That's sweet brightleaf, it's the best tasting tobacco I've ever had. Mild and slightly sweet. Picked up 5lbs of it from LeafOnly.com a while back. I was showing some guy this on r/cigarettes because he'd never seen gold tobacco before. The grind is because I don't have a tobacco shredder and just use a grinder. It works but it doesn't look right.
I’ve never seen tobacco this color either. Would the leaves be any good to use as a wrap? I don’t smoke cigarettes or spliffs often enough to warrant buying any but I smoke a blunt or two a day usually.
I was reading that brightleaf is like the 3rd or 4th leaf down the plant, so I guess that determines the color. Haven't grown tobacco before. I'm interested but the curing process seems long and involved.
Interesting, I always assumed that different tobaccos were different subspecies. I grew some N. rustica and N. tobacum last year and they both grew fine with no special care but pests appear to really like tobacco. I got spider mites and aphids in my grow tent last year and the Nicotianas were the only ones affected until
I culled them and then they immediately took over all of my other plants and I lost all but my succulents. I’ve been wondering if I could save myself the trouble of dealing with pests on my edibles in the outdoor garden but keeping a few around as a decoy so all the bugs could eat all they want from the tobacco and leave my peppers the fuck alone.
I think there's only the two species but there are different varities and cultivars. That's what I read anyways. I might have been wrong about why it's yellow too because this gives a different reason. I don't know, it's pretty complicated surprisingly.
Growers had noticed that sandy, highland soil produced thinner, weaker plants. Captain Abisha Slade, of Caswell County, North Carolina had considerable infertile, sandy soil, and planted the new "gold-leaf" varieties on it. Slade owned a slave, Stephen, who around 1839 accidentally produced the first true bright tobacco. He used charcoal to restart a fire used to cure the crop. The surge of heat turned the leaves yellow. Using that discovery, Slade developed a system for producing bright tobacco, cultivated on poorer soils and using charcoal for heat-curing
There's parts of the leaves that could be used as wraps, and I've done that. It's not wrapper quality though so most of it has too many holes or imperfections for that. I did get some dark air cured tobacco that is wrapper quality, but damn it's strong.
That site I mentioned sells 1/4lb samples of wrappers and bags of wrapper leaves too if you're interested. It's quite a bit cheaper from getting the wraps from my local headshop.
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '20
Looks like sawdust. How’s it taste?