Blending tobaccos

[willisk]

Entertaining the idear of trying to learn how to blend tobacco!!
Any advice or tips?
Is it werth it cost wise?
Are there existing threads that are useful? (Hard to use search function from my phone )

 

[jjmitchem]

interested also

 

[sablebrush52]

You might find these helpful:
http://pipesmagazine.com/blog/put-that-in-your-pipe/the-basics-of-tobacco-blending/
overall search:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ei=CBqSW5C3DciMggfL8YzACQ&q=how+to+blend+tobacco+pipe&oq=how+to+blend+tob&gs_l=psy-ab.1.2.0l2j0i22i30l3.6813.13319..19423...0.0..0.175.2720.0j19....2..0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131.tZFKoyuZNAY
and here's another search for recipes:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blending+pipe+tobacco+recipes&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir6qa3oajdAhVoT98KHTvyAz8Q1QIIqAEoAA&biw=1567&bih=843

 

[jjmitchem]

Good stuff there sablebrush52
While we are on the subject -I know there are a lot of guys on here who grow their own. Being Army that's kind of impossible....Unless - is it possible to grow tobacco in a pot or planter? enough to even make it worth it?

 

[arvetus]

The plants get pretty big, depending on what you're growing...maybe 3-5ft tall and they're pretty big around too. I don't know how well you could grow it in a planter, but they would need plenty of sun. Then after you harvest the leaves, you have to have room to store it and let it cure. A friend of mine does it, but I would think it to be a bit difficult if you didn't have room.

 

[bluto]

Finding tobacco blending information is kinda thin . I guess the indusry have well guarded secrets , like where they purchase tobacco , manufacturing processes and recipes.
Seems like it’s quant 17th century technology which really hasn’t changed much . If you were brewing beer or wine or most any home and garden hobbies , you would get all kinds of sources of great information and modernized equipment. So , the take away is , we are the pioneers of homemade pipe comestbles.

 

[willisk]

Thanks sablebrush