Welcome Home Tobacco Growers! You will find everything you
need on this site to grow, harvest, process, flavor and produce
your own home grown, additive free, tax free tobacco products at
home.
We are the only company that offers everything you need from
seeds to flavoring to grow and process tobacco at home.
Here you will find:
Tobacco Seeds, over 40 varieties of
tobacco seeds from around the world.
A Complete Tobacco Book on Growing and Processing Tobacco at Home written by the owner of seedman.com
Free Wooden Kiln Instructions and How-to-Photos that show you step-by-step how to build your own wooden kiln at home, components can be purchased from this site as well.
Cigarette rolling and smoking accessories.
Tobacco Flavorings.We now offer commercial tobacco flavorings in small quantities for home tobacco growers .
Our Home Tobacco Cutting Machine that we import from Sweden for cutting and shredding home tobacco.
Our Home Tobacco
Videos teach the average gardener how to successfully produce
tobacco at home.
Seedman.com does not sell tobacco leaf or any part of the plant other than the seeds. If you do not yet have your own tobacco to harvest, then we highly recommend Leaf Only, Your number 1 tobacco leaf distribution company. Offering wholesale tobacco leaf including cigar tobacco, cigarette tobacco, hookah tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff tobacco, and more.
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Tobacco Seeds, Books, Videos, Flavors, Cutting Machines and accessories for the Home Tobacco Grower
BOOK TA80: Growing
and Processing Tobacco at Home
A Guide for Gardeners
By Jim Johnson
210 Pages, Paperback, Plastic Coil Binding
Black and White Photos and Line Drawings
ISBN #0-9722794-0-7
With prices and health concerns regarding commercial types of
tobacco products skyrocketing, a new generation is discovering
that growing and processing their own tax free tobacco, free
of dangerous chemical additives, is a very simple and
straightforward process!
Tobacco is a very easy plant to grow and requires only 65-70 frost free nights to mature once transplanted outside. It is grown in every state, even Alaska. It is legal to grow and process your own tobacco at home.
Anyone with a small garden plot can grow tobacco and processing the tobacco is a simple straightforward process that the average gardener will have no problem with. Even after buying papers, filters and flavoring, you can make your own cigarettes that are superior to any commercial brand for about $5.00 a carton!
The book Growing and Processing Tobacco at Home was written with the gardener in mind. It contains all of the information included in our earlier guides, The SBE Home Tobacco Kit and Tobacco: Easier Than you Thought by Alan Daly , plus over a 100 pages of new information.
It covers all aspects of raising and processing tobacco at
home. It details how to plant the seeds, care for the plants,
identify and cure tobacco pests and diseases, how to harvest
the plants, how to air cure, complete instructions and drawings
on building your own kiln, how to flavor your tobacco, how to
make cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco and snuff along with
loads of other useful information.
This is a one-of-a-kind book that anyone interested in growing
their own tobacco should read.
BOOK TA80: Growing and Processing Tobacco at Home
$24.95
TA85: The New Home Tobacco Kit
This new Tobacco Home Starter Kit offers the above book
Growing and Processing Tobacco at Home , plus one pack
of TA250 Jim's Premium Tobacco Seed Blend ( over 1,000 seeds ).
This is a $49.90 retail value, yours for only $39.95 when
purchased as a kit.
New! Download the complete book Growing and Processing Tobacco at Home on-line as a .pdf file and save $5.00 off the book price, plus shipping costs.
We suggest you download this file, read the book while the seeds are being shipped to you and be ready to hit the ground running when seeds arrive.
New! DVD001 The Seedman.com Tobacco DVD
All 3 videos, Getting Started: Tobacco and Art/Science Cigars
plus the Video/Curing and Processing Tobacco at Home on a
single DVD.
Please note that the videos Tobacco:
Getting Started with Alan Daly, The Art and Science of Making
Cigars Made Simple with Frank Ruiz and Alan Daly's Curing and
Processing Tobacco at Home are all home made videos that are
several years old and were produced using hand held camcorders
( state of the art back then, wow, now I am starting to feel
old ) , video quality is rather poor by today's standards, but
they contain such useful information that we still make them
available for our customers.
( Go to Tobacco Videos for complete
description )
New! TA86 The Home Tobacco Kit/DVD Combo
Features our new Tobacco DVD, we've combined the book
Growing and Processing Tobacco at Home, plus one pack of
TA250 Jim’s Premium Tobacco Seed Blend ( over 1,000 seeds
), and our 3 Tobacco Videos: ( Go to Tobacco Videos for complete description )
Tobacco: Getting Started with Alan Daly, The Art and Science of
Making Cigars Made Simple with Frank Ruiz and Alan Daly's
Curing and Processing Tobacco at Home, all 3 videos are on one
DVD.
A $87.80 value, only $67.95 when purchase as a kit!
Tobacco Seeds
Probably no other plant is used as much for so little to be known about it as is the noble tobacco plant. While everyone is familiar with the smoking and chewing products derived from this plant, few people realize its many other uses. It has medicinal values, makes an extremely valuable ornamental plant and flower garden specimen and is used to make one of nature's finest biodegradable, all natural pesticides.
We receive tons of questions from first time growers about
tobacco growing, but probably the most often received question
is: How much tobacco will a single plant produce, and how
much tobacco do I need to make a carton of cigarettes?
Well, tobacco yield will vary among the different varieties,
but generally a tobacco plant will produce about 3-4 ounces of
dry, cured tobacco. When figuring your tobacco needs, we would
advise you calculate 2 ounces per plant to have a little margin
of error.
While a commercial cigarette will normally contain about 0.7 grams
of tobacco per cigarette, this is "puffed" tobacco and
non-tobacco ingredients added. A pound of pure tobacco will
normally produce about 2 cartons of cigarettes.
Hope this helps you figure our your seed needs.
Another question is how long does it take to grow tobacco
and where can it grow. Tobacco requires about 4-6 weeks to
reach transplant size from the time you sow the seeds. Tobacco
takes about 90-120 days to mature, depending on species.
Tobacco can be grown in all 50 states in the USA. Tobacco is
very easy to grow and has basically the same requirements in
the garden as tomatoes. If you have ever had success growing
tomatoes, well, tobacco is even easier.
Tobacco Forums are a great way to research information about growing your own tobacco, by joining them, you can post your own questions and share your experiences with other growers. Here are some very useful forums we have found:
UK Tobacco Forum
How To Grow Your Own Tobacco Forum
New! TA250 Jim’s Personal Mild Cigarette Blend for
First Time Growers
With all the recent interest in growing tobacco at home due to
the latest tax increases, we have noticed a lot of folks buying
a lot of different types of tobacco seeds because they simply
weren’t sure what they needed to grow a tobacco similar
to the commercial brands in the stores.
We really hate to see our customers buy more than they need, or
something they probably do not need. If you are an experienced
grower and want to sample the various tobacco types and create
you own blends, certainly buying individual varieties of seed
and trying them out in different recipes is the way to go.
But, if you are a first time grower, and all you want to do is
grow a blend of tobacco that will produce the best possible
mild smoking cigarette, then Jim Johnson has created a special
blend of burleys, bright leaf virginia, orinoco and red leafs
that he feels will get you as close as possible and at an
economical price. This blend includes our best selling
cigarette varieties, in a percentage based blend that Jim has
been tinkering on since 1996, and now believes it is as close
as it can get to satisfying the needs of most cigarette
smokers.
This premium pack of seeds should germinate out over 500
transplantable plants ( after figuring 80% germination rate and
estimating losing about 20% during transplanting and even
taking in a 10% mortality rate for first time growers ).
If you figure 2 ounces of yield per tobacco plant ( normally
you would figure 3-4 ounces, but you should always allow a
margin of error when dealing with a crop harvest ), then you
would wind up with about 1,000 ounces of cured tobacco. This
equates to about 62.5 pounds of tobacco, a pound of true
tobacco will make about 2 cartons of cigarettes, so you hope to
get about 125 cartons from a crop harvest from this pack of
seeds.
Now that sounds like a lot, but remember that the longer
tobacco ages, the better it becomes, at some point you would
like to get to the point where you are smoking tobacco that has
aged naturally rather than being kiln cured. So it would be
good if you could raise enough to put away some for next
year.
We suggest first time growers buy this blend, then add on other
varieties as they become more seasoned growers. We think it is
a waste of money to buy more than you need, or can grow.
Don’t need 500 plants? Don’t worry, these are fresh
seeds from last season’s harvest, you can store unused
seeds in a dry cool place such as a linen drawer and they will
keep quite well for the following year.
We are not trying to discourage our customers from buying lots
of seeds ( can’t stay in business long doing that ), but
we do want to make things as simple and easy as possible for
first time growers. And besides knowing that you are producing
a far healthier smoke than what you are currently buying in the
stores, isn’t saving money the main reason you are
growing tobacco to start with?
Note: This is a blended mix, varieties are
not separated.
New! TA800 Jim’s Personal Full Flavor Cigarette Blend for First Time Growers ( with Oriental and Turkish varieties ) For those wanting a full flavor type tobacco similar to the filterless cigarettes on the market today, Jim Johnson has created a special blend of burleys, bright leaf virginia, dark leaf, oriental and turkish varieties that he feels will get you as close as possible and at an economical price. This blend includes some of our best selling cigarette varieties, along with some special house varieties that we do not offer for sale, in a percentage based blend that Jim has been tinkering on since 1996, and now believes it is as close as it can get to satisfying the needs of most cigarette smokers seeking a full ( but not harsh ) flavor.
This premium pack of seeds should germinate out over 500
transplantable plants ( after figuring 80% germination rate and
estimating losing about 20% during transplanting and even
taking in a 10% mortality rate for first time growers ).
If you figure 2 ounces of yield per tobacco plant ( normally
you would figure 3-4 ounces, but you should always allow a
margin of error when dealing with a crop harvest ), then you
would wind up with about 1,000 ounces of cured tobacco. This
equates to about 62.5 pounds of tobacco, a pound of true
tobacco will make about 2 cartons of cigarettes, so you hope to
get about 125 cartons from a crop harvest from this pack of
seeds.
Now that sounds like a lot, but remember that the longer
tobacco ages, the better it becomes, at some point you would
like to get to the point where you are smoking tobacco that has
aged naturally rather than being kiln cured. So it would be
good if you could raise enough to put away some for next
year.
We suggest first time growers buy this blend, then add on other
varieties as they become more seasoned growers. We think it is
a waste of money to buy more than you need, or can grow.
Don’t need 500 plants? Don’t worry, these are fresh
seeds from last season’s harvest, you can store unused
seeds in a dry cool place such as a linen drawer and they will
keep quite well for the following year.
Note: This is a blended mix, varieties are
not separated.
(Note: Each pack of seeds will produce at least 25 healthy plants, often, many more than this ).
A little info for our customers:
Chewing Tobacco
Selections
We highly recommend the following
selections for chewing tobacco. Each variety produces a dark,
thin leafed tobacco with excellent flavor. Each has it's own
unique flavor.
TA73 Yellow Twist Bud
This heirloom is an all around good tobacco. Makes a somewhat sweet chew, and is also good for making cigarette and pipe tobacco blends. Large plants with heavy crops, should be staked or tied off to something for support, or it will blow over in heavy storms.
TA62 Yellow Orinoco
These seeds are descendants from the heirloom Virginia Orinoco
plants grown back as far as the 1700's. Considered to be one of
the sweetest varieties available, this is and excellent plug
variety, and is often used in pipe mixtures as well.
TA110 Greenwood Dark
Medium, smooth leaf, cures to a dark brown with fine chewing
tobacco flavor. High yields.
TA111 Little Crittenden
An old Kentucky heirloom for making old fashioned chewing
tobacco. Good yield and cures well.
TA112 Narrow Leaf Madole
An old Kentucky favorite used by many growers for it's thin,
dark leaves. Also a good cigar wrapper as well as chewing
tobacco. Good yield and cures well.
TA39 Havana 501
A large leaf type Havana well suited for chewing. Grows better
than other varieties in poor soil. A large plant reaching 6-7
ft. with leaves spaced far apart.
