Planting Tobacco This Spring.

[hnryclay]

Tobacco plants produce nice flowers as well. Of course you should cut the flowers off to help them grow larger.

 

[danz]

Finished product.

 

[admin]

This is pretty cool. If I still had a house with a backyard and a garden, this would be fun to try, but I'm a city boy now.
That's pretty neat DanZ.
How do you do the flue curing? Do you actually have access to a flue cure barn?
For commercial tobacco, Burley is usually air cured, while Virginia is flue cured, but you said you are flue curing Burley, which is quite interesting.

 

[hobojoe]

People on this site go all out. No slouches here.

Thanks for the input. Picking up The chicken poop Saturday.

Ordering seeds.Virgina I guess.

Joe2shoes

 

[danz]

How do you do the flue curing? Do you actually have access to a flue cure barn?

Well its not flue curing in the traditional sense, the tobacco is just kept in a warm(48ºc) and humid(70%) environment for a few weeks in a small kiln.