I am looking for someone with a vigorous strain of tobacco who would like to trade seeds. I would like to grow them here for a charity plant sale in the end of May. I have heirloom tomato seed, some interesting perennials, etc.
I tried some tobacco one year but it seemed sulky. I am hoping that their are some quick growing varieties.
Barbara B.C. Canada
smokin' tobacco
I have flowering tobaco if that will help. 2 trades that you can have for sase.
Barbara.....really? I have no idea where to get the seeds, unless you can find them on line. It would be interesting to see if they would do well, but if your serious about tomatoes, ya don't want any tobacco plants.
"eyes"
Okay, -I'll bite. Why not? Is there something about tomatoes and tobacco? I thought they were the new world's gift to the world?
Seriously, I just want some plain old cigarette (or whatever) tobacco seeds to grow as a conversation piece.
Barbara
Baa
Feb 11, 2002
Try these two links, there may be regulations to the cultivation of tobacco plants for sale, so the 2nd site may give you an idea of where to get important info on that.
http://www.tobaccoseed.co.uk/mainbottom.htm
http://www.batnet.com/rwc-seed/tobacco.html
This message was edited Monday, Feb 11th 1:27 PM
Isn't Mosaic virus something that attacks tomato plants and is carried by tobacco plants? I vaguely remember reading something about it.
I believe even in the Carolinas where the tobacco is grown for a crop it has to be set in the ground as a transplant. I watched a documentary on TV once. So you would need a very warm greenhouse or a long growing season. It would be a lot cheaper if the stuff could be grown at home.
Yep, Tobacco Mosiac Virus......if you're a smoker, they say you need to wash your hands every time you tend your tomatoes.
"eyes"
Yep, eyes is right.
Eyes is technically right, but in practical terms, wrong.
All commercial tobacco has been hybridized specifically to resist TMV. In fact, there hasn't been a serious outbreak in the U.S. in something like 60 years. So you won't transmit it to tomatoes by smoking a cigarette around them.
Just ask Carolyn Male, who smokes like a chimney.
However, if you grow heirloom tobacco, there's a possibility of TMV, which you could transfer to your tomatoes.
As per Windy's comments. Tobacco growing is an incredibly complicated process, and tobacco is babied. Seed is started, nowadays, mostly in floats in greenhouses or oversized hoop houses. Before that it was grown in special nursery beds, under canvas covers. The seedlings are then transplanted to the regular fields. Periodically, labor-intensive steps---such as topping the plants---has to be done. Then, when it's harvested, it has to be hung, just so, to dry and cure. And then......
Barbara: The commercial growing of tobacco is very controlled. Whether this applies to potted plants, or to growing it at all in Canada, I don't know. But I would look into it carefully before starting such a project. And look, too, into whether your season length and growing conditions will even allow tobacco. My gut feeling is that it is not a viable choice for your conditions.