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Tobacco selections for making
cigarettes
TA74 Big Gem
Wow! This heirloom is named right, it produces large leaves and a good crop. It is a flue cured type, a good selection for making cigarettes comparable to commercial blends when our Virginia Fire Cured Flavoring is added after curing.
TA75 Banana Leaf
Another flue cured type, a medium sized plant that stands up well on it's own, producing longer, narrow leaves than standard varieties. We tried it as a cigar wrapper, and the flavor was good, but leaves were difficult to form, best suited for cigarette production in our opinion.
TA81 Oriental Blend
As you probably know, most commercial cigarettes on the market today use a small amount of oriental tobacco ( about 10% normally ) to provide a good full flavor. We have tried a lot of different types, but found many of them too strong. We love this particular variety that was sent to us from a grower in Kentucky whose family has been growing their own tobacco for generations. We cannot pin down the exact variety, but it is the best blending oriental variety we have tested. It provides a full, but not stinging flavor to cigarette blends.
Note: This is a blended mix, varieties are
not separated.
TA14 Common Smoking Tobacco ( Tabacum Burley )
This is a standard Burley that is grown in several states. It
produces a very good tobacco for cigarettes. Grows to 6 ft.
with sturdy stalks. One of the most widely grown cultivated
tobaccos. Has limited disease resistance, is an excellent
choice for first time growers.
TA16 Standard Burley Tobacco ( Tabacum burley var.
compact )
A fine commercial strain that is used for its hardiness and
smooth flavor. A must for cigarette making. This plant grows
fast and is a high yield producer. I recommend leaving up to 14
leaves on this plant when pruning.
TA77 Gold Dollar Burley
This is a flue cure type that matures earlier than any other tobacco we have grown, often allowing harvest a full 2 weeks before others, if you have a short growing season, you should grow this one, as it offers excellent tobacco for cigarettes and pipe smoking. Provides a large amount of golden brown leaves early.
TA78 Paris Wrapper
I think this name probably comes from the fact that the long narrow leaves would be preferred for cigar wrapping, and they could be, but in our experience, they would need to be shade grown to do so. It really is a fine flue cured tobacco for cigarettes and pipes. Large plants are very sturdy and produce a lot of good flavored tobacco.
TA64 Silkleaf
An old heirloom type that is not hardly found anymore, thanks
to New Hope Tobacco for keeping this one available. A good
producer of cigarette leaf, plants grow about 6 feet tall, and
also does very well in tubs for growers with small amounts of
space.
TA202 Virginia Gold
A very light gold leaf when curing, it makes an excellent
smoking tobacco. Grows to 5 ft. tall with a heavy yield.
TA83 Virginia Brightleaf
A very mild tobacco for cigarettes and pipes. Cures to a light golden color. Grows to 5-6 feet tall with a heavy yield.
TA101 Golden Seal Special Burley
An up right variety with more leaves than most varieties. Is
taller than most varieties on the market. Cures a golden color.
Good cigarette selection, one of the heaviest producers.
TA102 Lizard Tail Orinoco
This is one of the burley cigarette varieties that has long
been grown in Virginia. The leaves are closely spaced on the
stalk and are of medium size. Leaf body is heavy. Good
cigarette blending tobacco.
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TA103 Goose Creek Red
This is a one sucker burley variety that cures up a wonderful
red color. A good smoking tobacco that works well for blending
cigars and cigarettes.
TA104 Walker's Broadleaf
This is an older variety that was originated in Virginia. The
leaves are closely spaced on the stalk and are wider than most
varieties. Provides a large bounty of tobacco in a small space.
Good cigarette tobacco.
TA107 Brown Leaf
This variety originated in Kentucky. It has relatively large
leaves of medium body that cures out a deep, rich brown color.
A heirloom cigarette tobacco.
TA108 Lizard Tail Turtlefoot
A dark tobacco of good quality. This cross produces more weight
than most varieties being grown at present. It has a little
larger leaf than Orinoco. Good blender for cigarettes and
cigars.
