Random Jabber Jibber thread

[PopeCrisco]

Here's tobacco just starting to flower - about a week behind due to wonky weather.

It produces between 2 800 and 3 500 pounds per acre and is worth less than $3/lb. One pound makes about 8 cartons of cigarettes. It's a great tax revenue source and is heavily regulated, with every pound accounted for, even floor sweepings. The lower 3 leaves are picked first and kiln dried for about a week. The top leaves are picked last. There is less nicotine in the lower leaves and they also weigh the least.

I picked it for 5 years, saved enough to go to college and started using my head instead of my back. The tar buildup on my hands was saved one year and made a hash ball the size of a baseball - damn was it gross when set ablaze.

I'm growing 3 plants for seeds and will use the leaves for insect spray. Nicotine is a strong neurotoxin.

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Funny story (to me)
When I was in college I was into cigars, and made the label for a particular cigar brand I liked, that was an image of the tobacco flower, the desktop background of our family PC.
My father, a long time cig smoker, asked me why I put a cannabis flower as the background image. Which is funny, since I did not smoke cannabis at the time, and had no means to acquire cannabis.

Just goes to show how a lot of us do not know the things we consume outside of how they are packaged and sold to us.