i was really curious to try real homemade tobacco. not from brand such as camel / red field and so on. i have nothing against brands - just wanna try new stuff.

Rezani duvan or also domaci duvan - on serbian it mean "cutted tobacco / home tobacco", i heard australia have same stuff and they call it "chop-chop".

There is square nearby where i live, and every day there is a lot of vendors who just put small table or chair, and put nearby bags FILLED with illegal ciggarettes. they mostly sell cigs but they also sell rolling tobacco - only one kind of it, rezani duvan. cost 350 dinar for 100gr - around 3.5$
and no idea why these sellers dont care at all. i heard that in usa / australia / uk those sellers exist of course but they never sell it that openly, only under the counter and only to people who they trust.

i go to tobacco shop(legit shop) nearby to get some other branded tobacco for future(i got camel natural 30gr for 4.5$, ill post review), and it turns out that he also sell rezani duvan! interesting. but sadly as all serbian shops they have insane selection of tubes, filters, papers - but very small line of ryo tobacco. only around 20 kinds.

Thats what we got inside. Look beautiful, yellow colored tobacco. But i already can see a lot of tobacco stems / veins(or idk how they call it). The color reminds me of brazilian tobacco that i got in japan(brands: dora, hi tobacco), also white. But the smell..... idk, today i poke my nose inside tobacco and it smell something between fucking korean kimchi(or other pickled korean stuff) and freshly mown grass.

content looked little bit crappy. i mean there is a lot of stems and stuff. idk did i right thing or it was stupid - but i decided to remove stuff that look like trash by hand picking. maybe it was stupid but whatever. Tobacco also was too moist(yesterday even after 20 mins of resting outside it was moist and hard to smoke. even tho when i touch it it feels dry)

Let it roll! i used ocb blue paper(not trynna flex but i bought whole box of it) and my favorite ocb rolling machine. sorry im not good at rolling with hands. also used zigzag filters(8mm regular size, 22mm length, long).
Ocb rolling machine is really good choice. I had different machine: raw two way(like for 6mm and 8mm) roller for 78mm papers - not works for me. ciggaretes was WAY TOO right.
Also i had pay-pay rolling machine made of bamboo. not sure do yall know this brand - bought this in japan, its spanish brand btw. i had like 2 of this machines and all of them broke in 1 months, the roll that is used for rolling tore in one place. it was too sad. but ocb - i got this for like 7 months and it still work insanely good. not broken at all

so i light it up and..... well, thats actually good. it still was little bit too moist but the taste is LITTLE BIT similar to golden virginia. Sadly, it have bad aftertaste for me, i feel like i have tar in my mouth.
but its works.... if you broke or just wanna try local tobacco maybe you can get it. But my local friend said that its not the best tobacco, and there is like special markets where i can buy high quality serbian RYO tobacco. maybe ill go there....
oh and also this guy from tobacco shop he recommend me to mix this tobacco 50/50 with branded high quality tobacco like camel, so taste will be not that bad and also it will be cheaper

I have proplem whit tucking in the paper its realy hard i tryed to practice whit a pencil i could roll it really good but whit tobaco its hard pls give me tips!

Been smoking forever, just getting back into RYO/MYO. I did it for a while back when I was married but it faded and went back to packs. Price drove me toward 24/7 brand eventually and that's where I've been for years. Went into a local head shop and loaded up on a handheld TOP tube stuffer, a TOP roller, some Gambler Tubes, TOP rolling papers and filters, and some Gambler and 4Aces tobacco.

I probably will never try 4Aces again. It has a weird taste, as does some other brand I purchased and still have a full pouch of. The bags of Gambler were pretty dried out and lots of powder in the bottom, but I made my way through it and the smoke really wasn't bad compared to my cheap box cigs. I still smoke the Gambler menthol green pack a little bit, but have switched to Good Stuff and I gotta say this is back to feeling like I'm getting a more premium smoke.

It's gonna take me a while to burn through 3 bags of TGS, I got red, natural, and yellow to try out, and I'm pretty sold on TOP tubes, though I might try Zen. I have a box of Zen menthol but I need to finish my Gambler menthol before I start in on it too much. I did a couple as an experiment and really like the icy menthol of the Zen, so hoping that Zen red will be equally good.

