After tobacco is topped(breaking off the bloom/seed head), the plants energy goes to growing bigger leaves. The plant tries to grow 'suckers'(new blooms/seed heads), up and down the stalk, which used to have to be broken off(by hand), but now the plant is sprayed with 'sucker dope', a chemical that inhibits sucker growth. It's all about leaf size, quality and color, and weight. Here in my part of Kentucky, burley tobacco is topped by hand, cut and housed in the barn by hand, and stripped by hand. Even with cultivating(plowing as it is called here), there is a lot of hoeing by hand. Very labor intensive. Burley is kind of fading out around here, but some guys are trying cigar wrapper tobacco. It seems even more labor intense, with weekly sprayings, and how much more gentle you have to handle it to prevent holes in the leaves. Can't have ANY holes in the leaves. Mark.
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