How to Grow Tobacco

Hey all,

I'm looking forward to making some cigars down the line, and have bought various seeds on ebay so far.

So far I've bought a Havana of some kind, and these two which I just won last night. The Havana is already germed and 3-4 plants have popped so far. I've got another 20 or so that I'm hoping will pop so I can weed out the best after a few weeks.

Anyway, here are the links to the ones I won last night.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWNX:IT
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWNX:IT

Are either of these going to be good for cigar making?

Thanks for the help!

welcome aboard!
a new grower myself, but lots of helpful people here
just below your post you will find several posts listing the uses of many of the tobacco strains...

SCYANKEE has this one...
http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1857

i added this...
http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3309

and another of heirloom (original strains)...
http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3317

as to the ones you have, this is what is listed for them...
ORIGINAL WILD TOBACCO (Rustica) cig/pipe/cigar

A very strong tobacco compared to commercial types, used by American Indians in ceremonies and smoking purposes. A fast grower and decorative plant.

More potent than other tobaccos, with more nicotine, so be very careful with this one. It is used for extracting nicotine sulfate, which makes a good insecticide.

and although this is Con broadleaf, it should apply pretty well to all broadleaf strains...
CONNECTICUT BROADLEAF cig/pipe/cigar

A very old cigar type variety dating back to the 1880, said to have originally been developed from the Maryland Broadleaf.

Connecticut Broadleaf has very large leaves making it ideal for cigar binders, wrappers and as a filler.
Connecticut Shade, green stemmed, what a plant, 'Jack and the beanstalk', he should have climbed this one, it can get to fifteen foot if allowed. This is your cigar wrapper and binder if you so wish, for me a wrapper. In partial sunlight say on the side of a house, my seeds were being picked from an up stairs window (nor by me I should add). Because the plants stretched out, so was the leaf, making ideal thin wrapper leaf. Now those plants grown in the open ground were oozing flavour but the plants made around two meters plus, heavier and more suitable for binders

of course just about any havana should be good for cigars

Oh wow, very good response.

Thank you so much for all that information. The graph in the first post will really help me look for tobacco!

So it looks like the Havana and Rustica I have will be good for cigars. Do you think it might taste good to mix the broadleaf in with my other tobacco in the cigar/cigarillo's I roll?

Chances are I'll do this anyway just to try it out, but of course I'm still just getting started in smoking tobacco, so I still have no clue what I like

Hi --

This is the first time I've heard of rustica being used in cigars. I've heard of it being used as a small percentage of a blend to boost the nicotine or to add flavor. Be careful with this rustica, it is very very strong. Start with 5% of it as part of a blend and slowly work up to what you can tolerate. I've been told by poeple who tried smoking rustica straight that it nearly knocked them out withthe nicotine strength. It is usually called 5 times the nicotine strength of domestic tobacco.

Bob

Oh wow.

Thanks Bob for sharing that info. I had no idea!

Any tobacco can be used for making cigars...a lot of tobacco will make awful cigars, but non the less.

The seller is definitely not a member because his planting instructions are horribly wrong.

I've never heard of "Walker's" Broad leaf, but of the 4 registered varieties of "Broad leaf", one is a cigar wrapper, one is a cigar binder, one is a Maryland and one is not described.

Howdy Don,

I don't anything more than Seedman.com sell's Walker's Broadleaf and it is listed under the cigarette category.
Hope this helps:
http://howtogrowtobacco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1857