Growing Something New - Tobacco

Tobacco is one of the most important crops to a southerner, so we decided to finally get some in and grow some in the garden this year. Tobacco is not just for smoking, as it has quite a few herbal benefits and is GREAT at fixing those insect bites and stings! Join HOSS in the garden as he takes us through the three varieties of tobacco we have as well as a step-by-step guide on how he is starting tobacco for the first time! Let's Grow Together!
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Start
0:06 Intro
2:42 Southern Dolly
4:48 Shirey Dark
6:41 Heritage Gold
8:27 Watering
10:00 Outro
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[@kevchard5214]

Thanks for selling tobacco seeds. I smoke a pipe and wanted to try my hand at making pipe tobacco.

[@lawsonlawnandfarm8073]

You hit a sweet spot on this one with me! I grew up right at the end of the tobacco era. While I know all the side affects and what not. It’s really a sad thing to see it go away like it has.. so so many families here grew up on tobacco money. There were no other jobs here. You either grew tobacco, worked at the tobacco warehouse or worked down in Winston Salem for RJ Reynolds. You literally can’t drive a half mile here and not see tobacco barns or at least what’s left of them. Thank you for selling the seeds this year. We actually grew tobacco last year in our garden just so our kids could see and smell it. Man nothing like those memories I have going with grandpa and daddy to go check barns and that smell hit ya in the face when you open the door! Definitely something I’ll never forget and I really hate that my kids and the younger generations will never know what it was like. A LOT of lessons were learned in the tobacco field!

[@samueladams4145]

@lawsonlawnandfarm8073 From Kentucky here. My father and grandfather were ag pilots and from the end of July on, they were busy spraying tobacco for sucker control. We also raised burley tobacco on the family farm. At that time your base was attached to the farm and could not be sold. When I left home my wife and I ran a farm supply. Then you could buy and sell base. At one time we had a 60k burley tobacco base. That was in 1998, the big year. Then the government began telling us that tobacco was going away. It made no sense why, as we had just produced a record crop. But over the next ten years our base was cut in half, then the government bought us out. We had no choice but to sell. Very little tobacco is now grown in my area, or anywhere else in America as far as I know. But that doesn’t mean that tobacco isn't grown. Guess what the largest tobacco producing country in the world is now? China. Yep, ol' China Mitch McConnell sold his own constituents down the river, and sold the very crop America was sustained by financially from the beginning to China.

[@taylorshomestead3934]

Hope you share the harvesting and drying of the tobaccos when they are ready. :-)

[@michaelmorris1802]

I came along in 62... and my friends all worked in Watermelons, and then transitioned into Tobacco... My dad owned several business, and I already had work, and I was very envious of all the fun they had and talked about all the time. They worked hard, earned money for stuff they wanted, and as you say, grew up with a good work ethic.

[@sonnyamoran7383]

This would be a great bartering plant!!

[@julieparrish2516]

Oh the memories I have working in backer!! Thanks for growing this Greg. Keep us updated on the progress. I’m considering ordering some seed and plant for memories. And you are right! Nothing better than backer for a sting!!!

[@mik_88]

Been growing a couple every year for fun, beautiful flower the humming birds love. One year I let it veg indoors. I tipped it and it branches out into like 8 different branches eat one got like 15 feet long before I cut it down! This year one got about 11 foot on its first set of flowers. Then it branched out on its own without topping it and produced 6 different tops with flower bunches. I first started growing as a pesticide for my vegetable garden I used to steep the leaves in warm water and a little vegetable oil. Loved the video, God bless!!!

[@destinyandpurpose]

Oh my, this video really takes me back. My town was built around burley, burley was KING. Today all of the old warehouses are all empty with several torn down. There is one that is empty, and you can still faintly smell the tobacco. Everybody grew it and at Thanksgiving the crop was sold, you always hoped that the buyers would give you a good price. Life is very different these days.

[@samueladams4145]

The world we grew up in is gone. I was born in 1957.

[@charlieo.farmer2468]

I grew up on a tobacco farm as well so interesting . I started Chewing tobacco when I was 9 .

