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Anyone out there grow their own?

have grown my own but it wasn't tobacco.

JFF

thats's funny vairox...
Grow my own tobacco?
I don't, but my Amish and Menonite neighbors do.
South Central Pennsylvania.

have grown my own but it wasn't tobacco.

If you're growing your own "not tobacco" indoors, put your fermenters in with your plants for some extra co2.

i did 2 years ago.
had a nice crop
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I had enough working tobacco farms as a kid growing no thanks. i finely got old enough to run.

yea, me too......if I'm going through that much hell, i'm getting blistered after the harvest!
I've got Granny over there twisting me up one right now....yaw come back now, ya hear,.........

I gave up tobacco about two months ago, it's so bloody hard, I still think about having one everyday........I still have a few pipes but minus the tobacco......don't quite taste the same.

tobacco is disgustingly nasty. drinking is bad enough for you, smoking is just another nail in the coffin.

Growing it is easy. Curing it properly and chopping it is the hard part. Nice flowers, though.

yep growing is easy part .primming it tying it into bucks and hanging it in barns full of wasps is the work.makes getting up hay look like fun

I'd say most of yall is talking bout burley tobacco, you get over here in the neck of the woods I was raised at and there's lots of dark fired raised here. The burley is air cured but the dark tobacco is fired cured with wood slabs and saw dust for about two weeks so we had to go in the smoked filled barns 2-3 times a day to tend the fires. Lots more work to the dark tobacco.

Was dryed by propane burners at farm I worked at.

Any of you guys roll your own cigars? I would love to try that some day. What's the diff between burley tobacco and dark tobacco?

Cheers,
J

tater wrote:Was dryed by propane burners at farm I worked at.

Tater , what you're probley talking about there is burley and that's known as flue cured burley tobacco, lots of that done over in your neck of the woods but not here, ours is just air cured, although I do think some dark tobacco is flue cured over your way but very little here in KY. The dark tobacco here is a real, real dark green and kind of smells like the inside of a green bell pepper when its ripe.

Big J wrote:Any of you guys roll your own cigars? I would love to try that some day. What's the diff between burley tobacco and dark tobacco?

Cheers,
J

Big J, the dark tobacco is really dark green, almost black, burley is a light greenish yellow in color when ripe. The dark plants are much shorter in height with wide heavy leaves, burley has a longer narrow lighter leaf. When the dark tobacco is fire cured, it leaves a bright sticky finish on the leaves and also a smokey flavor. The dark fired is mostley used in making snuff, some chewing tobacco, a few blended pipe tobaccos, blended cigars and some cigars are made of stright dark tobacco. About the only two states here that grows dark tobacco is Kentucky and Tenneesse and thats just in certain parts of each.