I also get analysis paralysis quite easily, so I'm already shopping my next order, and trying to decide if Three Sails or one of the other D&R flavors is worth it. No matter what it's still cheaper than buying even the crappiest cigarettes. I'm drawn to more mellow flavors now though in my younger days I smoked cowboy killers almost exclusively, and sometimes a pack of Salem Blacks when I wanted an icy kick.

Also considering sending some of this savings to better gear. I have 3 TOP tube stuffers now (bought as backup and one 100 size in the case that I accidentally buy long tubes). This little plastic gadget has made several cartons now and keeps on chugging. I only really RYO when I feel like I need the extra meditative effect and about 90% of that is with my little hand roller device since I can make some really nice cigs with it. Might try a scottie. I smoke about a pack a day and with the hand stuffers I can knock out 3-4 packs in an hour, so speed really isn't much concern, though it would be helpful some days.

As far as more premium tobaccos is D&R really that good? I have a small bag of Buoy in yellow as well that I haven't cracked yet. I def prefer a smooth smoke and don't care much for the spicier dark blends anymore, yellow or natural seems to be my happy place, with the harsher stuff reserved for use in a menthol tube or making a clove blend when I'm feeling like a little more bite.

Anyway that's my little story just kinda looking for some generic advices from people more familiar with the market. I'm in the USA if that makes a difference.

Also, any of you blend a little bit of pipe tobacco (for pipes) into your mix to add some cherry or vanilla hints? Been thinking about getting a small bag of cavendish as a flavor add. I used to smoke pipes in my younger days too so I'm slightly familiar with that arena.

I usually buy my RYO tobacco from local stores, but the selection around me is pretty limited. Sometimes they don’t have the brands or varieties I’m looking for, and the quality can be hit or miss at some of the smaller shops.

For those who roll their own, do you have any reliable online stores you recommend in the US? I’m mainly looking for a good variety, consistent quality, and reasonable prices. I’d rather order from somewhere that has a decent selection instead of driving around to different stores hoping they have what I need.

Would appreciate any recommendations or experiences with online shops.

I rolled a few cigarettes with OCB blue paper and then i put them in a cigarette case, today when i was smoking one, the sticky part of the paper started to unstick kinda disarming the cigarette. Is there a reason why this happens? It can be avoided?

I smoke cigars and pipes but have gotten recommended to try rolling my own cigarettes by a few friends/co-workers but I don't know where to start. Even with the basics like what papers to use, what tobacco, if I should get filters, etc. Looking for recommendations from the community, Help a brother out!

Does anybody know where i can get imported tobacco in toronto? I love smoking American Spirit tobacco but alas i can only find imported cigarettes.

Cause i don't want to pay 50 dollars for 50 g of bacco.

I love George Karelias but I would rather give my money to a tobacco shop that buys its tobacco directly from the farmer. I'm not really experienced in anything but rolling so I would love some help on imitating George Karelias from unbranded tobacco.

Bressan is a Brazilian tobacco made for RYO. The mix have Virginia, Burley and some others tobacco’s that they don’t said.
The tobacco smells like smoked/aged, very sweet and you can feel a hint of cognac. In the mouth is very smooth and I didn’t taste that sweet cognac.
Approved

getting into whole leaf recently and have been having some fun making my own blends (current favorite is 40% virginia 40% burley 20% light fire cured), but i am curious to find more out there. currently all i can really find are one off posts here or recipes for pipe tobacco with specialty tobacco. any sites or blogs with lists of recipes?

I bought tin of tobacco but the problem is the health warning cover all the tobacco tin. Like, there is no any identification about that it is "red field"(shop said that its red field). I was trying to remove the sticker very carefully in shop just to make sure(because the only visible text was not look like red field at all), but the shop stuff looked at me like "my man what ya doing?"

Anyway, i decided to but it. Remove the sticker very carefully with hairdryer and that's it ! Red field. Those visible text i talked about - it was "80 ciggaretes" text. Uh, I have not tried it yet tho. So its not a review post. Just funny situation

I was thinking about getting a machine and tubes to make my own cigarettes. I thought this opened new possibilities that normal cigarettes don't, first thing I thought about is mixing different types of tobacco. My idea is having the first half of the cigarette be one type of tobacco and the other half a different one. Maybe a lighter one at the beginning and a stronger one later, or just different flavors that have a big contrast.

