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Post by Alan on Jul 13, 2011 19:57:22 GMT -5
Any other time I'd have about an ounce of it laying around somewhere, miraculously it is gone and can't be found and I am in need of some to begin experimenting with the concept of growing it indoors under lights.
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Post by steev on Jul 15, 2011 0:04:26 GMT -5
Noting that it's a Turkish tobacco, I don't suppose you have any idea what tobacco they used to make Balkan Sobranie cigarettes?
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Post by steev on Jul 15, 2011 0:22:01 GMT -5
I did some research and found that thay were Yenidje tobacco, which I now remember reading on the packs. That was a good cigarette.
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Post by peppereater on Jul 16, 2011 13:05:51 GMT -5
I did some research and found that thay were Yenidje tobacco, which I now remember reading on the packs. That was a good cigarette. Oh, yeah. Those may have been the best I've smoked. I don't recall the last time I had one, could have been a couple of decades ago. If you ever find a source for the Yenidje seed, let us know. I have never grown tobacco, even though I have had the opportunity to get seed from time to time. I'm sick of the price of tobacco rising constantly, and tired of inhaling god knows how many chemicals, esp. as I keep my garden organic. Time to start making wine and growing tobacco, buying these has become an expense I just can't continue to justify anymore.
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Post by seedywen on Jul 16, 2011 16:36:19 GMT -5
Have never grown tobacco. However an elderly French Canadian man gave me some seeds from his Scheraz tobacco a few years back, if anyone would like me to pass them forward.
He grows tobacco for his own consumption on the B.C. West Coast. And so far, the only person I've met, who does. Many West-coast growers prefer a different herb.
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Post by cortona on Jul 17, 2011 17:19:00 GMT -5
seedy if you have some sheraz seeds i'm interested on it!in the past i'm interested in different herb too;-) but being older i've lost this interest and now i smoke just sigarets and growing tobacco is on the net year's plan(this yera my attempt is a total failure!) Emanuele
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Post by steev on Jul 17, 2011 22:12:46 GMT -5
I have no idea what varieties they are, but tobacco shows up on its own in my neighborhood and on the farm occasionally. I enjoy the scent of the flowers, but haven't smoked tobacco nearly 30 years. When I did, my three favs were Balkan Sobranie, Senior Service, and King Bee ( Honduran ). I smoked Players for years, more for theater than tobacco. Then I settled down to a steady habit of Camels non-filter.
If I turn up my rolling machine, maybe I'll grow some tobacco and put the machine to the use it was allegedly for all along.
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Post by peppereater on Jul 17, 2011 23:41:02 GMT -5
when I was a more casual tobacco smoker I tried all kinds, it was such a rush to walk into a tobacco shop and just be overwhelmed with the heavy, fantastic aromas. As for loose tobacco, I tried a few, stuck with a few from time to time, like Drum. I liked it a lot at one time...years of a marlboro habit later, I tried Drum and realized how intense the flavor and nicotine was, wow! I guess it's best to light one, take a few drags, put it out. I remember Sailor brand, can't recall if it was loose, rolled, or available either way...I know they''re popular in Europe, or were, don't even recall the flavor at all. These days there are lots of people who smoke Native Spirit cig's and roll-your-owns, can't say I care a lot for either form. I'm feeling inspired to get some budget type self rolls, might have to just buy a sack of Tops and tough through it, then try a couple of others...it's a long time until next planting season!
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Post by steev on Jul 18, 2011 1:49:52 GMT -5
I think one thing common to my favs was that they were all fat, tightly-packed, and very low rib content, which made them slow and cool smoking. I never got into filters because it always seemed to me that the quality of tobacco in filters was much lower.
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Post by seedywen on Jul 18, 2011 15:44:33 GMT -5
cortona, pm me your mailing address in Italy and I'll send you these tobacco seeds, plus a heritage(unnamed) Roma pole bean that another old gardener, passed along to me in recent years.
Plump, rounded tan seeds with mottled maroon markings.
Some of my inherited old varieties end up, just being nicknamed by the name of the benefactor, until such a time, I find out (or not) the variety name.
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Post by cortona on Jul 19, 2011 7:41:36 GMT -5
seedy if yo look at the seeds i usaly share it are mostly called by the name of the person that give me the seeds...partialy because usualy elderly grower save is hown veggies..uniqe treasures that need to be saved for the future.
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