Do You Or Anyone You Know Grow Tobacco?

[Jahulaye]

It appears to be easy but just wanted to ask growers of any tips or tricks?

Can it be grown indoors?

I haven’t a garden so can it be grown in a small space?

Best places for seeds,

also what is the yield in weight and do the plants leaves grow back after harvest?

Haven’t watched the videos on YouTube fully but will later.

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=growing%20tobacco&sm=1

[woofgang]

1 yes
2 no
3 no
4 google
5a not much 5b no

[woofgang]

http://www.uktobaccoseeds.co.uk/tobacco-seed-info.html
and also
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tobacco-products-duty-personal-use-of-the-grower-tp7a

I did it for my Dad many many years ago (around 50years) he was grateful for the thought but said it was disgusting

[Buenchico]

Useful links here:
http://www.tobaccoseed.co.uk/Growing_Tobacco.html

Remember that, even if you grow tobacco yourself, you still have to pay Tobacco Products Duty on it. See Section 2.10 here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/excise-notice-476-tobacco-products-duty/excise-notice-476-tobacco-products-duty

[Jahulaye]

Thanks Wolfgang, I’ll guess that the plants not growing the leaves back after harvest isn’t a problem as each pod contains hundreds of seeds.

Do you have any tips on drying, curing? If you don’t then don’t worry as there’s a wealth of vids on yt as I said.
Also what’s the weight of a full harvest of a box of plants from one seed pud approx?

[Buenchico]

^^^ Ooh!

Double snap!!
(Well nearly, anyway!)

[Jahulaye]

Pod not pud, lol. Thanx for links wood and buen,will look now before replying again.

[woofgang]

you had better not do what I did as my dad was not complimentary about it. I have no idea about yield either sorry....but most plants are mostly made of water and the curing process removes much of the water so I don't think you'd get much by weight off a plant....TBH it sounds like a load of effort to go to to poison yourself.

[Jahulaye]

Are those green plant leaves the tobacco? Looks completely different from the end product.

I wonder if you could just roll the green leaf tightly into a cigar,tie then dry it, cure it (whatever that means and smoke it?

[Jahulaye]

Woof, if I can get it right thesewould make great prezzies! Homemade cigars, what’s not to love.

[woofgang]

no you can't just roll the leaves dry them and smoke them.....well you can....if you like to barf a lot, burn your throat, and generally wish you hadn't done it.

[Jahulaye]

I haven’t researched it properly yet woof and will before growing so that I don’t kill anyone with nicotine poisoning.

Is this what curing and drying does? Weakens the nicotine?

[woofgang]

It matures the leaf and the chemicals in it and removes most of the water so that the tobacco burns and doesn't smoulder. I believe that some cigar cigarillo type things also have additives sprayed on them to assist the burn