[@SouthernAngelEyes]

Right there with ya Greg. I remember spending summers working the farm & was working in tobacco at 9 yrs old. ... Fond memories.

[@ImtheDawna]

I grew some and it's a beautiful plant!

[@valmiron4360]

I love growing tobacco. I like the very tall ones with the white & pink flowers. They are a beautiful plant!😊👍

[@michaelt.9372]

It’s fun to grow also. The yield is so satisfying per plant.

[@jeribrockington800]

Me also, Greg! Momma Js country gardening purchased seeds from you in December 2022. I can’t wait to plant and experience my great great uncle farm. You are so correct about what it was used for. I am glad you are doing this video. I have never smoked nor intend to but I want to experience growing it Thank you.

[@patriciacunningham6839]

I worked in tobacco too here in Kentucky. Born in 1962

[@jvin248]

As a Northern gardener, this is what I learned: The seeds need sunlight to germinate and warm 70deg+ temperature (heat mat or near a house heating vent), use a clear plastic dome on the seed tray until the plants leaf out to help with moisture stabilization. I planted last year starting 12th March for a May 11th last frost date (8 weeks) and plants were small buttons at planting time, didn't get to flower by fall frost, this year I started seeds Feb 2nd (13 weeks) plus added a grow light until leafed out and they are significantly better size already by Apr 12th for transplanting, general heat above 65deg while growing seems important too (but don't leave the heat mat under them). Select several varieties to see what works best in your area first before trying to get a particular type/style. Ontario Canada has industrial growers and some varieties were developed across Connecticut and New York, I have about half/half Northern and Southern styles for hobby gardening "will it work" experiments. Leaves hung up in the house seem to drive away fruit flies.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks

[@JulianJP21]

Thanks Greg

[@cosmyccowboy]

Every summer beginning at the age of 7 in 1963 I spent my summers in the bacca patch and the weekends in the pea patch! My last summer was the summer of’72, the last couple of summers was in shade tobacco down around Havanah

[@4supertigers]

I got lit up by ground nesting bees one time and the only thing I had was some dip to kill the pain. It worked as good as anything I ever tried before.

[@TheWiseFool_]

I have 4 or 5 rows I was wanting to fill this year with something different and new, this is just what I was looking for, thank you!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Wonderful!

[@leleane4209]

Some body help me got some tobacco seed😢

[@tenderfoot6185]

This is something I would not grow, but I am intrigued and excited to see how yours does! My daddy use to chew Redman and Granddaddy chewed also. I hear that dang yapping dawg, OMG I would have to have a talk with that neighbor...Love what your doing Mr. Hoss, love love your show!

[@mikeharmon4901]

I grew 3 back to back crops of 25 varieties one year in my porch gutter system. Tobacco is a magnet for tomato horn worms! They make the best trap crop if you are growing tomatoes. The nicotine in the green leaf does not kill them but when dried it makes a good insecticide. So so simple to go from green leaf to golden smoke in less than a week. I tried the hanging and it was a mess. Not smoke-able in the end. It required an additional fermenting and was not good for cigarettes by then. You have to build a chamber to cure them quick but it is not all that hard or expensive for the return.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Good to know

[@1ntwndrboy198]

I have a friend from Mexico and he had a rather large cut on his forearm. The doctor put tobacco leaf on it. It only took seconds to seal off bleed😮

[@InTheGarden2070]

My daddy would blow smoke in our ear for earache. It's funny to me when young people say back in the day. ';D

[@mommajscountrygardening]

I have my tobacco seeds and I am growing. This will be in memory of my family in NC. They dipped snuff, chewed "bacca" . It served medically as well. Thank you

[@iraadams7459]

We grew a lot of burley here in central Kentucky. I can't honestly say that I miss growing it, though.

[@psalms125selah]

Tobacco can also be used in your garden by brewing it at a low temp diluting it with more water 1/2 and 1/2 and add 1 tbsp. olive oil per gallon, pour mixture into a spray bottle, shake well and use as a garden insect spray!

