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Thinking of a summer long experiment

bilder

bilder

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Been reading the posts about growing your own as well as the few websites out there that cover the subject. I am thinking real heavily about planting some tobacco and try my hand at curing and rolling my own cigars. Would be interesting to see what 20 hours of sunlight each day does to the character of tobacco.

Have any of you guys tried this? Seems like a fun project. The only problem will be my wife wondering what those strange plants are doing in the flower bed. :)
 
Great minds must think alike. I wanted to do it last summer by I ran into the problem of storage and curing. I have not worked it out but when and if I do I would love to give it a try. Here are a couple of sites you probably all ready have but I will pass them onto you for your info. I also saw some sites that market curing ovens to shorten the process but I don't know much about that except that they are out there. Let me know what happens...!! :cool:



[post="Tobacco Growing Kit"]http://www.raingardens.com/seedpage/tobacco.htm[/post]

[post="The Seedman"]http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.htm[/post]
 
That sounds pretty cool. I am going to grow my own hops this year. Maybe I will try a half dozen tobacco plants. Thanks for the links.
 
I did this a few years ago. I had about 20 or so tobacco plants growing in my backyard. They grew really well. I always use seedman.com for my seeds.
 
http://www.seedman.com/wkiln.htm

Here is a link to instructions to make your own tobacco kiln for curing. Looks pretty simple and inexpensive. I saw plans for another one using foam insulation board instead of wood. I am thinking of going with a kiln over air curing due to space limitations and I am not sure how much warm weather I will have for the air cure process. The plants take 65-80 frost free days to mature, although it may be much less with all the daylight we get up here.

Would be cool if it all worked out to produce an Alaskan cigar. :)
 
The next questions are....

How do you blend them?

How do you roll them?


Atleast in Alaska, they are sure to be beetle free (I hope).
 
Blending would require some more research into what tobaccos I will grow for that purpose. Been reading what I can find on the subject and should be able to get by. As for rolling, that could be either an adventure in itself or I could find a small shop in the lower 48 that I could pay to roll the cigars for me if the tobacco is good enough quality to even bother.

Most of what I find online is about growing tobacco for cigarettes and not cigars. There are some resources out there, just not that many. Perhaps a visit to Miami or Tampa is in order this year for some research.....
 
I'd love to be able to track your progress, best of luck and keep us up to date Bilder. :thumbs:
 
There was actually an article recently in a cigar magazine about a guy in New York or something that did this. Think it was Smoke magazine or something. It had Jeremy Piven on the cover pretty decent mag alot more cigar related stuff than CA. if I can find the mag I'll see if they have a site I can link the article from.
 
I wonder how well tobacco would grow in Nova Scotia?
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All them big red barns out by Bradl Eh Intl'l Airport aren't a clue? :p

I look forward to following your progress Bilder...
 
prophetic_joe said:
There was actually an article recently in a cigar magazine about a guy in New York or something that did this. Think it was Smoke magazine or something. It had Jeremy Piven on the cover pretty decent mag alot more cigar related stuff than CA. if I can find the mag I'll see if they have a site I can link the article from.
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Virginia Blue
 
I'm sure there's a way around it, but I recall someone recently mentioning that curing tobacco requires large amounts to be bundled, and the curing process generates heat within the bundle and that is what makes the tobacco so good for cigars.
 
Hey Mr. Greenjeans I think you are going to need a good shade source for your plants.

Good luck and keep up posted on your progress. Let's hope on a bunker crop this year we'll all be rootin for ya!
 
Isn't summer up there around 4 or 5 days long anyways? I can't imagine there's a long growing season. You might want to check into getting some plants started right now indoors, then transferring them to the ground once the frost is out.
 
Good luck! Can I reserve the first box? :laugh:

I wanted to try this, but I backed out. After looking up some of the info, it looks like it needs a lot of dedication. Maybe one day...
 
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