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Ok, I bought a pack of 200 'Virginia Gold #1' tobacco seeds, the #1 means it's a newer hybrid to the already ever so popular Virginia Gold seeds. What's better about them you ask? I have no clue, I haven't looked in to it, but if they come out with a newer hybrid it's usually going to be better.

I started germinating the seeds April 25th.. it took about 10 days or so for them to start sprouting. Today I did an early transplant (not a smart idea I know, but the soil I used turned out to be horrible) because they weren't growing as fast as they should have. They are nearly at bare minimal size to even consider transplanting, but I thought it was almost necessary and I only transplanted the biggest of them for safety precautions. I only currently have about 120 seeds that popped up and expecting roughly 40-50 of them all to actually make it in to the next phase. I'll get my first pictures that I did today on here, and keep it continually updated at least once a week.

This will be an interesting grow log to follow!

I worked one season on a tobacco farm during the harvest , but I don't know much about the actual planting of them

Weedguru Higher wrote:This will be an interesting grow log to follow!

I worked one season on a tobacco farm during the harvest , but I don't know much about the actual planting of them

I bet that smelled awesome?!

The dried product smelled awesome yeah

What kind of smokes do you puff on, Higher? I've smoked a few different brands over the years but have been smoking John Player's Standard king size for a few years now.

I used to smoke Player's Light or DuMaurier, but now I pretty much just smoke cheap contraband indian ciggies.

Here's the most recent pics of them

Damn they look so weird as seedlings

I'm used to seeing them full grown like this

yeah, they take a real long time to start growing at the beginning. Soon they'll be able to start popping up once the weather is good. They can't even be outside on a decent day because they are so fragile to temperature change at this stage. They're supposed to be in the windowsill until they get bigger, and I have a CFL light on them constantly too.

Ok well I have some bad news for the tobacco plants. A lot of them have all died from the sun. They were only outside for a few hours and I guess the change was too drastic for them. There's about 7-10 left right now that are still barely cruising along. I think I'm going to have to buy more seeds and hope that my mistakes won't follow through. It's a real bummer that I never read anywhere how much a small amount of intense heat will kill these bad boys..

Here's the remaining plants I have left.. It seems that they needed to be hardened off to the weather for about 2 weeks before they can be left outside. Currently they've been chilling out in the shade for a few days so the sun doesn't kill them, but they've finally started to grow a decent amount faster than before. Here's some pics

Here's a few weeks after they got transplanted in the vegetable garden..





Since a lot of my plants died from the weather.. I bought 200 more that are currently just sprouting up from germination.

Looking good

Can't wait to see the final results

thats looking really good. what made ya want to grow tobacco?