Growing me some chewing tobaccky this year.

Interesting!! Keep us updated.

Good deal Fur. Wont be no taxes on that. I would encourage anyone who chooses to use tobacco to try growing their own.

Did you plant Levi Garrett or Red Man seeds? 😃

Serious question. Where does one buy tobacco seeds from? And how do you cure it?

I bought a 3 variety sampler pack on Etsy of all places. All 3 varieties are air cure. There are some fire cure varieties out there. A guy gave me some tobacco seed late winter and I misplaced it. I was too embarrassed to ask him for more, so I bought some.




Long cut Copenhagen of course.

I failed at planting tobacco seed. It seemed harder to get it started than I thought it would be.

If any of you want to try growing some and want to drive to Albertville let me know ASAP and I’ll save you some plants. I’m going to have to transplant them to a larger container. I likely have 500 plants.

^^sell to paintrock

Nah, I won’t sell him any but I’ll give him some if he wants some.

I appreciate it. I’ve already got some more seeds ordered and going to try the planting in smaller pods then transplanting this time.

I'll tell you what I did because it worked so well. A guy told me to do part of this then the instructions with the seeds told me more. I put the seed starting potting soil in that container and thoroughly wet it. Wet, wet. I packed it down flat by hand. I folded a sheet of paper in half and put what I thought was 30-50 seeds in the fold, then tapped them out trying to scatter them on the paper. I then completely wrapped the containers with Saran Wrap. I think every seed I planted came up. I thought I planted 50 and I think there's 500 in the container now. I just separated some out into a larger container.

Mater now size of tennis ball

Slow for me this year. Planted late.

Update.... Tobacco takes a BUTT LOAD of N to grow. Mine started turning yellow. Reached out to a guy in KY that's uncle is a tobacco farmer. He puts 500 lbs of N per acre. What I didn't get out of the conversation, if that's 500 lbs of 34% or 500 pounds of N. Surely it's 500 lbs of 34%

I got bored and looked at some info from NC State, they recommend 80 units of N but the article did say that sulfur deficiency could mimic N deficiency, might side dress with some AMS? As far as the rates go if the grower was putting out 500lbs of trip 13 that would be 65 lbs of actual N-P-K which would line up with NC States recs.

He said his uncle uses AMS, so I’m guessing he’s using 500lbs of AMS per acre. That’s just an insane amount. I bought some AMS yesterday. He said his uncle also Potassium Sulfate which I had never heard of. I might end up having to put some straight up Sulfur around it.

We stopped in Tennessee one time to let our dogs out of the box. As usual we found a place off the interstate with a dirt road leading to a barn. Smoke was coming out of the barn and I thought it was on fire. Owner showed up checking on it. Turns out he was curing his tobacco with the smoke.

How’s the tobacco growing? Post up some pics!

Some of it looks good, some looks horrible. Not only do tomatoes get Beet Curly Top Virus, tobacco does too.

The good:

The Bad and the Ugly

Is it the chewing kind Fur?

Yessir.