Hello all, wondering if anyone has any advice on growing cold hardy pipe tobaccos in the northern climes. What varieties did you plant? And what had good success? What smoked good?
Advice wanted: growing my own tobacco in Michigan and the North
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My best suggestion is to pop on over to fairtradetobacco.com and search that forum with your location.
A lot will depend on the warm season length you get before your first frost. This can determine which varieties will most likely be successful - that said the above forum will give you lots of examples of how people build growing houses etc to work with their climate
A lot will depend on the warm season length you get before your first frost. This can determine which varieties will most likely be successful - that said the above forum will give you lots of examples of how people build growing houses etc to work with their climate
For smokability the growing isn't as important as the curing. If you can grow tomatoes where you are you can grow tobacco. You may just end up having to build a climate controlled box to cure it in.
Fair trade has all the info for that, too. Good luck!
Fair trade has all the info for that, too. Good luck!
That is the exceedingly difficult problem.
There is a reason that every tobacco consumer south of Svalbard is not growing their own.
My growing conditions are very different to yours, but my favourites so far (sun cured, in some cases kilned but not cased) are goose creek red, stag horn, Samson Maden and semois.