Got the tobacco greenhouses seeded

crsutton81 · Feb 10, 2022

We all got together today and got both greenhouses seeded. I've heard a bad start makes for a good ending. If that holds true then there'll be more to sell than what the contract is good for. Need to start in the field next week getting the land cut and chiseled so I can fumigate it. Plenty of tractor time and back aches are shortly around the corner!

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crsutton81 · Feb 10, 2022

Couldn't get the video to work.

SVcummins · Feb 10, 2022

I used to love a good cigar

Vito · Feb 10, 2022

I still do occasionally. I think he grows burly tobacco.

Vito

SVcummins · Feb 10, 2022

Nothing like a good one . What kinda fish ya got

Billy Shafer · Feb 10, 2022

Asking because I don't know. Is tobacco started in a green house. And transplanted to the field. Or just in the field and hope for the best

crsutton81 · Feb 10, 2022

Yes, it's started in plant beds or a greenhouse, then transplanted into the field. This is flue cured we're growing.

aFORDable · Feb 10, 2022

Been there, done that. I go back to the old plant bed days and pulling plants. Those greenhouse trays sure made the job easier and better plants. Raised dark fired and air cured for some 30 years. Sold out two years ago. (W. Ky. Graves, Calloway county dark fired capital of the world)

Charlie M · Feb 10, 2022

I passed by an Amish farm in PA a few years ago in the fall and they had some broad leaf plants coming up in their young wheat field. I think it might have been tobacco plants which would mean the crop went to seed before harvesting. Since I'm a long way away from tobacco growing country is that possible. Do you prestart plants because of the length of growing season or for some other reason. Its an interesting discussion since most crop talk here is corn, wheat and soybeans.

jm. · Feb 10, 2022

Right here my neighbor farmed Henry county Tenn and now retired in Stewart county . Know all about that tobacco 13 months a year stuff.. Lots of work.

SweetFeet · Feb 11, 2022

Interesting. I just assumed tobacco seed was planted in the fields. I had no idea that it is actually plants put in the ground.

Was it always this way or did growers used to just plant seeds in the ground in days of yore?

Jim in NC · Feb 11, 2022

Thanks for sending me the video. I tried last night to post it, but failed. I may know someone that can help me. You have a nice setup and production line. You may have told me, but how many houses do you sow?

crsutton81 · Feb 11, 2022

Sweetfeet before the greenhouses become into play as being a viable option to grow the plants for transplanting, the common practice was to seed them in 20 ft X about 100 yard long plant beds. That normally occurred in January on account that the plants would grow so slow and un uniform. It's always been where a live plant was transplanted
Into the field because you need every one to be as uniform in size as possible so the crop will mature at the same rate for harvest and such.

Gomer · Feb 11, 2022

Fish looks like a large mouth bass.

Determined · Feb 11, 2022

Is that seed treated or coated?

Any of the Virginia or Burly seed I have seen is tiny in comparison to what is shown in your hand.

crsutton81 · Feb 11, 2022

Thank you. We have 2 houses with a total of 2500 trays.

crsutton81 · Feb 11, 2022

It's coated seed. It has to be a
pelletized seed to work in any of
the seeders. It's amazing how
something so aggravating at times
can come from something so small.
Lol

Hobo,NC · Feb 11, 2022

Old school some use this to plant tomato plants. I missed out on the prep work but not the priming part. I did not prime it much it made me sick if it was wet.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-hand-held-tobacco-planter-4

crsutton81 · Feb 11, 2022

I imagine what you saw was a cover crop of some description. Tobacco is not frost / freeze resistant therefore it needs to be in the field as early as possible when the last historical frost date has passed so it can do its thing and finish harvest before the first fall frost.

crsutton81 · Feb 11, 2022

You did good if you could condense a 15 month for us crop into 12 months. Lol. The older I get, the longer it's taking me. Found muscles from yesterday I forgot I had since the last baccer bale of 2021 was loaded bound for market.

crsutton81 · Feb 11, 2022

Yep...got a pickup load of em.
There's nothing like hitting the
field to start working when it's
good and wet about 630 in the
morning.

Vito · Feb 11, 2022

You are correct. We fish in a private pond at my friends farm. All catch and release.

Vito

jm. · Feb 11, 2022

That is why I said 13 it certainly is a more than year process. You explained the plant bed thing great. Was a big deal to get loads of slabs and have one big fire about dark some night the work those coals and stretch the canvas. I do not miss any of it.

Destroked 450 · Feb 11, 2022

This post was edited by Destroked 450 on 02/11/2022 at 10:13 am.

MF#1 · Feb 11, 2022

Do you remember burning tobacco beds back in the '60's? We used a metal sled and piled up wood on it and slowly drug it down the beds to kill any weed seeds. This was before plastic and poison gas :-( My uncle was the designated seed sower, left-handed, always had a full bed of plants. Had to pull enough plants wrapped with burlap bags in the morning to set(transplant) the rest of the day. One year we had 1800 plus feet of plant beds. The tray system you use is much more efficient, we used some of those before the buyout on burley. Best wishes for a good year! I can't say I miss it now.

crsutton81 · Feb 11, 2022

I was a kid when we had beds. We didn't ever do any kind of burning. Bed preparation consisted of extensive disking, then breaking with the 2 bottom plow and Farmall 100 the day of fumigation, then maybe 1 more cutting, followed by several passes with the fumigation rig while putting out the methyl bromide. The last pass with the rig spread out the plastic to hold fumigation in to work. That was always an enjoyable process getting the plastic to lay flat and tight ( not ). We always would wrap up the edges with the hiller gangs on the 100. Always had an older fellow that farmed with dad. He was in charge of the electric fence. He'd have it up and running before anyone knew anything about it. That's where I learned FAST that used Pepsi and an electric fence don't mix.

Randyscottsboro · Feb 12, 2022

Yes I remember all too well, a lot of work was ahead.

SweetFeet · Feb 12, 2022

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

Before I took a trip down, I akways assume citrus trees were much larger too.
Not sure why I make assumptions.

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