Dark Fired Kentucky Discussion.

[woodsroad]

Flakes aren't grown so much as cultivated, mostly in the San Francisco and Lower Manhattan regions.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Eh, and I can guess where plugs come from.

 

[woodsroad]

Really...I have no idea what you are referring to.

 

[jitterbugdude]

"Is that a "dark tobacco" strain/cultivar or is that a white burley that is for some reason dark"
There is no "dark tobacco" cultivar of tobacco, neither is there a "White Burley" cultivar. It's just marketing.

 

[woodsroad]

According to the folks who sell tobacco seed and started plants to farmers, there are distinct cultivars:
Workman Seed

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Hmmm... I grew two rows of Dark Virginias, so in other genres, there may be dark varieties.
And, while there may not be a seed labelled White Burley, I have seen many a basket of white burley leaf. Like in buying blends with names that have nothing to do with what is inside the tin, the names of seeds sometimes have little to do with how the harvested crop is auctioned.

 

[jitterbugdude]

I'm not talking names of seeds but rather cultivars. There's no such plant as a White Burley. All Burley, if left long enough on the stalk will turn a pale yellow/white color.
A lot of the confusion stems from what Cosmic already noted, the names of pipe blends do not always reflect the tobacco that is actually in them.

 

[woodsroad]

How about Dark Fired? It looks like Workman has distinct varieties of dark burley.

 

[pitchfork]

Maybe there's some crosstalk about varieties vs. cultivars, but they're not all the same.

 

[deathmetal]

Actually, it's all the same plant, tomato leaves left over from making Campbell's soup, but it's sprayed with different flavorings.

Some aros resemble this description.

 

[jpmcwjr]

OK, leaving out names of blends, it seems off key that a cultivar could/should be named with a process in its name ("fired").
Dark Virginias, yes: Is, or could be a cultivar.

Dark Fired Virginias- a process added to Virginias. Suppose the leaf could be light or dark before the curing.

Dark fired Kentucky- Not a cultivar, but burley that's fired in a certain way.
I am just trying to get this straight in my mind!

 

[woodsroad]

It doesn't help when farmers refer to the plant that they use to make Dark Fired as...Dark Fired.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Ah, quite so, started wondering if that could be the case. Where I live, plum trees with the variety that's dried to make prunes, are called.....

Prune trees! I still have to explain that to visitors when I point out the "prune orchards".

 

[pitchfork]

Dark fired Kentucky- Not a cultivar, but burley that's fired in a certain way.

Well, the same cultivar/variety/seed can be grown for being fire cured OR air cured. As far as I know, farmers don't refer to the seed/plant as "dark fired" or "dark air cured."
Ha ha -- prune trees!

 

[pitchfork]

It doesn't help when farmers refer to the plant that they use to make Dark Fired as...Dark Fired.

Wait, the "plant" or the "tobacco"? (Crazy farmers with their "prune trees" and whatnot.)

 

[woodsroad]

The plant. As in "I'm planting Dark Fired".

 

[pitchfork]

Got it.

 

[nathan24]

I really could use some tobacco seed

 

[cobguy]

All I know is that I love it!
Smoking some Stirling Flake right now. ::

 

[lestrout]

Dark Fired KY seems to be the trendy thing in new blends. It lends an earthiness that I used to distinguish Gawith Hoggarths from SammyG's. I am starting to think that DkFKY makes for poor DGT.
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