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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:16:31 PM EDT
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In before the haters.
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:17:27 PM EDT
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Where do you get seed ?
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:17:52 PM EDT
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That's got to be illegal somehow. You can't just go around growing plants and smoking them, it's unAmerican.
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:19:50 PM EDT
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I know a friend who grew some "green tobacco", I think it was the illegal variety though.
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:21:05 PM EDT
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IBTBATFE
hide your dog.. |
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:21:43 PM EDT
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curing it is the hard part.
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:25:03 PM EDT
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I was planning on using my attic... it stays around 120 degrees or a bit more during the day and drops at night. Heat is no problem here in FL. and it is not a dry heat, I hope it works out ok, I'll keep this updated as i go.
curing it is the hard part. I will need to build a press later to press plugs to cut my RYO off of. Nother "project".. 
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:26:29 PM EDT
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Where do you get seed ? New Hope Seed Company P.O. Box 443 Bon Aqua, TN 37025 they are on the web. |
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:29:12 PM EDT
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Any good resources on how to cure it? I grew some in my garden last summer. They didn't like the 110+ heat with 20% humidity we have around here. They seem to like a more mild climate.
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:30:05 PM EDT
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Tag.
Keep this updated....this is interesting, especially with the new tax that the gooberment is placing on my smokes. grrrr.... ETA: I never understood what my smoking has to do with somebody's kid not having health insurance. Wanna make it fair? Tax toilet paper. 
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:30:22 PM EDT
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Where do you get seed ? New Hope Seed Company P.O. Box 443 Bon Aqua, TN 37025 they are on the web. Thanks , Time to deny . gov my dollars ! 
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:32:08 PM EDT
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He got the seeds from a bag of tobacco his daughter left in the console for him. Smelled kinda funny when he rolled one, but he didn't seem to mind after a hit or two.
Noticed the seeds, and decided... 'hey, I'll just grow some of this.". |
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:32:52 PM EDT
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We had a large tobacco base for years. It's not really that hard to do. Let it grow, when the flower blooms on top, cut it off. There will be small "suckers" or sprouts start to come up off the sides. Pinch those off also.
The leaves will start to yellow sometime around late Sept or so. Cut the plants and hang them upside down somewhere in a small barn. When it fully cures around December or so you're done. Do to it what you need to. The above is for Burley tobacco. Geez I remember working in the tobacco fields for so many years. I freaking hated it with a passion. |
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:40:33 PM EDT
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I googled and found this: http://www.victoryseeds.com/tobacco/backer_cultivation.html It looks pretty easy.
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:52:48 PM EDT
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I thought about throwing a few seeds down by the fence, seldon cut the weeds down there. oh wait, no, no I'm not doing that, you did not read anything! |
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Posted: 2/19/2009 2:53:55 PM EDT
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What are you going to make with the tobacco: Cigars, Cigarettes, or Pipe Tobacco?
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Posted: 2/19/2009 4:01:57 PM EDT
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What are you going to make with the tobacco: Cigars, Cigarettes, or Pipe Tobacco? I roll my own. So i will be "cutting" itlike cigarette tobacco. So I guess the simple answer is... instead of buying a can of bugler, I'll just pop open my homegrown. any suggestions? |
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Posted: 2/19/2009 4:16:39 PM EDT
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What are you going to make with the tobacco: Cigars, Cigarettes, or Pipe Tobacco? I roll my own. So i will be "cutting" itlike cigarette tobacco. So I guess the simple answer is... instead of buying a can of bugler, I'll just pop open my homegrown. any suggestions? Sorry, no suggestions. I only smoke cigars. Never tried the other stuff. |
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Posted: 2/19/2009 5:01:41 PM EDT
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There's better money in Tomacco.
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Posted: 2/19/2009 5:06:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/24/2009 3:12:37 PM EDT
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there is a thread over at SA with a guy doing this http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3028840
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Posted: 2/24/2009 3:16:08 PM EDT
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Since we're in here, how about growing it for dip/snuff/copenhagen style?
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Posted: 2/24/2009 3:23:08 PM EDT
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Since we're in here, how about growing it for dip/snuff/copenhagen style? oh, you will want to plant a dip tree then.
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Posted: 2/24/2009 3:47:38 PM EDT
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My seeds are in the mail. I'm going to give it a try this year, too. I'll start a pictoral thread when I get them started.
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Posted: 2/24/2009 3:53:06 PM EDT
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In before the feds raid you over an insignificant tax matter.
I don't drink and I don't smoke, but I do feel a strange urge to grow tobacco and make moonshine just as a "fuck you" and sell it on the side. |
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Posted: 2/24/2009 4:15:23 PM EDT
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Nothing smells as good as tobacco drying in a shed.
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Posted: 2/24/2009 4:18:40 PM EDT
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It will be nothing like what you buy in any store.
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Posted: 2/24/2009 4:21:10 PM EDT
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This is not a tag...
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Posted: 2/24/2009 4:24:36 PM EDT
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It will be nothing like what you buy in any store. Care to elaborate? I roll my own usually, American Spirit most of the time. I also dip a little bit. Is this a worthwhile venture for either application? FWIW I am kind of a garden bug already and have had moderate to good success growing vegetables. |
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Posted: 2/24/2009 4:35:10 PM EDT
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From what I've heard, Americans prefer non-American tobaccos blended together, while Europeans like MD/VA tobacco. Good luck getting the soil to work for you.
