Is it like year one, you grow to make particular product X, year two, you grow to make particular product Y, year three you grow to make particular product Z? Or will you not grow next year because ou have enough? Or something else?
After the last three years of tobacco cultivation, I have about 23 kg of dry tobacco left, and this year will yield about 18-19 kg, so I have tobacco so I can manage for many, many years to come. So I could absolutely stop growing for a few years, but will I?
How do you do pipe?
Do you just bake your snus in the oven or do you use a crockpot/instapot?
I mix tobacco with different kinds of alcohol, e.g. Jack Daniel's Honey or Plantation Rum and maybe a little honey, then I vacuum pack it. Then let the bags lie on top of my water heater for a few months, there it is about 42 degrees celcius (about 107 fahrenheit). When I have opened the bags, I cut the tobacco with a knife and then leave it to dry, then I store the tobacco in humidors or plastic jars, humidity approx. 70%
Until now, (for about 12-13 years) I have only baked my snus in a normal oven, and during winter sometimes in an iron stove (wood stove). The reason I never tried anything else is probably pure laziness or convenience, and I'm happy as it is
Its the most convenient and cheapest! How long do you bake it for at that temperature?Until now, (for about 12-13 years) I have only baked my snus in a normal oven, and during winter sometimes in an iron stove (wood stove). The reason I never tried anything else is probably pure laziness or convenience, and I'm happy as it is
Have also used an ownen for sometime but have switched to use a pressure cooker. I usually make batches of 0,5 kg grinded tobacco. This gives me 1,2 to 1,3 kg snus. The heat treatment takes 6 to 7 hours. The longer time is used if the tobacco have dried green. Then I let the heat treated tobacco cool down overnight. In the morning I add potash, seasoning and other additives. After two to three weeks in the refrigerator it is ready to use.
The way I've started to look at it, i can grow tobacco more days of the year than I'd actually care to smoke it - cultivation is more addictive than the product.
I think I see what you mean!
I apologize for interrupting your conversation! I grew VA355 this year. I haven't tried it yet, a few tiers are still drying.
I assume you mean distance between plants and rows. Perhaps I have an unnecessarily large distance between plants and rows. I have plenty of space to grow, and would like to be able to drive between the rows with a tiller. Has 60 cm between plants and 150 cm between rows. In the picture it is 90 days after transplanting, and was the only variety I had not harvested at the time.
