Top 5 Cigar Tobaccos

[Ben Brand]

Something to do, Can all home growers of cigar tobacco give their top 5 cigar tobaccos!! The tobacco MUST be home grown.
It is just a little exercise that will be quite interesting for me. By top 5, I mean the tobacco you liked the most, taste, smell etc, basically the 5 you will keep on planting every year.
Lets see how much it differs, maybe it is almost the same. If you have more than 5 just put them all in.
Ben

 

[USHOG]

These are 5 tobaccos that I enjoy using all the time and grow every time I am getting low

Havana golden leaf
Connecticut Broadleaf
Dark fired Virginia
madole
criollo

 

[Smokin Harley]

I'll tell you next winter...havent planted(or started seeds) yet

 

[deluxestogie]

• FL Sumatra
• Vuelta Abajo
• Machu Picchu Havana
• Little Dutch
• PA Red
• Long Red

I can't count.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

And don't forget

• PA Swarr-Hibshman
• Glessnor
• Jalapa
• Olor
• Comstock Spanish

Bob

 

[Knucklehead]

• FL Sumatra
• Vuelta Abajo
• Machu Picchu Havana
• Little Dutch
• PA Red
• Long Red

I can't count.

Bob

And don't forget

• PA Swarr-Hibshman
• Glessnor
• Jalapa
• Olor
• Comstock Spanish

Bob

I'm growing eight of those this year, two of them two years ago, Swarr last year, but not the Swarr-Hibshman (yet). I must have been reading your reviews.

 

[rainmax]

I must have been reading your reviews.

...Same here...


Pensylvania Red
Machu Picchu
Little Dutch
Florida Sumatra
Comstock Spanish

Until now. But I will not grow majority of them this year because I want to try more.

 

[ArizonaDave]

I'm not sure yet, this is only my 2nd grow. Thanks to Knucklehead, DGBAMA, and Cigar, I have all those seeds on Bob's list to try over the next couple years. I'm growing some now, already in the dirt, trying to beat the heat down here this year, next year, I'll start even earlier.

Hands down, Little Dutch is a keeper!

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Florida Sumatra (for shade grown wrapper)
Vuelta Abajo
Huehuetenango
Little Dutch
Glessnor (wrapper)

 

[DonH]

I'm not sure yet, this is only my 2nd grow. Thanks to Knucklehead, DGBAMA, and Cigar, I have all those seeds on Bob's list to try over the next couple years. I'm growing some now, already in the dirt, trying to beat the heat down here this year, next year, I'll start even earlier.

Hands down, Little Dutch is a keeper!

I gotta grow me some Little Dutch. Last year I grew some Swarr Filler and I liked it a lot. I haven't had a chance yet to roll cigars from my homegrown yet though. Looks like Florida Sumatra will be in the plan for next year too.

 

[DGBAMA]

Not a big cigar guy, so take with a grain of salt, as I like multi - purpose leaf.

Lonnies Havana, light leaf, like in full flavored cig, or as a nice wrapper /binder leaf.

Scantic.... Huge leaf...... Pick early for thin wrapper /binder, or late for thick filler.

Black Mammoth.... Dark air type, good multi purpose. I get a slight chocolate undertone.

Bolivian Crillo Black..... Another multi use, I get a coffee undertone, especially if flue cued. Huge producer.

 

[jolly]

I've been looking closely at bolivian criollo black. Your description is interesting, and I'd have never thought of flue curing it since it's listed as dark air.

 

[DonH]

I've been looking closely at bolivian criollo black. Your description is interesting, and I'd have never thought of flue curing it since it's listed as dark air.

I don't think the Dark Air description is accurate for Bolivian Black. It's smoother and sweeter (yet dark) than Dark Air so that's why it would respond well to flue curing. Dark Air has little sugars so it's more like Burley in that sense and flue curing would be pointless. I just think Bolivian Black is one of those unclassifiable types. To me it's also always tasted like smooth coffee.

 

[jolly]

Thanks, now I really want to grow it.

 

[Ben Brand]

I see most of us grow similar tobaccos. Let me ask this, TOP 3 WRAPPERS!!! I`m still looking for a good consistant wrapper. Grew La Palma this year, think our sun was a bit rough on it, burned the leaves a bit, Comstock is a keeper for me, Hab 2000 didn`t grow nice at all, kept on making seed buds, even in the trays. Pen B leaf is nice, but very thick leaves. Still looking!!!
Ben

 

[Hasse SWE]

Iam no cigar boy, but Connecticut Broadleaf or Florida Sumatra??
I have some really nice leaf in my garage (saved if I getting times to make some cigars). I even have some Hungarian redleaf, but I think it put in a little to much taste..

One question way didn't anyone say: NB11? I think it would become a excellent filler or binder...

 

[CT Tobaccoman]

These are 5 tobaccos that I enjoy using all the time and grow every time I am getting low

Havana golden leaf
Connecticut Broadleaf
Dark fired Virginia
madole
criollo

I have some CT Broadleaf, 4 or 5 yrs old, a bit veiny and a little rough, good binder. Maybe make a trade. IM me friend. Also some dark air from WLT that I will never use and lots of MD609.
CT