@Snuffgrinder - You ever encounter any Y1 tobacco? Interesting stuff.
No, but I wouldn’t mind trying some seed. Wonder if they didn’t insert some rustica chromosomes into tabacum to develop that stuff.
That is exactly what they did! It is a Frankenstein tobacco. Engineered in California. Twice the nicotine, same tars, high sugar content. I spent days looking into it. Perfect snuff tobacco. Seeds are a rumor, it was originally developed as a proprietary sterile plant! I have a Kilogram sample sent to me, I am very excited to work this one up! Worth a wiki search for Y1. Very interesting history! I spent an entire day reading the Tobacco industry internal reports on research results. Smokers preferred it in stronger brands. This is the tobacco that put Kessler on the warpath at the FDA. The Y2 was a failure, smelled like old socks. Spanish jewel is strong as hell and smells like old socks! That just leaps out at me!
@Whalen Ever play with Connecticut “shade leaf” used for cigar wrappers and filler? I used to live in Pennsylvania not far from Amish country. The CT leaf reminds me of the smell when PA leaf was hung out in the barns. You could smell it a half mile away.
I have some shade leaf and looked into growing some, the cigar is so pronounced. The history of shade leaf is a good read. I have readied my crop for this year but did not include this one.