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
This country use to be "land of the free". That was suppose to mean; land of the free will, to be who you wanted to be and to live how you wanted to live. Without a controlling government to DICTATE how you should do that. As long as you weren't hurting someone else in that process who's to say how someone else should live their life?
This country is becoming just like some of the other countries we go to war with. Because they treat their people so unfairly, putting so many restrictions on their people. (We will tell you who to worship; for your own immortality.) (We will tell you what you will do for a living; for the good of our country's economy.) (We will tell you how many children to have and their sex; for the equality of our future generations.) (We will even tell you who your mate will be; so you won't have to decide(?).)
Are we Americans or are we simply minions?! I understand that what our government wants us to believe is that they are putting so many restrictions on smoking cigarettes to better our own health for later on in life. Also to keep our youth from being able to get their hands on these which are already illegal for them to begin with. What we need is for the penalties to be harsher so that the ones in "control" of these minors do their parenting jobs better. I think this government should be concentrating more on giving parenting skills to the ones who are having the trouble with their children getting in trouble with drinking and smoking. Or maybe to just make it mandatory to be a better roll model themselves if you are a parent.
If this government wants to control things so badly, control this country's lack of good parents. If you are a parent then you should have to prove you're capable of parenting. Spousal and child abuse are out of control. But the penalties are less than if you steal something to feed that family or are caught driving without insurance.
I wasn't afraid of my father. I was afraid of disaappointing him. I wanted him to approve of who I was. I got to walk beside him, metaphorically, when I did good. To have him be proud of having me as his child was the reward. When I disappointed him, he would walk alone. He also made sure I was able to see that, to know what I was missing out on was the punishment.
So what's next? Alcohol causes a lot of health problems later on in life too. Sclerosis of the liver and other organs and hardening of the arteries, not to mention driving accidents. A lot more deaths are caused from drinking than from smoking cigarettes.
Someone can still drive a car just fine after having ten cigarettes but have ten alcoholic drinks and drive that car and watch out!!! So go ahead and put that breathalyzer on that ignition. Spend money on the actual causes of our country's real problems.
I'm a smoker and I have an occasional alcoholic drink as well. But I do these things with respect of the law and to others. I never operate a vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Not only for the reason that its illegal to do so but for the real reason everyone out there should. I could hurt or worse kill someone or myself if I did. I also don't smoke and never have around someone who doesn't. Its fine with me to take smoking out of the general public facilities. Now they say it makes for an unsafe working environment for the staff to wait on us smokers who patron the few facilities who allow smoking, i.e. some bars. Well the smokers have to work somewhere too. Just let the smoking facilities hire smokers then, duh! Its called freedom of choice. And its perfect, children aren't allowed in bars, right?
After they have gradually weeded out the smokers to extinction they will most definitely move on to control the next set of freewill minded people left out there. Soon this country will be no different then the other dictatorship countries out there. So if, these control emphatic minded individual, who seem to already be taking over our government get their way and have the future they want, we are all living to the ripe old age of 100 years old. With no lung, liver heart and brain diseases, what on earth will that do to our economy? Really?! (Sorry you spent so much money on that doctorate degree but there really isn't much of a need of you doctors anymore.)
You say they suck all the money out of Medicare and other sources on health care. Well most of the ones who put that money into that system are the ones who work so they can afford to buy those drinks and smokes in the first place. I for one don't want to live to be 100 years old. To sit in my soiled adult diaper, drooling on myself doesn't sound like the way to go for me. Give me a good ole fashioned heart attack any day over that. I know firsthand that cancer is a very bad disease to die from. Why doesn't our government spend its time and money finding a cure for cancer. There are a lot of things out there that cause cancer other than smoking cigarettes. Ait pollution is a major cause. The controversial global warming.
I personally think a cure for cancer has already been found. They only realize that if it would be released to the general public then it would cause everyone to not care if they got cancer because it would then become a treatable disease. All the physicians and technicians who treat cancer today would also be out of work causing a catastrophic decline for their services. Also the government would lose some of their control over the reasons for some of the outlawed substances because it's treatable.
Anyhow what will we do when everyone is living longer lives? As I see it we don't care for the elderly we have today good enough. When all the things are OUTLAWED that take some at an earlier age today then the number of elderly will be doubled in the future. Who will be caring AND paying for these people? YOU??? (Talking to the controllers here.)
All I want is to live my life AND for you controlling individuals out there to just go have another baby or better yet, adopt a pet if you want to control someone so badly and leave me the HELL alone, okay!!!
Of course they profit from alcohol and beer taxes, its better than the sick from choice being taken care of directly from your paycheck.
Same reasoning behind taxing the !@#$$s who use tanning beds and increase their risk of cancer who later use government programs to pay their bills.
In the drying prosess do you need any chemicals to stop the plant from drying out too much.
Im new at growing tobacco and a cigar smoker,
I like the idea of smoking something natural then having to take in 300 diffrent chemicals each puff.natural is always better!
i just came to this site viva google cause i found a seed in my "roll your own" bag and wanted to know how to care for it!
GREAT SITE!
i can tell people are angry, i used to think i was wrong for the world but then woke up and realized it was the world that was wrong(by world i mean government).
im watching from afar america all the way from south africa,
i reccommend u get ur guns and start the only war which really means something,
a war for freedom from over-powering governments,
they know whats coming and they are getting ready and so should you!!!
america is p!@#$$ing too many laws its !@#$$ cant cash, nip it in the bud!!!
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
its true obama isnt in the problem, the people he works for are the really problem,
and many presidends before him all went the same way!
if the tried to speak out against them they would be shot in public (jfk)
think about it, get everyone u know to get their kids out of service stop their power!
america is building m!@#$$ive prisons in evey state (cause they know what is coming)
1% of americans are in jail, nowhere else in the world has that number,
THINK ABOUT IT!
GROW UR OWN FOOD, TOBACCO ,POT AND ANYTHING UR HEART DESIRES,
U ONLY LIVE ONCE SO DO WHAT U NEED TO!!!
PEACE AMERICA I HOPE U WIN OVER TRUE EVIL AND HUMAN SLAVERY!
DAMNEDGE
Growing tobacco is not an immediate answer to high cigarette prices.
Seriously the only answer would be if everyone all at once stopped smoking!
Strike the cigarette companies and guess how long it would take for the gov. to change its mind.
I'd love to see the politicians reaction to absolutely no taxes coming from smokers! lol
What would they do? Let the tobacco companies go belly up and their already spent projected tax revenues slip away?
I would love to rally for a month or how ever long it took when absolutely no tobacco was bought by anyone in this country.
Beat them at their own game. ;)
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 !@#$$. and be able to sell a portion of it if they want to or need to.
the stupid government wants to buy foreign made tobacco just like almost everything in the U.S that is sold at a low price and add about a 200% profit to it. i say we should get a good group of people and grow our own !@#$$ and stop buying from the government. maybe then they would drop prices and leave the people alone.
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?
@€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...............
The idiot folks that p!@#$$/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
It starts here.
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.
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
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........