Thanks about the italics button, but I'm not following the rest.
We can grow most tropical plants outside in summer. We just have to water them. Like tomatoes,sweat potatoes, and Chile peppers.
It grows ok here from what I have seen. Not that ist going to yeild like would in the south, but I don't really care about that as I don't use tobacco anyway.
The seeds on ebay describe the use and curing methods for the type. Some of them also say where they were grown.
For sure. I have a couple buddies that chew like its going out of style. Be fun to hand them a bag of homegrown on a fishing trip.
If its like anything else I'll dive in, spend a bunch of money and time on it to make it right and then not even use the shit.....Or I'll start chewing. The old lady will love that.
How's your grape orchard coming along? Mine started with well established grapes, but I am switching some because I want some seedless table grapes. I don't make wine and I don't need 100 pounds of grapes for jelly. LOL. Pretty crazy watching a lot of the stuff I have planted over the last 7 years start to mature.
Reading up some rustica or Aztec tobacco is interesting. It ties in well with something else I was thinking about which was using it to make grass hopper spray. My neighbor is irrigating his property now so I am plagued with grass hoppers. I want a physically large plant. I will probably end up with two kinds of tobacco seeds now.
It isn't my intention to derail your thread by any means sir but I'm just curious- should you be so inclined (it doesn't sound like you are), would you legally be able to grow weed in CO? Such a bizarre hodgepodge of state/federal laws on the topic anymore and I just was curious is all.
That's where my interest kicks in, as a barter commodity.
Johnny......shhhhh....
Wait...are you suggesting that someone gave me bad info?
You shoot handgun AND you know something about Tobacco ?I was referring to myself as the asshole know it all....just for clarification.
Yes...I come from a very long line of Eastern NC tobacco farmers...numerous generations.
This is your fault Johnny....
I use tobacco in smokeless form. I have not bought any heavily taxed "product" in going on 3 years now. A can of snuff that rivals the best Kodiak or Cope costs me about 25cents a can, not paying me for my time.
Properly aged and cured tobacco is no more carcinogenic than anything you have in you food pantry.
No I do not grow my own, its simply too big a pain in the ass. Yes, I could grow it. I grew a nice crop of burley back in '05. Unfortunately, I did not have the knowledge I possess now on curing and aging to a finished product.
To my reference on companion planting....its kind of a mean nasty old man that I am...joke. A bad awful practical joke.
Lemme splain.
I won't handle tomato plants, seeds, etc if I'm chewing or have handled a tobacco product.
Same goes for any nightshade plant including but not limited to eggplant, potato, tomatillo, etc.
They share the same diseases, and tobacco products are notorious "carriers".
Last thing you want is mosaic blight running through your garden. Among a host of other nasties.
Hornworms aka "baccer worms", they are gonna be around maters and tobacco and other nightshade. They aren't particularly difficult to kill, but they will wipe out your crop if you don't get them quick.
Plant you some baccer, good luck.
Keep it away from your other nightshade.
Again, careful how you handle the stuff, if you don't use nicotine.
If you suckered tobacco back in the day, you had to use nicotine or get sick as hell.
Some peopel get all worried about planting their night shades next to each other. Then to "space them out" they move them 10ft and put another member of the solanacea family the pepper in between them and plant petunias for the polenators.
