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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

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stupid shit
im 17 been smokin since i was about 11, and i think its bullshit the government wants to ban all this shit for tobacco and always have commercials about how its bad for you and shit, but they still grow, pick, make, and sell cigarettes and they wanna make the people that smoke pay a huge tax and price. and for the people that smoke tobacco outta pipes or people that roll their own smokes i think they should be able to buy and plant tobacco seeds and grow their own shit. and be able to sell a portion of it if they want to or need to. the stupid government wants to buy forign made tobacco just like almost everything in the U.S that is sold at a low price and add about a 200% profit to it. i say we should get a good group of people and grow our own shit and stop buying from the government. maybe then they would drop prices and leave the people alone.
#104 - bAllZoFsmOke - 07/03/2009 - 00:04
Voice Of Many
I am with you on that i well do my best to ppeace this site round to people i know maybe something good well come of it soon enough who knows.
#103 - TyPro - 07/02/2009 - 23:47
Now more than ever
We are many they are few and with that we can do anything.
#102 - Voice of many - 07/02/2009 - 12:51
peace THEM BI1TCHIES
Lets grow our own tobacco pot etc.. and do it our way peace them greedy bastards i say we all grab our guns/knifes/w.e else we have and go take a stand and take back whats ours!!!
#101 - TyPro - 07/02/2009 - 11:09
out law whats next
grow your own yes but thay will find a way to stop that
#100 - ron maricle - 06/25/2009 - 04:21
Feds. to Regulate Ingredients!
Obama signed a bill today to let feds regulate what goes into cigarettes, not to mention they will be taxed even more.
#99 - Fran - 06/22/2009 - 15:53
Non-smoker but...
I am a non-smoker and would never and have never touched a cigarette but think it's completely unfair that the government wants to tax tobacco users to death! It's unfair and I completely sympathize with you all. I also think we should be able to grow, smoke, and brew whatever without the government saying what we can and cannot do. Would love to grow pot and tobacco for resell if I knew I wouldn't be going to jail for it!
#98 - Jay - 06/20/2009 - 20:59
Ex Smoker
I may be an ex smoker but I feel the same as everyone else.To many taxes and taking away our rights.As for Dan number 91 on this post go for it. I'd grow pot to if I wouldn't go to prison. but I do have tobacco seeds on the way to grow just because I like growing things.I don't think the government should be able to tell us what we can grow or brew for that matter. Best of luck to you all,were gona need it.
#97 - Tom - 06/12/2009 - 08:18
Shocked.
I've been a smoker since I was 14. (I'm about to turn 16)
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.
#96 - Alicia - 06/03/2009 - 13:22
Mr. Rick
There are many things wrong with this country but how many of you would prefer to live someplace else? Maybe Russia or China for instance or let\'s try someplace in the Middle East. Yes the taxes are way out of control but because we live in a country where the freedom of speach is part of the constitution we have the ability to write to our representatives and let our voices be heard. So let\'s ban together and practice those rights guaranteed by the constitution.
Rick from Maine
#95 - Rick Vanpeacee - 05/24/2009 - 03:55
This is not a tax it is extortion to get us to conform, not working whole huge family growing there own.Hey maybe ILL Gov can say he thought extortion was legal the Feds are doing it why not. They just handed him his defence
#94 - cher - 05/22/2009 - 09:14
Excellent synopsis
That was a good thumbnail on how to grow tobacco. I grow in Portland, Oregon even though it is kinda chilly. I do just fine.

