Hi from Denmark!

[BackToNature]

Hi all nice people,

I want to intruduce myself. Like the title says im from Denmark and english is not my native language, so sorry for the grammatical errors and misspelling.

I'm a passionate pipe collector and smoker. The plan is to plant tobacco the next season. The rest of this season I will prepare the the garden and collect knowledge about growing tobacco. Support and ideas are welcome
As far as i know there are no comercial tobacco farmers her in Denmark but there has been during the 2. world war.
So I think that maybe it will be a bit of a challenge to grow some quality tobacco plant with the climate here.

BTN

 

[deluxestogie]

Welcome to the forum, BTN. I'm aware of a number of hobby growers in Denmark, so you should be able to grow some quality leaf. Starting to read and plan for it in the prior year is a wise approach. You'll need to start your seed two months before your last frost date, so you can put out transplants as early as possible in the season.

If you provide a description of the sort of pipe tobacco that you enjoy, then members of the forum may be able to advise you on suitable varieties to select. I have smoked a pipes and cigars for the past 40 years, and have a fair notion of the tobacco constituents of each. I'm not so knowledgeable about the added flavorings of American or Danish aromatic pipe tobaccos, though others here are.

http://www.tabakanbau.de/de/sitemap.php is a German site that offers a wide selection of seed varieties. You should find the German language site a little easier to read than my experience with it. Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch, und keine dänischen überhaupt.

Bob

 

[Jack in NB]

Hello BTN -

Your climate is considerably milder than mine here in eastern Canada, and I'm getting 75-100 g of dried shredded tobacco per plant for my pipe. If you have good garden soil to work with, you should do better than that.

If your soil isn't good (like mine when I started), in the fall I added 2-3 shovelsfull of compost and a handful of lime (low pH here) to each of the holes where the plants would be. That settled in over winter, and worked well.

My plants are spaced about 80 cm apart. Second row is 60 cm over, with plants placed between those in the first row. 1 m walkway, then 2 more rows.

The most tasty variety for me was Monte Calme Brun, but lost my seed and haven't gotten more yet. So I have a blend of an unknown burley which looks much like TN90, plus another unknown large leaf heavy yielder that looks like Havana 142. I got seed from GRIN for the TN90 and Hav142 this year, so will be able to compare tastes in late winter after processing. My mix is a satisfactory smoke, but the Brun had a nutty flavour I would like to have.

It was a challenge to get the texture similar to the commercial products, but have finally got that process down now. There are details of that in the "How to Grow Tobacco" site photo gallery, under my name on page 2 of the user galleries.

Borkum Riff Whisky was my preferred commercial brand. It's a product of Denmark, so you may indeed have some commercial growers around.

Good luck.

Jack

 

[BackToNature]

Thanks for the reply.

Jack>> Borkum Riff Whiskey may indeed be a danish brand but i can assure you that the tobacco used in this mixture was grown around the world but not here in DK. We have a lot of wonderful danish made tobacco blends but the thing is the company's import their tobacco leafs and then process them here.

Bob>> Thanks for the link. But let me tell you my German is even worse than my English Anyway I bookmarked the site, sure it will come in handy later on..

So i think i will start a new tread somewhere in this forum about the which seeds, soil etc..

BTN