How to Grow and Process Tobacco
Locate a nursery or person who grows tobacco plants from seed., Put your starter plants in cups with some good potting soil and leave them in the sun for a week or two, watering them daily/as needed until they have accepted their new environment...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Locate a nursery or person who grows tobacco plants from seed.
You could grow them from seed yourself, but in all honesty, the tobacco seeds are almost microscopic and they are difficult to germinate successfully.
Get some starter plants off eBay or something. -
Step 2: Put your starter plants in cups with some good potting soil and leave them in the sun for a week or two
,, Place the plants in each row no less than two feet apart. , You may need to fertilize, but keep the chemicals to a minimum. , The flower is where seeds are produced and leaving the flower on the plant will stunt it's growth.
You must remove the flower.
After about four months of growing, your plants should be mature. , You can stake them upside down in a traditional fashion and leave them to dry like that in the sun for a few days, but I did not.
I washed mine and hung them upside down in my garage where it was about 80 degrees.
I left them hanging for about two months until they turned golden brown. , The top leaves are supposedly the sweetest with the lower leaves being harsher.
I discard the lowest row of leaves, but I believe this to be personal preference. , The leaves will be flaked once processed.
The tobacco may or may not smell like the tobacco you are accustomed to buying from the store, but it is still tobacco and it smokes great. , You can expect to get about one half of a coffee container per plant. -
Step 3: watering them daily/as needed until they have accepted their new environment.
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Step 4: Till your garden.
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Step 5: Plant the tobacco plants in rows where the rows are three feet apart.
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Step 6: Water and maybe use some Miracle Grow and keep an eye on them as they take hold and grow.
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Step 7: When the flower develops on the top of the plant
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Step 8: you need to cut it off.
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Step 9: Cut them down.
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Step 10: Be as selective as you like as to which leaves to pull from the plants.
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Step 11: Once you've picked all of the dried leaves you wish to harvest
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Step 12: simply run them through a food processor.
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Step 13: You can store your tobacco in leftover three pound coffee containers.
Detailed Guide
You could grow them from seed yourself, but in all honesty, the tobacco seeds are almost microscopic and they are difficult to germinate successfully.
Get some starter plants off eBay or something.
,, Place the plants in each row no less than two feet apart. , You may need to fertilize, but keep the chemicals to a minimum. , The flower is where seeds are produced and leaving the flower on the plant will stunt it's growth.
You must remove the flower.
After about four months of growing, your plants should be mature. , You can stake them upside down in a traditional fashion and leave them to dry like that in the sun for a few days, but I did not.
I washed mine and hung them upside down in my garage where it was about 80 degrees.
I left them hanging for about two months until they turned golden brown. , The top leaves are supposedly the sweetest with the lower leaves being harsher.
I discard the lowest row of leaves, but I believe this to be personal preference. , The leaves will be flaked once processed.
The tobacco may or may not smell like the tobacco you are accustomed to buying from the store, but it is still tobacco and it smokes great. , You can expect to get about one half of a coffee container per plant.
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