Do you know the seed stock/variety name of the source tobacco? Or do you buy it by grade in mixed lots?
There are disconnects and changes in nomenclature between planters - graders - blenders - consumers that I am trying to sort out just well enough to be able to plant a garden.
For anyone else interested: This seed catalog lists nearly a hundred varieties of tobacco plant, loosely grouped into Burley, virginia, oriental, and cigar. Whereas this USDA tobacco grading guide lists more and less desirable characteristics for "Flue-Cured US Tobacco Types 11-14" with no direct mention of what plant variety one started with. Only where on the stalk it was and to what standards it was cured. Wholesalers buy up graded lots, blenders buy from them, and I buy something that says "selected viginias" on the label from my tobacconist.
Can anyone tell me what variety of virginias went into their blend? Is it likely to be one crop? Mixed regionally at the grading? Mixed grades at the warehouse? Does it really matter what plant you start with, or does the stalk position and cure mean more to the end product?
There are disconnects and changes in nomenclature between planters - graders - blenders - consumers that I am trying to sort out just well enough to be able to plant a garden.
For anyone else interested: This seed catalog lists nearly a hundred varieties of tobacco plant, loosely grouped into Burley, virginia, oriental, and cigar. Whereas this USDA tobacco grading guide lists more and less desirable characteristics for "Flue-Cured US Tobacco Types 11-14" with no direct mention of what plant variety one started with. Only where on the stalk it was and to what standards it was cured. Wholesalers buy up graded lots, blenders buy from them, and I buy something that says "selected viginias" on the label from my tobacconist.
Can anyone tell me what variety of virginias went into their blend? Is it likely to be one crop? Mixed regionally at the grading? Mixed grades at the warehouse? Does it really matter what plant you start with, or does the stalk position and cure mean more to the end product?