The Tobacco Plant Project

[mrtr33]

This post is to keep track of all resources initially consulted, plus others that other people have to include.

Tobacco Growing and Curing at Home: This New Zealand tobacco grower puts an interesting spin on tobacco growing, in an attempt to show just how easy it is to grow tobacco. He claims to not even smoke tobacco, he just enjoys growing it. Probably only one-third of the page is his actual directions, the rest of the page are reader comments and his responses. While there is a good bit of information in his responses (and the reader posts), you really have to hunt for it.

Growing, Nurturing, and Harvesting - Tobacconist University: Lots of good pictures, lots of information here. I guess the only thing I'm confused about is when they choose to start putting their plants in the ground. While it seems to me like they are growing in the northern hemisphere, I wouldn't dare start any plant here in August. Many of the other resources I have consulted also suggest beginning your seedlings about 30 days before the last frost.

Starting and Growing Tobacco from Seeds: Does a good job of explaining the process of getting tobacco plants started. Also includes a few theories on transplanting as well. This site is also the only one that provides some good methods/theories for fertilizing in the early stages of tobacco growth.

Growing Tobacco in the Home Garden: A short writeup of growing tobacco in the home garden from the University of Florida. It goes into specific pH levels of soil for optimal growth, and ideal outdoor soil growing conditions. But about a quarter of the article talks about curing the tobacco, which is outside of the scope of this project.

Growing Tobacco An Age Old Tradition: A few good tidbits of information, such as using compost instead of soil for the tobacco plants. There are better sites with better information, however.

And finally, with all respects to hex......

There are a couple of forums solely dedicated to growing, curing, and preparing tobacco to smoke. I'm only posting these as a reference for this project, and these communities are interested in cultivation of all tobacco forms, including cigarettes and snuff. I haven't joined either forum yet, simply because I haven't finished searching those forums to see if I can't find the information I'm looking for, because search is my friend.

How to Grow Tobacco: A forum dedicated to growing tobacco, curing it, aging it, and smoking it. Their growing section is pretty good, and it seems to be regularly updated. It even talks about cloning tobacco plant varieties. Could be a good resource of information on down the road, but for right now, my only interests are in getting the plants started and transplanted.

Tobacco Talk: Not as updated, and there isn't as much information. There are a few good nuggets of information that can be found here, and their "getting started" section is much smaller and condensed.