I moderate a tobacco list and I have Tobacco SEED for sale. For info contact me at UrbanTobacco AT Gmail DOT com.
#93 - Leigh M - 05/21/2009 - 15:55
Governmental Stuipdity and Beliefs
The government believes that by raising the cost of tobacco in taxes that the people will stop using it. Those that are no longer able to afford it will seek other ways to obtain it.
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?
#92 - Zazzsa - 05/19/2009 - 12:27
SLOW DOWN
I'm 78 yrs old, been smoking full time for 58 yrs. Don't want to go thru the agony of withdrawal. Don't drink-health reasons. Infrastructure is breaking down, arthritis, hip replacement, degenerative disc disease, constant pain. Hate pain pills. Enjoy moderate pot use, its benefits, relief--damned expensive. Been rolling my own for some time. Benefits--save money, smoke less. Started veggie gardening, again, as a hobby. Living on SS, no pension. Things are tight, even before our current difficulties. Now I'm thinking of growing tabbaco and Pot ( even with the risks). Don't care if I go to jail. Went thru the great depression, everybody I knew was poor, but we survived, improvised. This is a complex world we live in now, and requires complex solutions. I'm not going to bash the govt., or Obama, for searching for answers. I'm going back to my roots, take responsibility for myself.
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.
#91 - dan linder - 05/18/2009 - 07:14
try buying with irish taxes
you all aeem to think putting up taxes will shut down the tobacco company's or loose covernment revineu but this tax increese has been going on in ireland for the last 17 years or so long as i've been smoking. anyway long story short a pack of 20 (single)marlboro cigs costs €8.25!!!!!!!
@€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
#90 - fitt patley - 05/10/2009 - 12:18
snuff
how can i make it
#89 - zack - 05/10/2009 - 11:08
Something to consider if you're going to try to grow your own tobacco, and it isn't mentioned much on forums - tobacco is a nutrient-eater. It will deplete your soil of nitrogen and other nutrients necessary to feed any plant. If you're planning on growing tobacco every year, you will need to rotate your crops, or have your soil tested and custom-fertilized (using commercially developed fertilizer that is custom blended to meet your soil's needs) every year. Not doing so will strip your soil of enough nutrients that NOTHING will grow there.
#88 - Bruce - 05/09/2009 - 10:34
Obama just took office and now he is the reason for all the nation\\\'s woe\\\'s? How many of our problems did he inherit just like the rest of us? Bush sent 363 TONS of money to Iraq on forklift PALLETS. Only a fraction is accounted for, billions upon billions of dollars just gone; and nobody says squat. Oh yeah, Obama is the problem.

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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?
#87 - Ron Cotten - 05/08/2009 - 12:15
They're getting rid of talk radio, grab your pitch forks.
Were heading for Washington!

TEA PARTY THROW THE BUMS OUT

STOP STEALING MY MONEY AND MY KID'S FUTURE
#86 - Tea Party OVERTHROW CONGRESS NOW - 05/08/2009 - 09:58
Good to know
I am so glad that I found this site. Now my husband can grow his own tobacco& won\'t have to spend all our money on the high tax increase on ciggs& his rolling tobacco. HEY, TO HAVE MARIJUANA LEGALIZED CALL: 1-973-409-3271& ONCE THEY HAVE 1,000,000 VOTES THEY WILL SEND THE BILL TO PRESIDENT OBAMA! Thank you,Annie.
#85 - Annie - 05/07/2009 - 13:08
Good to know
I am so glad that I found this site. Now my husband can grow his own tobacco& won't have to spend all our money on the high tax increase on ciggs& his rolling tobacco. HEY, TO HAVE MARIJUANA LEGALIZED CALL: 1-973-409-3271& ONCE THEY HAVE 1,000,000 VOTES THEY WILL SEND THE BILL TO PRESIDENT OBAMA! Thank you,Annie.
#84 - Annie - 05/07/2009 - 13:07
children's health insurance funded by tobacco taxes?
It is in Illinois, they just added $17 to a $10 can of Zig-Zag tobacco. I want gov't OUT OF MY @#$%^& LIFE!
#83 - angrywhitemale - 05/05/2009 - 12:18
tony nine
i get the feeling that the cureing is really important to get flovour i am still looking for that
#82 - tony - 05/04/2009 - 00:47
I don\'t get it.
Obama just took office and now he is the reason for all the nation\'s woe\'s? How many of our problems did he inherit just like the rest of us? Bush sent 363 TONS of money to Iraq on forklift PALLETS. Only a fraction is accounted for, billions upon billions of dollars just gone; and nobody says squat. Oh yeah, Obama is the problem.
#81 - Jay - 05/01/2009 - 11:54
woe is me
Gvt putting the $ squeeze on its addicts is like taking candy from a baby... Right, what next??
#80 - Sam - 05/01/2009 - 01:27
New world order
Imagine if groups of people brought the facts to their local mayors and held them accountable to arrest those involved in their towns corruption
#79 - Freedomfighter - 04/30/2009 - 17:35
The Fall
Seems like were a might upset, this is just the beginning Rome(USA)is burning.
#78 - marvin - 04/26/2009 - 20:21
screw any and all unfairly govt written taxes
peace paying the tobacco commies us obama run govt when what we need is a good ole fashion civil war to replace these peace holes and go back to our constitional roots and run america the way it should have been run.
#77 - richard alexander cezar - 04/25/2009 - 18:33
revolt!
Taxes on everything are already too high, whether it be tobacco, fuel, alcohol, ammunition, or anything else. This government is an insatiable machine that will need ever increasing amounts of money to fuel its ever increasing size. Do whatever you can to protect or minimize the peaceets that you have that can be taken by the "Gov'ment". Then, do whatever you can to avoid paying any and all taxes that fund this beast. While doing those things, try to change things the legitimate way by voting out any of the bums that supported these Porkulus bills that Obama is using to ruin this country. The only patriotic thing to do is to NOT SUPPORT THIS GOVERNMENT!
#76 - Tom Jefferson - 04/24/2009 - 22:12
I\'ve got to rant !
this new tax on tobacco is nothing short of discrimination. I should\'nt be punished to pay back the whole national debt myself just because I\'m a smoker. And don\'t blame just the democrats for this. We started getting stroked for our habit early in Bushes rein of terror. In three weeks the cost of a tin of tobacco tripled in price. How is that not unconstitutional? So I\'m settinng out to grow my own. Wish me luck!
#75 - chip - 04/24/2009 - 18:37
Fayetteville ar
Well we sure are getting rubbed the wrong way now aren't we. Amazing when i was a kid the gov was making money on taxes from the ciggarette ads which got this habit started in the first place and now i am punished for aquiring the habit.
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...............
#74 - Daren - 04/22/2009 - 18:05
Home Grown Smokes in Upstate NY
Folks, let me preface by saying I loved this article! Brief, concise, FULL of info! I won't go off on the tobacco restrictions tightening our nation down, that's been amply covered here, but I concur with how ridiculous it is.
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?
#73 - SingingSorcerer - 04/22/2009 - 16:50
iowa boy
I can fit up to 7--100 plants in the area I have,if they do well it will supply Me and I can grow 1/2 as much next year.

