Louisiana growers?
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Welcome oldbear,
yep, will you will be the one?
yep, will you will be the one?
leverhead
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Welcome! There might be some lurkers out there, but I don't know of any. Being the first on the block probably isn't too much harder.
NRustica
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Not "in" Louisiana but "of" New Orleans.
I thought a guy from LA joined a couple of weeks back. I can't think of his name right now.
Knucks that was me (LA= lower Alabama), but I been around a while 
Aaron
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Welcome to the forum Oldbear! I think the member these guys are trying to think of is Tryals15
jekylnz
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Welcome oldbear...you being one of the only members in your area. .can pave the way for all that come after. .no pressure. Hahaa..you'll be right. .baccy grows in the hottest and coldest regions all around the world. .it will grow in loisiana for sure. ..I bet a heap has been grown there before over the centuries..l
That's the one. Thanks Aaron.
Rickey60
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Welcome oldbear!
I live in southern California, but visited the St. James Parish area today. There are several growers and two processors in this area. There is only one type of tobacco (perique) that grows here; any other strain quickly selects and converts to perique over several generations. Most or all of the tobacco is used in making perique. The tobacco is still produced in the same manner that it has been for hundreds of years; by pressure in 500 pound barrels. Most is sold to American Spirit, but the blenders buy a good chunk.
Apparently most of the rest of Louisiana is too warm and humid for good tobacco production.
Oldbear
Apparently most of the rest of Louisiana is too warm and humid for good tobacco production.
Oldbear
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tryals15
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Hey! That's me! I am in Slidell. This is my first try at growing, and so far, so good!
I was interested in visiting growers in my home-town area and curious as to if there were any.
What I found was that there is little tobacco grown in southern Louisiana except for the "perique" growers in St. James Parish.
I did visit the perique factory over Mardi Gras and met with a couple of farmers, it was an interesting experience (the perique facility and Mardi Gras)!
Apparently Louisiana is a bit too hot and humid for good tobacco growing. Any strain of tobacco started there supposedly self selects and converts to something like the native perique. This may have something to do with the local crop pests and growing conditions, or may be just folklore or it may be simply cross pollination.
Good luck with your crop!
Oldbear
i would love to visit la. ive drove thru it a lot of times. but. i wanna be a tourist...
it's a shame too. im in north florida... new orleans aint that far away..
i wanna hit mardi-gras so bad....
i mean look at the equation,???? 1 set of beads. will get you a boob shot...
sounds like my kind of women... '' proablly why they call it the BIG-EASY''
it's a shame too. im in north florida... new orleans aint that far away..
i wanna hit mardi-gras so bad....
i mean look at the equation,???? 1 set of beads. will get you a boob shot...
sounds like my kind of women... '' proablly why they call it the BIG-EASY''
I would say it's folklore derived from past centuries of a complete ignorance of pollination control. Mendel did not discover the rules of genetics until the late 19th century, and his work was promptly forgotten until the early 20th century. So all the old tobacco books (and many old tobacco growers) expound on the tendency of tobacco to "revert" to a native type within a few years.
If you begin with known, pure varietal seed, and save seed only from adequately bagged plants, they maintain their varietal character. (I might add that the Perique folks are more guilty than most of propagating tobacco myth.)
Bob
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