garryricketson
Well-Known Member
I love to smoke, and "ramble", or chat, and with a fresh hot coffee,..I am in heaven,..browseing thru the forum, I stumbled on to a post about staying on topic when we post, this can be hard for me, but I understand the need for that, well I browsed some more, and found this "general discussions", ahh, great, nice to see there is somewhere where we can "ramble",
Since I am new to the forum, and also new to growing tobacco, and in the introductions, well if I tried to tell everything there is to say about me, I would never finish, and then the time spent reading about what the others that respond say,.. hmm, anyway, I am almost 60 , still working a very heavy smoker, have been all my life, but in a nut shell, it finally reached a point where I can not afford to support my habbit any more buying commercial brand cigarettes, and even bugler tobacco has gone sky high. And here where I live/work, in mexico, Cuencame, Durango,Mx. one will not find bugler tobacco, nor Top, nor any commercial roll your own.
However there are a few guys in a pueble near here , Penon Blanco, Dgo. that do grow tobacco, and others that make cigarettes, but with corn husks, not rolling papers, and they sell the cigarrettes , 15 pesos ($1.50) for 15 cigs, after asking around I found out who would sell me just tobacco, whole leaves, and started buying it from them, so then , I realized, well if they can grow it, so could I, Being kind of lazy, it has taken me awhile to get around to actually getting and planting any seed, but now I am anxiously waiting to see if my first seeds, supposedly "mowhawk rustic", actually sprout, if the seed I bought is good it will, I am sure I did everything right. it has now been about 3 days so, to early to tell.
Most of the people around here that have any experience growing tobacco, got their experience in the US, Kentucky, in fact one guy gave me a bag ,about 2 lbs, that he brought back from kentucy, there are several guys that work in the tobacco fields,in the US, they go back and forth every year. I have not yet actually met the guy that grows the tobacco I buy here, it would be a entire different subject to explain about that, completely, things here in Mexico are much different then in the US, the guy that grows the tobacco practically never goes into the pueblo,(town), he sells it in bulk to another guy, that makes the smokes, and that is the one that goes around to the stores, and "distributes" the finished product.
I may go more into this later,
I had a freind years ago, he was a very good gardner, I lived about 1 hour and a half, ride, by horseback from his house, and used to leave my horse at his house, when I went to town, that in it self is another story, but when ever I went to town, after I had put the horse up, we would vistit a while, drink coffee and smoke, sometimes he would give me a ride to town in his car if he happened to be going too, I always enjoyed the conversations, etc, especially because I lived in a very isolated place, and often went several weeks, without taliking to anyone,..another story,..
Now a days, with internet, even when I am in a isolated place, the computer is a wonderful means to communicate, so I type and smoke, enjoying my "leisure" or free time,..
Where I work here in Mexico, is very isolated too, closer to where the mines are, and connected, I cut and work with the stones they get from the mines, ahh, I forgot to take a photo, but I did make a stone (onix) pipe, it is at my home, though, however since I am not a "pipe" smoker, I have not made many pipes, but some times if I do not have real papers I use it, or the corn husks , work pretty good too. I am getting tired now, so I am going to close now. One last not though, here where I work, we have 2 wells, and about 20 acres to work with, so I have plenty of water, it should be a excellent place to start growing my tobacco,..I am really excited about this, can't wait, but have to to see the seeds sprout.
Since I am new to the forum, and also new to growing tobacco, and in the introductions, well if I tried to tell everything there is to say about me, I would never finish, and then the time spent reading about what the others that respond say,.. hmm, anyway, I am almost 60 , still working a very heavy smoker, have been all my life, but in a nut shell, it finally reached a point where I can not afford to support my habbit any more buying commercial brand cigarettes, and even bugler tobacco has gone sky high. And here where I live/work, in mexico, Cuencame, Durango,Mx. one will not find bugler tobacco, nor Top, nor any commercial roll your own.
However there are a few guys in a pueble near here , Penon Blanco, Dgo. that do grow tobacco, and others that make cigarettes, but with corn husks, not rolling papers, and they sell the cigarrettes , 15 pesos ($1.50) for 15 cigs, after asking around I found out who would sell me just tobacco, whole leaves, and started buying it from them, so then , I realized, well if they can grow it, so could I, Being kind of lazy, it has taken me awhile to get around to actually getting and planting any seed, but now I am anxiously waiting to see if my first seeds, supposedly "mowhawk rustic", actually sprout, if the seed I bought is good it will, I am sure I did everything right. it has now been about 3 days so, to early to tell.
Most of the people around here that have any experience growing tobacco, got their experience in the US, Kentucky, in fact one guy gave me a bag ,about 2 lbs, that he brought back from kentucy, there are several guys that work in the tobacco fields,in the US, they go back and forth every year. I have not yet actually met the guy that grows the tobacco I buy here, it would be a entire different subject to explain about that, completely, things here in Mexico are much different then in the US, the guy that grows the tobacco practically never goes into the pueblo,(town), he sells it in bulk to another guy, that makes the smokes, and that is the one that goes around to the stores, and "distributes" the finished product.
I may go more into this later,
I had a freind years ago, he was a very good gardner, I lived about 1 hour and a half, ride, by horseback from his house, and used to leave my horse at his house, when I went to town, that in it self is another story, but when ever I went to town, after I had put the horse up, we would vistit a while, drink coffee and smoke, sometimes he would give me a ride to town in his car if he happened to be going too, I always enjoyed the conversations, etc, especially because I lived in a very isolated place, and often went several weeks, without taliking to anyone,..another story,..
Now a days, with internet, even when I am in a isolated place, the computer is a wonderful means to communicate, so I type and smoke, enjoying my "leisure" or free time,..
Where I work here in Mexico, is very isolated too, closer to where the mines are, and connected, I cut and work with the stones they get from the mines, ahh, I forgot to take a photo, but I did make a stone (onix) pipe, it is at my home, though, however since I am not a "pipe" smoker, I have not made many pipes, but some times if I do not have real papers I use it, or the corn husks , work pretty good too. I am getting tired now, so I am going to close now. One last not though, here where I work, we have 2 wells, and about 20 acres to work with, so I have plenty of water, it should be a excellent place to start growing my tobacco,..I am really excited about this, can't wait, but have to to see the seeds sprout.