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
#72 - in iowa - 04/22/2009 - 15:33
Time to act, before it's too late!
What we have is a government not only out of control, but a fraud, brought about through a "bought" election, controlled by the left wing media zealots, something which ought to really scare everyone - after all, if they could so successfully influence (read that as "rigt") an election, what will be next?

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.
#71 - Georges - 04/21/2009 - 13:09
Time to get Rollin
When i grew up and studied the U.S map they
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 /> or 7/8ths of the stuff we have today. Again
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..
#70 - dspa1@live.com - 04/21/2009 - 07:16
I was planning ahead this time!
Th last time tabacco went up it caught me off-guard, not this time since a friend that works at a tabacco shop told me this was coming a month ago, so I bought over $300.00 of rolling tabacco online for $7.95 a pound (I know some may get stale) and I ordered my seed a month ago and already have them sprouted and soon they'll be ready for my garden. I should have enough bags of tabacco to last until it is grown and cured plus enough to share with other smokers in my family. When they don't sell any more of those ags of tabacco for $50 a pound then I ask, where is that money for their health program going to come from then? They could have went up some on the price and it wouldn't have been a big deal, and wouldn't have put people out of work in the tabacco business (with jobs already being hard to find) like this dumb move has. I think these A*holes are going to regret getting so ridiculous with this tax increase. People are fed up. My husband and I smoke and we'll quit when we get ready not when someone else tries to make it too expensive, not as long as I can legally grow it, I have enough land and I've been growing veggies for years so they can kiss my peace!
#69 - stacy - 04/09/2009 - 23:15
Illegal
This is the first step towards the outlawing of tobacco. Soon there will be a tax on seeds and then later on down the line all tobacco products will be criminalized. Most of us will find it easier and much cheaper to just stop using it. I ordered some seeds today but in reality it will end up being too much of a hpeacele to grow it. I have quit twice in the past. Two years one time! The only reason I started again was because tobacco was cheap and everywhere. If it was hard to get, expensive or illegal I would never have started back up. Quitting is damn hard but it's time to get serious about it.
#68 - Scott - 04/09/2009 - 20:56
Growing Tobacco
I am waiting for seed to arrive and hopefully will have my first yield for personal consumption cured and ready to smoke in seven months. Has anyone come across a good tobacco or blend for cigarettes? I am starting with Virginia Gold leaf and a Burly variety (I have already forgot the name).

It starts here.

