Levi Gross
Well-Known Member
I think your plants look wonderful! I will have to pass on the authentic Ukrainian shirt though.
For cryin' out loud!
167 days at or below zero.
167 days at or below zero.
Wow, CV! That's almost like Canada.
Bob
Nice carrotte. How does it smoke?
It looks like something that you could keep well preserved on a two year ship voyage. What class of tobacco is Symbol 4?
Bob
That's interesting. During the late 1800s, tobacco warehouses began refusing to purchase flue-cured Big Gem, asserting that it is actually a burley. My impression of Big Gem is that it is not an Orinoco-derived variety, which accounts for most flue-cure varieties. It's leaf is much larger and thicker than the other flue-cure varieties that I've grown, and is not as sweet. But it's not typical of burley either.
So I suppose that there are a number of varieties that are in between true flue-cure varieties and true burleys. I suspect that plant breeders who were successful at eliminating the traditional burley character from a hybrid of burley and flue-cure were motivated by the high productivity that these mongrels offered.
Bob
I completely agree with Charly. If it’s a bright leaf, it’s the most burley tasting bright leaf I’ve ever grown. Polygon lists it (together with Spectrum that I intend to grow next year) with the burleys anyway.
https://tobacco.professorhome.ru/sortotip/sortotip-berli?page=5
pier
I know what you mean but would also say that the different categories are extremely wide.. It's big difference between some even if they are in the same category. The Bright leaf variants are the one that has most similar types (of those that I have been growing) but they have differences even if Burley and Dark variants can be much harder to know if a specific variant taste. But this is only based on the variant that I have been growing AND USED IN ORAL SNUFF..I think the fact that there are tobaccos that don't fit neatly into our made up categories is one of the things that make this hobby interesting.