Hello from the Western Cape Winelands of South Africa

[wrapper]

My name is Rog and I am a career farmer and distiller of absinthe and gin, with an interest in medicinal and aromatic plants. Now I need to roll some cigars. The is a medley of varieties in the tobacco patch, so we will see what works!

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Rog, Welcome. There are a few members here from your neck of the woods. A few of them are actually OK..

 

[Ben Brand]

Welcome Rog ( Baie welkom) Hope you enjoy your cigar journey, ask away for help. Let me know if you need some seeds etc.
Ben

 

[MarcL]

Welcome to Fair Trade Tobacco.

 

[wrapper]

Thanks for the warm welcome Ben. What works for cigar blends here in SA, and the offer of some seeds is great: what might you have available?

Welcome Rog ( Baie welkom) Hope you enjoy your cigar journey, ask away for help. Let me know if you need some seeds etc.
Ben

 

[Van]

Welcome
Medicinal Plants is awesome and we have such A large vereity here in South Africa.......
This site is A vault of knowledge

 

[Chicken]

if your a farmer you should do fine growing your own bacca, and welcome to the club

 

[Ben Brand]

Rod I got loads of varieties. Broad leaves, wrappers, fillers, binders from all over the world, all cigar tobaccos, only smoke cigars. I will make a list and pm it to you.

 

[wrapper]

Terrific. Thanks. Cigars for me too. I hear, up to a point, just about any tobacco can be blended to make a reasonable cigar. But some must rate better than others. I look forward to that list.... At the moment I have some Maryland, Golden Virginia, Samsun, a Latakia type, Criollo 98 and Connecticut Broad. The Burley was a flop for some reason...

Rod I got loads of varieties. Broad leaves, wrappers, fillers, binders from all over the world, all cigar tobaccos, only smoke cigars. I will make a list and pm it to you.

 

[wrapper]

Thanks Chicken. Did not say I was a good farmer though...! Our area used to grow loads of Oriental and Virginia types so we will see what we can see!

if your a farmer you should do fine growing your own bacca, and welcome to the club

 

[wrapper]

Good to hear at least some of them are kinda okayish... I would like to make their acquaintance sometime soon.

Rog, Welcome. There are a few members here from your neck of the woods. A few of them are actually OK..

 

[wrapper]

I grow and harvest them for the gin and absinthe... Fynbos mostly, but many others too.

Welcome
Medicinal Plants is awesome and we have such A large vereity here in South Africa.......
This site is A vault of knowledge

 

[wrapper]

Is it too late to start seeds this season? Mid November already.... Or better to wait till next season?

 

[Van]

I will be restarting soon ....this heat wave demolished everything in my garden and we have water restrictions.
so hopefully its not to late to start now. Good luck if you decide to try for this season.

Is it too late to start seeds this season? Mid November already.... Or better to wait till next season?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Is it too late to start seeds this season? Mid November already.... Or better to wait till next season?

You'll be fine, for sure. I just looked at the weather data for Cape Town on Wikipedia, and you have at least until June to harvest. Even if you get an early frost, no worries. Tobacco can handle it.

 

[wrapper]

As China V says, we have a long season here. Right now I have plants at 8 leaf, six and 4 leaf stages in the open ground and babies still in pots and yet more just germinated in the floating trays. If 90 days are needed we have 'em! But I will not start any more seeds till next season.

 

[ECToboccoman]

Great to see fellow S,Africans on here

 

[Knucklehead]

Welcome to the forum. Every S. Africa that's joined so far has been a credit to the forum. What a great bunch of guys! Thanks for joining.