🪷Baba’s 2024 Garden🪷

[Baba Karuna]

high & nice to see your show dude,

we are at same another forum & welcome to this table too

Thank you my brother I knew I recognized your name, very nice to see that you’re hanging out here as well

🪷Om Śantirastu🪷

 

[Baba Karuna]

Heyhey

Very Nice plants and Cobs Baba, hats Off to you

Thank you dear brother

Great grow Baba, will grab a seat for this one!!

Thank you brother John very happy that you’re riding with us

🪷Om Avighnamastu🪷

 

[Baba Karuna]

I spent yesterday chopping down some Senegal x Ethiopia

Very pungent plants, woody, crisp and refreshing in the nose the pungency is somewhat similar to skunk but not skunky I have not found the words to describe it yet but it is delicious I had three plants in one bed, amended with years old horse compost, rock dust and top dressed with worm and insect frass. Pulled down one plant and half of the remaining two. I like to mix the buds of each variety so I get mixed Pheno cobs. These we’re not very leafy so trimming was a breeze compared to my Sinai and Afghanis

I also was able to cut down a purple Peruvian that was stunning. Pictures don’t do her justice. Such a fantastic aroma. Fruity, chemical, and pine. Very much looking forward to how fermentation treats her. I’m still waiting for a few more longer flowering Peruvian expressions to finish up. They smell more sweet with notes of vanilla the weather is still great, warm days and crisp nights with clear skies so I anticipate the slower phenos are going to finish up nicely.

🪷Jai Ma🪷

 

[Baba Karuna]

More of the purple Peruvian

 

[Baba Karuna]

Some of the Senegalese x Nigeria that I harvested recently. This was the only plant of this variety that turned purple. The pure Nigerians turned purple but the pure Senegalese was keen on staying green

 

[Baba Karuna]

One of the longer flowering Peruvians

This plant is huge, I bent her over so she would stay manageable but she is easily 9ft+ she has a little damage on some leaf tips from the cold nights but overall she is doing great

 

[Baba Karuna]

Some more of the smaller Peruvians

 

[Baba Karuna]

This was the biggest Peruvian in the garden. The photo doesn’t show how big she truly was. Amazing smell and large buds. Planted in a 4x4 raised bed filled 50/50 with my local clay soil and composted horse manure, rock dust and homegrown worm castings. This plant was self sown from last years Peruvian breeding crop. She sprouted from the rain in February and I left her unattended until the dry summer hit and even then watered her sparingly. A true representation of how hardy this variety can be

 

[420empire]

Stunning , such a Nice shamnaic garden you've got going there brother🫶

 

[AcrylicGoblin]

Thank you my friend

You will greatly appreciate the novel experience of fermentation, there is nothing like it and once you experience the smoothness and layered effects that are produced you will never see herb in the same way again. How did your hash come out? Was it single plant/strain or mixed?

It is great you mentioned this, I planned on sun curing some tobacco and then rolling the herb cigar style to ferment but was not able to get around to doing it this season. I intend to pursue this project in the coming season as I feel that it will yield some interesting results. As long as the tobacco leaf remains flexible and easy to roll I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work. Even the banana petals I used that were still pliable and moist worked fantastic as fermentation skins. I would be highly interested in seeing others like yourself trying out the tobacco wrap cure.

What variety of tobacco do you primarily cultivate?

🪷Om Mani Padme Hum🪷

The hash project went well, thanks for asking. It was probably 10 different strains mixed together. Every year about this time I take everything I've grown for the year that I haven't used or given away (leaving , of course, enough to last until my next harvest) and make it into Temple balls. No matter what, I always save at least one for the "hash library". I once heard frenchy cannoli say that some 12-year-old hash he had was the best he'd ever smoked, so I decided I would save a nice sized ball from every single year. I think I have 5 years worth now.


I grow two varieties of Nicotiana tabacum (Balikesir and Scharazi) and one of N. Rustica called Louisiana perique. Usually just one plant of each. I grind it all up together and make swedish snus which is a steam pasteurizing process so I've never actually fermented any tobacco either.


I'm looking forward to giving fermented cannabis a try. The cigar shop in town sells whole tobacco leaves, so when I harvest my first autoflowers in the spring I'll pick one up and experiment with that as well as a traditional cob. I'll track you down and let you know how the cannabis/tobacco ferment turns out.

 

[Baba Karuna]

Stunning , such a Nice shamnaic garden you've got going there brother🫶

Thank you my brother, that means a lot coming from you

Om Vrddhirastu

 

[Baba Karuna]

The hash project went well, thanks for asking. It was probably 10 different strains mixed together. Every year about this time I take everything I've grown for the year that I haven't used or given away (leaving , of course, enough to last until my next harvest) and make it into Temple balls. No matter what, I always save at least one for the "hash library". I once heard frenchy cannoli say that some 12-year-old hash he had was the best he'd ever smoked, so I decided I would save a nice sized ball from every single year. I think I have 5 years worth now.


I grow two varieties of Nicotiana tabacum (Balikesir and Scharazi) and one of N. Rustica called Louisiana perique. Usually just one plant of each. I grind it all up together and make swedish snus which is a steam pasteurizing process so I've never actually fermented any tobacco either.


I'm looking forward to giving fermented cannabis a try. The cigar shop in town sells whole tobacco leaves, so when I harvest my first autoflowers in the spring I'll pick one up and experiment with that as well as a traditional cob. I'll track you down and let you know how the cannabis/tobacco ferment turns out.

My brother! Reading this has brought me so much joy! A hash library, wow
And with so many plants going in each one must be such a treat. There is nothing like well cured hash. Amazing Have you been sampling the 5 year cure?

Out of your two tobacco varieties, which do prefer and why? I have only grown Mapacho for pipe smoking so far and have chewed it but I am intrigued by the Heriloom varities from areas like Virginia. Would you mind sharing how you prepare your snus?

Yes! Please keep me updated on how your Tobacco cob journey unfolds, I think it would produce a unique smoking experience, especially with N. Rustica as it so potent. Smoking joints with that mixed in always a gave a nice "balancing" effect to the herb.