ATTENTION: Tobacco Growers..(questions) ...~

**Pharm Girl** · 11-18-2010, 06:24 AM

Have you ever grown tobacco??

Would ya mind sharing a few tips?

Do you just throw the seeds in the ground or do you germ them indoors??

Are there males and females?

How do I make seed so I can gift others??

Do TELL .........

**SageTree** · 11-18-2010, 09:16 AM

There is a picture of my Grandfather beside some plants he got from North Carolina back in the 50s. Sadly he isn't with us in that way anymore and I can't ask if they are from seed or whether he transplanted them or what.

They look really healthy and they grew. I don't have any stories of him doing this on the regular of if he even cured and smoked them? They had a garden and did some farming, so I know he was decent with plants but really don't know how much care they take?

Sorry Pharm Girl, I'm sure there is lots of info some where.....

Surely there must be be a "Hooka.com" out there for tobacco enthusiasts?

You know, with growers and all.....

Good luck, that would be a very special grow.

**Pharm Girl** · 11-18-2010, 09:29 AM

^ well.....we'll put out the call......~

somebody knows something for sure....especially here!

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There is a picture of my Grandfather beside some plants

Can't see it....and want to!

**SageTree** · 11-18-2010, 09:33 AM

Here are two hits from google when I typed 'tobacco cultivation'.

I think part of the trick is waking up 1000 year old seeds, they'll need to be soften up a little or have a sand paper tech worked up on em, where you scratch the surface a little bit.

Cultivation of tobacco

Quote:

Tobacco is usually cultivated annually. It is germinated in cold frames or hotbeds and then transplanted to the field until it matures. Tobacco is grown in warm climates with rich, well-drained soil

Tobacco Cultivation | Tobacco Facts.

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Originally Posted by Pharm Girl

^ well.....we'll put out the call......~

somebody knows something for sure....especially here!

Can't see it....and want to!

Sorry PG it's there is a picture, not right there is a picture....

It's on film... and maybe one of these days I'll get a pic of the pic and upload it to here. We just moved and I'm not 100% where it is right now.

**Pharm Girl** · 11-18-2010, 09:39 AM

^ will check those links....tomorrow morning.

I think unless I'm told otherwise....I'm gonna use Dan's Germination Method....and speaking about Dan....he might know things~

This thread kinda goes with your Coffee thread.......and "do we really know where are beans are grown"????

**Pharm Girl** · 11-18-2010, 09:49 AM

That's the stuff I'm looking for

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General note if planting more than one tobacco variety

Tobacco is considered a self pollinating plant meaning it has the ability to fertilize it's own flowers without the aid of insects. But different tobacco varieties planted close to one another can and will become crossed by insects such as moths, etc. that commonly visit the plants flowers. Tobacco can also become cross pollinated by wind although at a much lesser degree than by insects. To keep tobacco varieties pure, isolation of one mile is needed between different varieties to insure continued variety purity is maintained or other preventive cross pollination methods should be used if isolation distance is a problem.

Check out the pic.....are they gonna grow that tall??

http://www.newhopeseed.com/assets/im...young_leaf.jpg

**SageTree** · 11-18-2010, 09:55 AM

Werd, the pic of my Grandfather they are even a little taller than that.

**Pharm Girl** · 11-18-2010, 09:59 AM

^ ohhh.....post up the pic.

**SageTree** · 11-18-2010, 10:14 AM

lol..... it's in a box some where, give me some time to channel it...

actually I'll got take a shower and wash my hair now like I planned... it seems things come to me while I'm in there

seriously....right? can't argue with what works though.

**mothernature** · 11-18-2010, 01:36 PM

1000 years??? Seems like quite a long time. I'm not sure they would even resemble what is grown today. Well, maybe resemble but......

All I know is that in the US, the tobacco of today is grown mostly in NC and KY, and even those 2 states grow different types. Here in Ky., they plant seed beds in the mid-late winter (Feb-March) and cover them until spring (May). Then they are transplanted into the fields. Tobacco has a long growing season.

I don't know for sure, but I like Sage's idea about scratching them up a bit. I would look it up first tho, cause I would hate to do it wrong with something as special as that.

