How to Grow Tobacco

Hello all! Nice place you have here.
I just got into the ryo thing a couple weeks ago due mostly to being unemployed since April. But hey the smokes are better already and I'm making them for around a buck a pack.
I didn't even know you were allowed to grow for your own consumption until I found this place, and I'm in NC. Of course it's probably to late to start for this year. Just my luck. I grew Gladiolus all over the back yard, they were pretty but I don't think they would smoke well. They'll probably have tobacco totally outlawed by next year.

Hi -

Welcome to the forum!

It sure is too late for you for this year, but plan on growing a crop this coming spring. My cost for GYO cigs is about 35 cents a pack because I buy tubes for my injector at around 1-1/2 cents each. I know that's too much to pay, but I'm lazy and get them at the local tobacco shop. Gives me a reason to stop in there anyway. I also don't have all the additive in my smoke.

Check out the Tobacco Laws and Taxes here...

http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=28

...for current legal moves by our wonderful tobacco tax punishment loving government gangsters.

Bob

Howdy Pistolero:
Not too late to get started on next year, get your equipment ready, plan your planting area, etc. All that info is here on the forum listed in the index page.
If you're a trash collector and live in a city like I am, don't buy transplant cups and trays, they are all over the trash in spring and fall, ditto for garage storage racks for starting your plants! You may have to buy floresent light fixtures and tubes, but that's it. If you go with a float bed system, lumber is free at the curb, as is pcv pipe at construction sites (ask first), then just buy the plastic cover. You get the idea, scrounge and save! That's what this GYO is all about after all!
Good luck and welcome to the forum.
Neal