This year I grew a Turkish variety of N. rustica called Hasankeyf. Although I'm quite happy with the results, it's better to have a high yielder variety. So a question for the N. rustica growers : which varieties of N. rustica yield high ?
... I would love to find a variety that gives a very big leaf and more leaves per plant - Next year I will try both Mohowk and Isleta Pueblo alongside my original variety.
I made further searches on the forum about productivity of N. rustica varieties and two varieties came up, Sacred Cornplanter and Mohawk.
But now, let's look at the works Jessica made
Just say the word, and Sacred Cornplanter is on its way to GRIN....we do not have either in the collection...
I've not heard of Winnebago.
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I tried to d/l your pdf file but it errored before it finished. I have a really sloooow connection and that happens a lot. I'll try again tonight.
MELVIN R. GILMORE said:I HAVE read with much interest Prof. Setchell's article in the American Anthropologist, vol. 23, no. 4, on "Aboriginal Tobaccos," but I should like to reply to some of the statements and arguments of Prof. Setchell in that article. To that end I will take them in order, beginning with that at the bottom of page 402, in which he says "tobacco seed from the Winnebago Indians of Minnesota, furnished
by Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore, yielded Nicotiana rustica, on being grown." The seed was from the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska, not Minnesota. The Winnebagos of the present time are divided,
part of them being still in their old home country in Wisconsin, and part are settled as forced immigrants on a reservation in Nebraska, not Minnesota. It was from a Winnebago in Nebraska that I obtained the seed mentioned, and he told me that he had it originally from their people in Wisconsin. Next I would say that it would have been surprising if the said seed had not "yielded Nicotiana rustica on being grown," for it was seed of that species which I sent Prof. Setchell, as I informed him at the time I sent it.
HAROLD H. SMITH said:Nicotiana rustica Olson 68 (fig. 1, C). This line was selected from a cross between N. rustica var. Winnebago and N. rustica var. brasilia No. 23. It was continued by inbreeding through a number of generations until in 1938-39 the F,o and Fn were grown.
NIFONG said:This accession is derived from material generated in a cross between the varieties Winnebago and Brasilia #23 (TR 14) by Otto Olson and it was determined to be of the brasilia variety.