**Pharm Girl** · 11-19-2010, 03:05 AM

^ I'll be seeing the giver in person next week....so, by then I'll have a slew of q's!

and Sage....the hair must be washed by now, for God's sake, it can't be that long-or can it??

**SageTree** · 11-19-2010, 06:42 AM

Sorry PG.... no bursts of where the little folder of pics is at

It's nice and clean though now... I just finished

BudSniffer · 11-21-2010, 06:18 AM

Hi PG

I don't know much, but I used to live where they grow it. The farmer I lived close to used to plant the seed under plastic, they put a canister of some type under there that is supposed to kill all the weeds. So I guess the seeds sprouted under the plastic, like the ziplock method used by folks.
Then I have had the pleasure (not) of cropping the tobacco. This is when the plants were about 7 or 8 feet tall, they have a stalk that comes out of the middle with the flowers, and you cut it out just before it blooms. When you cut the stalk out, it has really sticky sap that comes out... I still have my cropping knife somewheres around here, and it is gummed up with dried, black, tar like sap. They also have HUGE tobacco worms get on them, which I think are close to, or the same as the tomato worm.
I think they have suckers, like tomatoes do that you need to cut off also.
I like to had a heat stroke when I was doing it, the plants were so tall no breeze blew through them, it was in the 90's, and humid. Not a fond memory

Here is a link for ya: How to Grow Tobacco. Growing Tobacco at Home

And a few pics

**Pharm Girl** · 11-22-2010, 03:04 AM

^ i almost forgot about those c-pillars!!
i read somewhere them....the pest thread i started in the nursery just might come in handy.

it looks alot like the rhubarbe plant....when left to it's own demise-it goes to seed.

then i'll be able to gift peoples all over the world!!

**SageTree** · 06-09-2011, 05:44 PM

Well, the long awaited and a little late picture I promised.

The plants aren't as tall as I recalled, BUT there are a TON more than I thought he'd grown.

Like A LOT!!!

And we'll see how the uploader works but may I'll get some extras in too.

adventure · 06-09-2011, 06:24 PM

I think it was mentioned but Tobacco plants are a great pesticide. I was planning on growing a plant a plant in each one of my garden's corners

**Pharm Girl** · 06-10-2011, 03:04 AM

^ the last picture speaks volumes..(lookie Gramps is barefeet....and the jeans rolled up! (ahh look at the little KID)...he's soooo cute

Can u imagine the crop he had?...and the curing part....'wondering how it WAS done!

sage...you've gotta find out! AND one day you'll hafta pay tribute to Gramps by planting some Tobacco yourself~

**SageTree** · 06-13-2011, 06:48 AM

Now doubt I came from the hilly billies PG.... and the stone doesn't tumble tooo far from the mountain

!!!!

I have NO idea how that curing was done, and am not sure if Mombo (my grama) would know or not. I'll shoot her an email.

Pretty funny to look at those picture and think I used to have white blond hair...and a lot less of it

!

**Pharm Girl** · 06-13-2011, 09:18 AM

^ ahhhhhh that's you on the pony? you were a cute little kydd..

i hope you got a few nice frames for those pics....i'll keep my eye out for similar pony for ya sagey!

**SageTree** · 06-13-2011, 10:15 AM

Yup, that's me in the back on the wagon too.

Foxy was the horses name and she was a Tennessee Walker.

Those are pictures of pictures, I have the 'hard copies' and some of them are Pap's baby pics even.... so from the late 30s.

It's funny to think about how different life is from then... not in all ways.... maybe it's just my imagination...?

11-18-2010, 06:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Weeding the Garden.~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 1,176 Times in 894 Posts	ATTENTION: Tobacco Growers..(questions) ...~ Have you ever grown tobacco?? Would ya mind sharing a few tips? Do you just throw the seeds in the ground or do you germ them indoors?? Are there males and females? How do I make seed so I can gift others?? Do TELL ......... __________________ .....The Time has Come to 'Walk the Talk'.....~ ......A message for ALL from the Deer Tribe...~ It is a great journey — but you must do the walking and have the willingness to change and make the leap into the next level of human evolution. Become an inquisitive free thinking individual that takes responsibility for your life and the spiritual accountability to live life to the fullest. *Fuck the Monkeys* Last edited by Pharm Girl; 06-10-2011 at 03:04 AM.

