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?
Chewing tobacco recipes This is from the now defunct Burford Brothers website. "For my favorite chew I use un-pasteurized Apple Cider, since that is easy to get to in Oblivion County. But I have found in my travels that lots of other fruits work well and can make your chew more interesting… Just cover the bottom of a large skillet with the juice and let her boil. Not too much!! When it boils down you should pour in some more and repeat until get a juice that is missing a lot of its water and is the essence of the fruit juice. When you get there you only need enough to cover the bottom with a skim of juice (not deep at all). Then add a couple of tablespoons of molasses. Homemade black strap molasses is the best. Get the best molasses anyway. Now stir this for a moment and kill the heat leaving the mixture really HOT! Start stirring in tobacco until the leaf is about the wetness you desire. I don’t cook the stuff but it is important for the heat to thin the molasses and drive the juices into the leaf. I think it does a world of good to let the finished product set in the skillet for hours and evaporate some more. OH! I do throw a few shakes of salt and some of Pappy’s Elixir into the juice and molasses before I add the leaf. - Buford You go into the woods (or wherever) and find a good stout sassafras log that is at least 4 inches in diameter. You hollow out the wood from one side, making look like a log boat. (Optional – at this point you can char the inside if you want more of a smoky flavor.) You compact several tobacco leaves into the hollow of the log. Pour on top of the tobacco either molasses or honey mixed with peach brandy or hard apple cider (4 T. molasses to 1 t. brandy or 2 t. hard cider). Fashion a wooden plug for the piece of beech wood. Let it sit for 4-6 months while the honey or molasses and the tobacco leaf ferment. That produces chewing tobacco. I keep six of ‘em going all of the time, since one batch lasts me about a month. - Bubba " Note: Any kind of pleasantly scented nontoxic hardwood would do. Most often a person would just bore a large auger hole into an appropriate size piece of wood. This method, without the sweetener, was used by early French Americans to produce carrotes for smoking or snuff as well as the original Perique tobacco. It is said to have originated with the Chickasaw Indians.
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 could probably just google this, but what the heck. 
Can you grow them inside under HPS or MH? Does anyone know the photocycle of them? Im only familiar with growing (cough) flowers. Can I grow tobacco in a hydro setup??
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”?