Tobacco plants can be quite beautiful.
Even if you don't approve of smoking tobacco or using it in any
form, you can still grow a tobacco plant for ornamental purposes
in your garden. Since most varieties of tobacco plants have large
attractive flowers and nice green foliage, you will probably receive
quite a few comments on it from neighbors and people passing by.
My grandfather kept a garden for many years and during that time
he grew only one tobacco plant which easily received the most comments
out of everything in his garden.
One of the qualities that make tobacco
plants (members of the Nightshade family) so unique is that their
size and characteristics will vary according to the climate and
type of soil in which they are grown. Or in other words, wherever
you decide to grow your tobacco plant will greatly affect how it
looks; and the differences between the same plant grown in two different
regions can be quite dramatic. For example, the commercial plant
known as nicotiana tobacum will ripen to a yellow color when grown
in the sandy soil of Virginia, yet the same variety when planted
in the black soil of Louisiana will mature to a dark brown color.
The size of the plant also varies from two to seven feet depending
upon its environment.
Growing tobacco is not difficult,
but the plants will require a little extra care at the beginning.
Because tobacco seeds are very small, you will need to keep them
covered up and indoors for the first eight to ten days. Start them
about five weeks before the final frost, and use a seed tray with
a soil mixture of half potting soil and half peat humus. Sprinkle
the seeds evenly over the soil (moistening it first) without covering
them up since they will need a lot of light. Next, place them in
a cupboard having a constant temperature of 70 to 80 degrees. After
about eight to ten days you should see them sprout. Next, keep them
indoors but put them somewhere with a lower temperature of around
55 degrees. A few more weeks and they will be ready for replanting
outside, but make sure they are put in thoroughly cultivated and
fertilized soil - if your soil is full of clay you will need to
add some peat moss. Keep plants spaced about two feet apart and
give them lots of water since tobacco plants are always thirsty.
Once outside your plants will do best if they have a lot of nitrogen
and potash. Wood ashes and charcoal grill ashes are good sources
of this. (There are usually easy-to-follow planting directions on
the back of every package of tobacco seeds.)
Tobacco plants are susceptible to
a few diseases such as root rot and mosaic disease, but as far as
insects go, usually the sphinx moth will be its only pest. This
moth (also known as the "hawk moth" or "tobacco worm")
while in its caterpillar stage is green with white diagonal stripes
and has a hornlike tail. Hand picking is the safest way to remove
these pests. Use pliers or gloves if you don't want to touch them.
And if you want to make a caterpillar 'gas chamber,' simply put
the caterpillars in a jar, pour in some rubbing alcohol, and screw
on the lid. Cruel but effective! Sevin dust is your best bet for
fighting any insects. But if you plan on curing and using the tobacco,
never use insecticides that will penetrate the surface area of the
plant.
Tobacco's resistance to most insects
makes the plant a natural insect repellant (with the Mountain Tobacco
variety generally considered to be the most effective). At the end
of the season you can cut the stalk off above the root system and
save the leaves to soak in water. Use this water to spray down your
other plants to repel any insects. Then the next season a new stalk
will grow from the root system.
If you want to grow tobacco to make
your own cigarettes or pipe tobacco, you should have an area at
least 8 meters by 1 meter. This will be enough to grow approximately
fifty tobacco plants, which will allow you to make about 5000 or
more cigarettes. (But remember that smoking is hazardous to your
heath and we do not recommend it!)
Three more tips for growing tobacco
plants:
1. Make sure your area isn't too cold
for tobacco. It will grow fine in hotter climates, but too much
cold will kill the plants.
2. If you are mainly looking for ornamental
tobacco plants, the Jasmine Tobacco and the Rose Tobacco varieties
grow especially large and attractive flowers.
3. Watch your hoe around the bottoms
of tobacco plants since the roots do not grow deep in the ground.
Tobacco plants are quite fun to grow
since the process can be seen as an experiment to determine what
kind of plant you will receive from your soil and climate.- Jason
Earls
Here is a more in depth ebook: How To Grow Tobacco At Home And Cultivate Tobacco
I've smoked a little over 1,000 dollars worth of cigarettes.
I'm definately going to start growing my own.
I enjoy smoking. It's my habit.
When my lungs sizzle off, i'll only have myself to blame.
Rick from Maine
I moderate a tobacco list and I have Tobacco SEED for sale. For info contact me at UrbanTobacco AT Gmail DOT com.
