tobacco

This year i am going to grow 3 varieties of tobacco.  The goal is to roll some cigars and make some pipe tobacco.  March 16th i seeded out 1 tray and put them into the germination box.

The white bits on the top are perlite. Tobacco seeds need light to germinate and I’ve found that a thin layer of perlite helps with moisture retention and lets the light in. Ive done trials in the past and the perlite trays always germinated better and faster

April 27th update

Tobacco plants

I potted the seedlings up into a 50 cell tray. I think my timing was off by a couple weeks. I’m thinking another week and these would want to go outside. I’m likely 3 weeks away from planting.