Chillardbees Grow Em' Like A Pair 2015 Grow Blog (Season 4)

[chillardbee]

Last year Bob started his grow log at 1 st. of January. This year you are the winner. Congratulations.
I believe in great year too. All the best,...

actually I'm the second one to start the grow log for 2015. but I like to think I'm eager enough to start early.

 

[chillardbee]

As odd as this may sound, I think I just quit smoking. 3 Days and no smoking. I can't handle the taste or the smell anymore. I'm just getting over a terrible flu. I don't think I've had a flu this bad since I was a toddler. It was bad and kicked the shit out of me. anyway, If I stay quit, my wife will be happy,and I guess I will be too, I suppose.

I don't know what this means for the grow season.

 

[Cigar]

Same thing happened to me last year around Christmas..I went like 2-weeks and smoked nothing first time in 20+ years..but slowing one at a time 'back-in-the-saddle' but still have that bad taste when cough every now and then like a burnt/charcoal taste nasty.


Cigar

 

[buck]

As odd as this may sound, I think I just quit smoking. 3 Days and no smoking. I can't handle the taste or the smell anymore. I'm just getting over a terrible flu. I don't think I've had a flu this bad since I was a toddler. It was bad and kicked the shit out of me. anyway, If I stay quit, my wife will be happy,and I guess I will be too, I suppose.

I don't know what this means for the grow season.

Oh that's too bad, I'll come buy and take all that bacci off your hands since you don't need it anymore .

 

[DGBAMA]

Glad you are getting over the sickness.

 

[cotillion]

That must have been one hell of a flu! Happy to hear you're feeling better. You'll have 10 lifetime's worth of snuff if you decide to give that a try.

 

[chillardbee]

Well, guess who's smoking again I figured if I can't inhale, try try again and eventually I got it past the cougher hole. It would be a crying shame if I quite at this moment with all the good seed that I want to grow and smoke this year.

This leads me to the next thing. I'm just starting into this years crop to smoke. After all the kilning, deribbing, shredding, roasting, and casing with my marlboro style sauce, I stuffed 4 15 liter pails each with 6kg of baccy and I do mean stuffed, almost as if it were under a press. I broke into one of the pails and brought it back to order and gave it a good mixing then rolled and sample some. It has a nice ferment sweet smell to it. it has a sweet, smooth yet full flavour to it. I think I'm getting better at this.

 

[jolly]

congrats on enjoying the fruits of your labor.

 

[DGBAMA]

Sounds familiar. Experience seems to be the best teacher.
My first grow 2013 I enjoyed, but would venture to say more of the enjoyment was because it was mine and not necessarily how good it actually was. 2014, I enjoy because it really is good.

 

[Brown Thumb]

I Quit all the time, lasts about 25 min.
You scared me for a moment.
Im Looking forward to your Grow Log.

 

[chillardbee]

So I might revise my garden plans before I start any seeds so I can grow a few more varieties. I diffenatly want to grow N7371 burley again (I still have some of the original seeds from Lakota. Another variety might be the african red and McNair. Ihave have an area where my compost was setting all winter and I'd like to grow a single plant of white mammoth there to see how big it can get.

I'm still not finished ripping the roots out of the garden from last years grows. next week is suppose to be sunshine striaght through so maybe I'll be able to get it done and cleaned.

 

[Chicken]

I'm going with 3 wide per row..

Your list is impressive

 

[chillardbee]

I'd feel sorry for the weather you guys back east are having but the sunny 62f weather we're having here has pushed everthing to be at least 3 weeks early. In some cases it can happen that we end up having a bit of snow or a cold snap but I think this might not happen.

So I've got all the root balls pulled and everything racked up. I just have to get rid of that now and lay down manure, rotor till the rows then put the plastic mulch on. I think I'll be starting the seed exactly 4 weeks from now (1 week before april seems good to me for this year). I'm trying to sweet talk my wife into letting me have the whole garden but I don't think that'll fly, to bad too because I think this year could be the bumper crop year.

I like chickens idea of a triple row. The very first year that I grew baccy I had a triple row where the plants in a single row were 2' apart and each row was 1.5' apart and staggered. In my situation, I think I would get the most volume for my space if I did 4 rows like that. That might be my set up for 2017. 2016 is my 'size matters' year with a very generous spacing planned.

 

[DGBAMA]

Size doesn't matter. Finished weight does. I am going to single rows this year to see what happens. I have been doing the double staggered, and although growth has been great, cured weight per plant has not. Wondering if they are shading themselves too much resulting in thinner leaf. We will see.

 

[Chicken]

But im going for mass volume..i want put as many plants as i can get in my spot...

 

[chillardbee]

Garden is totally cleaned up and I've layed out some compost in the rows. I've got another pile of compost to lay out yet and then I'm going to rotor till the rows. Spring is just around the corner for if it isn't here already. Everything is 3-4 weeks early including the bees. We've had so little rain that I'm concerned that if this is the trend through the next months that we may not have enough water in our resoviours, i'll pack from the river if i have to.

Anyway, I'll be starting the seeds around or on March 21st using the tissue in the container method like the way I did it back in 2013.

I might of won back a bit more of the garden from my wife. she seems to be happy with the little plot I've given her. That leaves me with a 40' x 24' garden that I can use. Since the plans have changed, my garden map will be different and I'll post an updated version soon.

I think this year will be a good year.

 

[Knucklehead]

Best of luck Will.

 

[chillardbee]

Alright, Here it is. I've updated my list.

1. bright yellow
2. yellow mammoth
3. yellow special
4. yellow gold
5. golden harvest
6.white gold
7. delhi 76
8. delhi 61
9. delcrest 66
10. carolina bright
11. bamboo shoot
12. banana leaf
13. lemon bright
14. del gold
15. african red
16. N7371 burley
17. barnett special
18. burley mammoth
19. haronova
20. harrow 12
21. izmir
22. prilep p66-9/7
23. bursa
24. chillardbees angel leaf
25. burley 21
26. k326
27. mcnair 373
28. gold dollar
29. virginia bright leaf
30. burley com var

I started the germination in the containers with wet paper towels this year on March 20th in the year of our lord 2015. varieties of 1 through to 24 are distand for the main garden. 25 and 30 are going just behind the house. 26-29 are going to be planted in a corn field next to my bee hives. I also started White mammoth, Big gem, Bonanza, Harrow velvet, and golden burley as back up seeds incase any of the others fail to germinate. varieties 1-10 and 17-20 are new this year from the Grin request. 11 and 12 are new this year from US Hog (thank you). 13-16 and 21 -30 are repeats from last year. out of the repeats, I'm eager for the N7371 burley. The varieties on stanby for back up were from the 2013 collection.

I have rotortill the rows in the garden to make them wider and I purchased som black plastice mulch that I'm laying down. the roll is a folded 10' wide by 100' long so i've been cutting 2.5' wide strips and laying it down in 10' sections. this is an ongoing project.

Monday or tuesday is the day I'll fill the starter pots with soil and it'll likely be the next day that I transfer the sprouts. By the end of next week, everything should be outside in the cold frame.

 

[DGBAMA]

Nice list. A lot of names I don't recognize. Good luck this year.

 

[Brown Thumb]

What is Chillardbees angle leaf?
bt