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Hah, Bob, I wondered about it, but came to the opposite conclusion. That "Baffra Basma" I have grown has a Basma leaf shape (no petiole, it is actually very very similar to your top left image). Bafra (only one "f"?) is a district of Samsun in Turkey. So it could be a Basma from the Samsun area.
But perhaps that's nonsense - I did a lot of digging and could not find anything specific anywhere.
Then there's also this:

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and the Technical Bulletin 587, by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture https://books.google.de/books?id=wOvV1Ny_xBUC&pg=RA8-PA26&lpg=RA8-PA26

which mentions: "The Samsoun, Baffra, and Trebizond tobaccos are grown along the South shores of the Black Sea. In general, they burn well and are high in nicotine content, as compared with other oriental varieties.... The color is reddish brown."

Tabakanbau describes their Baffra Basma as very low in nicotine, which hasn't been my experience, it can be strong tobacco in any regard.

pgrdeu.genres.de/exsitu/steckbrief/ex_id/395976/sdb_id/5/navleaf/genbank also lists a "Baffra Basma", again the Agricultural Technology Center Augustenberg - Forchheim (DEU594) being the collecting institute.

Speaking of names, my searches on the Origin of "Tik Konlak" did not take me much further, either. There seem to be name variations like Tyk-Kulak, Tikelak, Tikolak or Tikolac, which somehow point to a Kabakolak leaf shape.

"Tek (Tyk, Tik, or Di in other nearby languages) -Kulak is a Turkish term meaning "single ear," The words Tek-Kulak, like the term Bashi-Bagli, are frequently used to describe leaves that have a pronounced petiole or stem between the broad portion of the leaf and the place where it joins the stalk. The leaves of many types — Samsun, Xanthi, Prilep, and Prosochani — can be considered as having the characteristics associated with slender petiole or Tek-Kulak shape. Both Kaba-Kulak and Tek-Kulak are used to describe certain characteristics of the leaf, particularly the shape at the base or near the base where it joins the stalk."
https://archive.org/stream/positionoforient113birk/positionoforient113birk_djvu.txt

legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ajg31d00/pdf refers to Tikolak from Mahabad - for a while the Soviets were "buying the whole tobacco crop" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Mahabad)

Tik-Kulak 235 was also grown in Moldavia at some point (http://eurekamag.com/research/025/920/results-varietal-testing-tobacco-in-moldavia.php )

After all these wanderings, one would expect the names to be scrambled.

Thanks for the link. I love reading those old documents/books when I'm bored. They always have some real interesting stuff in them. Some of it flies over my head but I don't care. I learn as I go. Constantinople was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire, and also of the brief Latin, and the later Ottoman empires. Goes back a few years. It was founded in 330 AD. I love history.

Well, that makes sense. The Bafra variety is a Samsun-type tobacco from Bafra. So, "Bafra Basma" is Basma from Bafra.

Bob

And Charly and I are left scratching our heads once again. Bafra Basma....Basma Bafra. Sure makes sense to me... :confused:
 
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