Is anyone growing tobacco? Any tips for a beginner?

ROOSTERMAN

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It's late in the season to start, at least hear in NJ you will likely wind up with mold issues in the fall

Check out fair trade tobacco, Their are some of the most knowledge able homegrowers around

Agricultural extensions are great sources of info.

http://darktobacco.ca.uky.edu/
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Tobacco/
http://tobacco.ces.ncsu.edu/

http://books.google.com/books?id=K8IMhgd7IYkC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=BT+cornmeal+bait&source=bl&ots=LCxOkRFMUq&sig=awzZVdBJDOXu4z7XTzr6uSmA5B8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pbv8UsOjCaTt2wWo2YCQDQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=true

Northwoods seed is also tobacco seed heaven they supply most of the seed to the non-comerical vendors, They also post over at Fair trade tobacco
 

Dutchieman420

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Yes it is absolutely late for the tobacco but I live in California Northern California so it's raining for the last time tonight and we have extremely Long Summers here so I think I'll do fine. I'm also starting them indoors to get a head start on my already late progress. Thank you for the advice though I needed a couple more good seed banks
 

CaptainZack

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get all the leafs in the light, they sell shade leaf cheap as scraps, so if you want quality ever time make sure the leaves are in full light no shade.

and u can cure like weed :) hope this helps or am a fool an you already knew this ... did you already know this ?
 

Dutchieman420

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I've been doing a lot of different research there's a couple different varieties of tobacco that grow in the shade even I'll probably plant a few of those wherever I don't get as much ⛅. I was able to germinate all my different seeds so I'm pretty happy
 

Dutchieman420

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get all the leafs in the light, they sell shade leaf cheap as scraps, so if you want quality ever time make sure the leaves are in full light no shade.

and u can cure like weed :) hope this helps or am a fool an you already knew this ... did you already know this ?
I was under the impression that it was slightly different than curing weed. I've been growing and curing trimming weed my entire life so hopefully I'll be pretty damn good at this tobacco thing I am doing indoor and outdoor my idea is to do blunt wraps I live in California so this should be a pretty lucrative business. Also I'm Native Americans so it just feels natural doing it
 

ROOSTERMAN

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Leaf grown under shade can be some of the most expensive leaf their is, Thats what is used as the outside wrap of cigars. the shade makes the veins smaller and the leaf thinner and more flexible. But only a small percent of the plants leafs make that cut, The rest of the leaf usually is cigar filler.

Cureing the leaf is the same theory but different applications, The way you do it depends on your final intended use

Flue cured tobacco --- http://books.google.com/books?id=K8IMhgd7IYkC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=BT+cornmeal+bait&source=bl&ots=LCxOkRFMUq&sig=awzZVdBJDOXu4z7XTzr6uSmA5B8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pbv8UsOjCaTt2wWo2YCQDQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=true

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Curing_and_Fermentation_of_Cigar_Leaf_Tobacco_1000301845/0


http://www.coffinails.com/curing_tobacco.html
 

OldMedUser

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Lot of work or I would have been doing it for years. Leafonly.com Great 'baccy all cured and ready for shredding. About $30CAN/lb and hardly any duty on unprocessed tobacco. One plant yields about a pound and you could grow a pound of pot in the same space. Just sayin. :)
 

Drowning-Man

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Lot of work or I would have been doing it for years. Leafonly.com Great 'baccy all cured and ready for shredding. About $30CAN/lb and hardly any duty on unprocessed tobacco. One plant yields about a pound and you could grow a pound of pot in the same space. Just sayin. :)
You ever try south American Mopacho?
 

Dutchieman420

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Lot of work or I would have been doing it for years. Leafonly.com Great 'baccy all cured and ready for shredding. About $30CAN/lb and hardly any duty on unprocessed tobacco. One plant yields about a pound and you could grow a pound of pot in the same space. Just sayin. :)
I have plenty of pot, ciggerettes are really expensive now so a pound per would be great
 

OldMedUser

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You ever try south American Mopacho?
I doubt it. I haven't actually bought tobacco from leafonly but a friend will be here any min to bring me a pound and her shredder to pay me for the work I'm going to do on her laptop. I've been wanting to quit for so long and cheap tobacco is going to make that tougher.