[@jokecallsprank]

Cool video! I love nicotine but ive never tried to grow my own tobacco. Looks fun! Might try it next season

[@drbecktex]

Man I love my snuff [chewing kind. Not the sniffing stuff]. I got me some perique from Louisiana I'm fixin to transfer to my garden.

[@maryholsey6058]

When my great grandfather was a boy he was chopping wood when the axe slipped and almost cut his foot off. His mother made a tobacco poultice for it. It did not get infected and eventually healed. He had a limp all his life from that accident.

[@jtrue243]

My grandpa, now 24 years gone, told a similar story to this. When he was a kid he was standing on a log and chopping down between his feet to cut the log in two. He missed and hit his foot, splitting the end of his big toe all the way through his toenail. His parents stuffed the toe with a tobacco compound and wrapped it tight and it eventually healed up. I remember him laughing about it as he told me, to imagine them using tobacco on a serious wound like that back then. But it worked.

[@littlewing5682]

Uhh I want to try this so bad. I was concerned with tobacco mosaic virus hurting my other plants. My grandfather has been farming a long time and always tells me don’t touch plants after smoking either

[@ALoonwolf]

I got stung by a wasp that was on my tobacco leaves. That's so frustrating that the leaves would have cured the sting! I've watched videos where people complain about nettle stings when they were standing next to a plant that would cure it instantly. Knowledge is power...

[@DownOnTheHomestead]

Trying to figure out which variety we want to grow. Wanted to try some. Getting bees so thought this might be a good addition (for stings lol).

[@WC09PU13]

Tobacco requires sunlight to sprout if I remember right. Also cigar makers will mix ash with the seeds to make it easier to see where you have put seed already.

[@bobbun9630]

If you can see the seeds without a magnifying glass or a microscope, they're not "tiny"! The smallest seeds I ever grew were for a cactus species called "Blossfeldia liliputana". When I opened the packet, I expected tiny seeds, but I still thought it was empty. Eventually I realized the few particles of dust in the packet were actually the seeds. After several months of growth, the plants were eventually overwhelmed by moss. I can't say that I ever "enjoyed" harvesting tobacco as a teenager, even though I'm only about three years younger than Greg. That must be a regional thing. I hauled plenty of hay, planted plenty of fence posts, cut lots of firewood, but no "baccy".

[@jeffsmith6915]

9656.. That's how many times the dog barked in case anyone was wondering.

[@eroggero]

Interesting how’s times have changed , have some property in KY . They used to farm tobacco on, about 17 years ago the government was paying to NOT to grow it anymore…

[@williambock1821]

Hopefully the upcoming generation will one day reminisce about picking cannabis while showing their kids how to grow it.

[@barentfoley6264]

Soak tobacco, and it's a great liquid that's a pesticide 😍

[@suemerritt1679]

Hey Greg. Great video. Does the deer eat it? Which one is the mildest?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

From research they are deer resistant. Not sure about the mildest, will have to get back with you on that one.

[@dvrmte]

My Mother's people were farmed flue-cured tobacco in the piedmont of North Carolina. I've grown tobacco here in upstate South Carolina for eight years. I have about the same type sandy loam and clay subsoil as they have in the Old Belt of North Carolina. I've grown burley, flue-cured, dark air, Oriental sun cured and various other types. I've also grown the dark Virginia Shirey. I don't think they've grown dark Virginia commercially in 100 years. It's my favorite type of tobacco for pipe smoking and chewing. It needs to age for at least two years to hit its peak quality.

[@Planzman1]

Could be a great barter item. Need seed to smoke steps.😊

[@slomo1716]

I agree it was an absolute shame that a new use couldn't have been found for tobacco. If it draws out poison from bites, why wasn't it converted to a medicinal ointment or a first aid cream? I'm from the North, so when I moved to Maryland, took my children to a historic site in southern Maryland. An old man was showing us tobacco seeds, yes they were/are tiny and he share with us tobacco harvests. What a rich and wonderful history we have!