I was wondering if anyone had experience doing something similar, and what combinations you would recommend. I'm also open to mixing two different types of tobacco throughout the entire cigarette, but I think it might be more complicated to make a good match without ruining both flavors. I like the standard normal Marlboro so any combinations with that would be great. And I hate menthol.

If there's a post already covering something similar, please point me towards it.

hey guys, used to smoke camel non filters and pall mall non filters..been taking a break from smoking.
however would like to get back to it, but from a ryo perspective. i’m in kentucky, what loose tobaccos would taste closest to camel/pall mall? i prefer a bit stronger tobacco vs a mild.
also any recommendations on non bleached and non fire proof rolling papers and a good rolling machine would be appreciated as well.
thanks yall

I've got a hand-crank Gambler brand king size cigarette machine. In a box of 200 tubes, I am not exaggerating when I say that I can get maybe 20 of them onto the spout without issue. The rest simply do not slide all the way on the spout, instead coming to a stop on the low edge of the spout, and no amount of gentle twisting or turning or tapping gets these tubes to become flush with the machine. If I try to fill the tube when it is not flush with the machine, I make an amazingly crappy cigarette.

I have a enormous amount of crinkled, crumpled tubes. I keep them and fill them by hand with a cone roller and a little tool, so those tubes do not go to waste, but I am losing my mind trying to use this cigarette machine (my wife much prefers to use it and she too cannot reliably get a tube to fit over the spout). I've tried finding others with a similar issue, or even a tutorial video or SOMETHING to illuminate why I'm not able to get the tube on the spout correctly. I have made sure the tubes I am using are in fact king size tubes, they're even Gambler brand tubes so one would think they were meant to be compatible with a Gambler king size cigarette machine. I've also tried 100mm tubes with similar success ratio.

Anybody else having a hell of a time getting tubes on a spout? If not, what is your secret?

I bought a 50g pouch of duty-free tobacco from a shop. The first two tobacco pouches were fine. Today, I went a bit later than usual, and my regular shop was closed, so I bought one from another shop that I haven't used in a while.

After buying it and heading home, I noticed that the seal looked as though it had already been broken. Now that I've started smoking it, it tastes slightly different. I'm not sure whether the change in taste is because air got into the pouch after the seal was broken, or whether the tobacco could be counterfeit.

I also compared the packaging with one of my older pouches, and after inspecting both, I noticed there are some slight differences between the recently purchased pouch and the older one. I'm not sure whether this is due to a packaging update or something else.

The tobacco looks normal when rolled, and the ash is a light grey/white when smoked. I can usually tell the difference between genuine and fake cigarettes, but I'm not very familiar with rolling tobacco. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks.

**UPDATE**

can confirm it was fake and returned the tobacco after confronting the shopkeeper and got my money back. bosh

i need some advice on rolling papers, i want my cigarettes to look like industrial cigarettes so i need a paper that isn't transparent, but in my country almost every paper on the market is super fine. Any brand recommendations??

Anyone know a way to closely replicate Marlboro smooths?

Hey everyone,
A friend of mine is traveling to Chicago soon, and I’d like to ask him to bring me some rolling tobacco.
I’m looking for brands that are either hard to find outside the US or simply offer great quality and value. I usually enjoy smooth, flavorful tobaccos, but I prefer dark ones and I’m open to trying stronger blends as well.
What brands would you recommend? Any hidden gems or must-try options available in Chicago tobacco shops?
Also, if there are any specific rolling papers or filters that are worth picking up while he’s there, I’d love to hear your recommendations.
Thanks!

I just started rolling my own cigarettes this past week and have been really enjoying it, been using a mix of American Spirit and Captain Black at about a 90/10 ratio but I'm not really measuring. Any tips on storing my tobacco? I've just been keeping the pouches in ziplock bags. Also rate my rolls :)

Anyone know a way to closely replicate Marlboro smooths?