Newbie to your site, saying hello

[ashauler]

Well, I do grow own food, flowers, and medicines, but tobacco is quite elusive to me at the moment. Being up past the 45th parallel makes growing tobacco nearly impossible from what I've been told. Plus, our wineries around my home use Botrytis on their grapes to raise the brix level for late-harvest batches and Ice Wines, which can and do infect leafy plants quite badly.

We are hoping for a more sunny local to move to in the near future, but Oregon is home for the moment. When I first moved here I was told, "if you ever get on the TriMax (public transit), and don't see a crazy person.....you ARE the crazy person". Still holds very true.

Thanks for the warm welcome ya'll!

Well, you probably know more than I do, but I'm afraid you've been given incorrect information. Tobacco can most certainly be grown in your location.

[DailyTobacconist]

Well, sounds like I have a new project on the horizon. ;)


We are planning a move to Ft. Collins, Colorado sometime later this year/beginning of next and will have much more land that we currently have available.

[ashauler]

Well, sounds like I have a new project on the horizon. ;)


We are planning a move to Ft. Collins, Colorado sometime later this year/beginning of next and will have much more land that we currently have available.

Cool....but, ya know, you can grow tobacco in a 5 gallon bucket. Anyway, welcome to the board.

[VancouverMark]

Welcome from just north of the 49th!


Mark

[mrtr33]

Cool....but, ya know, you can grow tobacco in a 5 gallon bucket. Anyway, welcome to the board.

I did. And we're on the east side (read windy) side of Bend. First try last summer, both plants were about 4 feet in height.

[JiveTurkey]

Welcome from Corvallis, OR. You must be in the Portland area?

[DailyTobacconist]

Yes, Beaverton to be exact.

[FightingFish]

Welcome.
On the topic of growing your own: I would be interested in how average rainfall affects tobacco growth. I'll have to spends some time on the ole' Google.