Welp, imma try my hand at growing and curing too this year. I’ve got burley, Smyrna and Virginia in this tray.
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Good luck! Too ambitious for me currently, but always been intrigued by it.
60 plants MIGHT be too ambitious, but to be fair.. I dont expect them all to survive
Right on!! I’ll be looking forward to posts!
Thanks buddy, Ill probably be bugging you for advice.... I got no clue what Im doing..
I would be honored, but I still feel like a novice. The first thing I’d say is to start planning how you’re going to cure those Virginias. My first year, I wavered and waned till I was too late, and quickly winging it.Thanks buddy, Ill probably be bugging you for advice.... I got no clue what Im doing..
My thought is the rafters of a hot humid garden shed for the Virginia’s a drafty gazebo for the burleys and sun racks for the Smyrna
Soluble kelp for your regular fertilizing uses and a watered down mix of Neem oil and Dr.Bronners Peppermint for a spray to make the leaves happy and keep the bugs off.
Trust me on this one.
Trust me on this one.
When they get waste high, just check them over every day. I go out after dinner every day in the late spring and summer and pull any tobacco worms off with tweezers and step on them. I suggest using landscape fabric to keep most of the worms off. I still get one or two a week, but nothing like my first couple of years. It kills me how these specialized bugs will just show up out of thin air.
Landscape fabric on the ground? I thought moths lay the eggs on em? Like cabbage worms. I was thinking BT spray
BT spray works, so does the neem and Dr Bronners soap. But, the larvae lives underground for the first year, and then emerges close to the plants and climbs up the stalks. I've found that by using landscape fabric, I cut out about 90% of infestations, and just have to deal with a few a day, instead of waking up to find several whole plants eaten to stalks.
Sprouts from the Smyrna, zippy from the Burley or Virginia’s
Update: all the Smyrna cells have sprouted.. I just thinned them.. Ive got 2 and only 2 burley cells sprouted.. and the Virginias are coming up now.
Broke out the old germination station last weekend. Growing some tobacco for the first time this year. Definitely not a stranger to starting grows from seed. Former big-time pepper grower.
I aim to do 37 plants:
-12 Yellow Twist Bud (Burley)
-12 Canik (Oriental from the Samsun family)
-13 Yenidje (Oriental from the Xanthi region/family)
I'll be air curing the burley, and a doing a mixture of sun and air curing for the Orientals.
Should be a good time.
I aim to do 37 plants:
-12 Yellow Twist Bud (Burley)
-12 Canik (Oriental from the Samsun family)
-13 Yenidje (Oriental from the Xanthi region/family)
I'll be air curing the burley, and a doing a mixture of sun and air curing for the Orientals.
Should be a good time.
I’m really glad you guys are all starting to grow tobacco.
Mine are all still small. I was planning on tilling the beds this weekend, but the storms will be rolling through the weekend here for us.
Mine are all still small. I was planning on tilling the beds this weekend, but the storms will be rolling through the weekend here for us.
Welcome to the grow club!
This might be heresy, but I've found I prefer sun cured VA over flue cured. Same flavour, less sweet, less tongue bite. Less technical and much cheaper to setup.
This might be heresy, but I've found I prefer sun cured VA over flue cured. Same flavour, less sweet, less tongue bite. Less technical and much cheaper to setup.
And in theory should be able improve more with age, as hasn’t been exposed to flue temperatures
Thought it was burley but smells like Virginia. Grew it for interests sake but I’m not really a gardener. Will be sending the dried leaf back to the guy that sent me the seed. I’m in love with the tinned stuff.
It's doable if you have a balcony or a really sunny window. I spent summer 2019 in a condo, and I picked these leaves at a friend's place. I piled them in a cardboard box until yellow, bunched them into hands of ten leaves, hung them on this carousel in the sun outside on the balcony. I rotated it every couple days. It turned out pretty well after a year and a half of age and being in a kiln for a month. I just made a plug out of it a couple days ago.
