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This is a list of threads that have been nominated by forum members to be particularly useful. The list will be updated as suggestions are added.
Tips on Using the FTT Forum
Books on Tobacco by FTT Forum Members
ARS-GRIN Resources
Tobacco Seed
Storing Tobacco Seed
Bagging Tobacco Blossom Heads
What to Grow
Seed Starting
Tools and Storage
Cigar Forum
Pipe Tobacco Blending and Pressing
This is a list of threads that have been nominated by forum members to be particularly useful. The list will be updated as suggestions are added.
Tips on Using the FTT Forum
Books on Tobacco by FTT Forum Members
- The Cigar Artistry of Marc Langanes: torcedor and photographer. A full-color picture book.
- Snuff, Snus and Chew: a recipe book. Download FREE Book
- Tobacco Plant Varieties for Home Growers A 300 page paperback with hundreds of color illustrations.
- Ninety More Pipe Blends: Download FREE Book
- Grow Your Own Cigars: growing, curing and finishing tobacco at home A 362 page paperback with 200 illustrations.
- Blend Your Own Pipe Tobacco: Download FREE Book (also link for a Swedish translation)
ARS-GRIN Resources
- How to Search the ARS-GRIN Database UPDATED 18 July 2024
Tobacco Seed
Storing Tobacco Seed
Bagging Tobacco Blossom Heads
What to Grow
- Strains that require minimal processing
- GRIN database classifications
- Recommended cigar varieties
- @polygon55's comments on Bolivia Black
- @Cray Squirrel comparison of 3 dark air-cured varieties
- Variety Spreadsheet to download for your own documentation.
Seed Starting
- 1020 starter trays
- Float trays
- Seed storage
- Ways to start tobacco seedlings
- Miracle Gro Peat vs. coconut coir
- Clipping the plants in the trays
- Clipping plants VIDEO
- Temp & Precip forecasts (live updates)
- First and last frost dates by Zipcode
- Deluxestogie's favorite weather site
- Water deprivation before transplanting
- Planning staggered rows
- Effects of tillage systems on yield and nitrogen uptake
- Adding Charcoal to improve poor soils
- How to intentionally cross tobacco varieties
- How to hand-pollinate corn (for corncobs!)
- Crossing N. tabacum x N. rustica (Tutu)
- Fertilizers
- Starter fertilizer timing
- Nitrogen, cover-cropping, manure
- Potassium
- New nitrogen recommendations for the new Burley Cultivars
- Urea free water soluble fertilizer for seedlings
- Slugs and snails
- Aphid control
- BT spray for worms
- Use of chemicals in growing tobacco
- Comprehensive pest control info
- Imidacloprid for aphids
- Insect Response to a Warming Climate
- Tobacco beetle
- Squash bug
- Non-parasitic leaf spots
- Tobacco etch virus
- Disease control and crop rotation
- IPM image bank (great pics)
- Ephytia image bank and diagnostic keys, available in French, English, Italian and Spanish
- Frenching (curly top leaves)
- Chart of Tobacco Viruses from CORESTA (1 page pdf)
- Tobacco Diagnostic Key from NCSU
- Insect Scouting Methods from NCSU
- Tobacco Ring Spot Virus (TRSV)
- Tobacco Brown Spot (Alternaria alternata)
- Ozone Damage
- Angular Leaf Spot (ALS)
- Ripe-O-Meter: mature vs. ripe, with comparison photos
- Minimizing frost damage
- Ripe tobacco leaf
- Stringing and labeling
- When to prime
- BigBonner's Youtube video on tying tobacco hands
- Harvesting N. rustica
- FREE BOOK on Oriental Tobacco: Turkish Tobacco by Constantinides (1912) as pdf.
- Hasankeyf Turkish Rustica
- Macedonian Prilep varieties
- Bulgarian varieties
- Photos of Orientals
- Strains of the Aegean region
- Comparing some strains
- Turkish tobacco FAQ - planting densities chart
- Herzegovina
- Leaf sizes
- Hungarian varieties
- Origins of Turkish tobaccos
- Tombac
- Xanthi-Yaka northern growing area
- Turkish strains of eastern and SE Anatolia
- Black Sea region
- Leaf morphology of Turkish tobaccos
- Strains of the Marmara region
- Shirazi morphology
- MAP of Turkish varieties
- Tobacco regions of Greece
- Basic Definitions
- Download TSNA Zip file (~20 MB) of references discussing tobacco specific nitrosamines
- Cozy Can flue-cure chamber
- leverhead's steel drum flue-cure chamber
- leverhead's professional, racked flue-cure
- AmaxB professional flue-cure chamber
- AmaxB flue-curing guide
- AmaxB flue-cure post-mortem
- wet bulb vs. relative humidity values
- MRM's Flue-curing Chamber
- Sweating vs. Fermenting vs. Kilning vs. Aging--what's the difference?
