Recent content by JohninWI

I have used BC Seedking, and they are legit. I ordered I think 3 times, and they always throw in a couple extra beans, and my germination rates were always extremely high. THe packaging was discrete too--kind of funny, my last order actually was an el-cheapo Ipod case, complete with an...

Hey folks, Well it seems like the wicked hot weather this summer was good for something--and that is growing some tobacco! I never thought about Wisconsin as being a real 'baccy growing region, but it turns out that I met several locals that are really in to it. I made a lot of mistakes this...

I'm an avid composter (and "regular" gardener). For things to decompose and really "cook" it actually takes a lot of nitrogen. That's why you layer "greens" and "browns" to make it happen. The only serious source of nitrogen you have is the compost/manure mix. And I'm guessing what they...

Hey thanks Mutt! I'll see if I can search it up. Should be an interesting project. Off to a little rough start, but hopefully I can recover.

At prices pushing $7/pack, on a whim I bought and started about 100 plants. A farmer/neighbor was good enough to disk in my patch (sandy soil--but it served on and off as a horse pasture/grass lands). I should have had this whole thing planned out last year already. I just got the seeds...

Hi Guys, I have about 60 little tobacco seedlings (that I started about a month late:o ) that I'm planning to put in the ground once they get another inch or two taller. My soil is fairly sandy, but spent some time as a horse pasture/grass land so it has halfway-good fertility. I got the...

Good deal--I think this is going to work out well

Do any of the commercial animal repellents work? I'm a little concerned about the critters too (my first outdoor season). I was doing a little reading, and some home-grown repellants are made from cayanne pepper, beer, pee... I wish I could go with Mutt's solution--.22 or 12 gauge. But...

Thanks! I was hoping that would work--it would also help me to shave about 6" off of the initial height of things, making them a bit easier to hide.

I have another 2 weeks before I'm going to put my girls outdoors. The problem is that i have them in big styrofoam cups, and they are getting leggy and pot-bound. For the sake of transporting them to my plot, I definitely want to keep them in the small pots, even if they are overgrown. Can...

I'm with Hemp Goddess. I would check an online daylight-calculator and figure out what the hours of daylight are for your planting date. I kind of screwed up and started my seeds under 24 hour light, then switched them directly to 14 hours to get them ready for outdoors. But I think I may...

I was reading on here about transplanting to outdoors. I should have probably done that before I started these seeds! I have some BC Early Skunk going, and they have been on 18 hours of light, now about 4 weeks old. But I forgot to consider that on my planting date, there are 14.1 hours of...

Thanks! I'm a little concerned now that I'm already flushing them--they look ilke they are well on the way to being completely out of nutes. I may give them a gentle little boost of guano tea and some mollasses, although at this stage in the game it might be too late to make much of a...

I'm growing a hybrid that I've been playing with over the years. It's a Northern lights x Haze crossed with Super Skunk, and back crossed with NLxH. The plants are short and stocky--real sturdy build, nice and bushy. Anyway, they are now 9 full weeks in to flower (12/12). The plants are in...

we were thinking of trying and auto strain, but I already have a few hundred dollars worth of seeds from my indoor work. It might either be an autoflower, or even some thing like "BC Early Skunk". A local guy told me it finishes in time.