I find growing a good beard a lot harder than growing some baccy. Judging from your avatar you should be sweet bro
Homegrown Burley
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Seriously, this may be the future of pipe smoking for most of us.
I just heard about a friend of a friend who is growing his own in northern Wisconsin -- a state that used to hold its own in US tobacco production. I may need to learn the ropes from him (I live only an hour away).
Inspiration received. I wonder if it’s already too late to try to get some going for this summer in Alaska...
Don’t even know if it’s possible, but it seems like the cost of entry isn’t prohibitive...
Don’t even know if it’s possible, but it seems like the cost of entry isn’t prohibitive...
Do it bro. Maybe a fast maturing burley variety? Yellow Twist Bud? Even if it’s an absolute bust this season you’ll learn heaps about how the plant grows, mould and when to start seedlings
If you haven’t got seeds already, this is the spot:
They also do pipe/cigar seed packs with a handful of varieties
Holy Toledo! That looks like every tobacco variety on God's green earth. BOOKMARKED.
(By the way, an L tagged on at the end of your link. Should be: Northwood Seeds Providing organically grown seed for home gardeners - http://northwoodseeds.com/Seed%20List2.htm )
Couple quick questions:
- How much time from seed to harvest is required? Short growing season up here in Wausau, Wis.
- Is full sun required?
- How much space to get a decent enough crop to make it worth your while?
I'm growing Yellow Twist Bud, and it's the easiest plant I've ever grown. And I've grown alot of wacky stuff.
Those are big leaves for sure. Looks perfectly dried/cured. Well done.
Tobacco seems to take forever to get to the seedling stage so I start germination half way through Winter indoors under a LED light [CFL lights are also good] so that seedlings are ready for planting after the risk of frost has passed.
My ground is solid clay so I grow in large pots.
Atm I'm still learning so I've been growing around ten plants a year. It's totally worth the effort.
Thanks bro. I smoked some of my semois-Martin this week and then had a few bowls of tabac manil yesterday, both Le petit robin and la brumeuse. This homegrown stuff is pretty much identical, if anything has a slightly more vegetal taste still but I’m putting that down to not having been toasted yet and the crappy rough chop rather than a nice cut. I’m pretty excited as I now essentially have an unlimited supply of one of my favourite styles of tobacco
Check out this link and then search the fair trade tobacco forums for any grow blogs happening in your area:
Can you believe that growing tobacco for personal use is a more serious offence than growing weed here in Nanny State Australia?
Meh. I'm not one to pay much attention to immoral laws.
Both are equally legal here in Alaska!
As it should be in any civilised country. Good for you.
The way things are, growing weed has more chance of becoming legal here than growing baccy.
What a world we live in.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm not causing harm to or inconveniencing anyone, so the Law can go and get stuffed.
Classic codger scoop.so the Law can go and get stuffed.
haha but in all seriousness, the lack of a personal exemption for homegrown tobacco is just absurd.
I think it's too late to start seed for Alaska unless if you have a greenhouse. You would want to start them in March and get them outside once the ground warms up to at least 55°, probably against a sunny wall if possible.
It wouldn't hurt to try though because it'll go much smoother next year.
It wouldn't hurt to try though because it'll go much smoother next year.
It might not interest you @BarrelProof , but my opinion, growing in Edmonton is that air cured VA is way easier than burley because the burley seems to need more heat to grow to its potential.
My soil temp still isn’t 55. I was planting some raspberries last week and had ice at 2”.