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Hi - Really nice looking crop! What variety(s) are they? Bob

Hi -- I have my flytraps in the fridge crisper section now for winter dormancy except for 4 plants which are blooming. i've started them from seed before and I saved out 4 of the best looking flytraps of the 120 I originally bought for breeding. I have never seen a fungus gnat trigger a...

Hi -- It's nearly time to plant for much of the lower US so I thought this might be timely information. If you don't know where to get 1/6th ounce of tobacco seed, send me a private message and I will give you sources. I just talked to someone in Kentucky who used to use this method for...

Hi -- True Stoner, it's never too late to start smoking tobacco again. You know you like it. You know you want it. G'wan, start smoking tobacco again, you won't be sorry! Bob

Hi -- Tobacco leaves mature over time and the small plants have little or none of the alkaloids or nicotine in the leaves that appear later in the maturity of the plants. Until the plants mature, the leaves are thin and burn really fast. In fact, the bottom several leaves, called "dirt...

Hi -- What cute lil babies! We plant our tobacco in mid-February and we're just getting ramped up to order the tomato and pepper seeds. We're planting 4000 of those and about 2000 tobacco plants this year. Bob

Hi - I have seeds for a burley that yields 27 leaves and goes over 10 feet tall. 3-1/2 foot long leaves. Needless to say, you have to space them out a lot wider than the average tobacco plant. BTW, it's about 6-7 weeks now before you need to plant your tobacco seeds indoors, so get your...

I sell plants out of my greenhouse and I have about 90 flytraps left after last season. I have lots of fungus gnats too. Curiously, the flytraps don't eat many of them. Mostly they eat mosquitos, flies, beetles and the occasional snail. i think the gnats are too small to trip the trigger on the...

Hi -- Those gnats are probably fungus gnats. The larva live in moist soils in your pots. A really good control is bT, var. israelis (check the spelling). This is a bacteria that kills the larva and it really works. You can find it in a product called Mosquitto Dunks at most Home Depots...

Hi -- This is going to be a quick one. Harvesting tobacco isn't rocket science. There are basically two methods -- whole stalk harvesting and priming. Whole stalk harvesting is typically done 3-4 weeks after a percentage of the plants in the field have broken buds. Almost all varieties of...

Hi - As a rule of thumb, we start tobacco 5-6 weeks before our last average freeze. You will want to use a 5-1/2 month total time to harvest from planting the seed as an average. There are early varieties that will take as little as 4 months total which I expect to have for sale soon. The...

Hi -- I thought I'd talk a little about how to grow the tobacco outside in a field now. I've already talked about starting the seeds indoors 6-7 weeks before your first average frost, but what do you need to do in the field to prepare to plant and what about during the growing season...

Hi -- I don't know where you are located, but in most parts of the US it's way too early to plant tobacco. You need to plant the seeds 5-6 weeks before your last average frost. Trying to hold over plants in pots too small inside to plant out in Spring now may result in them bolting to flower...

Hi, Sure, you can start tobacco tip cuttings from the top or suckers (branches) and you can grow it indoors. But when you consider that a 7 foot tall plant that takes up 6 sq. ft. of floor space only yields about 3 oz. of dried product, and add up the cost of running full sun quality lights...

Hi -- I have friends who grow tobacco in the Nevada and Arizona deserts. I have several friends who grow tobacco in California where it's so dry they are screaming for rain. I grow tobacco in N. Texas which isn't known for being humid. Tobacco is grown in Turkey, all over the Mid East and...

Hi -- I read all the posts here and I really have been neglecting this thread. Great responses and questions from y'all, though! I will talk about how to start the seeds for a bit. None of this is set in concrete, but this method works for me. If I forgot anything major or minor, let me...

Hi -- For some reason, I didn't get e-mail notifying me of the replies here until this last one today. I've been really busy shipping out seeds and pounds of "decorative" tobacco for "novelty use only". I'll see if I can answer some questions now. Thanks for posting "Growing Tobacco An...

Hi - I hate to keep repeating myself, but you don't have to wait a year for good tobacco smoke, mine is great now without further processing after 3 months of aging. And if you put the additives in it (which as I said already you can buy online), then you don't even have to wait that long...

Hi -- I will try to answer all your questions. "where do u order ur plants from? no mention of that. i was under the impression that it wasnt legal to "grow ur own" tobacco!?!" Tobacco is fairly easily started from seed indoors 6-7 weeks before your last average frost date, just like...

Hi -- I started this thread to help people grow their own tobacco at home and stop paying the outrageous taxes that make it so expensive. I was posting on the older thread called "anyone grow tobacco" or something like that, but it looks like it pretty much petered out. I will start with...