#67 - Shihan - 04/09/2009 - 16:26
Entreprenuer
Cig tax is horrendous only because the government wants to have control over the commodity. BOston tea party, people trhew tea into the ocean to protest the tax from the Queen, so I think it would be funny if somehow someway everyone tried to protest against the cig tax in a same way. After all, after the Boston Tea Party, the tax went away.
#66 - Jason - 04/09/2009 - 01:10
it aint over yet by a longshot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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instead of complaing about what the feds are doing why not just try to become more relient on oneself start a home bussness does matter what it is just make sure that most of your pay is barter, maybe you raise tabb. and someone makes beer and you trade services.
#65 - forest anderson - 04/08/2009 - 23:41
This government is OUT OF CONTROL!
I've smoked for years. Have never had any problems with my lungs or heart. When I found out that a 1lb of rolling tobacoo that cost me $16 a week ago now cost me $45 I nearly had a heart attack. Hum, think I can sue the gov for causing me heart problems?

I live in the desert, does tobacco grow in sand?
#64 - You've got to be kidding! - 04/07/2009 - 22:28
mr
hell i'm not a smoker any more but i'm searching for seed
i see a money making opertuninty
screw this crooked government and rich theive ceo's
THE TIME FOR REVOLUTION IS NEAR
#63 - mr syl - 04/07/2009 - 19:39
i remember when cigg. cost 75 cents a pack
i hope this helps out the soon to be growers of tobacco we ran across this site it tells you if you can grow a tomatoe you can grow tobacco here is the web page good luck to the rest of ya trying to grow your own http://www.greenpeople.org/webpage.cfm?memid=4201&pmtlevel=0&linkpage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eeonseed%2Ecom
#62 - another ticked off smoker - 04/06/2009 - 17:31
I have a dream
Being a small time farmer in my backyard for years, I am ready to fight city hall. The organic way , of course. I so want to grow the best smoking tobaccoo for North East. Live in Taxachusetts. Almost $10.00 a pack now. Ty for the hope of a freer tomorrow. I trust no politicians ,unfortunately and will buy my own seeds with hopes of success. They say Americans need to use our old-fashioned initiatives well perhaps new jobs will sprout out from this new tax. Come and get us
#61 - dreamersgal - 04/06/2009 - 07:31
Smokin In The Appalachians
Plant everything you can and use it all. Don't forget to save those seeds. From Sugar Cane to Tobacco that is what we do here. Get the heirloom seeds before Monsanto bastards take control like they have the rest of the seeds companies. This is one wicked world and you got to survive and become self reliant, this is your lifeline away from their system. Be self reliant. Get off the grid by going with wind energy. We are doing it here on our farm. They jacked the electric bills up 43%, so we are hurrying along before they bankrupt people in the mountains even worse after closing many coal mines down, people cannot afford this crap any longer. We will be able to make more wind mills to help some of the folks down the mountain from us who need help to get off the grid.
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.
#60 - BobbieJo - 04/06/2009 - 00:28
legal limitations
I know in the USA there is/ was in place an area limitation for growing tobacco, 1/10th an acre I believe, unless you have one of the special permits granted in the 1930's, but I'm going off topic. I'm wondering if anyone has solid information about any change or actual numbers of current limitations on area size of tobacco growing, I heard rumors it was repealed sometime in 2007? A certified news article or government link would be excellent.
#59 - Johnny on the Spot - 04/05/2009 - 08:30
I GUESS YOU COULD CALL ME F_C_ED
I love the USA, But the goverment we now have in washington and for that matter also in every little town in America I would have to think at least 90% of them can be bought. The cig tax is crazy and I will also try to grow my own and sell the surplus. I live in louisiana, You want to hear something elst the is messed up. I am on SUBOXONE, it's to help keep me off of the pain killers the doctors had me hooked on for over 15 yrs while raking in the kickbacks from the manufactuers. The company that makes this drug offers to ship my prescription and anyone else who can't afford to pay the $6.40 to $9.00 per pill at 120 pills per month script to my doctor for me to pick up at his office for FREE every month, if I make below a certain adjusted groos income per yr, which i do because I am disabled, married for 17 yrs and have 3 kids.This company goes out of it's way to help low income citizens because the medicine really works. Well guess what, Out of the 50 states in the great ole USA , can you believe that Louisiana as of Dec.31,2008 shut down this program in my state. If there is something wrong with the program, I would have to think that at least a few more states would also not participate in it either but all of the other 49 states are happy to help there people out. This boils down to doctors, pharmacies and politicians getting kick backs at my expense every month when i have to go buy it at the pharmacy when I could be getting it for FREE. Like most comments I have read tonight on this awsome website, what the hell is next? Do you know who the represenatives in congress represent? not the people, but the lobbiest who treat them to family vacations in the bahamas, etc.... are put a couple of thousand dollars in there bank account. IT IS TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO TAKE BACK THE POWER AND MAKE THE POLITICIANS VOTE THE WAY THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT WANT THEM TO VOTE. That is why i am starting an organization to hold them accountable. After reviewing there voting record , if they vote against what our organization ask them to vote to many time. When there term is up, they will get a letter letting them know they have not represented the people and therefore don't bother running for any office again because we will put ronald mcdonald in office and vote NO on the ballet for there name. Of course that is once we reach a membership of at least 70,000 to 100,000 members which might be after i am dead and gone. But, hey if i don't start it, it will never grow. If any one would like more info on what i am talking about doing, I would be more the happy to answer all your questions either by email are phone. My cell phone is unlimited minuets so don't mind the calls. Sorry for long note, but i get very upset and pissed about this subject also please excuse my spelling and grammer. Here is my email address and cell phone number.

