This reminds me… I need to go harvest some more leaves.
Also, I wrote a booklet on growing your own tobacco.
Just planted some Cuban seed this last week.
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I don’t smoke, or dip, or chew. In fact smoking pretty much killed my dad 35 years after he quit cold turkey. But, I like this video and I admire her desire to buck the state and taxes. I’m thinking about growing some now just for fun and to see if I can do it. I actually have the booklet already, Thanks David!
It’s a nice insecticide, if nothing else.
oooooooooooooh put out a shout out for me in your next vid!
My son’s actually smoke cigars and drink rum, even though I don’t. I tell them ” you’re 8 and 10 years old, you do what you want!”
Lol, actually they are adults and responsible citizens, I see a lot of their generation enjoying cigars and such. I’m thinking I’ll try to grow tobacco for cigars if I can pull it off.
I’ve gotten to the point I barely even plant it any more. Basically just let the plants do their own thing, grow to maturity, set seed and it falls to the ground and sprouts the next spring. My use of tobacco is low enough that the dozen or so that I let grow more than fulfill my very limited desire to smoke the occasional cigar. It’s a nice ornamental with pretty flowers that the bugs like to pollinate, and hummingbirds like it too.
Northern Illinois where I live is I suspect at the far northern boundary where this is possible. A few weeks shorter/cooler growing season and it wouldn’t have time to set seed. Tobacco likes heat and a long season. It produces gazillions of seeds. The first few years I carefully lopped off the mature seed heads and shook the seeds into a paper sac for the next year. Now I do it much more casually, save a few seed heads from the healthiest-looking plants and scatter those willy-nilly across the garden. No need to plant or even rake them in; tobacco seeds like to be on top of the soil.
I had a local guy tell me something similar. He has plants growing as volunteers all over his yard. He picks the yellow leaves and dries them in a box under his house, then smokes them after a few months.
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