Cigar Tobacco: From Planting to Picking

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This video takes you through the process of tobacco seeding, germination, growth and harvesting. Making great cigars starts with planting great seeds. You will see how the seeds are planted and germinated and how the seedlings are prepared to be planted in the field. The process of harvesting (priming) the leaves is also discussed. This video is a remastered version of an earlier upload. Much higher quality, some different media and higher resolution stills

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Strongest plant do not produce the best smoking tobacco, today you see a lot of plantations with huge tobacco plants, that doesn't translate in most cases to better tobacco. That works for snuff and mass producimg but not for quality cigars.
The bigger the plant for a same variety the smaller the flavor, bigger the veins in the leaves, lower the quality. It get to be old timers way to be good for cigars.

awesome video. looks so easy!!!!!

Excellent video. Thank you.

Thanks great video. I grew a couple test plants last yr and 4 varieties this yr to see which would do the best in my regional conditions and has best disease resistance here. Ony about 100 plants the weather conditions have been terrible for the air curing very rainy and in mid August it hasnt gotton over 75 degrees which is unseasonably cool so many of them have been developing frogs eye any tips on preventing that in cooler than normal conditions or to help in the drying?

The hardest part for me has been keeping the seedlings alive from germination till planting outdoors. Since I'm from the northern US tobacco needs to be planted indoors about 1-2 months before planting outdoors as full grown seedling. Over watering the flat one time can cause the loss of a entire flat to dampening off and under watering can cause the loss of an entire flat due to the soil being to dry thus killing the tiny roots. Best of luck to all my fellow smokers and growers.

In this video, the farmer used sterilized rice shells to cover the seeds and protect them from birds.

Doc can you tell whats that thing that farmer puts on the seeds after he has plant them it's that sawdust???

Awesome, good tips.

Virginia is the most common in the US. If you're growing rusitc or Aztec Sweet, try drying and smoking the dried blossoms they are much better tasting and have less nicotine in them. You can also try Havana depending on where you live.

I like the Cuban music at the beginning :) reminded me of my grandma bringing fresh cuban cigars from her trips to cuba

Deborah, I can't put links in a comment, but you will find my email address on the StogieFresh dot info website in the About Us section. I look forward to hearing from you.

Mr. Diaz.Great video, .I'm from Jamaica been trying to get your email address from Stogie Fresh online. I'm interesting in Tobacco production would like some advise.

in my country(india) seeds are planted in earth only and plantion by not machines with by man and women............but ur video is simply awesome

it is so nice but here u dont show that how to plantation of small plants into fields and also heating of tobocco leavs in barren.... and then making them as bundles.

Excellent ! Thanks

Not the seeds :D.

Nope. I'm growing it right now and caterpillars LOVE the leaf. I'm also finding a fair amount dead bugs stuck to the sappy leaves (I had no idea the green leaves were so sticky and sappy!), so you're kind of misinformed here. I'm not going to use pesticides, but it's definitely an issue.

Need more specifics. I don't know of anything about farming practices that would be harmful to farmers, but if I knew more specifics I could look into it.

Thanks Brandon. Much appreciated. See you soon!