Organic Tobacco Production & Grow Your Own

[dz]

No clue then tekwyzrd? I did plant quite a few varieties but when the planter accident occurred it was impossible to tell what was what. I just picked whatever looked like it might survive since it was too early for transplanting at that point. Maybe they were also dwarfed from the shock/early planting.

[tekwyzrd]

No clue then tekwyzrd? I did plant quite a few varieties but when the planter accident occurred it was impossible to tell what was what. I just picked whatever looked like it might survive since it was too early for transplanting at that point. Maybe they were also dwarfed from the shock/early planting.

If you list what you planted we might be able to determine what it is. For reference I went out and picked a leaf off of a third growth samsun 15 sucker and took a photo. I think the shape could be better described as "like a spade from a deck of cards" rather than "heart shaped"


The low temperatures at night have started to do them in but the tobacco plants are pretty determined. The second growth samsun 15 were almost five feet tall when I harvested them. What do I mean by second growth and third growth? After harvesting I cut the original stalks to two or three leaf nodes and allowed one sucker to grow. They grew to nice leaf producing stalks for what I call my "sucker crop". I plan to plant earlier next year, reducing my total number of plants to 120 - 150 but harvesting early enough to allow the "sucker crop" time to mature. This way I'll get nearly twice the yield from a given number of plants. From 120 plants I could probably get 50 lbs.

[Alist]

tekwyzrd, you need to write a book on growing tobacco and include all of these tips. I would buy it for sure.

[tekwyzrd]

I hope to have one of my tobacco related domain names in use soon. I purchased four domain names a couple of months ago and am considering a few more. The first will be a comprehensive source of information pertaining to different strains of tobacco, cultivation, curing, history, etc. I plan to offer seed there to support the site and expansion of my efforts in growing organic tobacco.

[dz]

If you list what you planted we might be able to determine what it is. For reference I went out and picked a leaf off of a third growth samsun 15 sucker and took a photo. I think the shape could be better described as "like a spade from a deck of cards" rather than "heart shaped"

Thanks for the comment tekwyzrd, it's obviously not Samsun, I was looking at whole plant pics on the Net and not a closeup like the leaf you posted. At 7ft+ your's is about double the size of my plants. From memory, since I planted whole packs and discarded the stakes after the planter incident I planted: Medewivan Sacred, Monte Calme Yellow, Va Gold, White Burley, Md (901 or some #), Rustica, Bafra, Basma, Samsun, Rose.....that's about all I can recall offhand but I bet there's a few more, I'll post any others if I recall. I do remember that at the time of the planting the Rustica and Midewivans were some of the largest, earliest sprouting seedlings. This is why I was thinking they might be either of these, plus I believe I read these are small tobacco plants.

[dz]

If you list what you planted we might be able to determine what it is.

since I planted whole packs and discarded the stakes after the planter incident I planted: Medewivan Sacred, Monte Calme Yellow, Va Gold, White Burley, Md (901 or some #), Rustica, Bafra, Basma, Samsun, Rose.....that's about all I can recall offhand but I bet there's a few more, I'll post any others if I recall

No clue tekwyzrd (I should have bulleted them)? I can't think of any others.

[tekwyzrd]

If you list what you planted we might be able to determine what it is.

since I planted whole packs and discarded the stakes after the planter incident I planted: Medewivan Sacred, Monte Calme Yellow, Va Gold, White Burley, Md (901 or some #), Rustica, Bafra, Basma, Samsun, Rose.....that's about all I can recall offhand but I bet there's a few more, I'll post any others if I recall

No clue tekwyzrd (I should have bulleted them)? I can't think of any others.

I'd just dry, cure, shred, and smoke them as a "mystery blend".

[Mnhbhe73]

The tobacco leaf looks likea collard green. Are tabacco and greens grown the same way?
If so Ill take a shot at it.

[tekwyzrd]

Tobacco is different than growing greens. I'd suggest visiting How to Grow Tobacco for a bit of reading. The tobacco leaf in the picture was from the secondary stalk of a samsun 15 plant that had been cut down to harvest. The original stalk was over 7 ft tall. The secondary stalk that I allowed to grow was just short of 5 ft when harvested. Due to my experience this year with the yield of my "sucker crop" I plan to sow earlier so plants are larger at planting and mature early enough to allow time for a fully mature "sucker crop".

[buggypilot]

You guys ever heard of "fumo louco"? Here is a link to what I read about it:

http://www.pmac.net/tobacco.htm

Since I like lots of nicotine it seems like something I'd like to grow a bit of for stepping up the kick of other strains. From what I read it is sterile so you would not have to worry about cross polination. Anyway, it sounded like a good grower and interesting to me.