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Looks delicious, man! Might be your only option in NZ soon 
I’m okay with thatLooks delicious, man! Might be your only option in NZ soon
...but there is somewhat of a Chinese wall in my cellar to go through before that happens
Humidity in the curing season can be problematic, especially for crops you are air curing. It is not something however that is unmanageable. There is lots of advice and experience at the fair trade tobacco forum from members who have been successful pretty much growing everywhere.
I’d say that giving it a go is the best learning curve. I lost about 50% of my first seasons crop to mould a couple of years back. And most of what I was able to salvage requires being washed in vinegar/water solution to remove surface stuff. However, even a failure has helped my intuition this season. I’m actually looking forward to next years grow as I feel way more comfortable about the process.
I’d say that giving it a go is the best learning curve. I lost about 50% of my first seasons crop to mould a couple of years back. And most of what I was able to salvage requires being washed in vinegar/water solution to remove surface stuff. However, even a failure has helped my intuition this season. I’m actually looking forward to next years grow as I feel way more comfortable about the process.
Anyone have some good links to start researching this? I live in MN but we do get a spurt of hot n' humid and there's always grow lights for longer if needed. May be fun to add some plants it to this years hot peppers.
Anyone who can keep a work area as clean as that tobacco shed inspires my awe. If I sit down in pristine forest, by the time I get up, it looks a little cluttered. Even if I don't bring anything with me or litter at all.
I had just waxed the floor the week before hence the emptiness...despite the photographic evidence, according to my wife it is NOT going to be our tobacco shed
This forum has been invaluable:
Fair Trade Tobacco - How to grow, cure and process tobacco.
How to grow tobacco, curing tobacco, processing tobacco, RYO tobacco, Cigar tobacco Cigarette tobacco
This is an overview of growing process which is well worth a read regardless:
Seems like if you have a dependable home grown crop you are just about set for any tobacco shortages. Impeding commercial production with regulations is one thing, but legislating against growing for home use seems unlikely. Even during U.S. Prohibition on alcoholic beverage production, making beer and wine for home use was not illegal. You just can't sell your home-grown leaf.
I have a feeling sometime down the road growing your own tobacco may become inevitable and the only remaining way to get supply of more or less affordable tobacco in Finland
Why Finland?I have a feeling sometime down the road growing your own tobacco may become inevitable and the only remaining way to get supply of more or less affordable tobacco in Finland
Because that is where he lives?
@paulie66scandinavian are you able to get whole leaf tobacco from Germany? It’s around €10 per pound
This thread is a nice break from that other one..
First bowl of this season. Leaf came out of kiln yesterday. Straight semois-a-Martin. It’s more than I hoped for. I’m going to bring a whole bunch into case and toast before making a brick of shag cut.
There are 269 tobacco farms in Ontario and I'm growing in Edmonton so I'm pretty sure you should start growing next year. I dare say that even if you lived in Kenora, you'd be able to pull off a crop.
Thanks for that push. Maybe I'll start a few this season for fun. See how they turn out