I did not grow tobacco last year, and really regretted it seeing the awesome weather we had.
So this year is going to be a grow for revitalizing seed stock as well as smokeless and cigar use. I have a large field I could never tend to by myself but I plan on doing an additional plot there just to catch up on what I need grown. I'll only be doing 10 of each plant, bagging only 1 and selecting for early flowers. Curing is my main issue here, so earlier is better.
Anyhow on to the menu, all x10
Plantana
Jaffna
CTBL
Comstock Spanish
PA Red
Vuelta
Criollo
VA 359
YTB
TN90
GC1
Mahorka
Everything will be stalk harvested and cured tied to rope in the woods where it won't get enough sun to burn and is generally protected from rain (my most successful method yet), then kilned and bagged. I don't know if I will save the lowest quarter of each plant, if I do I'll likely just make a homogenous mix of powder in the ball mill from all the low leaf combined for dry and moist smokeless. It would conceivably be about 4 or so pounds so I could always just hydrate the powder and kiln it in an airtight gallon jar in the kiln shaking it to air it out occasionally. I dunno that's a bit out still. Snuff is my main use and one might go through 5 or so grams a day so this might be a little excessive, but I really need to start spending less on tobacco so time to start growing enough to set aside, the nice thing is powder is very compact and easy to store, and dry powder has no shelf life.
So this year is going to be a grow for revitalizing seed stock as well as smokeless and cigar use. I have a large field I could never tend to by myself but I plan on doing an additional plot there just to catch up on what I need grown. I'll only be doing 10 of each plant, bagging only 1 and selecting for early flowers. Curing is my main issue here, so earlier is better.
Anyhow on to the menu, all x10
Plantana
Jaffna
CTBL
Comstock Spanish
PA Red
Vuelta
Criollo
VA 359
YTB
TN90
GC1
Mahorka
Everything will be stalk harvested and cured tied to rope in the woods where it won't get enough sun to burn and is generally protected from rain (my most successful method yet), then kilned and bagged. I don't know if I will save the lowest quarter of each plant, if I do I'll likely just make a homogenous mix of powder in the ball mill from all the low leaf combined for dry and moist smokeless. It would conceivably be about 4 or so pounds so I could always just hydrate the powder and kiln it in an airtight gallon jar in the kiln shaking it to air it out occasionally. I dunno that's a bit out still. Snuff is my main use and one might go through 5 or so grams a day so this might be a little excessive, but I really need to start spending less on tobacco so time to start growing enough to set aside, the nice thing is powder is very compact and easy to store, and dry powder has no shelf life.
