Rose’s comment on “More About Whole Leaf”.
I said:
My objective is to grow splendid plants.
Rose said:
Then you know what to do.
I am just on my way to the garden centre to pick up a new bag of John Innes No3 LOAM based compost, for sowing in little modules in my heated propagator this weekend along with the chillies.
Race you … : )
To which I replied, “You’re on!”
I presume that Rose did as she said she would. For myself, I just happened to have an unopened bag of ‘seed and cutting compost’ in the garage which I bought, but did not need, last spring. So, on Sunday, 13th Jan, I got out my little 40 cell crappy, unheated propagator and filled the cells with compost. I then seeded those cells. The propagator is now sitting in its favourite place – on the shelf in the kitchen over the radiator – where it did so well last year. There is already moisture coating the inside of the cover of the propagator (Eat Your Heart Out, Rose!).
The problem is that I am not quite sure what the competition is! I suppose that it must be to ‘grow splendid plants’ and that it is a race to grow the most splendid plants.
But we must put a date on it.
So…….. On the 1st May, I shall publish a pic of my most splendid plant to date. I trust that Rose will do the same. She can email me with an attachment and I promise faithfully to copy it here. [At Rose's suggestion, we have changed the date to Midsummer's Day]
Rules.
1. Plants must be from seed sown about this time.
2. The measure of splendiferousness is:
a) Height above ground level, whether it be in a pot or in the ground, multiplied by width of widest leaf spread. (EG. 10cm X 12cm = 120cm squared).
b) Time of measurement: midday on Midsummer’s Day..
3. Abominations.
a) No special ‘accelerators’ permitted. Watering is OK and transplanting into bigger pots and change of compost/soils is OK.
b) Grow lamps and such are forbidden, but singing and playing music to the plants is permitted. Further, plants may be hugged.
c) The leaves of plants may be ‘misted’, but only with water. whiskey, gin, rum or vodka.
d) Chanting of mantras is not permitted (especially, “The McTear V Imperial Tobacco Case Sucks!”)
4. The Arbitrator and Judge is “Moi”, “L’Etat, c’est moi”. Unless I am deposed in the meantime, in which case I nominate “Legiron” to take on the duties of arbitrator and judge, unless he is deposed, in which case I nominate Sir Jimmy Savile.
5. All these rules may be ignored if Plain Packaging laws are proposed by the Health Dept.
LET BATTLE COMMENCE!
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UPDATE.
By the way, the seeds of Monte Calme Yellow, which came from the indoor plants, have germinated. They look horribly weak, but they are there.
15/01/2013 at 04:09
I will be getting my tobacco slips in about 2 months to put out from down the road…………10 cents each from a farmer who grows slips for transplant for most of the tobacco farmers around here…..Im putting out 200 plants this year I figure. Down on brothers farm.
15/01/2013 at 15:53
Are you trying to make us jealous, Cousin?
15/01/2013 at 10:46
I suppose that it must be to ‘grow splendid plants’ and that it is a race to grow the most splendid plants.
Quite
So…….. On the 1st May, I shall publish a pic of my most splendid plant to date. I trust that Rose will do the same. She can email me with an attachment and I promise faithfully to copy it here.
On the first of May they will still be in pots and won’t be planted out until mid-May, if then, so they will still only be spectacular seedlings.
How about Midsummer Day? Then they will have had a little time to establish and should be showing their mettle.
Anyway you have already seen my May seedlings.
http: //s47.beta.photobucket.com/user/raw54/media/3.png.html
On the rules -
d) Chanting of mantras is not permitted (especially, “The McTear V Imperial Tobacco Case Sucks!”)
Is cooing, smiling and saying “don’t you look lovely this morning,”in an encouraging way,permitted?
Anyway, thanks to snow, ice and general reluctance to leave the warm and go out to the greenhouse,my seeds were sown yesterday, so you have a two day head start on me.
Make the most of it.
15/01/2013 at 15:09
Suggestion accepted – date changed.
Yes, cooing etc is permitted. Only mantras are forbidden. A mantra is any phrase which is a product of the psychopathic mind of Tobacco Control Zealots. For example, “Tobacco is like no other product …..”
16/01/2013 at 04:07
Pah!
I’ll start my tobacco plants at the end of February, just like I did last year. And I’ll start growing my red hot chilli peppers at the same time.
And I’ll beat the lot of you!
17/01/2013 at 00:05
You cannot smoke red peppers, as far as I know. Therefore, they do not count. Also, I see the need for another rule – cross-breeding is forbidden.
You can only win if the blight strikes Rose’s plants.