Discussion Board - Home grown tobacco

Ryan

Topping is a must, gives you better spread in the top of the plant and triggers a lot of desirable plant changes (for flavor and burning quality) Also chloride containing fertilizers (muriate of potash) wreck the burning qualities and give off tastes.

Greenwood Dark: Medium smooth leaf, cures to a dark brown with fine chewing tobacco flavor. High Yield.

Narrow Leaf Madole: An old Kentucky favorite used by many growers for it's thin, dark leaves,. Also a good cigar wrapper as well as chewing tobacco. Good yield and cures well.

Black Sea Samsun Turkish: This Turkish tobacco is among the best Turkish money can buy. Originating in the Samsun region in Turkey, along the Black Sea, this tobacco is renowned for its unique rich flavour. This plant has smaller leaves than other strains, but a very distinctive aroma. An excellent Turkish blend or unique by itself.

Tennessee Red Leaf: A fast growing, high yeilding tobacoo with large leaves that cure to a red color, excellent cigarette and pipe blend.

Jasmine Tobacco: sweet scented alata: A very sweet scented flowering tobacco with pure white trumpte shaped flowers 3-4" long and 1-1/2" wide. Very free flowering. Fall sown seedlings make great pot plants for growing during the winter. A beautiful addition to any flower garden. It is very popular in Brazil and is fast gaining popularity in the U.S.

Tree Tobacco:Glauca. : A graceful tree that grows to 20 ft. with bright trumpet shaped yellow flowers and striking glaucous-blue foliage. From Argentina. It makes a wonderful tub plant. Can be grown outdoors in warm climates and makes a striking garden specimen. It is highly valued for its chewing, smoking, and medicinal uses. It is said to have only trace nicotine. Hardy to 15 degrees. It will flower when very young.

Hungarian "szamosi" dark tobacco: A very popular Hungarian tobacco with full rich flavor. The lower 5-6 leaves are used for cigars or pipe tobacco and the upper leaves are used for medium flavored cigarettes or for pipe tobacco. The huge leaves can be up to 24-30" long and 16" wide. A heavy producer.

Perique Tobacco: Rare and famous Lousiana tobacco known for it's dark, black color and unique flavor. Tobacco was originally cured by stuffing into hollow logs until fermentation.

Indian Tobacco: Rustica: A half hardy annual that grows to about 3 ft and is cultivated worldwide for smoking and nicotine production. Has many yellow flowers that remain open during the day. It is so potent that it has been used as an arrow poison in Mexico. Can be raised as far North as Maine.

Madole Tobacco: Tabacum madole: A fine commercial variety that is fast growing and hardy. I recommend growing this one if you smoke cigars.

Small black stalk Black Mammoth: Tabacum: This is a deep dark tobacco that gives good weight and supports itself very well. This is a tobacco prized by speciality growers becasue it provides a great wrapper tobacco or a premium snuff tobacco when ripe. A good tobacco for beginners learning to roll their own cigars or for first time snuff makers.

I am mainly interested in cigarette, pipe, and cigar tobacco (and rolling leaves). Would there be issues if these plants were all planted in the same general area? Also, any ideas how much area I will need. I have no idea how many plants usually constitue an acre.

Ryan

Greenwood is going to be really bitter.

Not much problem growing together, will need dfferent harvesting strategies. The wrapper tobacco will need to be raised under shade cloth and cured shaded or it will 'scald'.

For cigarettes you would want a flue cured blend.

Robert

Ryan