- Sun curing
- Sun curing discussion
- Easy Perique Press
- How to hand-shred Perique
- Stringing tobacco
- DGBAMA's Redneck curing chamber build
- LeftyRighty's Kiln
- Stringing horse
- AmaxB's excellent discussion of kilning, with many links
- Knucklehead's Exoskeletal Wooden Box Kiln
- Deluxestogie's Endoskeletal Wooden Box Kiln
- ChinaVoodoo's Invertebrate Kiln
- Amarelinho Twist Rope Tobacco
- GreenDragon's Beerique yeast curing method
- Ciennepi's pile-box-curing photos of progression
- Dominican Andullo (plug)
- Purpose-built Curing Shed by ChinaVoodoo
- Rajangan Sun Curing Method
- Advice for building a burley barn
- Tobacco Beneventano Dark Air-Curing
- Perique: an interview with Percy Martin
- Foolproof Kiln Controller
- Harvest timing and Color-curing of Nicotiana rustica varieties
- ChinaVoodoo's carotte VIDEO using a taping method.
- Making Cavendish pipe tobacco: Steaming Method
- Pressure Cooker Method
- @Watchmaker's Instant Pot Cavendish
- @Levi Gross' Wood Stove Cavendish
- Cavendish Questions
- GRIN 2013 grow-out. This one is worth reading.
- deluxestogie grow log 2013
- deluxestogie grow log 2012
- POGreen's big N. rustica grow
- GreenMonster714's First Year Log 2017
- OldDinosaur's 2018 Grow Log
- ChinaVoodoo's 2018 Rajangan Grow
- Levi Gross' 2018 Grow
- @tutu's Timor-Leste Grow Log 2016
- @Knucklehead's 2023 Kiddie Pool Grow Bag Technique
- @wruk53's 2023 Grow Log for Smokeless
- Sweden Grow 2024, by @Anders A
- Denmark Grow 2024, by @cavedane
- Texas-size Grow 2024, by @ProZachJ
Tools and Storage
- Storage Jars for a Large Batch
- Japanese Kizami Tobacco (video)
- Making a tobacco pouch
- Perique storage
- Maintaining a "budget" shredder
- Using hand-rolled cigarette paper on a tobacco injector
- Shredders, slicers and dicers
- Polish tobacco cutters
Cigar Forum
- The latest Pics of your Sticks thread [changes annually]
- Pics of your Sticks a huge thread with many cigar blend recipes. This thread is closed to new posts, but is continued in:
- Pics of your Sticks 2021
- India tobacco
- Indonesian tobacco
- Making a chaveta
- Cigar sizes by weight
- Rolling a cigar from short scrap
- waikikigun's Rolling scraps into cigarillos
- Quick stogies
- Hand-Rolling a Fat Cigar -- No Mold, No Glue
- Comparison of different shade cloth
- Cigar rolling video
- Guide to maduro wrapper
- Growing shade leaf
- rainmax' excellent Havana cigar rolling video *** REVISED
- Cigar cutter discussion
- How to make a tripple cap
- Excellent cigar rolling video by Mike Brylinski
- Wrapping a figurado (tapered-end) cigar.
- webmost's wrapping a perfecto videos
- rainmax' video on leaf stem removal ***
- ! Gdaddy's single cigar box-press mold
- Webmost's video--rolling your first cigar
- Knucklehead's Cigar Rollers' Index
- Sigge's Tuck Cutter Restoration
- Template for Dubrul tuck cutter lower blade from @stdly
- A huge collection of Cigar Rolling Videos
- Pool Noodle Cigar Mold
- How to Make Swedish snus
- The Way I Make Swedish snus
- NC State smokeless tobacco reference
- Snus Instructions in Finnish and Swedish (and English)
- Maine Black Gold Snus
- Making Dip
- jParnell's Artisanal Spittin' Dip
- Mint Snus Recipes
- Making a Tobacco Twist: a YouTube video
- SNUS vs SNUFF --> see topic in Tobacco History, below
- Swedish Tofta Tobacco Variety Description
- DIY Snus Kit with Pictures by @loui loui
- Home-made Chimo
Pipe Tobacco Blending and Pressing
- Your Home Made Pipes
- World's Ugliest Tobacco Pipe
- Pure Tobacco Blend Recipes
- Cased and Flavored Pipe Tobacco Blend Recipes
- ChinaVoodo's Press Cake Method
- deluxestogie's "containerless" press cake
- Make a pipe pouch from a WLT tobacco bag
- Impact of shred type on tobacco blending
- @piping_presbyter's plug press, with construction videos
- @ChinaVoodoo's Carotte Method
- @Juxtaposer- process steps for purchased whole leaf in cased pipe blending
- Tobacco Varieties Before Columbus
- 1977 Photos from Tabacos Brasileiros
- Chicken's Old Farming Photos
- SNUS vs SNUFF by squeezyjohn
- Buffalo Bird Woman's Tobacco Garden
- Old Belt Farmers Co-op Tobacco Auction
- Native American Carved Tobacco Pipes - Hopewell Culture
- Free-hand Cigars, and Why Commercial Cigars are Standardized
- Evidence of Tobacco Use 12,300 Years Ago
- The vague origin of Goose Creek Red
- Tobacco Farmer Newsletter (USA) [defaults to latest blog post]
- @webmost (1948-2022)
- @Cigar (1968-2022)
- @Oldfella (1949-2022)
- @MarcL (1964-2022)
- @johnlee1933 (1933-2013)
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