Hello from India

[yesrepeatno]

Hello all, I've been lurking on this forum for a while trying to learn as much as possible from the knowledgeable people here. I live in South India and tobacco imports are difficult, so I'm looking into growing my own tobacco for pipes and cigars. Unfortunately I can't get seeds for all the varieties of cigar tobacco discussed here, so I might have to come up with some of my own unique blends combining cigar and pipe tobacco. It might take me a couple of months to get the seeds, so until then it is only an intention to grow tobacco on my part. Looking forward to learning a lot more here!

 

[Alpine]

Welcome to FTT.
You can order seeds from www.northwoodseeds.com
they ship worldwide and the owner @skychaser is a forum member.

pier

 

[yesrepeatno]

Thank you, I will check them out.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[yesrepeatno]

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks @ChinaVoodoo
I searched around the forum for things related to India and found your post about Oosikappal and the mythical Bosikappal. You are right both about the origin of the name and the fact that Bosikappal is almost certainly a typo. I'm trying to get my hands on these seeds for my own grows, hopefully I'll have some interesting suruttus (the root word for Cheroot) before long.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Thanks @ChinaVoodoo
I searched around the forum for things related to India and found your post about Oosikappal and the mythical Bosikappal. You are right both about the origin of the name and the fact that Bosikappal is almost certainly a typo. I'm trying to get my hands on these seeds for my own grows, hopefully I'll have some interesting suruttus (the root word for Cheroot) before long.

I look forward to seeing what sort of tobaccos your investigations might turn up.

Have a look at this thread.

India tobacco

This link downloads one of the most thorough PDFs I've seen on the cultivation of tobacco. https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/bitstream/1/2033759/1/712.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj73Krhkd7cAhUKhlQKHYysB4c4FBAWMAV6BAgCEAE&usg=AOvVaw3pn2Ib1ScnnmHd-A_fZaNm...

fairtradetobacco.com

 

[deluxestogie]

Welcome to the forum. The India Dark Air-Cured tobacco that I have been fortunate enough to receive makes a unique contribution to some delicious pipe blends.

One of my blends, which I've named "Jaipur", has not previously been posted to the forum:

• India Dark Air-Cured 31.25% (5 parts per 16)
• Virginia 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
• Oriental 31.25% (5 parts per 16)

Bob

 

[yesrepeatno]

Welcome to the forum. The India Dark Air-Cured tobacco that I have been fortunate enough to receive makes a unique contribution to some delicious pipe blends.

One of my blends, which I've named "Jaipur", has not previously been posted to the forum:

• India Dark Air-Cured 31.25% (5 parts per 16)
• Virginia 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
• Oriental 31.25% (5 parts per 16)

Bob

Thanks Bob, that blend sounds delicious. I hope to be able to recreate it some day.

 

[GIL]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Knucklehead]

Welcome. Thank you for joining us.

 

[Homegrowngoodnes]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Oldfella]

Welcome from me in NZ. Thanks for joining us, I'm sure that you'll enjoy your time here and we'll give you all the information and help you need to successfully grow, cure and enjoy the final product. Don't forget to post pictures of your grow, we love them.
Oldfella

 

[MarcL]

Welcome to Fair Trade Tobacco.