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How to Grow Organic Cigar Tobacco

Nicotiana Tabacum - Solanaceae or NightshadeThis soil sterilization process helps prevent
disease, weeds and even insects and is
I've been working in or around tobacco sincerecommended for organic projects. Prevention
I was a kid. I worked the fields of theis always easier that cure. Take this
tobacco belt as a 12 year old, and in theimportant first step and use only sterilized
years since have had an infatuation with thesoil  to  start  your  seedlings.
many different strains of tobacco which are
available to the home gardener. The beautifulIn the meantime, while it's still bitter
plants produce a medley of varying blossomscold outside, you can be preparing the spot
with different colors, shapes and sizes, andwhere you plan to transplant your tobacco
is quite an attractive, enjoyable plant toseedlings. The soil should be cultivated to
grow.remove old root systems. Apply generous
amounts of compost and manure and work it
Unlike the tobacco grown when I was a kid,deeply into the existing soil. An unpleasant
the varieties that I have focused mychore, but one that is absolutely necessary
attention on are more exotic and requireif you want your tobacco to thrive and
specialized treatment to ensure a "bumperproduce large healthy leaves suitable for
crop". Connoisseur tobacco is grown in muchworking  into  cigars.
smaller quantities than the 300 acre fields I
was accustomed to cultivating and tending asOnce the seedlings are around 8 inches tall,
a child. This is because each plant requiresthey  will  be  ready  for  transplanting.
more TLC from the grower, and one BIG part of
treating, cultivating and caring for theseGrowing the hearty tobacco plant really
wonderful giant plants, is to leave theisn't very difficult. There are topping and
chemical sprayer in the barn. I'll skip thesuckering stages during the second half of
organic lecture, it's pretty selfthe plants life which are necessary to ensure
explanatory. While I realize that smokingthat the nutrients are delivered to where it
anything habitually will eventually causecounts, the main leaves, and not wasted on
health problems, it should go without sayinguseless parts of the plant. Do not use sucker
that the tobacco produced using only naturalsuppressing chemicals! Sucker your plants by
additives is considered the lesser of 2hand. The two main types of sucker control
evils. If you think it would harm a person tochemicals are contact and systemic chemicals.
have prolonged physical exposure to a certainContact chemicals work by burning young
chemical, why in the world would you spraysuckers that are newly formed. Systemic
that same chemical on the vegetation thatchemicals inhibit cell division and can
you're going to consume on a daily basis?either work locally or throughout the entire
Organically cultivated crops may cost more,plant. Maleic hydrazide is the most common
and involve more work, but the reward issystemic chemical used for sucker control.
quite  satisfying.Avoid these chemicals like the plague because
they are certainly not naturally occurring
When to get started is a timing issue thatcompounds. One drop of either of these harsh
has everything to do with where you arechemicals, anywhere near your plants, and
planning to grow your crop. Tobacco can neveryour efforts to produce an organic crop will
be touched by frost, so germinate yourhave been in vain. Spend the time and do it
seedlings according to your regions climate.right, and just break the little suckers off
Seeds can be bought very inexpensivelyas they shoot out of the limb/stalk
online. A quick google of 'tobacco seeds'intersection. Once the top has reached 12
will produce plenty of stores that would loveinches break or cut it off and discard it.
to sell you their seeds. To produce cigarKeep your plants watered but don't over do
quality tobacco, you'll need at least 2it. Tobacco is a moisture sensitive crop, and
different varieties of tobacco. I suggestcan easily drown. Make sure your plants have
HAVANA 503B for your natural wrappers, andsufficient drainage at all times. Standing
SMALL STALK BLACK MAMMOTH for your madurowater around your plants for very long is
wrapped cigars. The wrapper type tobaccoalmost always fatal. Go to your crop after a
produces a thinner, less veiny leaf andhard rain to check that the water is running
should be reserved for outer cigar wrappersoff. If it isn't draining away you'll need to
only. For the filler, the basic choice iscut small trenches to direct the water away.
VIRGINIA GOLD but as a grower you can produce
different varieties and create your very ownHarvesting the tobacco should be done by
blend. And remember, you will need much morehand. Never try to speed up the ripening
filler tobacco than wrapper, so plant yourprocess with pre-harvest chemicals which
seedlings accordingly. AND ALWAYS KEEP YOURcause yellowing of the leaves so more can be
DIFFERENT PLANT TYPES MARKED FORharvested at one time. Plants indicate their
IDENTIFICATION! Keep these ID signs withripeness by beginning to yellow, a signal
their respective plants throughout thethat chlorophyll is beginning to break down.
growing and curing process or you'll not haveEach leaf should be carefully inspected
a clue as to which tobacco is which,before it is removed from the stalk to ensure
especially  after  curing.that it is ready for harvest. If it is
collected too soon, the curing process will
It takes anywhere from 6-12 weeks forbe flawed. The leaves will ripen in stages,
seedlings to mature into plants large enoughfrom the bottom up. Usually 3-4 passes are
to be transplanted into their permanent spotrequired to allow each stage of leaves to
in the garden. This figure averages out tofully ripen. This process of collection is
around 9 weeks, just a touch over 2 months.referred to as "priming", and is used the
Here in the southeastern united states, themajority of the time. Burly tobacco plants
climate dictates that you should germinateare stripped all at once, referred to as
and begin planting your seeds indoors in late"stalk-cut", and left in the field for 2-3
February, early March. If you have a latedays to wilt before being sent to the curing
spring and frost is still threatening you mayfacility.
have to keep the plants indoors longer. I
start all seedlings indoors, in individualCuring the tobacco is an entirely different
cups, with a mild soil blend that is keptsubject. There is plenty of information
moist and warm. Some people sterilize thereadily available online, just do a quick
soil prior to planting seeds either bysearch for "Curing Tobacco".
burning, steaming or chemical applications.



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