tobacco

[THEkyroastnear]

saw some guys cutting tobacco tue. eve 7-31 was the dark air cured variety seems a little early to me. guess if i was any kind of neighbor i would have stopped to help

 

[georgeky]

The green houses have moved the schedule up a tad. When I was a kid we very seldom started cutting Burely before Labor Day. Now it starts any time between the last of July on through to Labor Day. I helped all the neighbors 30 years ago, but I think I will pass now. I am lucky to get my 15 acres in the barn.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Everybody wants to get a jump on the new 156% tobacco tax increase congress is shoving up our ... well you know.
I think I'll do the healthy think and quit smoking and gain 200 pounds.

 

[NutsaboutCombines]

Anyone got any air-dried, insecticide-free tobacco leaves to sell? I never got any transplants shipped to me because of my recent moved, but I know I can still feed out lab-reared caterpillars on reconstituted dried leaves. I just can't have any bug-killing residues left on them, or my project is SUNK!

 

[Anonymous-0]

Dark air cured....how many acres have I raised? Leased out the burley & grew the DAC or "one sucker" as its called here. Often thought how I must have been one sucker to keep raising it. Had to pay help by the hour rather than the stick so they'd slow down enough not to ruin it breaking leaves off cutting & spiking. Base was assigned by acre instead of pounds so you couldn't raise a little extra to compensate for poor handling. Don't miss it one bit.

 

[Anonymous-0]

When do you start George? I'm coming to Taylor Co. labor day for a week and would like to see some Tobbaco being cut and handled much as my Grand Dad did when I was a kid back in the late 40's and 50's. My Grand Dad was a Tobbaco chewing,Banjo playing and singing Irishman,A teller of tall tales and a Mule Wrestler and a Champion Rattlesnake catcher from Bradfordsville Ky. and I miss him very much. John

 

[Anonymous-0]

I saw a field of burley that had already been taken to the barn last week (week of July 23) up in Henry County, north of Eminence. I just topped mine two weeks ago, so it's still three or four weeks away from time to cut.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I've got some burley with NO chemicals, last years crop, still hanging.

 

[georgeky]

I am planning on the 10 of September. That will of course depend on the weather a little. Taylor County is more than 100 miles from me, but I suspect they will be cutting there too. There should be lots of tobacco being cut around Labor Day. It is a job that will seperate them men from everyone else. I am still a fair hand on the bottom rail or any for that matter. Not much of a cutter now days though. Cutting is for the 15 to 35 year olds. I can cut as many for a while as I ever could, but it nearly kills me now.

 

[Anonymous-0]

we would cut our one sucker tobacco and then start a second crop off a sucker that grew off the original stalk stub. that really sucked if you were a kid and hated raising tobacco.

 

[BLW]

hey guys-- nice to read about raising tabacci-- I have been wanting to do it just as a hobby and ornamental plant- I am a pipe smoker but I know it is not practical to grow your own to smoke-- anyway I would like to get a few (burley) seeds to try next year of even this year inside-- along with some advice on how to get it to grow-- I had some seeds from a guy in canada / we are in northeast NY / and they didn't grow-- still don't know what I did wrong any ideas apprec./

 

[NutsaboutCombines]

Great, shoot me a price per lb and my e-mail is sun_dog63[at]yahoo[dot]com.

Thank you so much!

 

[NutsaboutCombines]

Keep me in mind for next year's start of growing season, too. I am wanting just a handful of baby plants [transplants] to grow myself. It is a beautiful and fragrant plant, too.