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Post by Alan on Feb 27, 2007 9:09:24 GMT -5
This year i'll be planting upwards of 60 varieties of tobacco, here are just a few:
yellow mammoth
yellow twist bud
frog eye orinoco
Ky 10
Ky 14
virginia gold
Amish White Burley
Frog eye orinico
White stemmed orinico
Green Stemmed orinico
West Virginia heirloom burley
Mississipi heirloom twist bud
Comstock spanish
Havana (several selections, can't remember the numbers from the top of my head)
Those are just a few, i'll also be offering seed this fall for SASE and seed trades.
-Alan
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Post by tralfaz on Feb 28, 2007 5:05:13 GMT -5
Hio Alan, I'm trying onr variety of tobacco this year. I hope you can guide me through it as it is my first attempt. Hopefully it will be a success and I can trade for some of your seeds next fall.
Thanks,
B
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Post by Alan on Feb 28, 2007 8:58:56 GMT -5
Will be glad to help you this year! Glad to see someone here show some interest in tobacco. I'll be starting my seeds here in Southern Indiana next week. Shortly i'll be posting tons of links here to articles about growing, curing, fermenting and aging tobacco. I can't wait to grow this seed out this year and share the new seed with the world!
-Alan
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Post by Alan on Feb 28, 2007 9:08:48 GMT -5
Forgot to ask in my last post, but what varietiey are you growing this year?
I ask because i'm still collecting more and more varieties and don't know where i'll plant them all, but I can still daydream about more!
-Alan
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Post by johno on Mar 24, 2007 3:34:53 GMT -5
I've got some nicotiana sprouts right now. There's a tall variety that comes back every year since I tried a few types a few years ago, too. I think it's night scented? - long white flowers...
It's a nice surprise to see that there are still so many varieties available.
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Post by shadowwalker on Mar 26, 2007 22:17:13 GMT -5
I got some burley, regular green?, red top?, and some "shamanic journey" tobacco from mexico and south america. All seeds. I will be trying to grow them this year.
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Post by Alan on Mar 26, 2007 22:49:09 GMT -5
There are a few different types of burley (several 100 actually) but they are all about the same as far as smoking and ornamental purposes, just disease resistance differences for the most part, though a few have superior leaf shape/type. Be careful with the shamanic tobacco "nicotiana rustica" as it is very potent and can cause nicotine poising if even handled by a non-smoker with a week tolerance to nicotine.
-Alan
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Post by johno on Mar 27, 2007 4:12:20 GMT -5
Sounds like a good one for making insecticide...
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Post by Alan on Mar 27, 2007 9:14:45 GMT -5
Yep, just don't spray it when the bees are around, it's very broad spectrum stuff!
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Post by johno on Mar 27, 2007 21:16:22 GMT -5
Do you make a spray from fresh leaves, or dried only?
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Post by Alan on Mar 27, 2007 23:04:21 GMT -5
Usually it is made from dried, powdered leaves in an aerated tea form, if you don't have any dry you can always make a trip to the tobacco shop!
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Post by johno on Jul 22, 2007 19:58:12 GMT -5
Well, how's the tobacco farming these days?
Alan, did you see the link I posted?
My usual two types have volunteered. One is tall, the other is short - that's about all I know about them, besides they smell good. My brother comes over occasionally and harvests some leaves to dry. He says it's very good.
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Post by Alan on Aug 8, 2007 22:44:12 GMT -5
Johno, the tobacco trials went pretty well, unfortunately I was only able to grow about 1/4 of what was listed due to space and isolation distances, my favorites personally were the orinico varieties, followed by the twist buds, next year I'll be growing a few different types again and making some new crosses, selcting for "multiple purpose"/"multiple process" types, but with particular interest to those which can be used for Perique tobacco which is what I was selecting for with my Robert Johnson White Burley tobacco (which is actually a white burley/Perique cross). I will be processing a bit of it this winter!
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Post by plantsnobin on Mar 15, 2008 13:15:55 GMT -5
Alan, have you ordered from New Hope Seed Company?
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Post by Alan on Mar 16, 2008 17:18:16 GMT -5
Yep, I've ordered from New Hope Seed company quite often, they are a very good company and have the largest inventory of rare open pollinated tobaccos available to home gardeners and farmers, there are some of particular interest to the Burley and Virginia gold growers of Indiana and KY and I encourage anyone with an interest in the history or with seeking out a rare variety of tobacco to check out their site.
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