Kharn |
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Posted: 2/24/2009 4:37:46 PM EDT
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That's got to be illegal somehow. You can't just go around growing plants and smoking them, it's unAmerican. Nah, it's not illegal to grow your own tobacco, however with the 2400% increase on roll your own tobacco supplies it is only a matter of time until the fed taxes the growing of tobacco, much like they tax the distilation of spirits. |
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Posted: 2/24/2009 6:00:59 PM EDT
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It will be nothing like what you buy in any store. Care to elaborate? I roll my own usually, American Spirit most of the time. I also dip a little bit. Is this a worthwhile venture for either application? FWIW I am kind of a garden bug already and have had moderate to good success growing vegetables. Cigarette tobaccos are processed to death and blended with stuff like homoginized tobacco. The homo tobacco is old stuff that didn't sell or was swept up from the cutting room floor and ground up, mixed with water and turned into a paste, spread out, dried, then cut up like paper to add to your tobacco. I saw this on something like How it's Made or Modern Marvels. Any wonder why fresh, pampered home grown would taste different? I'm not saying that the home grown will taste better, just different. Taste is subjective. |
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Posted: 2/24/2009 6:13:15 PM EDT
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Quoted: Nothing smells as good as tobacco drying in a shed. This.... except when you are surrounded above, below, and either side by tobacco on a 90-degree day inside a four tier barn with sweet running everywhere while dipping some cope... Those that aren't use to it typically get nicotine poison. wussies |
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Posted: 2/24/2009 6:19:59 PM EDT
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I've just ordered four different types of seeds also. It should be interesting to see how these "I'm growing tobacco" threads progress this year.
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Posted: 3/15/2009 8:48:20 AM EDT
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Any updates?
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Posted: 3/15/2009 9:07:00 AM EDT
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I know a friend who grew some "green tobacco", I think it was the illegal variety though. Tabacco is green thats why you got to hang it up and cure it.............. |
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Posted: 3/18/2009 7:32:59 PM EDT
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Updates? How's the growing going?
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Posted: 3/18/2009 7:35:46 PM EDT
[#38]
Good for you.
I don't smoke, but I hate the anti-smoking Nazis and the Feds for their ridiculous tax increases. |
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Posted: 3/18/2009 7:47:38 PM EDT
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Probably easier to just grow opium poppies and use the cash for your cigs.
j/k
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Posted: 3/19/2009 6:08:09 AM EDT
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I can give y'all an update.
Rexydg7 is farming dirt right now. Nothing has come up. He used the peat moss seed starters, and for whatever reason, the seeds won't come up. Mine, from last year, came up. Due to my lack of attention, they dried out and died. I had to start a new batch of seeds. Guys, when these things sprout, they are the tiniest things you have ever seen. They grow pretty quick and get quite large, but start off tiny, |
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Posted: 3/19/2009 6:12:47 AM EDT
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The OP needs one of these
and a Tennessee Walking horse to ride comfortably over his domain. 
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Posted: 3/19/2009 6:21:48 AM EDT
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needs more of this
  Let us know how it turns out |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:07:53 PM EDT
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I can give y'all an update. Rexydg7 is farming dirt right now. Nothing has come up. He used the peat moss seed starters, and for whatever reason, the seeds won't come up. Mine, from last year, came up. Due to my lack of attention, they dried out and died. I had to start a new batch of seeds. Guys, when these things sprout, they are the tiniest things you have ever seen. They grow pretty quick and get quite large, but start off tiny, Yep monroe nailed it... I am gonna try another batch as soon as it starts raining regular here... it seems those seeds just did NOT want to germinate... and I usually have a pretty green thumb... 
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:10:54 PM EDT
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So I guess the simple answer is... instead of buying a can of bugler, I'll just pop open my homegrown. any suggestions? I'm sure it won't be long before Mr Tax Man decides he doesn't like that missed revenue and will outlaw the growing of tobacco. 
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:16:16 PM EDT
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how do you go about processing the tobacco for dip?
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:24:54 PM EDT
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ya'll should watch this first, covers tobacco germination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGN63RJCYHE&feature=channel_page |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:36:01 PM EDT
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how do you go about processing the tobacco for dip? This interests me also? Probably to complicated for the do it yourself crowd? |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:48:26 PM EDT
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Nothing smells as good as tobacco drying in a shed. This.... except when you are surrounded above, below, and either side by tobacco on a 90-degree day inside a four tier barn with sweet running everywhere while dipping some cope... Those that aren't use to it typically get nicotine poison. wussies
Don't forget the old black women with missing teeth and a mouth full of dip trying to get some action while you're in the field cropping leaves
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:48:47 PM EDT
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Do you brew your own shit too?
Alcohol. Check Tobacco. Check Firearms. Double check You share a 133% interest with the ATF! |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:59:03 PM EDT
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actually I believe theres shit going on right now to make Nicotine/tobacco fall under the FDA. I might hyave read that on DRUDGE and I believe it had to do with the new electic type cigs and a way to ban the liquid juice they use.
Someone could probly find more info with a google |
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