JessicaNicot
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i wonder if mine is so much smaller (its knee high in that photo) because it got in the field a lot later than it would have under usual circumstances... or perhaps something to do with the unusually cool spring. idk.
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i wonder if mine is so much smaller (its knee high in that photo) because it got in the field a lot later than it would have under usual circumstances... or perhaps something to do with the unusually cool spring. idk.
workhorse_01
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It air dries to a nice brown with a red tint. The leaves will grow in a spiral it reminded me of a swastica with out the lunatic! The bottom of the leaves are very sticky and mine swetted on top of the leaves in the hot sun.The cured product smells and taste like a cross between Taylor's pride and Levi Garrett. Great plant too grow.
skychaser
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It was unusually cold and overcast here two years ago during late May and early June. It caused many different varieties to bolt to flower very prematurely. I had Burley 21 that flowered when it was 18 inches tall! For what ever reasons, very cool and cloudy weather just before and during planting time really affects the seedlings. I guess they think fall is coming and go straight to bloom. The good news is that nearly every variety that bolted reached normal size by years end. The Burley 21 ended up over 6 feet. It just had to wear a hat all summer. So get ready to start bagging plants earlier than you had expected.
JessicaNicot
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so i went out to clayton to hoe weeds and check on the field after Andrea went by last weekend. apparently they got a deluge over a couple days amounting to 6.5" of rain. thankfully our field was ok, but the same cant be said for the soybeans they just planted in the field where our nursery was last year:
our plants got beat pretty bad and are struggling. im not quite sure about why they are manifesting this awful wilting yet:
there are a number of plots that also have this flecking damage that i do not yet understand either. i dont think its a disease, but maybe some sort of damage from blowing sand.
also for bob, i hoed into pieces several horn worms while i was out there, plus a bud worm and some other yellow fluffy and quick moving caterpilar. i dont partake in your joy for worm killing, but it had to be done. its been so wet (with more rain yet again today) that they havent been able to spray. hopefully he'll be able to get in there with the tractor and spray rig tomorrow.
our plants got beat pretty bad and are struggling. im not quite sure about why they are manifesting this awful wilting yet:
there are a number of plots that also have this flecking damage that i do not yet understand either. i dont think its a disease, but maybe some sort of damage from blowing sand.
also for bob, i hoed into pieces several horn worms while i was out there, plus a bud worm and some other yellow fluffy and quick moving caterpilar. i dont partake in your joy for worm killing, but it had to be done. its been so wet (with more rain yet again today) that they havent been able to spray. hopefully he'll be able to get in there with the tractor and spray rig tomorrow.
Ummm...anything more than a single "whack" can easily be construed as rage. Are you sure you don't have some underlying animosity toward hornworms...or is that learned behavior?
Peer pressure perhaps?
I think you're right about the sand abrasion damage to the leaves.
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JessicaNicot
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Ummm...anything more than a single "whack" can easily be construed as rage. Are you sure you don't have some underlying animosity toward hornworms...or is that learned behavior?
Peer pressure perhaps?
not rage, just being thurough
I approve of thorough. ;<))not rage, just being thurough
leverhead
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I do get a special pleasure from finding the parts the wasps wont eat.
Some of my plants are showing some wilt. When it's not raining it's overcast. I'm hoping a few days of sunshine will perk them back up.
Day time wilt is normal. Most of the time people drown some plants trying to make them look like their tomato plants...I might be speaking from experience....might!
leverhead
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You don't know, but you've been told.
skychaser
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lol Ditto
Day wilt is pretty common, especially in the afternoons during the growth spurt stage. It can give you the overwhelming urge to over water. Don't give in. They perk right back up when the sun gets low. Too little water can definitely cause wilting, but so can too much water. If you have slow draining soil and an excessive amount of rain, you can get some wilting until things dry out. Not a big problem here though. It rarely rains here from July to October. Last year we went 100 days without a drop.
My sympathies to the bean farmer.
Too much rain and then out come the hot sun will Drown ( We call it scaling ) the plant down like they are in a severe wilt . They most usually turn yellow and die slowly just like drowning ,
I know in places like North Carolina and places with lots of sand the soil drains off better that it does here in some places in Kentucky .Here there is so many types of soil that one field may have better growing soil at one end and not so great of a soil at the other end . But there is farms with great soil on the entire farms .
Here is a link to drowning http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1402060
I know in places like North Carolina and places with lots of sand the soil drains off better that it does here in some places in Kentucky .Here there is so many types of soil that one field may have better growing soil at one end and not so great of a soil at the other end . But there is farms with great soil on the entire farms .
Here is a link to drowning http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1402060
JessicaNicot
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yeah, i imagine ours are drowning from the 6" of rain. its so bad on a couple of them i saw scalding. there is a lot of sand in our soil (hence the sand blasting damage, especially on the edge by the farm path), but its just been too much water and not enough heat this year so far. now we're in for 90s the next 3 days and im worried they're too fragile to handle it and the whole field will burn up with scald. ugh. im so glad im not in it for the leaves!
NRustica
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True, you can always cut them at the base and watch the suckers come out and bag the buds when they come out.
JessicaNicot
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who says facebook is useless? i was just looking at mine and saw a post by a group i follow (give a shit about nature-- great name right?) that had a picture of a moth that looked a lot like my mystery moth. the moth they posted was the oleander hawk moth (maybe instanbulin has seen one because they're from over that way). so i searched "hawk moth" and eventually my mystery moth turned up: Pandora Sphinx Moth. its the same family as the horn worm producer but wikipedia says they're a pest of grapes & virginia creeper.
Pandora? That's not a good sign.
Bob
Bob
workhorse_01
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I just recently found one of these...
And they come from this...
No he's in a jar HEHEHE
And they come from this... No he's in a jar HEHEHE
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Seanz
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Thats a freaky looking caterpillar
So did you pick it up and put it onto some grapes?
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