11-18-2010, 09:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,768 Times in 4,664 Posts	There is a picture of my Grandfather beside some plants he got from North Carolina back in the 50s. Sadly he isn't with us in that way anymore and I can't ask if they are from seed or whether he transplanted them or what. They look really healthy and they grew. I don't have any stories of him doing this on the regular of if he even cured and smoked them? They had a garden and did some farming, so I know he was decent with plants but really don't know how much care they take? Sorry Pharm Girl, I'm sure there is lots of info some where..... Surely there must be be a "Hooka.com" out there for tobacco enthusiasts? You know, with growers and all..... Good luck, that would be a very special grow. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

11-18-2010, 09:39 AM	#5 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Weeding the Garden.~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 1,176 Times in 894 Posts	^ will check those links....tomorrow morning. I think unless I'm told otherwise....I'm gonna use Dan's Germination Method....and speaking about Dan....he might know things~ This thread kinda goes with your Coffee thread.......and "do we really know where are beans are grown"???? __________________ .....The Time has Come to 'Walk the Talk'.....~ ......A message for ALL from the Deer Tribe...~ It is a great journey — but you must do the walking and have the willingness to change and make the leap into the next level of human evolution. Become an inquisitive free thinking individual that takes responsibility for your life and the spiritual accountability to live life to the fullest. *Fuck the Monkeys*

11-18-2010, 09:55 AM	#7 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,768 Times in 4,664 Posts	Werd, the pic of my Grandfather they are even a little taller than that. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

11-18-2010, 10:14 AM	#9 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,768 Times in 4,664 Posts	lol..... it's in a box some where, give me some time to channel it... actually I'll got take a shower and wash my hair now like I planned... it seems things come to me while I'm in there seriously....right? can't argue with what works though. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

11-18-2010, 09:59 AM	#8 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Weeding the Garden.~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 1,176 Times in 894 Posts	^ ohhh.....post up the pic.

11-18-2010, 01:36 PM	#10 (permalink)
mothernature ancientbongmaster Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Kentucky Posts: 1,232 Thanks: 1,201 Thanked 809 Times in 487 Posts	1000 years??? Seems like quite a long time. I'm not sure they would even resemble what is grown today. Well, maybe resemble but...... All I know is that in the US, the tobacco of today is grown mostly in NC and KY, and even those 2 states grow different types. Here in Ky., they plant seed beds in the mid-late winter (Feb-March) and cover them until spring (May). Then they are transplanted into the fields. Tobacco has a long growing season. I don't know for sure, but I like Sage's idea about scratching them up a bit. I would look it up first tho, cause I would hate to do it wrong with something as special as that.

11-19-2010, 03:05 AM	#11 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Weeding the Garden.~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 1,176 Times in 894 Posts	^ I'll be seeing the giver in person next week....so, by then I'll have a slew of q's! and Sage....the hair must be washed by now, for God's sake, it can't be that long-or can it?? __________________ .....The Time has Come to 'Walk the Talk'.....~ ......A message for ALL from the Deer Tribe...~ It is a great journey — but you must do the walking and have the willingness to change and make the leap into the next level of human evolution. Become an inquisitive free thinking individual that takes responsibility for your life and the spiritual accountability to live life to the fullest. *Fuck the Monkeys*

11-19-2010, 06:42 AM	#12 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,768 Times in 4,664 Posts	Sorry PG.... no bursts of where the little folder of pics is at It's nice and clean though now... I just finished __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

11-21-2010, 06:18 AM	#13 (permalink)
BudSniffer Just bein' me Join Date: May 2002 Location: waayyyy over yonder Posts: 822 Thanks: 413 Thanked 306 Times in 186 Posts	Hi PG I don't know much, but I used to live where they grow it. The farmer I lived close to used to plant the seed under plastic, they put a canister of some type under there that is supposed to kill all the weeds. So I guess the seeds sprouted under the plastic, like the ziplock method used by folks. Then I have had the pleasure (not) of cropping the tobacco. This is when the plants were about 7 or 8 feet tall, they have a stalk that comes out of the middle with the flowers, and you cut it out just before it blooms. When you cut the stalk out, it has really sticky sap that comes out... I still have my cropping knife somewheres around here, and it is gummed up with dried, black, tar like sap. They also have HUGE tobacco worms get on them, which I think are close to, or the same as the tomato worm. I think they have suckers, like tomatoes do that you need to cut off also. I like to had a heat stroke when I was doing it, the plants were so tall no breeze blew through them, it was in the 90's, and humid. Not a fond memory Here is a link for ya: How to Grow Tobacco. Growing Tobacco at Home And a few pics Attached Images __________________ "Nobody thinks the way that I do, I guess nobody dares. My head's so full of things, I set my mind free of them. I'm breaking the rules, breaking all the rules. " -Ozzy Osbourne

