower you top, the larger and more potent the remaining leaves. Under about 15 to 18 leaves, the productivity is reduced, even with larger leaves.

 

[MarcL]

I'm liking your new avatar a lot @MadFarmer !

 

[MadFarmer]

I told him if he felt safer there he could stay as long as he liked.

 

[Knucklehead]

I told him if he felt safer there he could stay as long as he liked. View attachment 36570

Lol. Organic insecticide?
Nice photo. Love it.
New FTT mascot.

 

[MadFarmer]

Here I go to all the time and trouble to kill every hornworm I find, only to lose leaves to a damned grasshopper:

Tobacco in the gloaming:

 

[MadFarmer]

Something I've never seen before. I believe the little black specks emerged from this.

 

[deluxestogie]

Some sort of winged non-tobacco ingredient. I don't recognize them.

Bob