[@steveandrews8301]

Because it was a threat to big pharma if we use it for natural healing purposes. They only only wants us to use their version and recipe for it in cigarettes so that long term we get sick from smoking it and have to come to them later for their medical treatments $$$.

[@vickycollins6656]

Hoss, I have a question about your Kentucky Blue Pole Beans I bought from you all. Can I plant a double row with the trellis down the middle? Vicky

[@gardeningwithhoss]

yes you can

[@matthewjbauer1990]

Where I live, its still common to see tobacco growing or hang drying in a bard. In my garden, I'd never grow it as I just don't have a use for it.

[@searchforthetruth1998]

You just don’t realize you have a use for it it’s great for taking stings out as he described or you could grow it preserve it and use it for bartering in the future which will be inevitable when this country collapses within the next 20 years

[@garyschmelzer]

I remember when I used to pick the back with get on her, but I would slide along the road and pick three leaves on the bottom

[@user-hy8ih9nr6n]

Can I buy the tobacco leaves in the video? fcv right?

[@jamiefairley]

My Virginia pack said cover lightly. (Not a Hoss pack. Lol) no wonder I only got 2 to germinate out of 10. I'll try again- UNcovered

[@davidsinclair4138]

Where can I get a Fogg-It Mist Nozzle handle with cut off, Like you're using with the mist nozzle.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

it is our dram watering wand, with existing end remove and interchanged hosstools.com/product/dramm-touch-n-flow-16-watering-wand/ hosstools.com/product/fogg-it-mist-nozzle/

[@sdfft820]

Tobacco can be used as medicine because it can heal wounds.

[@kentuckymotorsports9815]

We grew tobacco up until 2014 when my dad had a hi boy turned over on him it about killed him.

[@leleane4209]

I need some tobacco seed could’ve some where can I get some seed..could you help me please

[@gardeningwithhoss]

hosstools.com/products/shirey-dark-tobacco?_pos=1&_psq=+tobacco&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=45579405656374

[@garyschmelzer]

Is it the smoking kind

[@heidiDonato]

Can it grow in zone 4b

[@gardeningwithhoss]

basically anywhere where you have about 100 frost free nights after setting out the tobacco plants.

[@gardeninjake]

There a few people up here in Southern Illinois that grow backer but not many. Greg you have more patience than me with that yapping dog. It would be in grave danger around me. Now I love dogs, so don't get me wrong, but that little sucker would be no more. Have a good un!

[@markoliver4194]

Doesn't it take several months to cure? or 2 years.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Depends on the heat source. Check out article below. totalleafsupply.com/1566-2/#:~:text=The%20temperature%20should%20be%20approximately,top%20of%20the%20cured%20leaves.

[@riskmanagement9106]

HEY- Can I grow Tobacco next to Corn???????????????????????

[@gardeningwithhoss]

yes, you can

[@COWELLGIRL]

A great by product is Crafters love making things from tobacca sticks !! Yes sir that's how my daddy was raised ! Working the fields Cotton Beans Corn Hay Tabacca !! My granny would chew tobacca and if we got stung she would spit some on her finger and put on our sting

[@iconicplay2237]

Will you be showing how to cure your tobacco?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

no

[@coypu2005]

Is this the kind used to make cigarettes?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

it could

[@markoliver4194]

Ta- backer😂

[@markoliver4194]

That stuff killed Tony Gwynn

[@jsab8722]

I heard making tea of tobacco, and spreading it around your plants, help deter aphids and other bugs, as well as, replenish nutrients(nitrogen and potassium). Does anybody have real world experience?

[@tobyjones295]

insecticide

[@mattwernecke2342]

You're not that old but sound like it.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Ha! Thanks?

[@danowens3302]

Please don’t grow near tomatoes!!!

[@normal_norm2627]

No thanks. That crap killed both my parents.

[@jeffreylyons1531]

Interesting your pro tobacco and anti cannabis.

[@rbaumann01]

Am I the only one who just realized you can put the fogg-it mist nozzle on the watering wand? I feel kinda dumb. 🫣