MY own version of 1792

Having grown up on a tobacco farm and having the knowledge,place to grow and access to buck barns,one being an old stick barn I have decided to grow a crop of tobacco.I live in south carolina where my family was paid not to plant tobacco by by the gov.Anyway I'm sitting here smoking my morning bowl of 1792 watching my daughter push her bubble mower and felt guilty for buying the tobacco and not putting the funds toward her savings.Also I'm buying a product that I have all the tools to make.Im not saying gonna produce something that taste like a pease or gawith tobacco.But maybe I can make a sweet smooth plain tobacco that I know exactly what's in it.I think the reason is not to depend on someone else for something I can do.Also while I will come no where near filling a barn up I hope to replicate the smells of opening a full barn of freshly cured tobacco.Wish me luck

Sorry for the mistakes in the post.Im posting from a phone.

First I wanna find that deep natural sweetness that's in Kendal Kentucky, Cd dark fired Kentucky and old dark fired.I know they find a why to enhance it with chemicals,I hope to coax it out naturally while not making it harsh on your mouth while trying to keep the smoke thick yet creamy and silky.If I can get that sweetness and smoothness you can stack other leafs or flavorings.I have to learn the flavoring process.That being said this is what I have to say about Virginias.

The only Virginia I smoke is ps lnf.Ive tried everything else people suggested and I guess my body chemistry is different because how I dry it pack it and smoke it I always get tongue bite and the flavor is just not that great.I got a year old jar of fvf I keep trying.I do have some McClellan 40th that is starting to grow on me.im hoping to grow a red that I can cure real slow then stove the hell out of to finally get this great Virginia flavor I hear about.If I smoke it one time and it goes great I might never smoke it again so that's how I'll always remember it.Im going to start collecting seed for this project this week.If your interested I'll keep you updated.

Yeah the base mixture I'm going for won't have Virginia.As I make different little batches I'll add it.I used it as an example of sweetness that can be achieved with burley.

I just had a bowl of haunted bookshop with some 1792 mixed in.Its pretty good surprising how it actually softens that blend

<p>I'm gonna do all my curing in my late papas small stick barn.Its got a big diesel heater in the middle they added later I think he used it for sweet potatoes tho.Anyway I'm gonna section it off into four stalls that way I can hang the leaf all the way to the top and take it out a section at the time with out cooling or opening the other ones.That way I can cure the same leaf at 2 different temps and that will let me cure each temp for a normal time and I can see how it turns out if I cure it longer at both temps.As for the fire cured gonna use a small grain silo.I got a lot of cleaning to do.Im gonna base everything on what papa kept in his farmbooks.I might even get in his notes on turning

Actually you are wrong about curing longer.Im gonna have 4 sealed stalls taking indirect heat so when I start curing they start together right.Oh I guess I need to say that I'll be curing the Virginia with heat not the Burley.I didn't say it earlier because I figured anyone on this thread would know that.I guess I was wrong sorry for the assumption.Anyway to see the effects of curing times when I take out one section and leave the other in it is curing longerAlso you don't hand burley in the barn you hang it outside under a lean to shelter built onto the barn.You also mention it turning brown.I remember my papa telling me about the different attributes the leaf would take on as it browned/darkened.Whst shade of brown were you talking about, because if you mean stop right the it shades you losing flavor because you are not allowing the sugars to caramelize and oils to concentrate.Oh yeah just so you don't give the wrong answer because I didn't give detailed info shading means the tobacco leaf is starting to color.Also from what you said about curing and aging o guess you have come across some information on the exact scientific time when curing is done and aging begins so I was wondering is the the same for every tobacco strain.,If so it proves every tobacco farmer I've ever known wrong.Now this is what I was taught but it could be wrong cause I'm just an old country boy who was ouckt enough to grow up on a farm is that curing starts when you hang your hopes and leaf to dry by air or heat,then the aging begins when you put it in your tins.Translated it means there is no set curing times only suggested.At last is about the heat and burley.Peoplr try different things didn't a guy use the method for making perique use Virginia instead of Burley

I heard that come out pretty good.If he would have listened to to the people who did nothing but give criticism and point out things they thought were wrong that great tasting leaf would not exist.Om glad this site doesn't have people like that on it right.So hey thanks for your opinions.Oh yeah I meant to ask how many pounds do you grow a year?