So the government has decided yet another way to punish the smoker with this tax increase. They say that they are going to use this money for health care for the poor. Somehow most of that money is lost to the bureaucracy required to manage that money. Greedy Politicians will be the downfall of our country. when I travel and come across those places that have so much restrictions on tobacco I make a choice to not spend any of my money there. When it starts to hurt those business they will cry out that they need a stimulus check from Uncle SAM. they have voiced their desires and so have I. from now on I will grow my own tobacco for my own use. I know that I smoke too much but it is my freedom of choice that they are messing with. Just like the seat belt laws when I had the choice of wearing them I mostly did but now that I have no choice in it I keep paying those tickets. I like to drive old cars any way so I bought a pickup truck from when they were not required and I beat those tickets. waste of time money and resources. the government wants me to buy a new car to help the economy so they do not have to give the car manufactures that stimulus check that they do not deserve. if they were like you or me the government would not help us unless it is food stamps. so if the car companies can not make their bills then we should give them food stamps we are an equal opportunity government are we not?
I am a native American Indian and proud of it.
I need tobacco for many other things that they do not need to know about. these new tax laws change my freedom of religion.
Was that not guaranteed by the Constitution freedom of religion but since the government refuses to allow the Constitution to be used in the courtroom what can we do?
Self reliance is the answer. Should we legalize pot? I don't know. Perhaps we should legalize the right to grow our own, for personal use. I don't believe the govt. should dictate personal morality or habits. Freedom of choice. Extend this option to all areas of social concern. There are many pathways to the truth. You travel yours, I'll travel mine. Respect each others rights. Let's be friends and enjoy our individual freedoms together. Perhaps then we will enjoy peace and serenity and no longer engage in conflict.
@€82.5 for 200 gigs. nobody i know gave up for financial reasons, and smoking among the young is still rising year on year. we're all addicted
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Obama is a problem. From hearing how bad gw was, you would think that obama would learn a lesson, but apparently can\'t understand anything with blinders on or having someone to tell him when and what to think. Tobacco tases aren\'t the opnly increases, wait until he ras his ideals down americas throats with this dem led congress, which, btw hasve been running the show going on three years now. Now who is the problem?
TEA PARTY THROW THE BUMS OUT
STOP STEALING MY MONEY AND MY KID'S FUTURE
And it has become so clear our gov dosen't live the same life as the avg working person. I feel like a slave in my own country. Ok yall start growing and share with anyone u can and then what taxes do they have?
Our gov is making huge mistakes and i guess we will all know how to grow tobacco before it crashes to the ground. I guess they think our country can't fall apart, did'nt rome think like that? This could be the beginning of the end...............
I'm a professional actor and clpeaceically trained singer myself and I LOVE MY PIPES! They'll throw me in prison before I stop smoking them. To that end, I've heard that a handful of people have grown their own tobacco here in Upstate New York. I live in Syracuse currently, on my family's farm. Between my pipes and my mom's cigs, we like our tobacco. Our next door neighbors are smokers as well and we're interested in growing our own, but the winters are often harsh up here. I presume we could keep the roots potted indoors in winter so we don't lose any crop we begin. Is this advisable? Any other tips? I intend to use raised beds heaped with horse manure for fertilizer. Also, as it's late in the season, Should I be looking to buy a few pre-grown plants?
The idiot folks that ppeace/lobby these tobacco laws and taxes should *tax FAT instead*!! That would be worth a helluva lot more income for the gov *and* could be put towards fighting fat related health problems(endless list of those)..If You weigh more than x amount per inch of height,,,break out the wallet,they finally gotcha!!
Stupid stupid Do-Gooders and the gov too for going along with the idiots.
iowa boy
We need a revisionist movement which sheds (read that "fires") current politicians, and replaces them with honest people who care more about the American people than about their own egos (financial, social, power).
I would suggest that peole start joining the American Revisionist Party, and prepare to un-elect all those who voted for all these bailouts, increases in taxes, an unbelievably irresponsible fiscal excesses by the current crap of extrememe leftist liberals who now sit in the majority in Congress.
Join the American Revisionist Party! Change we can rely on, not merely believe in.
showed us in school was all the proud states
that grew tobacco, and prided in the states
that gave us superior weapons like Colt, the
Winchester, Smith & wesson,etc. They also had mentioned our own American whiskey to our Beer breweries. I was taught that hard
work & inginuity was what this country was
founded on. And just these 3 things made
jobs for thousands, and brought great wealth
to this country. Now we have a communistic
vendetta against our forefathers founding
Industries,Companys,a
nd
plantations,that
made what america is today. Our forefathers
didn\'t get this country solid by micro-chips
Insurance co.pharmacuticals,Autos,P
lanes
it was the above BIG 3 to cattle & farming
mining & foresting that We the People did.
Now we have the ATF and God only knows how
many buearocrices that hinder, or tax, or
illegalize somthing that our great grand-
folks took for granted as rights. No permits
to paint your fence,what you can or cannot
have on your own property,to how to raise
your kids.Not only did Tabacco go up,but,so
did alcohol a few wks. before. But there was
no big outrage or wasnt newsworthy enough.
Everyone in several states are getting thier
licence and buying guns & rifles cause of
Obamas soon to be Agenda.I can see the day
coming home from hunting,, getting pulled
over & getting busted for a gun my father
gave me, not having the correct certified
papers for my home brew, and Hm-Grn.tobbaco
20 to life???? Thats it. im pissed..
