ChinaVoodoo
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This link downloads one of the most thorough PDFs I've seen on the cultivation of tobacco.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&sour...WMAV6BAgCEAE&usg=AOvVaw3pn2Ib1ScnnmHd-A_fZaNm
Edit - That link no longer works
Check this one out - https://www.ikisan.com/tn-tobacco-varieties.html
India classifies tobacco varieties in a similar way to how we do. They have flue-cured, burley, oriental, cigar filler, and wrapper. They also have groups such as chewing tobacco, hookah tobacco, bidi tobacco, motihari tobacco, natu tobacco, and cheroot tobacco.
In the hookah and chewing tobacco groups, there are both tabacum and rustica varieties, so it is clear the categories are somewhat general.
Motihari tobacco is of the rustica species, and has multiple uses from hookah paste to chew and snus.
Natu tobacco is sun cured. In some regions, it is mostly used for cigarettes, but in other regions, it is also used for cheroots, and hookah tobacco. Is it that natu is multi-purpose, or do different regions have distinct types of natu that lend themselves to different uses?
Cheroot tobacco is a group of cigar tobaccos with narrow leaves, as opposed to broad leaf, and is useful for rolling narrow gauge cigars. Some varieties are named after their place of origin such as Lanka, Sedarapatty, and Bhavani. The difference between these lines? Who knows? Photos and descriptions show some interesting variations such as some with clearly petiolate leaf attachment. For example, DR-1
Interestingly, the tobacco Bosikappal which we know, classified as a primitive, is likely a cheroot tobacco. The above document mentions Oosikappal as the typical cheroot tobacco. There are several other tobaccos mentioned who's names end in -appal. All of them are cigar/cheroot varieties.
I've been interested in growing cheroot tobacco for some time. In India, I enjoyed the flavor of the cheroots I tried, and would like to give it a go, myself, so you can count on me growing Bosikappal next year, and whatever else I can get my hands on.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&sour...WMAV6BAgCEAE&usg=AOvVaw3pn2Ib1ScnnmHd-A_fZaNm
Edit - That link no longer works
Check this one out - https://www.ikisan.com/tn-tobacco-varieties.html
India classifies tobacco varieties in a similar way to how we do. They have flue-cured, burley, oriental, cigar filler, and wrapper. They also have groups such as chewing tobacco, hookah tobacco, bidi tobacco, motihari tobacco, natu tobacco, and cheroot tobacco.
In the hookah and chewing tobacco groups, there are both tabacum and rustica varieties, so it is clear the categories are somewhat general.
Motihari tobacco is of the rustica species, and has multiple uses from hookah paste to chew and snus.
Natu tobacco is sun cured. In some regions, it is mostly used for cigarettes, but in other regions, it is also used for cheroots, and hookah tobacco. Is it that natu is multi-purpose, or do different regions have distinct types of natu that lend themselves to different uses?
Cheroot tobacco is a group of cigar tobaccos with narrow leaves, as opposed to broad leaf, and is useful for rolling narrow gauge cigars. Some varieties are named after their place of origin such as Lanka, Sedarapatty, and Bhavani. The difference between these lines? Who knows? Photos and descriptions show some interesting variations such as some with clearly petiolate leaf attachment. For example, DR-1
Interestingly, the tobacco Bosikappal which we know, classified as a primitive, is likely a cheroot tobacco. The above document mentions Oosikappal as the typical cheroot tobacco. There are several other tobaccos mentioned who's names end in -appal. All of them are cigar/cheroot varieties.
I've been interested in growing cheroot tobacco for some time. In India, I enjoyed the flavor of the cheroots I tried, and would like to give it a go, myself, so you can count on me growing Bosikappal next year, and whatever else I can get my hands on.
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