(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.
#58 - Troy - 04/05/2009 - 00:18
Forget THE GOV.
Forget the government i just got me 400 tobaco seeds off the internet and will soon be geting them in the mail , i'm gonna plant them and raise them and take care of them and if anyone has a problem with it they can stick it get it? got it? good!

and thanks for all of you that are sopporting this, and a big thanks to the creator of this website
#57 - Randy Nabinger - 04/04/2009 - 20:04
I understand the House has already ppeaceed a bill to give the FDA control over tobacco. Now it has to go to the Senate. If this ppeacees, we are in ever deeper do-do. It will become a controlled substance and will soon thereafter, illegal. I'm ordering tobacco seeds now. If gov. realizes we are growing our own - they will find a way to outlaw that too!!!
#56 - Beverly - 04/04/2009 - 16:14
ageing
Is it needed and can it be speeded up.I'm told it takes up to four years.Thats a long time to wait.
#55 - smitheringale@live.nl - 04/04/2009 - 04:10
Tax NO MORE
10 years ago a pouch of cig tobacco was around 1$ dollar today I paid almost 5$ dollars for the same pouch I ordered seeds online for 13$ dollars for 3 types and will sprout them ASAP I will no longer support Government Organized Crime I think we should all grow and brew our own goodies gardens are great ! happy smokin!
#54 - walnut333Tanoose - 04/02/2009 - 23:47
I'm Pooping In Comfort Tonite....But, Come Tomorrow...Who Knows???
Well, it seems the only thing our good ol' boys haven't taxed yet is my toilet. So, you can be sure I'm pooping in comfort tonight, lest I wake up tomorrow and read the headlines of "Commode Comfort Tax To Be Considered". I'm sure it won't be too much longer that sitting upon my Porcelain God will be a freedom to enjoy in our Land Of Opportunities.
#53 - Cherie - 04/02/2009 - 20:39
Switching to Marijuana soon
I live in an apartment and don't have anywhere I can plant a garden. Since pot is now cheaper than tobacco and has more nicotine the incentive to switch is evident. One day they will put people in jail for possessing tobacco. Then one day after that they'll do the same to people for having alcohol, chocolate, red meat, soda pop, heck - maybe even for possessing chewing gum. Who knows what else.
#52 - American smoker - 04/02/2009 - 16:50
Rolling Tobacco Tax Increase Example
I smoke rolling tobacco. I smoke it because it's the only thing I can afford with my 9.75 an hour job. 2 weeks ago, I paid 12.95 a can. Today, that same can was 42.95. This is almost 400% what I originally paid. Suffice to say, I bought a carton instead, because it was cheaper.

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.
#51 - DataPhreak - 04/02/2009 - 16:18
Some day we will be arrested for growing our own tabacco, just like weed. We are entering a communist era. After the tabacco and alcohol stops selling, they will find something else. And for anyone who whines about us smokers, "mind your own business" I don't want to quit, and won't. Think about everything they put into our store bought food. It's worse then smoking. They put fermaldihide in our milk!!!! I would rather smoke then drink that stuff. Time to put a stop to the taxing. Didn't we tar and feather the taxman in the past? Didn't we have the Boston Tea Party? Didn't we come to this country to get away from this sort of thing? What happened to "of the people, for the people, and by the people"????!!!! Lets put the government out of business and grow our own tabacco, and if we have to, make our own alcohol.
#50 - Mary Chapman - 04/02/2009 - 09:32
Sir
I have also read and paid $13 more for a carton of cigarettes in a weeks time, due to this tax stuff. This was several weeks ago, in being ready for the tax hike!

