Growing Tobacco in the Home Garden

[mrtr33]

I would love to try, but where we live now, in the high desert of central Oregon, the growing season is very short. I would even have the blessing of my better half, as she's the one that got me interested in this hobby in the first place. But the conditions don't allow it here.

I've always wondered about the tobacco blending process, and what that looks like. I've read that several blends are first created, then sampled, before a new line of cigar is distributed and sold, but what I don't know are what kinds of tobacco make for better fillers, binders, and wrappers? I'm assuming there has already been a good bit of research done on this topic, but just don't know where to look.

Baking bread and making cheese, there are "bibles" of those hobbies well known to aficionados of every nuance associated with their respective subject, but I am not aware of any in the cigar world.......

[pub spears]

I grew up in a small town in the foothills of NC. There were ALOT of tobacco farms. One of the big old white houses on Main St. had 2 huge plants on either side of the front walk every summer. Yes I think we knew it was tobacco country. We even had a factory. I smoked alot of free Luckies and Tareytons when I was a kid. We had a Miller cannery too.

[BigMacFU]

Hex, talk to diesel/chris, he's doing an experiment with it over on CPass right now. BTW, good to see you're alive