JLP
Member
Hi there,
As you'll have seen if you read the title, this is my first time growing tobacco. I don't know why I haven't had it in my garden before to be honest?.
I have experience with growing stuff indoors, outdoors and in a variety of substrates....one method I've had quite a lot of fun with has been indoor hydroponics under lights. It suits a lot of plant types well causing them to grow really well & yield heavy...
When I began thinking about growing tobacco I thought about doing them in hydro but found out from many sources that there was a strong possibility of the end product having either next to no taste or maybe a very bad taste....nutrients can be "flushed" out but taste is one of the main reasons I enjoy smoking tobacco!
Anyway, that's another completely different subject so let me get back on track here
I have 5 strains of tobacco just starting, I shall add more pics as they become bigger as at present they're not much to look at as you can see below
Burley Original TS/40, Tennessee Burley TN/90 (I would love to try Kentucky Burley too), Maryland 609, Latakia (possibly Lattaquie?), Virginia Gold (Bright leaf variety) & another Virgina I'm not sure about
I'm pretty sure the Tennessee Burley & possibly the Original Burley are exclusively used for cigarettes whereas I'm a pipe smoker, obviously they'll still be smokable but I understand some varieties are better for pipe tobacco, is this something anyone can enlighten me on please?
Here are my babies so far:
Burley Original:
Maryland
Virginia Gold
I'm not sure if it's maybe a wee bit too late to start another variety or not?, there are a couple I'd love to do...Yellow Twist Bud, Bursa and somekind of oriental maybe?....there's always next year for outside though ;-)
Anyhoo, I shall try and post pics as regular as possible and visually document them at least
Any advice or tips shall be received readily!, like I say I've not grown "baccy" before so I'm at the bottom of the learning curve I'm afraid
Thanks again, JLP
As you'll have seen if you read the title, this is my first time growing tobacco. I don't know why I haven't had it in my garden before to be honest?.
I have experience with growing stuff indoors, outdoors and in a variety of substrates....one method I've had quite a lot of fun with has been indoor hydroponics under lights. It suits a lot of plant types well causing them to grow really well & yield heavy...
When I began thinking about growing tobacco I thought about doing them in hydro but found out from many sources that there was a strong possibility of the end product having either next to no taste or maybe a very bad taste....nutrients can be "flushed" out but taste is one of the main reasons I enjoy smoking tobacco!
Anyway, that's another completely different subject so let me get back on track here
I have 5 strains of tobacco just starting, I shall add more pics as they become bigger as at present they're not much to look at as you can see below
Burley Original TS/40, Tennessee Burley TN/90 (I would love to try Kentucky Burley too), Maryland 609, Latakia (possibly Lattaquie?), Virginia Gold (Bright leaf variety) & another Virgina I'm not sure about
I'm pretty sure the Tennessee Burley & possibly the Original Burley are exclusively used for cigarettes whereas I'm a pipe smoker, obviously they'll still be smokable but I understand some varieties are better for pipe tobacco, is this something anyone can enlighten me on please?
Here are my babies so far:
Burley Original:
Maryland
Virginia Gold
I'm not sure if it's maybe a wee bit too late to start another variety or not?, there are a couple I'd love to do...Yellow Twist Bud, Bursa and somekind of oriental maybe?....there's always next year for outside though ;-)
Anyhoo, I shall try and post pics as regular as possible and visually document them at least
Any advice or tips shall be received readily!, like I say I've not grown "baccy" before so I'm at the bottom of the learning curve I'm afraid
Thanks again, JLP