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!!
#49 - icemanpikester - 04/02/2009 - 00:38
I Never Want to Hear Again That Smokers Should Pay More In Healthcare
With a dollar a pack in taxes, a 2 pack a day smoker would pay an extra 730 dollars a year. Put this towards treating lung cancer and shut up about us paying more for healthcare. In fact, this is a more fair way to do it than making a 2 pack a day smoker pay the same amount in healthcare as a 2 pack a week smoker. Next we should start taxing cheeseburgers and motorcycles for the extra hospital bills they cause.
#48 - Jen - 04/01/2009 - 01:59
The Federal Gas Tax is Still 18.5 Cents a Gallon
If they want to tax something, why not tax something that weakens our economy and national security: our addiction to foreign oil. A higher gasoline tax would put money in the hands of the government instead of the Arab oil cartels, and accelerate the adoption of alternative energy.
#47 - Jen - 04/01/2009 - 01:52
Hey, Dave O
I know, on top of the tax the price is going up also. I know at least some of that is the tobacco companies charging more to make up for the people who quit (start buying them illegally or growing their own) because of the tax increase. It doesn't make sense though, they say they're losing business because the price is going up, so their solution is to raise the price even more? Something doesn't add up. I think they just want more money.
#46 - Jen - 04/01/2009 - 01:47
Ridiculous
I totally agree. I came here because of the tobacco tax too. This is getting ridiculous. I hope people start breaking the law and the government gets less taxes because of it. Of course, then they'll point at the statistics and say "people are smoking less thanks to us! raise the taxes even more!"
#45 - Jen - 04/01/2009 - 01:43
goverment creates crime
It will not be long before people will be selling tobacco in baggies like weed.
#44 - GROWER - 03/31/2009 - 18:08
I live in Michigan, and with our already mega high taxes (it was over $5 a pack BEFORE the fed & state tax hike) I figured I'd have a mini-revolution and grow my own. Think it'll grow in Michigan if I plant alittle later?
#43 - Pestilence - 03/31/2009 - 14:34
Awesome
I was just think en if I could grow my own and my son laughed at me. Really I said I bet you can grow your own again he laughed. So I find this web and Iam going to give it a try see who's laughing now!! Am going to get some seeds make room in the garden soon. Thank you!!
#42 - Nikita - 03/31/2009 - 13:12
going agri smokes too outrageous
hello all i'm getting ready to purchase some seeds and start growing my won tobacco because of the April 1st tax increase. Anyone have any advice aboout which seeds to use for cigarette use.
#41 - Ryan Johnson - 03/31/2009 - 12:40
i want to learn to grow my own chewing tabacco
does anyone know what type to grow and how to make your own chewing tabacco i live in virginia and remember helping my uncle in the fields and helping him take it to the market i want to grown my own chewing tabacco if anyone can help? let me know
dshelton23@earthlink.net
#40 - david - 03/27/2009 - 16:11
North Carolina
Now north carolina is raising it's tax from .35 to 1.35. I'm going to have to grow my own. Like weed cost less now?
#39 - Lisa - 03/26/2009 - 20:49
Green Thumber
I recently bought plenty of tobacco seeds.I hope to get around 50-75 plants going here at home and the remainder of seedlings will go to friends on a farm. If I get more poundage dried than I need for smoking then I may soak some leaves for "tea"(insect repellant)to spritz next years tobacco and/or veggies with,We'll see.
#38 - Seedlinger Seedslinger - 03/23/2009 - 21:58
"Federal Cigarette Tax"

