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Hi -- I just talked to someone in Kentucky who used to use this method for making seedlings and I thought I'd pass it on I'm going to try this method this year. In Kentucky, they plant the beds around the first of March. I'm planning on planting mine around the same time here in N. Central...

Hi -- Haha, is that the Aculpulco Gold tobacco you are talking about? Well, I'm busy planting my tobacco crop. I already have 500 planted and another 500 to go of 15 kinds. The first 500 have already sprouted, but we've been getting so many snowstorms here N. of Dallas, it wrecks one's...

Hi -- Wow, that's really expensive. I think my homegrown tobacco cigs are costing me about 30 cents (USD) a pack of 20. And most of that cost is in buying the filter tubes for my injector. I'd sure like to meet someone who could tell me how to make cigarette papers from the stems of the...

Hi -- chuckdee123, since a carton is about 6 ounces, you have a very light smoking habit. BTW folks, it's only about 7-8 weeks until it's time to plant your tobacco seeds indoors to get ready for Spring plantings.....get your seeds soon! Bob

Hi -- This is a very large topic and I won't try to completely cover all the pests and diseases which can affect and harm tobacco crops. Tobacco breeders have come up with resistant varieties for many of the wilts, viruses, fungi and molds. Similarly, insects which attack tobacco are of such a...

Hi -- I haven't been here for a while because I've been busy with many things lately. We knew a freeze was coming soon, so I had to winterize the greenhouse. Then sales on my new product "Decorative Whole Leaf Tobacco" ramped up. THEN Fox News affiliates across the country found my interview...

Hi -- I suppose I should show y'all what it all ends up as after it's grown and dried. I've posted pics of various kinds of tobacco and a shameless plug to sell some here (sorry about the pun): hxxp://tobaccotalk.myfastforum.org/about170.html This is the 2009 crop, dried and ready to be...

Hi -- Strawberry Cough, that's why I asked him if he was in Australia. It is perfectly legal to grow your own tobacco at home in all American states. I believe it is illegal in Australia and possibly New Zealand as well. Bob

Hi -- smokingjoe, I couldn't see where you are from, but from the word "mate" in your profile I guess you are in Australia? By 60 cents a pop you mean per cigarette? $12 a pack? Wow! You are right, it is illegal to grow tobacco in Australia. In fact, you seem to have the most extreme...

Hi -- I thought I'd talk a little about how to grow the tobacco outside in a field now. I've already talked about starting the seeds indoors 6-7 weeks before your first average frost, but what do you need to do in the field to prepare to plant and what about during the growing season...

Hi -- Thanks for the explanation! I saw what you did and had the rule learned, but wasn't quite sure why.... Telling when leaves are ripe is a topic of great discussion among tobacco growers. The rule of thumb is that the leaves are ripe 3-4 weeks after the first bloom opens. Of course...

Hi -- I have a couple of friends growing two strains of rustica tobacco that I should be able to get enough seeds to sell a few later this Winter. Rustica is generally used to make a tea for organic insect controls and to beef up the nicotine in the modern cigarette tobacco varieties which...

Hi -- I finally took the time to look it up and found this -- TA10 Indian Tobacco ( Rustica ) A half hardy annual that grows to about 3 ft. and is cultivated worldwide for smoking and nicotine production... That stuff should've blown your socks off with the nicotine content! I'm just...

Hi, I reread the posts and I guess I should've posted a pic of my seedlings in the 72-cell trays so y'all could see it easier. Here -- These are about a week off from transplanting to 4" pots...Silk Leaf.... Bob

Hi -- If you got the most popular tobacco of Tennessee varieties, it was TN 90, a burley prized for blending with Virginia types for cigarettes. Very heavy producing plants. And I've heard good things about the Tenn Red although I think it's usually Connecticutt Red? Did you make seeds...

Hi -- Indian Tobacco is usually Lobelia inflata, not in the nicotiana family. Of course, some people call N. Rustica 'indian tobacco'. Rustica has such a strong concentration of nicotine that smoking one cigarette of it can make a person pass out. Not recommended for use except in small...

Hi -- Hippie, I'm awfully sorry if you got the wrong impression. I don't sell pot seeds. I sell tobacco seeds and transplants in the spring. There's nothing illegal about selling tobacco seeds. Do a quick google search, there are many commercial companies who sell tobacco seeds. I just sell...

Hi -- Thanks geezer, that's all we're smoking now. Iit's a very bland-flavored tobacco and I'm blending Black Sea Turkish Samsun into it for the flavor. Turns out that Havana isn't any good mixed with either SilkLeaf or Virginia Gold for cigs. Ends up tasting like a bad cigar! I have seeds...

Hi -- Thanks for your warm welcome! I knew that people who were growing pot would see the value of growing your own tobacco. I mean, not only can you control what pesticides and additives go in your smoke (in my case NONE!), but you can save $2000 or more a year in mostly high taxes for...

Hi -- Hippy: I know many people in the UK who grow their own tobacco. You may want to make raised beds to keep the roots from being drowned. You may have to keep the transplants indoors a little longer before Spring so they have long enough to reach full size, maybe plant 7-9 weeks before last...