TA109 Shirey
This is a variety used by many growers to produce a good yield
of high quality dark tobacco. A favorite cigarette tobacco for
home growers.
TA09 Perique Tobacco
Rare and famous Louisiana tobacco known for it's dark, black
color and unique flavor when cured. Tobacco was originally
cured by stuffing it into hollow logs until fermented. Perique
is a spice tobacco, usually used in Virginia blends. It has a
dark, oily appearance, when cured and a taste of pepper and
figs. Its flavor is a little strong, so it is usually found
mostly in blends. It can be smoked straight, but isn't intended
to be. Being acidic, it tends to alleviate alkaline tongue
bite, which is so often a problem with Virginia tobacco, so it
is recommend to blend this with your cigarette blends.
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TA30 Tennessee Burley #TN90
This is a standard Tennessee Burley that produces good yield,
high quality tobacco that is favored for cigarettes. This plant
has multiple disease resistance. A vigorous plant that is easy
to grow.
Cigar Tobaccos ( wrappers, binders,
fillers )
TA85 Habano 2000
Habano 2000 is derived from a crossing between the variety Corojo and a non commercial variety of Cuban dark tobacco, the Habano 2.1.1, from which is derived its resistance to the Gray Mold. Grown in direct sun. it reaches an average height of 6 feet with 14-16 leaves per plant. In very rich soils it can develop up to 18 leaves per plant. Sun grown plants are often used as a binder or filler. Grown under a shade cloths, Habano 2000 makes an excellent wrapper.
TA86 Cuban Criollo 98
Cuban Criollo 98 is one of the most valued strains for Cuban cigars. It originated from a crossing between the varieties ' Havana 92' and `Habana P.R'. Cultivated in the sun it produces from 14 to 16 useful leaves per plant and makes an excellent binder. It reaches an average height of 6 feet. Leaves average 24 inches in length and 12 inches wide. It is resistant to the Blue Mold, the Blackish Paw and the Tobacco Mosaic Virus and moderately resistant to the Environmental Necrosis.
TA79 Florida Sumatra
We think we have found our favorite cigar tobacco plant! If we could only grow one type for cigars, this would be it. Makes excellent wrapper, filler and binder. A large plant producing a bountiful harvest of blemish free tobacco leaves. Air cured leaves produces an excellent smooth flavored cigar. It grows to 6 feet in height with leaves averaging 24 inches long and 15 inches wide. It matures early at 55 days.
TA80 Dixie Shade
This wonderful old heirloom plant produces a very good flavored tobacco that can be used for wrapper, binder and filler. Tastes great on it's own, and blends very well with others. If you have a strong wrapper leaf from another plant, using Dixie Shade for filler and binder will tone it down.
TA82 Keller Brown
This tobacco plant is a big one, producing huge dark leaves with very good flavor. An air cured type grown for many generations. A little more susceptible to insects than other varieties, but the amount of yield and flavor are well worth any extra attention the plant may need while growing.
TA72 Glessnor
This old heirloom is an excellent cigar tobacco, it's large leaves produce a bountiful crop and make good wrapper, filler and binder tobacco. Very large plants, easy to see why this was a favorite cigar tobacco in years gone by.
TA58 Connecticut Shade Leaf
We have obtained seeds from one of the oldest tobacco growers
in the Connecticut Valley, which is a major source of some of
the world's finest wrapper leaves. This golden colored wrapper
tobacco is highly regarded and praised by many cigar makers and
connoisseurs. Connecticut Shade originated from a strain of
Cuban seed, is shade-grown under huge tents of gauze cloth ( or
greenhouse shade netting ) to protect the delicate leaf. It is
thin, deeply veined and used to wrap around famous brands
cigars such as Macanudo, Davidoff, Montecristo, Ashton and
Fonseca, among many others.
TA60 Pennsylvania Red Leaf
This is a premium cigar filler type tobacco having beautiful
dark colored, long leaves. Works for filler, binder, and if
cured properly can be used as a wrapper. Has a rich, deep
flavor that blends well with any tobacco, especially the Havana
types we offer.
