Wruk53 2024 Grow Log

[wruk53]

The main crop of Little Yellow has all been colored and is in various stages of drying. Looks like about 5 pounds from 38 plants.
The Tofta sucker crop in the fabric pots will probably be ready to harvest in a few weeks. Same for the stunted LY in the blue buckets.
I put up my hummingbird feeder a few weeks ago. There's been a solitary female feeding from it several times a day.
The two bags contain hands of Tofta and LY that was harvested early before a storm, it smells pretty good. It'll probably go in the medley bag.
The weather has been really nice for the past several days, clear and sunny, daytime highs in the low seventies, nights in the 40's and 50's.

 

[wruk53]

Harvested everything today and hung it on the lanai. The temps and humidity are forecast to be high for the next 8 days or so. They should color cure just fine in that amount of time.
I'll start some seeds after Xmas for a spring crop. I'm not sure what I want to grow yet, I have seeds of several varieties that I haven't tried. I'm tempted to just grow about 50 Little Yellow in the spring and try some new varieties in the fall. We'll see.

 

[wruk53]

Sorry, no tobacco today, only Pepperoni rolls. They were really good!

 

[wruk53]

The harvest from Friday is almost completely colored. I moved 3 sticks of dried Little Yellow from the garage to the lanai to bring it back into case, I'll tie it in hands in the next day or two and put them in the box with the others. The LY seed pods are almost ready for drying.

 

[wruk53]

I ground up my fall crop of Tofta today and it came out to 16.5 ounces from 24 plants. Not a good yield at all. Smells great though! I'll make some snus from it in a few months and give a final evaluation.

 

[johnny108]

Wow- that’s not much better than a Hyang Cho (primitive) in a one-liter pot getting only afternoon sun on my balcony!
Maybe the flavor will make it worthwhile…

 

[wruk53]

Wow- that’s not much better than a Hyang Cho (primitive) in a one-liter pot getting only afternoon sun on my balcony!
Maybe the flavor will make it worthwhile…

Here's what makes it even worse, part of that weight was from a sucker crop of the same plants. The original crop began flowering at 4 weeks, so I knew at that point the yield wasn't going to be good. The low yield could be my fault from growing the seedlings in a cabinet with 15 hours of light per day, then planting them outdoors when the days were only about 12/13 hours long. I just don't know. I know others have grown Tofta and had very good yields. So, don't let my experience stop anyone from trying it.

 

[Anders A]

I ground up my fall crop of Tofta today and it came out to 16.5 ounces from 24 plants. Not a good yield at all. Smells great though! I'll make some snus from it in a few months and give a final evaluation.

That´s 0,6875 ounces per plant. Last year I got 121,5 ounces from 48 plants Tofta, (2,5 ounces/plants), so yes, that was not much.
The year before that, my Tofta bloomed very early, and it yielded much less.

I fertilized several times with Epsom salt last year, and it had a great effect, both on the appearance of the plants and a much higher yield.

 

[tm1265]

I know, I know, it's only been 2 days since I posted a pic of my seedlings.

I finished filling my containers with mulch this morning, 60 in all. The plan is to grow 12 Badischer Geudertheimer, 12 Rot Front and 36 One Sucker.

There are a lot of mushrooms growing in my lawn, they look suspiciously like Psilosybe to me, I may be wrong. I won't be eating them, that's for sure.

Our fat, black cat named Tuffy. I rescued him four or five years ago. I was walking up the street one cold morning and saw a litter of kittens trying to get warm in the sun. All of them ran off into the brush except for him. He just sat there and looked at me, so I picked him up and took him home. When I showed him to my wife, she immediately said, "We're keeping him", so we did.

those are almost certainly Chlorophyllum molybdites, aka green gills. One of the most common poisonous mushrooms. Not Amanita or Psilocybe

Chlorophyllum molybdites - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[johnny108]

those are almost certainly Chlorophyllum molybdites, aka green gills. One of the most common poisonous mushrooms. Not Amanita or Psilocybe

Chlorophyllum molybdites - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

“All mushrooms are edible. Some, only once.” -Polish proverb