Instead of continuing to hijack Stitch’s thread, I figured we could continue our Tobacco cultivation conversation here. It would be great if we could learn the craft from eachother and create some ongoing educational conversation. Here are the seeds I purchased from Seedman. TA28 Small Stalk Black Mammoth This is a deep dark tobacco that gives good weight and supports itself very well. This is a tobacco prized by specialty growers because it provides a great wrapper tobacco or a premium snuff tobacco when ripe. A good tobacco for beginners learning to roll their own cigars or for first time snuff makers.** TA62 Yellow Orinoco These seeds are descendants from the heirloom Virginia Orinoco plants grown back as far as the 1700’s. Considered to be one of the sweetest varieties available, this is and excellent plug variety, and is often used in pipe mixtures as well. TA09 Perique Tobacco Rare and famous Louisiana tobacco known for it’s dark, black color and unique flavor when cured. Tobacco was originally cured by stuffing it into hollow logs until fermented. Perique is a spice tobacco, usually used in Virginia blends. It has a dark, oily appearance, when cured and a taste of pepper and figs. Its flavor is a little strong, so it is usually found mostly in blends. It can be smoked straight, but isn’t intended to be. Being acidic, it tends to alleviate alkaline tongue bite, which is so often a problem with Virginia tobacco, so it is recommend to blend this with your cigarette blends. TA71 DF911 Dark DF911 is a high yielding tobacco with a dark leaf. This dark tobacco produces a good yield of high snuff or cutting tobacco . TA10 Indian Tobacco ( Rustica ) A half hardy annual that grows to about 3 ft. and is cultivated worldwide for smoking and nicotine production. Has many green to yellow flowers that remain open during the day. It is so potent that it has been used as an arrow poison in Mexico. Can be raised as far north as Maine.**I’m still not quite sure how many of each I will grow. I have so much reading to do that it just isn’t funny.
I grew about 10 plants in 5 gallon buckets. Worked out pretty good. Kept the ‘crawly’ type bugs off em.
@cstokes4 (good idea about the new thread and all!) Did you already recieve the seeds? I heard of the sight but did not order any from him. I was curious as to how they were packed, how many seeds, are they reasonably priced-maybe better priced if more are bought? The going price for burley plants is $10.00 for 200. Now, that’s just plain burley-I would think some of these specialty seeds would be a bit more expensive ,and probably worth it, too! I’ve tried perique in a pipe tobacco blend and remember it being very good, just like you say, spicy . I’m wondering if the “arrow poison” will give Rooster a run for the money?
I just ordered today. All of their seeds are $2.20 for ~40-50 seeds. The shipping was $3.50. So for all the seeds and shipping it was a whopping $14.50. From what everyone on the site says, I should receive the seeds by Monday. This weekend I will try to find time to get the tiny starter trays. @Bakdoor: Did you make anything with your plants or did you just grow them for ornamental reasons?
Just didn’t have the time to do anything with them. Go to Lowes or HD and get a Burpee seed starting tray. The kind you add the water to the bottom tray and it wicks the water up to the peat plugs in the tray above. Worked GREAT! By the way, the seeds are TINY! Poor some onto a white pc of paper and dampen the end of a toothpick to pick each seed up. Just drop the seed on top of the plug. DO NOT bury the seed. Make sure the plugs are damp before adding the seeds.
Put the clear cover on and set in a sunny (indirect sun) spot. I put mine on my porch. Don’t let them dry out. Add plenty of water to the bottom tray.
Burpee tray is on the list. Thanks for the heads up!
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How is that spike used? Even though they are the enemy… the worm is kind of cute.
Sweet truck! Looks like you have some nice property! Was the barn built just for the Tobacco?
You push the stick in the ground at a 45 degree angle next to the plant. Put the spike, which is hollow over the top of the stick. Holding the stalk horizontal to the ground, you push the stalk over the spike, (watching not to include your paw in the ordeal!), The stalk will split, but if you spike it up high enough (with at least 1 set of leaves below the spike) you will not split it all the way out. ((MUch like a tree is hard to split where a branch protrudes from the trunk)). Yes, I thought about eating the worm because when you squeeze him alot of juice comes out-can almost be positive it’s 100% NICOTINE. Would they sell, Chris?
That’s actually a corn crib at the farm next door. I went to Georgetown, Ohio last weekend to get some tobacco sticks and looked in a barn up there. The tobacco was almost BLACK! With the weather we’ve been having, (very humid, no wind and mild) it’s been a bad time for mold. I though I wouldn’t take any chances and be sure to get lots of ventilation in this crib. Threw some 2 by 6 between the walls to run the sticks on. They wilt rather quickly…will have to get a shot of them in the barn.
LOL, I can see it already: “Bart’s Nicotine Worms” I’m sure that Andrew Zimmern would eat it! I’ll have to order a spike sometime, but I’m a ways off from needing it. The first pic of the plants is quite beautiful. I miss those northern days.
@Bart: I’m a Ford fanatic and I LOVE your truck. Is it a 1952 model F100? Your tobacco plants are beautiful and I’m trying to calculate how many tins of snuff you are going to turn out! I do not have enough space for so many plants and will have to use whatever little space I have left in my garden. But it’s been a dream, ever since I started snuffing, to put something in my nose which I’ve produced from A-Z. I think time is right for it now. With all the info I’m getting from the forum, I am prepared to give it a go.