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.
#37 - RG - 03/21/2009 - 12:29
Federal Cigarette Tax
I've been reading about the recent federal tax increase on cigarettes and found the tax was raised about$0.61.
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
#36 - Dave O - 03/20/2009 - 20:16
tnx
just wanted to say tnx for the comments and advise theres no way i can afford to buy my tobacco with these new tax laws im surely gonna start growing my own
#35 - mich-smoker - 03/20/2009 - 02:24
economic beat down
I'm pretty much fed up with the sin taxes, as is about everyone else I know. The state I live in past legislature last year, which for the most part, banned smoking anywhere other than the privacy of your own home. I completely understand an individual, going out to eat, preffering not to eat smoke with their dinner, and frankly any smoker that can't go a hour or two without a smoke needs to reel it in a bit, but why in the world can we no longer smoke at work? Our facility had an enclosure for the smokers so the non-smokers were not affected. Why are the smokers paying the taxes for the mpeacees? How about a tax on soda.. bottled water.. candy bars? The way goverment is going with taxes, the buy out, and various "other" things... can you say "communism"...<
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/> SMOKERS UNITE!!! I'm planting my own tobacco plants this spring!
#34 - jp - 03/19/2009 - 18:00
seeds
Go to Seedman.com (http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.htm) they have all kinds of Tabacco seeds ,and they tell you which kind is the best for smoking, chew, snuff, pipe and cigars, it cost $2.20 for 45-50 seeds and a couple dollars more for up to a thousand seeds. They even have hybrid kinds like the tabacco companes grow that are disease and pest resistant,They charge a nominal S&H charge, and I got my seeds in less than a week. We bought up a bunch of 1 lb. bags of the Roll-your-own tabacco and hopefully by the time it runs out ours wil be ready to harvest. My grandfather used to grow Tabacco when I was younger and I helped him and it is really easy to grow and harvest. I wonder how mny bags of the Roll-your-own they will sell for $60 (what it will be in Texas) not many I'd bet and then where will that money for that Children's Insurance program come from? They could of went up on it without getting ridicolous and people would of kept buying it, but not at those prices. Not me anyway!
#33 - Stacy - 03/17/2009 - 21:40
What the Heck????
OH MY GOODNESS!! JUST BOUGHT A CARTON OF CIGS!! Going to slow down on smoking.........but will never quit! Will try to grow some tabacco. Thanks for being here Rustic Girls!!! Smokers need to unite! We have been around since the dawn of time along with a few other bad habits!! OH WELL!! The human body has the ultimate in filtering and healing capabilities! Why hasn't the tabacco companies supported the smokers? Tabacco is an American product! I DO NOT UNDERSTAND??? People that don't smoke should not have the right to sue the tabacco company if family member smoked, and died of lung problems. Carbon mioxide is omitted by a lot of products! Cars! Home heating!!! just to name a few! Smokers need to protest!! WE need to come together!!! Everything we breath is filtered via our lungs!!
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??

#32 - Freedom rings - 03/13/2009 - 19:46
Tax the fat people..that's unhealthy too!
Geesh..Freedom? What's next? We just learned today of the 'new' federal tax on anything tobacco related! Guess we know where they plan to get the 'stimulus money? I heard that Bush got this ppeaceed BEFORE he left office. Wonder how much he got from this one.. added to the gasoline/oil pricing he is set for life huh? I agree that they should spread tax, not just pick on the smokers.
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!
#31 - Flustered - 03/04/2009 - 20:50
you can buy seeds from
ebay

just search for 'tobacco seeds'; plenty of results will pop up.
#30 - The Bpeace - 03/04/2009 - 18:46
This is not right!!!!
How many times have we seen a police report saying people die in crash because driver was smoking or dipping. Now how about Drinking / DWI/DUI. That's what they need to be taxing is the BOOZE.
#29 - 40year plus smoker - 03/03/2009 - 12:42
Future Green Thumb
Where can I purchase Mountain Tobacco seeds?
And what is the average price for these seeds?
#28 - Mr. Odell - 03/01/2009 - 12:08
Thanks Obama !
So much for his promise to not raise taxes. One month in office and he gave us the largest tobacco tax increase in recent memory.This is just the push I needed to grow my own .When we all quit or grow our own,I guess then he'll put tax on "unhealthy food". Of course,they're doing it for OUR health.!! (LOL)
#27 - BikerAL - 03/01/2009 - 09:33
will it grow in the northeast?
I was wondering if it will grow in the northeast and how long It takes for the plants to mature. we have a short growing season in maine from april to sept any info would be great thanks
#26 - pat - 02/25/2009 - 19:23
I'm glad I found this Site!!!!
I just heard yesterday they were going to raise the prices again on our tobacco. New fed tax of something like $26.00 for bag roll you own tobacco. That would put a bag of tobacco at approx. $40.00 a bag. At this rate I'm going to grow my own. Why don't they just raise the price of food, So everyone can would have to pay and not so much for just one group of people. We have no rights in the usa. I didn't vote for the new tax did you?
#24 - Frank - 02/23/2009 - 05:29
trader
i WAS TOLD THAT IN THE 1800 THE NORTH THOUGHT THAT SINCE GROWING TOBACCO WAS HARD ON THE SOIL THAT IF THE NORTH COULD LIMIT SLAVERY TO THE SOUTH THAT THE SOUTH WOULD EVENTUALLY NOT NEED SLAVES. THAT WAS THE THEORY BEHIND THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. IS THAT TRUE ABOUT TOBACCO PLANTS BEING HARD ON THE SOIL?
#23 - trader - 02/13/2009 - 11:26
I live in central Ohio and would like to know what are the best seeds for rolling my own
#22 - Bill Elspeaceer - 02/10/2009 - 11:09
Where can I get some seeds ?

