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.
See our review in RYO
Magazine.
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
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.
( 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 7gr.
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
A note from Jim Johnson:
We appreciate our customers and will never gouge them, thanks for your continued business.
Jim Johnson, Sr.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
OTOAO CIGARS .
PLANTING AND RAISING
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.
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