Well, I’m agonna try growin me some baccy this year. Not a whole lot, just a few rusticas, a few indios, maybe a little black samsum. I chose the indio and rustica because the vendor rated them to be so high in nicotine, they are only good for making bug spray -lol. Hmm I thought, should be good for snuff? lol I have some tiny, tiny seedlings taking root in an egg carton. This is exciting.

I just googled tobacco seeds and I never knew that they were so easy to get. I was wondering how growing it indoors would effect it. I saw some that said they were good indoor verities. I know sun plays a big roll in how cigar wrapper tobaccco tastes.

My seeds have sprouted!

I was thinking about this as well. I’m looking for perique seeds, but can’t find any. I’m also starting a tea garden this spring.

Nightcap - I saw some perique seeds on this site. http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.htm

sweet! Thanx Jarhog

@ bakdor: Can you post some pics? Maybe let us watch the progress?

Yeah its best to start indoors then bring outside when all fear of any frost is gone, young plants can damage easy. Even just by birds walking through your growing bed can break them off when young. And some birds will pull them up when small thinking its food. You can grow plants to maturity indoors as long as they get plenty of light or they will take forever. Give em’ good ol manure or good compost & make sure they get their nitrogen. Thats why they like potash & grow good around old burn piles.

E-Bay has seeds and the seller has some good information on how to process tobacco into “Perique”.

Xander, I plan on it. The seedlings are still so tiny they wouldn’t show up in a picture yet.

oh awesome I should maybe try that. I think my new apartment has some great natural lighting!

Here’s a couple of pics. First is the germination tray and the second is a close up of a few seedlings.

Isn’t it illegal to grow tobacco in the USA unless you have a lisence or something?

Orion, No, it’s completely legal. I can’t wait to hear my neighbors ask about it… All my rusticas and indian tobacs sprouted, but none of the turkish ones. Seedman is a good vendor, he’s who I got mine from too.

I’ve been checking out Seedman a bit lately too. I plan to try and make chewing tobacco, if I ever end up ordering some seeds. I have been searching the web quite a bit, and have not been able to find any info on how to make chew. Anyone know where I can get this information?

Wonderful!! Thank you very much for that post, very helpful and informative. I’ll definitely have to try both methods.

Snuffgrinder - that is more of a spell than a recipe. I would love to have some chew from a ritual like that. I will file that for later use if I grow some bacy.

I would think that the photocycle of bacy would be totally different than 420. My question form before still stands “how does the light effect the crop”?

from what i understand tobacco has high light requirements, but i do believe it could be grown well in a south facing window with maybe a little bit of artificial light to help out.

@ atari i would assume you could go 24hrs when in the veg cycle,to speed things up, then 12/12 for flowering. MH for veg, HPS for flower