#21 - Vickie Gaddy - 02/04/2009 - 15:25
what part of the plant do u cut up and what do u do to make it roling tobacco?
#20 - me - 02/04/2009 - 14:15
Dip
How do you make dip and what tobacco plant do you suggest would be best?
#19 - Ana - 12/08/2008 - 22:31
It just tastes better
Growing your own tobacco can be rewarding, cheaper and in my opinion better for you and better tasting
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#16 - Benjamin Street - 10/02/2008 - 06:06
how would i make dip

#15 - blake - 09/30/2008 - 08:17
Rose tobacco and pipe tobacco
Rose tobaccco is a great type of tobacco esspecially for blend in pipes. I'm now just harvesting the seeds from it. One plant can provide enough for a few acres the next year.

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.
#14 - tn-90 burley - 09/27/2008 - 12:35
Rose Tobacco?
I was talking to a guy who grows his own tobacco and he was saying that Rose Tobacco is way under estimated as just an ornamental tobacco! He says its really makes a great tasting smoke. He says kind of spicy and was wondering if any one else tried it for other than an ornamental tobacco and if so what you thought of it?

Thanks!
#13 - SmokingUSA - 09/18/2008 - 03:29
milder tobacco than burley
try virginia bright leaf tobacco seeds can be purchased from the New Hope Seed Co. or on ebay
#12 - Craig - 07/28/2008 - 21:43
seeds
were would i get the seeds?
#11 - ''@,.,.)` - 07/24/2008 - 22:28
thank you
thank you the infro u give is very good again thank you xxxx
#10 - gareth from wales uk - 05/11/2008 - 11:43
chew
i would like to make my own chew. any advice?
#9 - copeman - 04/28/2008 - 11:16
kids
us kids should be allowed to uses tabacco
#8 - mphillips - 04/17/2008 - 08:28
I also heard that tobacco plants are great for repelling snakes. Does it matter if it is regular tobacco plants or ornamental tobacco plants?
#7 - Ellen Franke - 04/08/2008 - 10:50
mr
Home growen Tobacco is a good alternative when we run out of brought stuff useing a kitchen food processer i have filled a 20 litre bucket with home growen and slowly dryed tobacco then poured 2 litres of home made red wine into this mixed it all up then sweat dryed it outside in full sunlight for about 2 hours put back in the bucket while still a little damp it smells nice and has a beauiful mello flavour 1/2 a bottle or rum may improve it even more.:-)
#6 - jimmi - 02/05/2008 - 23:08
Thank you
thank you for that you rock
#5 - t-bomb - 01/14/2008 - 09:04
Lord of All I survey
What type of tobacco would I use for my pipe? Something milder than plain old Burley, if there is such a thing.
#4 - Don - 12/09/2007 - 21:11
Farmland?
:-D We live in the sticks, but recently received a letter saying we needed to cut our foot and a half tall grpeace because were not zoned agriculture. So were thinking about growing tobacco. Your website was of MUCH help, THANKS!
#3 - Lydiaa - 11/11/2007 - 18:49
outlawing cigarettes
Its clear that the federal and state govts. are going to tax us users of tobacco out of the U.S.; they can't outlaw it, too much taxes. My neigbors and I want to grow our own, not to sell just to smoke, where has freedom gone?
#2 - laceybo@comcast.net - 09/27/2007 - 13:39
Help
I enjoyed your article. Its good to know other people are growing this stuff too.
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........
#1 - Matt - 09/25/2007 - 19:13
Great Job
thank you so much this will be of great help to me.;-)
#0 - alchesay - 09/25/2007 - 11:40
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