Ok... so this has nothing to do with Pink Floyd.

But if anyone ever tells you to have a cigar....
(they start out like this)

I like cigars :tumble: just a bit confused: is that a tobacco plant? and are you growing it?

probably dumb questions lol

looks like flew cured variety

burly maybe? definitely east variety

Havana strain...

One day people were complaining about the high cost of tobacco, so I suggested they grow their own. They looked at me like I was nuts... so I spent the two bucks for a pack of seeds. Funny thing is... I don't smoke tobacco :bouncing:

:wow: right on

my father was a tobacco seed "specialist" one of the few certified seed growers back in the day. an ounce of seed around $200. which could seed 1/4 acre and plant about 40 acres. gold that sprang from the soil. made chaingang work feel like a holiday.


and look at me now ...how does one fill that kind of void?

come in here dear boy--have a cigar,youre gonna go far--youre gonna fly high,youre never gonna die--youre gonna make it if you try--they're gonna love you..........

Good song. Great album.
Off-topic: Interesting footnote, do you know who actually sung that song? It was not Roger Waters, the normal singer for Pink Floyd, as he was sick at the time of that recording... If you listen closely, you will notice that the voice is every so slightly different...

roy harper was recording an album about the same time as pink floyd and they asked him to do the vocals on have a cigar--david gilmour then returned the favor,appearing on harpers next album "HQ".........

ive got some tobacco going as well, but the problem is, if you want to smoke it, it is virtually impossible. The tobacco has a crazy curing ritual that the normal man cant match. Perfect conditions (humidity & temp)for like 3 years comes to mind. If you dont the plant is extremely harsh. I have mine planted 'cuz i think the flowers are way cool. I just have to keep them away from my peppers... tobacco and pepers dont mesh...

moisture content on the stalk

removed when "ripe" a redneck qualified condition.

hang leaf stem up ...cured 6-10 weeks depending on what you want
air or flew cured is a slow control oxidation process

ahhh.. interacting with a plant is man's nature

The other strain I have growing is called "Mountain" . The information on the seed website said it was popular with the Navajo indians. It has a very high nicotine content and can be used as a natural insecticide base. Makes a 3 foot tall hedge.

That... and it has cool green and yellow flowers. No idea if people growing them to smoke let them flower or pluck em before that, but from the pictures I've seen, the flowers are well worth the effort to grow them.

Here's the mountain strain at six weeks after sprouting///

put that thing in the ground!

after it flowers and drops

top it, let the seed pods dry out, and you got more.... F1

seed pods in the base of the flower


white/ yellow /green flowers in the NC varieties we developed.

some varieties are enormous leaves the size of king size pillows with the seed head 6-8 feet tall.

after a day of harvesting your arms would be black, covered with tar, sometimes the nicotine blood levels would be so high the newbies would vomit from the day long buzz

day care for kids has changed since i was a child

Good to know. I've got some in the ground, and others in my hydro experiment.

Even worse.... after searching the web, the combination of beer and nicotine: Nicoshot

STUTTGART, Germany, Nautilus GmbH Laboratoriumsbedarf announced today the recent European launch of NicoShot?, the world's first smoking-cessation beer containing a shot of natural nicotine, about what you would get in a couple of regular filtered cigarettes. NicoShot is brewed to the German Purity Law of 1516 and contains 3 milligrams of naturally derived nicotine alkaloids, 63 calories and 4.5 carbohydrates, with 6.3% alcohol by volume per 250 ml shot can. The cutting-edge nicotine beer is fire brewed separately and a standardized herbal extract of natural tobacco leaf (Nicotiana tabacum L.) of the Solanaceae nightshade family is added at the end of the natural brewing process.

Now have a couple five to six foot plants hanging upside down in the screen'd porch. Everyone who has smoked any of it has said it is very mild...

Will have to plant some more next spring

cool , high moisture content keeps it mild and nicotine high.

too dry not so good

a nicotine reduction step is to leave it on the stalk for curing but the moisture in the stalk makes predictable curing difficult & impractical and hard to control out come.

This thread reminds me of the old days and reading "High Times".

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Originally posted by PHREERIDER ahhh.. interacting with a plant is man's nature

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Originally posted by bigkid This thread reminds me of the old days and reading "High Times".

Lol... cept these were grown outside, in the open, under sunlight where the whole world could see them

I just find it funny when people say you can't grow your own tobacco or that it's illegal to do so. Up to 1/10th of an acre is allowed here in Texas.

Funny the things people do with your "cigarettes" when given away. One lady kept hers for a month, pulling it out on different people and saying she had a rough day and needed something to relax...

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Originally posted by Taper123 Quote: Originally posted by bigkid This thread reminds me of the old days and reading "High Times". Lol... cept these were grown outside, in the open, under sunlight where the whole world could see them :-)

You would be surprised at the places that flower tops were grown, let alone the fields....

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Originally posted by bigkid This thread reminds me of the old days and reading "High Times".

I was thinkin the same thing:roll: