Grow log 2023: @Anders A

[Knucklehead]

Beautiful! Parting with your field is such sweet sorrow. There is relief from the burden while also a wistful longing to go back out there and fiddle with the plants that are no longer there. I still look out of window, momentarily forgetting they are gone. Next year.... Next year....

 

[Anders A]

Then the tobacco field is plowed for 2024.
Have already forgotten all the work that has been this year, and look forward to 2024

 

[Plinsc]

I really like that root cellar! The temps don’t get cold enough here to utilize one of those. You have a great looking property.

 

[Redleaf]

My exact thoughts about the root cellar. It looks ancient.
Any ideas on how old it is ?

 

[Anders A]

My exact thoughts about the root cellar. It looks ancient.
Any ideas on how old it is ?

Our house was originally built, like our timbered barn, around 1810-1820, i.e. at the beginning of the 19th century, so I would think that the root cellar is from the same time.

 

[Anders A]

This morning, I drove up the tobacco field with a tiller. Still determined there will be only one variety next year, Virginia Brightleaf, and 76 plants, compared to this year's 12 varieties and 200+plants. However, wondering if this sounds believable?

 

[Knucklehead]

I only grew a single variety last year. You can do this! I know it's hard. Just think about something else. Squash and okra.

 

[johnny108]

Believable?
I don't even have a garden space- I use containers I just put all over the building I live in, hoping no one complains (they haven't).
And........I just ordered 4 more strains from nwtseeds.com
(Punta de Lanza, KY17, Hyang Cho- because of a M*A*S*H* episode, and Vallejano- because I think it can be a strong contender for container growing, like Little Dutch, only stronger in nicotine)

 

[deluxestogie]

The beauty of growing tobacco at home, rather than growing it commercially, is that you don't have to grow what someone else expects.

Bob

 

[Anders A]

I only grew a single variety last year. You can do this! I know it's hard. Just think about something else. Squash and okra.

I think I will grow a lot of onions in the land that I have now driven up with the tiller, so I actually think I will stick to the plan with one variety and 76 plants.

 

[Anders A]

The beauty of growing tobacco at home, rather than growing it commercially, is that you don't have to grow what someone else expects.

Bob

That's how it is, and that's why I think I'll stick to my plan. Almost everyone else thinks I will grow more

 

[Anders A]

Snus, baked for 48 hours in an oven (approx. 90 degrees Celsius). 75% Björkö Burley and 25% KY171, flavored with a little smoke and bergamot. After various tests with other flavorings, I always come back to this favorite

 

[cavedane]

Believable?
I don't even have a garden space- I use containers I just put all over the building I live in, hoping no one complains (they haven't).
And........I just ordered 4 more strains from nwtseeds.com
(Punta de Lanza, KY17, Hyang Cho- because of a M*A*S*H* episode, and Vallejano- because I think it can be a strong contender for container growing, like Little Dutch, only stronger in nicotine)

Do you now any dealers inside the EU ? last year I ordered big gem and prilepp ...but all I got was a message from the customs that they cant bee importet from outside EU.

 

[johnny108]

Do you now any dealers inside the EU ? last year I ordered big gem and prilepp ...but all I got was a message from the customs that they cant bee importet from outside EU.

I order from http://nwtseeds.com/ into Germany without any problems.
I’ve never found anything inside the EU with good quality.

 

[Old Gasman]

I buy from these chaps, just across the Sea from you,

Sellers of highest quality tobacco seeds - Tobacco Seed Company

60 varieties of the finest tobacco seed for you to grow your own tobacco at home.

www.tobaccoseed.co.uk

PS, I believe they source their seeds from nwtseeds.

 

[cavedane]

Yes thanks ...I got my very first seed from them ...but they dont have prilep :-( I would like try them.

 

[deluxestogie]

Tabaksamen Prilep Orient

Tabaksamen Prilep Orient - Shisha-/Wasserpfeifentabak und Harmonisierung von Zigaretten- und Pfeifenmischungen

www.tabakanbau.de

Bob

 

[Anders A]

Then I will be done with the tobacco season in 2023. The result was 19.4 kg of dry tobacco, (16 kg of flour for snus and 3.4 kg of leaves for pipe tobacco). Disappointed with the yield of some varieties, but overall I am satisfied. I'm now looking forward to season 2024

 

[Anders A]

Yes thanks ...I got my very first seed from them ...but they dont have prilep :-( I would like try them.

Here is one place here in Sweden were you can buy seeds, they have Prilep

Tobaksfrö för odling av egen tobak. Tobacco seed

Tobaksfrö av speciellt framtagna hybridsorter. Väl lämpade för egen tobaksodling eller i större skala. Tobaksfrö från gamla Svenska tobakssorter som Alida, Tofta och Per-Pers är bara ett måste när du odlar egen tobak hemma.

www.tilbudet.se

Tobaksfrö Prilep SUC152. Förpackning om minst 60 frö.

www.tilbudet.se

 

[cavedane]

Thank you Anders A ...I have just sent a order and have got a mail back. I can have the seeds in a week.