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Video showing the texture of virginia bright tobacco plants after 33 days of growth under floresent lights. Not like what I expected as I was thinking they would feel and act more on the order of a collard plant.. These are soft as a mouse 's ear and very easy to break... Am hoping my fellow members at FairTradeTobacco.com can let me know if they are normal or lacking something :)
These plants are very easy to grow from seed! Transplanting is easy and on the same lines as a tomato plant. Bare root or almost no root.. we never lost a plant in 900 trys!
DO NOT overbuy your seeds!
This is our first year raising them and are learning and documenting as we go. This video I blew on the plants to show how easy they moved. Is hard to explain texture in a video .
All the plants are same age in the 8 flats we have. The difference is that the first to be moved were naturally bigger but by the time they got over their transplant shock of 304 days, the rest in germination trays were as big... This would rapidly change in next few days after initial transplant as the roots went thru growth spurt. We tryed to slow them down one time by cutting lights off 6 hours a day when the roots in first flat grew thru the bottom of trays.... Only to find 1 1/2" roots had developed over that time frame!!!!!!!!!!
As said before. are really hardy seedlings so far.
Was advised to trim the plants of a majority of leaves to help stems become stiffer and am certain that it will not set them back as it seems to be the standard way to do in greenhouse production of tobacco seedling production. Just make sure not to cut terminal bud.