Well, let me just set this post down here. That way it won’t clutter up your most current ‘curing thread.’


The last surviving mammoth is still stuck in a pot. I made yet another error by not plucking the leaves off immediately after this photo was taken. The tomato caterpillar enjoyed most of it... or maybe a tortoise.

Potted Plants (not the dominant tobacco farming strategy):


Attack of the voracious, um, whatever ate this plant.


You can see there is now a sucker growing off the base of the stalk. It shot up out of nowhere after the caterpillar ate the other leaves. Ashauler mentioned the same phenomenon after his first priming. I think I’ll let it go and see what happens.


Sucker!



After picking the remaining leaves from the original stalk, I hung them in the utility room above a freezer chest compressor vent. The unit pushes out a fair volume of heat so the room stays warmer than the rest of the house. It is also more humid. Hey, that’s Florida. (btw – The leaves are at least eight or nine feet long… at least! They just look small on camera.)




Do you guys think the seeds will be viable?