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The smooth/sweet/rustic are likely gonna be up to how you dry and/or cure the tobacco. Can get cavendish if you do it right, or just cig tobacco if you don’t 
It’s a deep hole to go down. I tended to hang dry bunches of leaves over the fall in the shed and it came out pretty damn smooth tho.
There’s also a difference in the tobacco plants if you want blunt wraps as opposed to pipe or cig tobacco. You want tobacco plants that put out really wide leaves. as wide as you can find, if you wanna make cigar/blunt wraps. Something like a Criollo 98 or similar strain would likely do ya good for cigar/blunt wraps. O’NeillSeeds on etsy has em and is who I usually source my more commercial type tobacco from. If you just want smoking tobacco, I’d really recommend his moldovan or harrow velvet. Those have been my favorite over the last couple years of growing different lines out.
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How much heat can tobacco tolerate? I ordered Connecticut Shade seeds and it’s hot and arid here! I’m talking 115 to 120 degrees at the height of summer. I plan on growing this underneath my back porch shade and the shaded side of the house.
I saw an interesting fermentation method where a guy wrapped his tobacco up in towels and then put it in some kind of heating chamber on top of a burner.
Shade can be grown in full sun
The reason they tent it is to get a thinner leaf. It can handle heat but will need lots of water.
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I haven’t ran that one before but in my experience they’re usually like peppers ime. They like the heat. Don’t like the cold. But they’ll need plenty of water.
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Hey guys first post here just recently joined, been enjoying reading the threads here great vibes. Can’t currently grow weed as it’s pretty dangerous to do here. Hopefully can move back to the US in a year or two and get back to my fridge full of genetics 
(bunch of snowhigh, swami, Indian exchange and some more modern rosin focused types as well)
Until that happens have started growing tobacco in living organic soil (had to scavenge local materials here) and also guerrilla gardening some tobacco patches. Growing the Turkish variety “Samsun”, picking leaves as they get older from the GH plant so far and air drying at the GH conditions for about 1-2 weeks before bag curing for 2 weeks and then shredding.
Also the plant in the GH was a variegated seed I found, seems to be pretty variable based on laterals and about half the clones I took have reverted back so far. Planning to isolate the seeds from this plant and see if I can stabilize the variegation more
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@Kasper0909 plants turned out lovely!! Thanks so much! The neighbours enjoyed them, as well.
Beautiful pink trumpets! Looks like I’ll have enough seeds to start my own tobacco plantation.
Thanks again!
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Although I don’t smoke tobacco always wanted to give it a go in the garden. If anyone has seeds for trade please let me know
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i’ll send you some at the end of the season next year. didn’t get them out in time this year, but i ordered them online, paid like $5 for 100 of them includeing shipping. they came from victory seeds and i got them from a recommendation on a thread here on og, may have been this one. i’d get my own but if you want to wait i’ll send you 100 or so. they are super tiny and you get lots of them from each plant in the fall.
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rose of alabama…
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Very cool info. Will get on that for some reason thought they were hard to come by. So appreciate your response. Have a great day and happy grows🍻
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Awesome! You now have seeds forever. 
The best thing about growing tobacco, after the flowers, is looking at all the bugs that took a couple bites and then died mid meal haha.
I have only grown tobacco sold as ornamental, can you still smoke that stuff if you wanted to? The varieties this year are crimson bedder and scentsation. I don’t even smoke tobacco anymore, just curious.
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I don’t think so 
those aren’t the type grown for smoking of any kind.
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Is that a tobacco plant? I thought I had seen tobacco before but I don’t recall it ever seeing flowers (granted I don’t actively search tobacco). But that is fucking beautiful… Makes me want to grow some.
Oh yeah that’s tobacco alright. Normally if you growing for leaf you’d either chop the flowers off or bag them in dark material so they die off and the plant will kinda stay in veg. It’s definitely a continuous process tho as they want to flower in my experience. I’ve grown a couple native lines and a couple modern lines and so far this harrow velvet is my favorite. Not the biggest by far, but the leaves are good smoke.
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I will be searching to grow some def. I love it, I have a hate/love relationship with cigarettes. But this will be just for.the beauty of it. Thanks! Can’t believe I had never noticed.
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i remember growing up at around 10 started working in the tobacco fields at my uncle’s house. had to have an alotment to grow it then. i was 16 and spudding a plant and the stick bent and slipped and the spud hit me just over the lip and left a scar still there today. i don’t recall anyone ever topping the plants of flowers though. i never got to learn how roll a ciagar because grand[a beckett died before i was old enough.
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