Here it is July and we have had maybe two weeks of decent hot weather for these sub tropical plants! This plant here is in my greenhouse where it is obviously the warmest and it is now 35 inches tall and the leaves are huge! I measured the one in the front and it is 25 inches long from base to tip! Not to mention it hasn't been feasted on like the plants on the porch. 
Secondly, the porch plants are doing OK with the Indian tobacco plant already starting to flower and the Common Smoking tobacco still the largest plant.
I will comment that the Indian tobacco has showned the most vigor from being eaten down to a nub by slugs to making a comeback and catching up in size to the other plants and now trying to flower! Of course if you are growing for tobacco leaf production, then you need to remove the flowers heads as they appear, but we are growing them more as an ornamental so the flower buds will get to stay. I figure they will probably open this weekend when we are promised warmer weather! So look for pics cause they will be coming!
Interesting home curing method. Do they "stink up" the room as they cure? I am growing these as ornamentals, not for smoking. Gave up cigarettes twenty years ago and it was the hardest thing I ever did!
ReplyDeleteNo noticeable stink, but then again, we have a cat. :)
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