Backyard tobacco growing garden with beautiful, full grown plants

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Growing your own tobacco is easy - and a fun hobby. For generations, people have grown Nicotiana as a decorative, ornamental plant - particularly for its beautiful little trumpet-shaped flowers. And now, more recently, as excise taxes have risen exhorbinantly on all forms of tobacco, people are growing their own for personal use. It's chemical free, additive free, and now.... a growing cottage industry all its own. Tobacco can be grown virtually anywhere - even Alaska and Nova Scotia - so long as you have 70-90 days of reasonably good sun. And it grows astoundingly FAST. These plants have been in the ground only 3 months! Wow!

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wich variety tastes the best will a marlboro light smoker like any of these ?

Good home tobacco factory

Your Plants are gorgeous! You said you don't get a lot of sun where you're from, I live in North West Oregon, and besides summer we don't get too much sun. Would it be cruel to try and grow a Nicotina plant here?

Turkish tobacco. Do I wait for it to go yellow or just pick it four weeks after topping ?

Which State are you in if I may ask, and would you say it enjoys favourable weather most of the time?

How long does it take from germination to grow to a few feet tall?

man sounds like u smoke too much and need to start dipping...save the lungs hurt the gums

It would be good if you told us what part of the country you live in. It would make you video much more informative. A common fault with most of the garden videos I see on YouTube.

I have some beautiful heirloom nicotiana jasmine in my garden. The smell is intoxicating. Had no idea that it is tabacco. Thank you for sharing.

For all you tobacco haters, take a moment to consider that tobacco has historically been used as a natural pest repellent and pesticide. I don't smoke, but in my research on gardening/permaculture, came upon tobacco as a means to fend off certain pests. Much better for the environment than the chemical pesticides, and far easier to sustain it. But don't take my word for it: John Jeavons, well known in Master Gardner circles for his biointensive method and book, How to Grow More Vegetables, cites tobacco as one of the best methods for trapping/deterring whiteflies: "The flowering tobacco plant has a sticky substance on the underside of its leaves to which whiteflies stick and die when they come for a meal." See also http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027124734.htm. As far as smoking is concerned, I perceive soda, Starbucks, and high glycemic foods as a greater overall (society-wide) health threat than smoking. So why vilify one and not the other? Because your government spends billions of dollars advertising against smoking while pouring billions into subsidies (now crop insurance) in order to grow the unhealthy, high glycemic foods we eat? Seriously, there are much more pressing (society-wide/epidemic) issues to resolve at this point, so why are we still stuck on vilifying smokers? Per WSJ Article (10JUL2013) citing study in Journal of American Medical Association: "Researchers also found that poor dietary habits have overtaken smoking as the most important risk factor associated with years of life lost to disability and to premature death."

If you're gonna use it for smoking. Just a sidenote is : The more you keep it away from insects, the less nicotine is produced.

10 foot long and 11 foot IN BC

Is tobaco am annual plant of the a perenial .can I use the same plants the next year

Oh shut the hell up. Go troll somewhere else. This video is for people who enjoy their tobacco, such as myself. It's not for whiny little bitches who scream "CANCER! ADDICTION! SMOKING'S BAD!"

Wow. I'm jealous!

Non Addictive? Please. stick to the facts....Nicotine is one of the most addictive chemicals on the planet...I'm a smoker, have been for nearly all my life...I'm sure home grown tobacco is "healthier" than the commercially grown. That's true with almost all food...But to say home grown tobacco is non-addictive is a lie and a disservice.

post to brake the tops out that is why it is so small hahahahah

leave are small compared to mine my leaves at the bottom are 4 foot long and 5 foot wide ur is small

it would only change the seeds on some of them if you were to plant them the following year..and even with that it would only be the random oddball revert that you may run across...and it still would be a good tobacco never the less, and the more you keep replanting your own seed year after year you would eventually create your own specific tobacco that would be custom taylored to grow great with your specific soil, climate,etc.

Nice little crop,i like the way you let them grow a bit wild.