TA69 Long Red Leaf
The long leaves of this plant can be used for a beautiful
wrapper, and the parts of the leaf that are not useable for
wrapping can be used for filler or binder, it has such a good,
deep flavor you will not want to waste any.
TA84 Hungarian Red Leaf
A bold flavor tobacco for cigarettes and pipes. Cures to a dark reddish brown color. Grows to 5-6 feet tall with a heavy yield.
TA70 Connecticut Broadleaf
We have had customers asking for this variety for years, we
were finally able to get seed stock and can now offer this old
heirloom type dating back to the 1800’s. Large soft
leaves make very good wrapper, filler or binder.
TA65 Zimmer Spanish
This is an old heirloom variety predating the 1880's. A
somewhat squat plant growing about 4 feet tall, it stands up in
the garden well without staking, and also does very well in
tubs for growers with small amounts of space.
This is a good cigar variety as it can be used for filler,
binder and wrapper. According to my cigar rolling friend Jose,
it makes a great binder leaf as the leaves hold up well for
this.
TA66 Little Dutch
An old heirloom variety predating the 1880's rumored to have
come from Germany. A somewhat squat plant like the Zimmerman
Spanish, growing about 4 feet tall, it stands up in the garden
well without staking, and also does very well in tubs for
growers with small amounts of space, probably one of the best
we have tried at growing in pots.
I consider this the best tobacco for cigar wrapper leaf, or at
least tied with Small Stalk Black Mammoth. The long, narrow,
thick leaves are perfect for wrapping, and color well as they
age.
TA61 Havana Long Red Leaf
This is a wonderful dark leafed tobacco for cigars, making a
good filler, binder that imparts a deep, rich flavors to
cigars. Leaves are dark, long and narrow, and offer a good high
yield harvest.
TA32 Havana #142
An excellent Havana tobacco that produces a quick harvest in
about 65 days. This is a good tobacco for both chewing and
cigars. This is an especially good tobacco for the North and is
easily raised as far North as Wisconsin. A good filler and
binder for cigars, good cigarette tobacco too.
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TA34 Havana #608
Said to be the best Havana for home use. Produces a quick crop
in about 65 days, and is good for cigars or chewing. This plant
gives a high yield and is also recommended for growing in the
North. First time growers should definitely try this one!
TA03 Monte Calme Yellow
A favorite European variety that features wide, thin leaves
that preferred for cigar wrappers. Grows to about 6 ft. tall,
producing a large crop. Mild flavor, can also be used for
cigarette blends.
TA28 Small Stalk Black Mammoth
This is a deep dark tobacco that gives good weight and supports
itself very well. This is a tobacco prized by specialty growers
because it provides a great wrapper tobacco or a premium snuff
tobacco when ripe. A good tobacco for beginners learning to
roll their own cigars or for first time snuff makers.
TA24 Madole
A fine commercial variety that is fast growing and hardy. I
recommend growing this one if you smoke cigars.
Tobacco selections for making pipe
tobacco.
TA76 Yellow Pryor
Another good heirloom tobacco that is excellent for blending pipe tobaccos, also does well for cigarette blends too. We really like this one for pipes when flavored with our Captain Black Type flavoring.
TA116 Tennessee Red Leaf
A fast growing, high yielding tobacco with large leaves that
cure to a red color, excellent cigarette and pipe blend.
TA05 Orinoco
A tall tobacco with thick textured, crinkly leaves that
produces a rich brown pipe tobacco that is a favorite of pipe
smokers worldwide. Also makes a good blending tobacco for
cigars and cigarettes.
TA68 Frog Eye Orinoco
Frog Eye Orinoco is one of several varieties derived in part
from the original Virginia Orinoco. While it makes a good
cigarette blend and cigar filler, our customers tell us that it
makes an excellent pipe tobacco, and seems best suited for this
purpose.
TA41 Havana 503B
One of the most popular cigar varieties for home growers. An
excellent pipe tobacco, it also makes a good chewing tobacco.
Will grow 6-7 ft. tall. Cured leaves have a reddish to light
brown color. Cured leaves have a silky texture like long rye
that makes a good covering for cigars. Has a pleasant, mild
aroma and taste much preferred for cigars.
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TA63 Wisconsin Seedleaf
A lot of growers use this for a cigar binder, which it is
excellent for, but several of my pipe smoking growers tell me
that a blend of Wisconsin Seedleaf and Havana 503 makes for a
smooth, delightful pipe tobacco that is easily flavored with
food flavorings. Plant grows about 5 feet tall with broad
leaves.
Tobacco varieties best suited for
making Snuff
TA71 DF911 Dark
DF911 is a high yielding tobacco with a dark leaf. This dark
tobacco produces a good yield of high snuff or cutting
tobacco.
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TA28 Small Stalk Black Mammoth
This is a deep dark tobacco that gives good weight and supports
itself very well. This is a tobacco prized by specialty growers
because it provides a great wrapper tobacco or a premium snuff
tobacco when ripe. A good tobacco for beginners learning to
roll their own cigars or for first time snuff makers.
Ornamental varieties that can be
grown as flower garden plant or used as filler/bending for
cigars and cigarettes.
TA204 Midewivan Sacred
A native form of N. rustica that is used by Native American
Indians in ceremonies and for smoking purposes. A rather strong
tobacco compared to commercial types. A fast grower and
decorative plant.
TA12 Argentina Tobacco ( Sylvestris )
A vigorous perennial growing to 5 ft. with large 20" basal
leaves and sweet scented drooping flowers. Try growing this
tobacco for mixing purposes. Its slightly different flavor will
blend well with cigarette tobaccos. A very attractive plant
that should be planted in every flower garden..
Oriental Varieties
TA55 Black Sea Samsun Turkish
This Turkish tobacco is among the best money can buy.
Originating in the Samsun region of Turkey, along the Black
Sea, this tobacco is renowned for its unique rich flavor. This
plant has smaller leaves than other strains, but a very
distinctive aroma. An excellent Turkish blend or unique by
itself.
TA07 Hungarian "Szamosi" Dark Tobacco
A very popular Hungarian tobacco with full rich flavor. The
lower 5-6 leaves are used for cigars or pipe tobacco and the
upper leaves are used for medium flavored cigarettes or for
pipe tobacco. The huge leaves can be up to 24-30" long and 16"
wide. A heavy producer.
TA18 Iranian Tobacco
A nice strain of tobacco from the Middle East that is different
than others. It is said to make a good filler and pipe tobacco.
Grows 4-6 ft. with foot long dark leaves. .
Tobaccos with high nicotine content
for making pesticides and tobacco dust.
TA04 Mountain Tobacco ( Nicotinia var. )
A graceful and ornamental species, small plants grow only 2-3
tall with yellow or green flowers. Has a very high nicotine
content. A very popular tobacco with the Navajo Indians. It is
an all purpose plant. I recommend using it as an ornamental,
filler and pesticide base and for making tobacco dust for the
garden .
TA10 Indian Tobacco ( Rustica )
A half hardy annual that grows to about 3 ft. and is cultivated
worldwide for smoking and nicotine production. Has many green
to yellow flowers that remain open during the day. It is so
potent that it has been used as an arrow poison in Mexico. Can
be raised as far north as Maine.
Misc. Types
TA08 Chilean Tobacco ( Langsdorffi )
A distinctive annual plant that hail from Chile and has odd green 1 1/2" nodding flowers. An interesting species that grows to about 4 ft. The flavor of this tobacco is slightly different than others, and it makes a good blending tobacco.
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TA56 Variegated Tobacco ( Tabacum variegatum )
A very rare and unique tobacco with a showy cream splash on the
leaves, and pink flowers. To 5 feet. Select only variegated
seedlings-comes over 60% true from seed. Stunning and unusual.
Everyone who loves tobacco growing should have some of these
for show and tell.
TA02 Jasmine Tobacco ( Sweet scented alata )
A very sweet scented flowering tobacco with pure white trumpet
shaped flowers 3-4" long and 1-1/2" wide. Very free flowering.
Usually not grown for tobacco use as it’s sweet smelling
flowers are coveted, but does make a good blend for cigarettes.
