I am by no means a tobacco farmer. I’ve grown it once before as a boy. I’ve currently have 200 plants that are ready to stick, (as soon as this rain passes through Ohio). I’ve used absolutely no chemicals on these plants- no sucker juice, no pesticide, nothing. As the leaves have been ripening from the bottom up as they tend to do , I’ve been priming off the “sand lugs” as some call them around here ( the somewhat dirty bottom leaves that get a lot of the splash up from the dirt). This is a variety of burley, possibly not the best for snuff. I’m very excited about the potential outcome of this crop. My question is, has anyone ever had or been given TOTALLY additive and chemical free tobacco and how was it? Bland and worthless? Any scale of tobacco farming would have to use at least some suckering chemical just for the fact of the amount of labor it would take to sucker each individual plant after topping would not be feasible. So what they sell as “additive free” is never 100% pure. ANy input would be appreciated… thanks!
I’ve used American Spirit organic occasionally. It could simply be the type of Tobacco, but there’s not a lot of flavour. Sad, because the concept is very good.
I used to smoke American Spirits. That’s about as far as I’ve gone with it. I’m going to order some seeds soon and try my hand at baccy growing.
I curantly have about a thousand seeds I’ve been wanting to do but I’ll have to wait for next season. I got a couple burly Hampton and burley original along with Virginia gold and Virginia dark broadleaf .When I bought these seeds I had ciggs and cigar tobacco in mind but not so much now since I quit.(even though I would still smoke some of the finished product ).I wonder how good burley is for snuff and would like to hear how it turns out for u . I’d guess a lot of the flavor would have to do with the method of drying and cureing.Either way u should have enough to experiment with all forms of use . First thing I would do is stuff a few leaves in ur mouth and chew away ,if it’s good in ur mouth it should be good in ur nose.
I´ve tried all the American Spirit variants in my smoking time, and I preferred the Organic version over the normal one. It´s smoother. Some might say it has less flavour, but I guess it depends on your smoking behaviour. For instance if you´re smoking filter or non-filter. There´s another brand emerging in Germany called Yuma. They only come as additive free, organic cigarettes. No RYO. Besides that, there are a few brands with the same American Spirit copy attitude on the market here (Pepe, Manitou, Pueblo, Camel Essential…). Pueblo launched a Burley flavoured RYO in June and I must say, I liked that one alot. Whether Burley is suitable for snuff… hmmm, why not, I´d give it a try.
I appreciate the info. I don’t plan on smoking this crop-maybe just chew and experiment with grinding some snuff. Me and my brothers make maple syrup on my family’s property each Feb.-March and I wanted to experiment also with laying the cured leaves out, soaking them in maple syrup and then pressing it for about a month. Kind of like a plug chew. The snuff part I’m most hopeful about, though. I’ve also read like you, Nosechaw, the end product is really affected by the style of drying more than anything. All I know is growing and using tobacco seems to be a noble profession to enter. I will have to try to get some pictures on here if it is not too tough to do.
I grew a small plot of Virginia type 'WALKER BROADLEAF" which was totally organic. I made some snuffs - plain and flavored with essential oils. It continues to improve with age, but it’s a nice sniff now. The 2007 crop matured during one of the hottest summers on record in Arizona. It’s pretty strong nicotine and has a good natural scent. I’d like to try making snuff from your crop.
Give me about 8 weeks, I’ll get some to you, stitch or anyone else that cares to try…
Thanks Bart! I’ll send you some of my 07 snuff too.
http://www.coffinails.com/seeds.html http://www.growingtobacco.co.uk/ http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Snuff\_Grinders\_homemade\_nasal\_snuff/ Great info at all these
I hear that air dried tobacco is more potent than any other kind of drying or curing of the same plant ,supposedly the heat kills some potency and " charector" of the plants buzz but the taste really burns and probably tastes like chlorophill.i’ve read somewhere thats how the American indians used to do it . all I know is I would have so much fun screwing around with 200 plants!
Ooh! Stitch’s homeade snuff is good! I’d love to see what he can do with burley! 
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I have a friend in San Diego who manufactures a highly-regarded hookah tobacco. On a recent visit I got a gram or so of the tobacco dust - what is left in the bag after the contents are removed. This was a flu-cured burley with no casing or flavor. The dust is superfine. I took a few pinches yesterday and it was not particularly distinguished. Not that it was bad, mind you. It had a mild burn and the drip was not terrible. Burley is a major constituent of drugstore pipe tobacco. It is low in natural aromatics and perfect for adding flavors to, so it is well suited for blending. It has decent nicotine, but nothing like Virginia types. I’ll be exploring how this snuff takes on flavors and if successful, some of you will no doubt get a chance to evaluate it. If it is well received, there is at least the potential here for me to partner with my friend and bring this into commercial production.