rustica

Hello everyone, I wasn’t sure under which category to post it. From what I can tell mapacho logs the tobacco is pretty dark compared to N.Rustica air cured. I assume it goes through some sort of fermentation. Does anyone actually know how to make them or how to make mapacho the legitimate South...

Well this is my first year giving this a shot and thought I’d let everyone see what I got going on. I’m not as sophisticated as some of y’all but I hope it goes good. I just transplanted for the first time it seemed straight forward enough I hope it goes well I also planted a few more so we’ll...

Whereas the How to Intentionally Cross Tobacco Varieties is a great thread going into the technical aspects of how tobacco flowers can/should be crossed, and whereas Kasturi x Amersfoort was a good test case for a crossing of N. tabacum x N. tabacum, I think it's time to go a little bit deeper...

I've read a whole bunch of posts so far but haven't really nailed down the answer. What is primitive tobacco? What makes it a primitive type? I'm guessing these would be 'among' the first varieties that were out there before hybridizing and crossing started to develop new types. Sound right...

So in my quest for the stronger tobaccos, I came across Thuoc Lao. It is a variety grown in Vietnam with its own culture of smoking it in a bamboo water pipe. There has been a lot of confusion stating that it is Rustica, but after gathering information including speaking with Khaibong, I believe...

Considering buying some of this seed for this season. Looks very similar in the picture to the leaf shape I have seen in pictures of Vietnamese tobacco fields. Additionally, they say this seed is directly imported from Vietnam, so it lends more to its credibility. The supplier is World Seed...

Ancient carving found at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. Where did the various species of tobacco come from? Some are wild, others were cultivated and traded over thousands of miles, before the European discovery of America. Nicotiana rustica, which I had always assumed was wild, is apparently a...