Fall sown seedlings make great pot plants for growing during
the winter. A beautiful addition to any flower garden. It is
very popular in Brazil and is fast gaining popularity in the
U.S.
New! Jim's Plant Growth Stimulator for Tobacco Plants.
Jim has developed this product through years of testing on his farms. This natural, environmentally safe solution will produce amazing results, producing vigorous plants and larger, thicker leaves. We highly recommend you do you own trial test ( i.e. spray one plant with solution, next to a plant not sprayed with solution over the length of a growing season ) to fully appreciate how effective this product is.
This is a two part water soluble product that should be mixed 14.75cc of each part ( we provide measuring spoon with solution ) to one gallon of water and sprayed onto the foliage of the gourd plants. It contains Food Grade H202, ( produced by nature ) Gibberellic Acid ( a natural plant growth hormone ), B1 and other plant vitamins, plant hormones, ( made from natural sources ) micronutrients including Boron (B), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Molybdenum (Mo), Sulfur (S) and Zinc (Zn) plus a natural detergent based "sticker" that makes the product stick to the leaves until absorbed by the plant.
This mix will make 16 gallons of solution.
JPAG08 Plant Growth Stimulator for Tobacco Plants $14.95
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Tips on planting and raising your own tobacco crop.
Raising tobacco is very easy. The seeds you received should be started inside in flats. In northern states, start the seeds 4-6 weeks before the last frost. Tobacco can be ready to harvest for curing about 60 days after transplanting, therefore it can be raised in almost any state. If raising more than one variety of tobacco, use separate flats. A mixture of peat humus and potting soil should be used. Potting soil only can be used if you select a high grade of commercial potting soil. Place the mixture into the flats, soak the soil with water and allow the excess water to drain off. The next day, sprinkle the tobacco seeds onto the surface of the damp soil. Do not cover the seeds as they need light for germination. Tobacco seeds are very tiny, so be careful to spread the seeds evenly. Keep the soil damp being careful not to wash the seeds around when you water. You will begin to notice sprouts in about two weeks. Transplant outside after all danger of frost is past.
If you have a moderate growing season and can start the seeds outside, try to sow the seeds where leaves or wood has been burned. The plants will thrive in these spots. Tobacco requires a lot of nitrogen and potash which is supplied by wood ashes. The ashes from charcoal grills are also beneficial. I recommend applying a good brand of garden fertilizer to the area where the plants will be grown. Working in rotted manure is very good for the plants. Never raise tobacco plants in the same spot in the garden for over a few years at a time as tobacco plants will totally deplete the nutrients in the soil.
You should space the tobacco plants about 2 ft. apart in rows 3 ft. apart when practical. The plants are large enough to transplant when the largest leaves are 2" or larger. Always transplant outside in late evening or when it is cloudy and overcast. Water plants thoroughly after transplanting and water daily each day until plants have become established. When growing in tubs, limit the number of plants grown. Tobacco plants need to be exposed to full sun while growing.
Tobacco roots grow quickly and often close to the surface. Be careful around plants when hoeing or cultivating around them. Try not to disturb the soil anymore than necessary. As the plant begins growing, remove all suckers as they will sap the plants growth.
Tobacco plants suffer from several diseases and are attacked by several leaf chewers. I recommend using sevin dust to control insects. Be cautious not to use any form of systemic insecticide that will penetrate the leaf. Remember, you may be chewing or smoking this plant and you do not want to be ingesting chemical residues. For a truly natural pesticide, make your own tobacco dust from one of the varieties that are high in nicotine and make your own solution by mixing one teaspoon tobacco dust, one teaspoon of black pepper and 1/2 teaspoon liquid soap to one gallon of water.
Free USDA Tobacco Downloads
Free Download of Trickle irrigation of tobacco. Informative article on growing tobacco in less than ideal soils, even sandy soils.
Free Download of Shade during growth: effects on chemical composition and leaf color of air-cured burley tobacco.
Free Download of Steam sterilization of seed beds for tobacco and other crops. ( A wild look back at 1918 and the efforts farmers had to go through for their tobacco crops ).
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