Hello everyone!
First a little background.
About 10 years ago I did a bit of impulse buying and mail ordered some tobacco seeds, thinking it would be cool to roll some cigars from home grown tobacco leaves. I remembered watching a movie in which Jimmy Stewart rolled a cigar and smoked it. Even though that was back in the 60's, it left a strong impression.
Anyway, I managed to grow the tobacco plants and got good sized leaves. But being totally ignorant of the processing required to get smokable tobacco out of the green leaves, I ended up tossing the leaves I grew. Over the years I did some research and learned to cure the tobacco leaves but was never able to ferment them. I had read about building a pile but I knew I would never grow enough from my back yard to do that. A couple years ago I found out about building kilns but decided not to take that approach because it uses power. So I gave up.
I stumbled onto this forum recently and have been reading some of the postings. I read the thread on fermenting tobacco without a kiln.
I think I know what I did wrong - lack of moisture control. Now I am all excited to give it another try, especially after I have read about the different tobacco varieties.
I would like to take advantage of the long growing season here in Los Angeles and would like to start a crop now. So if anyone still has some left over seeds that he can send me, I would really appreciate it. I don't need a lot of seeds. I only have room for 3-4 varieties of may be 10 plants each.
Before I close, let me say thank you - first for the wonderful information you guys provided here in this forum, second for whatever seeds that you might send me.
First a little background.
About 10 years ago I did a bit of impulse buying and mail ordered some tobacco seeds, thinking it would be cool to roll some cigars from home grown tobacco leaves. I remembered watching a movie in which Jimmy Stewart rolled a cigar and smoked it. Even though that was back in the 60's, it left a strong impression.
Anyway, I managed to grow the tobacco plants and got good sized leaves. But being totally ignorant of the processing required to get smokable tobacco out of the green leaves, I ended up tossing the leaves I grew. Over the years I did some research and learned to cure the tobacco leaves but was never able to ferment them. I had read about building a pile but I knew I would never grow enough from my back yard to do that. A couple years ago I found out about building kilns but decided not to take that approach because it uses power. So I gave up.
I stumbled onto this forum recently and have been reading some of the postings. I read the thread on fermenting tobacco without a kiln.
I think I know what I did wrong - lack of moisture control. Now I am all excited to give it another try, especially after I have read about the different tobacco varieties.
I would like to take advantage of the long growing season here in Los Angeles and would like to start a crop now. So if anyone still has some left over seeds that he can send me, I would really appreciate it. I don't need a lot of seeds. I only have room for 3-4 varieties of may be 10 plants each.
Before I close, let me say thank you - first for the wonderful information you guys provided here in this forum, second for whatever seeds that you might send me.
