Indoor grow tent! Swedish snus variety Tofta!

[loui loui]

I noticed that when the stalk of the seed pod is brown it is dead and dry like the seed pod.
The seeds are loose in the seed pod, it is like a maracas when shaked.
This is just from one plant and I have more pods that soon will be brown.
I will have enough seeds for a life-time then.
Thanks for the help friends!

 

[deluxestogie]

You may want to read this thread.

Best Practices: seed saving

I thought I was following good seed saving practices, but clearly was not. I germinated 12 varieties some of which sprouted most did not. Mine. Can we get a discussion from harvesting to storage? I hang the stalk to dry, crush the pods and sift the seeds, bag and store in the basement...

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Bob

 

[Alpine]

I will have enough seeds for a life-time then.

Not exactly… if properly stored (I.e. in a dry, cold and dark place) seeds can remain viable up to ten years, way less if stored in some place with high humidity. A wise practice is to refresh your seed bank by regrowing your favourite strains every 7 to 10 years.

pier

Edit: Bob has, as usual, beaten me to it!

 

[loui loui]

Thanks, I may put some seeds in the freezer.
I was thinking of buying plastic vials to keep the seeds in but I ordered zip lock bags instead.
It will be fun to give seeds to friends.

 

[loui loui]

I did cut the seed pods in half with a sharp knife and poured out the seeds. I got plenty of seeds to give away to friends...

...and much more seeds coming!

Still got some flowers in the tent.

 

[skychaser]

depending on strain and agricultural conditions

It depends very much on the strain and the growing conditions. Some are profuse seed producers and you can easily get 1-200,000 seeds from one plant. But other strains produce a fraction of that. Most burleys tend to have a very open heads and are relativity low seed producers. Especially the more modern white stemmed strains that already have ripe leaves when the plant has barely began blooming.

 

[loui loui]

Seed packet given away to friend.

 

[loui loui]

I thought the plants would wither after blooming but not yet, they just continue to flower and grow new shoots.

Seed pods ready to be harvested, notice the brown and dead stalk.

 

[Knucklehead]

Are you fertilizing? That can kick them into a growth stage.

 

[loui loui]

Are you fertilizing? That can kick them into a growth stage.

Yes, i am using tomato nutrients at the strength indicated on the bottle.
The plant still get new shoots, I think the plant wants to live forever.

 

[JOE1977]

Have been enjoying this thread. Thinking about trying this myself for a fun project.

I assume that if the plant would be selectively harvested, i.e., not die, that it would continue to live indefinitely. Kinda curious how the leaves would progress or digress in quality over time.

 

[loui loui]

Have been enjoying this thread. Thinking about trying this myself for a fun project.

I assume that if the plant would be selectively harvested, i.e., not die, that it would continue to live indefinitely. Kinda curious how the leaves would progress or digress in quality over time.

It looks like the plant is using the energy to produce new shoots, flowers and seeds so one may have to remove those to get big leaves instead. It seems like I have to choose, big leaves or new shoots. I let the plant grow new shoots to see what happens, for tobacco leaves I think I would just grow leaves, remove all new shoots, harvest and grow new plants.

I think it is a fun project to grow plants in a grow tent, the plants grow fast so it is very satisfying.

 

[graytobacco]

This is very cool. I would love to have an indoor grow one day.

 

[loui loui]

Color curing in the tent did work very good.

 

[loui loui]

Still some snow left on the fields...

 

[loui loui]

I found a duck walking on the ice yesterday. The ice is soon gone cause it is spring weather on the way.

 

[loui loui]

Hereby the coltsfoot declare that the spring is here!

 

[Anders A]

Hereby the coltsfoot declare that the spring is here!
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My grandma called them "Feslullor" I don't know how to translate it into English, but something with the word fart in it

 

[loui loui]

My grandma called them "Feslullor" I don't know how to translate it into English, but something with the word fart in it

Allright, then I will call them feslullor, funny name!

I have been waiting for the first wild flowers because I like to walk around with the dog and my camera and look for flowers on the fields.
I have a very big and nice field here that have been a military field a very long time and now it is protected area that is used for farming by traditional methods so they have cows and sheep that they transport between the pastures on a funny train on wheels. It is beautiful cows of the viking type with long hair and big horns.
Ko means Cow.


I have even seen when they transport sheep to the pasture in a volvo 245 here.

The traditional farming methods make the fields very suitable for some flowers and insects that need cows so it is very fun to walk around and and look for flowers in the pastures when they are empty.

My father used to live by the field and help me identify the plants I had photographed but now I have to do it myself so it is quite a challenge.

Feslullor was the first wild flower I found this year but lilly of the valley is also a very early flower.

According to wikipedia feslullor have medicinal properties and used to be smoked against cough and asthma, also the sale of feslullor is forbidden in Germany because they have had some kind of accidents but it was probably from the use of a similar but poisonus flower.

I have a new macro lens that is super sharp so this year I can take really good photos of even the smallest plants like moss.
This is a super small plant that grow on stone together with moss, I wonder what it is called.

 

[deluxestogie]

Maybe Juniper Haircap Moss.

Bob