Anyone know anything about Jalapa tobacco

[Livewithkindness]

I was searching the Internet and came across this tobacco named Jalapa it is supposed to be a sweet tobacco that they make cigars from . Anybody know any one who has grown it or where they sell the seeds for it ?

 

[deluxestogie]

To my knowledge, no one sells Nicaraguan Jalapa seed. I currently have a tiny quantity of Jalapa seed--a 1936 lineage. (No give aways.) I'll be growing it for 2012, and will make seed available to the seed bank in the fall of 2012, if it is successful. I don't know how it will grow or what it will produce. Unfortunately, most of the tobacco grown in the Jalapa Valley is Cuban seed tobacco, so a so-called Jalapa cigar could contain none of the Jalapa varietal. The town of Jalapa also contains a number of cigar factories, just to confuse the matter.

Bob

 

[Livewithkindness]

Wish you the best of luck with it . Hope you get a good yield so maybe in a couple years everyone might be able to get some to try out from what I read about it , it makes a good cigar . John