Does anyone here grow their own cotton to use as wicks in your setups? I grew some cotton this past summer for kicks and harvested a good bit; maybe 20-30 wicks worth..
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Both grow surprisingly well up here in zone 6b(the tobacco moreso)...My plant is/was flowering now actually.(jasmine tobacco iirc) It just died yesterday finally after the past month of cold temps. It has been dipping down to the low 30's pretty consistantly for the past 40 days or so. I've been surprised at how cold tolerant this variety is. It stayed growing strong even with the low temps. It didn't mature fully though. The bottom leafs haven't even started to yellow. I think what happened is that it froze and now it looks wilted.
The cotton was started indoors last winter and I ended up getting 2 harvests from it, one during mid/end of winter and the second during the fall after reverting it back to it's vegetative growth cycle during the summer. Each time it developed a rock hard bud which popped open after a week or so. Each harvest was equivalent to 10 or so standard cotton balls if I had to guess.
Maybe I should pick up a shovel and try to mine some iron out of my back yard and smelt some mod tubes?
The cotton was started indoors last winter and I ended up getting 2 harvests from it, one during mid/end of winter and the second during the fall after reverting it back to it's vegetative growth cycle during the summer. Each time it developed a rock hard bud which popped open after a week or so. Each harvest was equivalent to 10 or so standard cotton balls if I had to guess.
Maybe I should pick up a shovel and try to mine some iron out of my back yard and smelt some mod tubes?
Bushy Tobacco Plant(last year)
Tobacco leaf ready for harvest(last year)
Tobacco flower(last year)
Super dense cotton nuggets freshly picked(this past fall)
Dried and cured Cuban Havana Cigar tobacco(from last year)
Tobacco leaf ready for harvest(last year)
Tobacco flower(last year)
Super dense cotton nuggets freshly picked(this past fall)
Dried and cured Cuban Havana Cigar tobacco(from last year)
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I want to give net juices a go. Sounds like a great plan as I am in cny to grow some tobacco and might as well grow some cotton while I am it.
Living in new york might just be a good idea as our nanny state just might ban everything anyways
Living in new york might just be a good idea as our nanny state just might ban everything anyways
How well does it wick? I have some coming to me from Georgia and I am wandering how well it will work on my RDA's.
I have no idea. I've never used cotton. I've always been a fiberglass/silica man myself. I imagine it doesn't wick any better or worse than any other unbleached organic cotton wick material on the market...
Nah, not in the city...I live upstate near Albany.
I also grew tobacco.
Pretty cool!
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