I recently got a credit card so will probably order some of my own. I want whatever will give me a smoke like a real American Camel. Not the shitty ones you can buy up here. I smoked Camels for over 10 years when I lived close to the US border. On sale for around $16 a carton when a carton of Canadian cigs was $50. Got all sorts of cool stuff with the Camel bucks too. :)

I'd run across the line and score 2 cartons every pay day. There was a dairy on the way to Lynden, WA so we'd stop and score cheap mild and cheese, buy the boys an ice cream cone and head the last 3 miles to the border. Duty was only 1% on dairy so you showed your receipt and get waved thru. Most of the time. Got pulled over 3 or 4 times but they never found the cigs under the back seat of my Chevy.

She's here! Pound of fresh cured Virginia tobacco and the shredder to cut it up with.
 

Dutchieman420

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I doubt it. I haven't actually bought tobacco from leafonly but a friend will be here any min to bring me a pound and her shredder to pay me for the work I'm going to do on her laptop. I've been wanting to quit for so long and cheap tobacco is going to make that tougher.

I recently got a credit card so will probably order some of my own. I want whatever will give me a smoke like a real American Camel. Not the shitty ones you can buy up here. I smoked Camels for over 10 years when I lived close to the US border. On sale for around $16 a carton when a carton of Canadian cigs was $50. Got all sorts of cool stuff with the Camel bucks too. :)

I'd run across the line and score 2 cartons every pay day. There was a dairy on the way to Lynden, WA so we'd stop and score cheap mild and cheese, buy the boys an ice cream cone and head the last 3 miles to the border. Duty was only 1% on dairy so you showed your receipt and get waved thru. Most of the time. Got pulled over 3 or 4 times but they never found the cigs under the back seat of my Chevy.

She's here! Pound of fresh cured Virginia tobacco and the shredder to cut it up with.
That's what I smoke have you found anything that is similar?
 

Drowning-Man

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I doubt it. I haven't actually bought tobacco from leafonly but a friend will be here any min to bring me a pound and her shredder to pay me for the work I'm going to do on her laptop. I've been wanting to quit for so long and cheap tobacco is going to make that tougher.

I recently got a credit card so will probably order some of my own. I want whatever will give me a smoke like a real American Camel. Not the shitty ones you can buy up here. I smoked Camels for over 10 years when I lived close to the US border. On sale for around $16 a carton when a carton of Canadian cigs was $50. Got all sorts of cool stuff with the Camel bucks too. :)

I'd run across the line and score 2 cartons every pay day. There was a dairy on the way to Lynden, WA so we'd stop and score cheap mild and cheese, buy the boys an ice cream cone and head the last 3 miles to the border. Duty was only 1% on dairy so you showed your receipt and get waved thru. Most of the time. Got pulled over 3 or 4 times but they never found the cigs under the back seat of my Chevy.

She's here! Pound of fresh cured Virginia tobacco and the shredder to cut it up with.
I started buying a pound of tobacco for $12 and buy cigarette tubes and a roller.
 

OldMedUser

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Got the tobacco and the wife shredded some up using the friend's almost $200 tinny looking shredder and it comes out very fine and very long. Pretty hard to hand roll and I'm a good roller. I had read in tobacco forums about using a pasta maker so we tried ours. Still long and stringy but way thicker then she runs it thru cross-ways and it's easy to roll that way.

I find it has a bit of an odd after-taste. Not horrible but almost like a hint of burning plastic or something. Maybe from the vacuum sealed plastic bag it comes in and will dissapate after a while once shredded and allowed to air a bit.

Bit damp and hard to keep lit too but that's easy enough to fix. :)
 
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