11-22-2010, 03:04 AM	#14 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Weeding the Garden.~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 1,176 Times in 894 Posts	^ i almost forgot about those c-pillars!! i read somewhere them....the pest thread i started in the nursery just might come in handy. it looks alot like the rhubarbe plant....when left to it's own demise-it goes to seed. then i'll be able to gift peoples all over the world!! __________________ .....The Time has Come to 'Walk the Talk'.....~ ......A message for ALL from the Deer Tribe...~ It is a great journey — but you must do the walking and have the willingness to change and make the leap into the next level of human evolution. Become an inquisitive free thinking individual that takes responsibility for your life and the spiritual accountability to live life to the fullest. *Fuck the Monkeys*

06-09-2011, 05:44 PM	#15 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,768 Times in 4,664 Posts	Well, the long awaited and a little late picture I promised. The plants aren't as tall as I recalled, BUT there are a TON more than I thought he'd grown. Like A LOT!!! And we'll see how the uploader works but may I'll get some extras in too. Attached Images __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

06-09-2011, 06:24 PM	#16 (permalink)
adventure Adventure its good Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 4,742 Thanks: 1,852 Thanked 1,466 Times in 1,093 Posts	I think it was mentioned but Tobacco plants are a great pesticide. I was planning on growing a plant a plant in each one of my garden's corners __________________ Coming Full Range

06-10-2011, 03:04 AM	#17 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Weeding the Garden.~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 1,176 Times in 894 Posts	^ the last picture speaks volumes..(lookie Gramps is barefeet....and the jeans rolled up! (ahh look at the little KID)...he's soooo cute Can u imagine the crop he had?...and the curing part....'wondering how it WAS done! sage...you've gotta find out! AND one day you'll hafta pay tribute to Gramps by planting some Tobacco yourself~ __________________ .....The Time has Come to 'Walk the Talk'.....~ ......A message for ALL from the Deer Tribe...~ It is a great journey — but you must do the walking and have the willingness to change and make the leap into the next level of human evolution. Become an inquisitive free thinking individual that takes responsibility for your life and the spiritual accountability to live life to the fullest. *Fuck the Monkeys*

06-13-2011, 06:48 AM	#18 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,768 Times in 4,664 Posts	Now doubt I came from the hilly billies PG.... and the stone doesn't tumble tooo far from the mountain !!!! I have NO idea how that curing was done, and am not sure if Mombo (my grama) would know or not. I'll shoot her an email. Pretty funny to look at those picture and think I used to have white blond hair...and a lot less of it ! __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

06-13-2011, 09:18 AM	#19 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Weeding the Garden.~ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 1,176 Times in 894 Posts	^ ahhhhhh that's you on the pony? you were a cute little kydd.. i hope you got a few nice frames for those pics....i'll keep my eye out for similar pony for ya sagey! __________________ .....The Time has Come to 'Walk the Talk'.....~ ......A message for ALL from the Deer Tribe...~ It is a great journey — but you must do the walking and have the willingness to change and make the leap into the next level of human evolution. Become an inquisitive free thinking individual that takes responsibility for your life and the spiritual accountability to live life to the fullest. *Fuck the Monkeys*

06-13-2011, 10:15 AM	#20 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,768 Times in 4,664 Posts	Yup, that's me in the back on the wagon too. Foxy was the horses name and she was a Tennessee Walker. Those are pictures of pictures, I have the 'hard copies' and some of them are Pap's baby pics even.... so from the late 30s. It's funny to think about how different life is from then... not in all ways.... maybe it's just my imagination...? __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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