It starts here.
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I live in the desert, does tobacco grow in sand?
i see a money making opertuninty
screw this crooked government and rich theive ceo's
THE TIME FOR REVOLUTION IS NEAR
Look into starting a seed bank, and if you have the room grow extra rows of veggies for those who cannot do it or who are not smart enough to know what is going on.
Two of my favorite broadcasts and websites are stevequayle.com, you can listen every night for free at 7 eastern time, The other one is infowars.com.
Get prepared and be self reliant that is how you and your family will survive.
(337)255-3430 CELL
landrytroyjohn@yahoo.com
p.s. haven't actually setup the website yet still thinking of a name for the oranization, but all i want to do is give the people back the power and make the repersenatives truley represent the people, and one day have enough members to make our votes keep them out of politics for the rest of there life if they don't listen to how the majority of the organization wants them to vote on all the bills that are being ppeaceed. Especially these crazy and unjust taxes. I don't want are neither will i every try and influence anybodys vote within this group, i just want the voters voice heard and for them to vote as we ask them to! if they don't BYE BYE, let them go get a 9 to 5 job and see what the middle clpeace feels like.
and thanks for all of you that are sopporting this, and a big thanks to the creator of this website
Dollar a pack, yeah that sucks. This is rediculous. I wrote Obama a nasty email, and I suggest you all do the same, through whitehouse.gov. I've also registered a website called peacetheeconomy.org, which will be a Do-It-Yourself website for political purposes.
So peace the economy. Buy used, buy foreign, buy local, barter, and don't buy tobacco any more. You can get 50 seeds for 2.20$ which will produce pounds of tobacco, and a promise it will be better than any pre-rolled tobacco you can find.
Being in all fairness, why not tax milk and toilet paper? Almost everyone uses these? How about a fat tax as well to prevent heart disease?
Because I chew tobacco, smoke, and drink, I am therefore nailed three times with tax raises! I work, pay taxes, pay for my health benefits, and am screwed!
In Oregon you can be disabled for being over-weight, obtain housing, and get food stamps (Oregon trail Card)to get more of what makes you a non-functioning member of society, and medical as well!
Ok, I said what I wanted!!
dshelton23@earthlink.net
The cigarette companies raised the wholesale price of cigarettes above the new federal tax.They say taxes must be paid on all inventory as of April 1. By collecting it early they will fulfill the new tax and the extra raise is for "distribution" costs.
Obama signed the tax increase to fund s-chip expansion at the expense of tobacco users only. Bush had vetoed that bill twice.
Can anyone explain then, why the price of a carton went up $10?
I live in the Chicago area and also in Cook Co. which has one of the highest sales taxes in the country.
However I go acroos to Lake Co for ciggs.
They were $39.59 on avg (bottom line) for a carton. Now without any coupons or specials they're $50.?? which is actually more than $10....!!??!!??
Does anyone know why this is? Is it the greedy shop owners throwing in their own "taxes"?
I appreciate your comments
Regards,
Dave
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/> SMOKERS UNITE!!! I'm planting my own tobacco plants this spring!
SMOKERS ARE THE ONLY GROUP in the UNITED STATES that have not blamed anyone else for there actions!!! Smoking a cig is relaxing........It does have health benefits!! GREED STILL RULES!!! GOD BLESS US, THE CIGARETTE SMOKERS!! WHERE WOULD THEY BE WITH OUT ARE ACTIONS???
PS
Have a Question?........
How can healthy lungs develop if mom sticks a pacifer in the mouth of a baby??
Hope to grow for tobacco for personal use. Wish all of us luck for the yet to come hidden taxation's we don't yet know about!
just search for 'tobacco seeds'; plenty of results will pop up.
And what is the average price for these seeds?
I now have enough testimonials so the offer is now closed.
Kind regards, Benjamin
My name is Benjamin Street, author of Grow Roll Smoke.
I am looking for honest testimonials for my book and as an incentive I will give away a copy to the first 5 people who contact me here: http://www.123contactform.com/contact-form-bwjstreet-2913.html
Please only contact if you are willing to evaluate the book and return your findings in the form of a testimonial.
Many thanks, Benjamin
For those of you who smoke via pipe, try Orinoco. It is a rich, reddish brown tobacco that provides a pleasent smell.
Pipe tobacco is cured like most tobacco in a curing chamber. 52C at 80% humidity.
Chewing tobacco is soaked in a sauce an then stored for a number of months.
Burley is great for cigs.There are a number of strains one can use.
Thanks!
I have grown tobacco for several years now. While what I have cured is fine for cigar and cigarette smoking, it is not for pipe smokeing. I wonder if you could point me towards any info on how to cure tobacco for pipe smoking. Thanks........