I live in Sarasota fl which basically has perfect year round growing season and I am wondering if it would be doable to grow my own and use it for extracting or flavoring. Does anyone here currently do this ?? Its one less hobby than I need but I think it could be fun and reduce the cost of my nice habit . I've already ordered 500 seeds
growing your own tobacco ??
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Sure, tobacco plants grow just fine in Florida. They make wonderful ornamental garden plants, where their flowers are noted for attracting hummingbirds. Bugs also don't chomp on them much -- after all, they grow their own insecticide! In fact, tobacco plants can grow in every state except maybe Alaska. You start the seeds in flats, then transplant to the ground when they get large enough. Once you harvest the leaves (use gloves and a long-sleeved shirt), it's best to cure them (a garage), then you can chop them and extract the nicotine after they've cured. From planting to extracting takes about a year to 15 months.
There are many varietals available. For maximum nicotine extraction from the Nicotiana tobaccum species, burley has a slightly higher concentration of Vitamin N. I'd stay away from the Nicotiana rustica species as it's awfully high in nicotine (up to about 10% of the leaf is nicotine!) and handling the leaves can cause problems without suitable protection.
Google "tobacco growing" and similar. You'll find a ton of information. You can also find lots of different varietals in seed form available online.
To extract the nicotine, try google. From what I've read, the extraction process leaves you with "dirty" nicquid -- other chemicals get extracted, and the nicquid is prone to oxidize easily. It will be somewhat "dirtier" than Chinese-made nicquid, but it will be usable. You also need a bunch of expensive glassware and lab stuff. It's a lot easier to buy the best nicquid you can find, then freeze it in a top-loading freezer.
Just enjoy the plants!
There are many varietals available. For maximum nicotine extraction from the Nicotiana tobaccum species, burley has a slightly higher concentration of Vitamin N. I'd stay away from the Nicotiana rustica species as it's awfully high in nicotine (up to about 10% of the leaf is nicotine!) and handling the leaves can cause problems without suitable protection.
Google "tobacco growing" and similar. You'll find a ton of information. You can also find lots of different varietals in seed form available online.
To extract the nicotine, try google. From what I've read, the extraction process leaves you with "dirty" nicquid -- other chemicals get extracted, and the nicquid is prone to oxidize easily. It will be somewhat "dirtier" than Chinese-made nicquid, but it will be usable. You also need a bunch of expensive glassware and lab stuff. It's a lot easier to buy the best nicquid you can find, then freeze it in a top-loading freezer.
Just enjoy the plants!
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I came here because I would be interested in educating myself for post apocalyptic states of the world. And by that I mean nicotine control. America is founded on the right to grow tobacco. FOUNDED. It was the industry that let us grow! This may become a loophole if the time comes.
It would be cool to have a nicotine plant just around. Just be sure to test your nicotine with the kit if you ever decide to use it.
It would be cool to have a nicotine plant just around. Just be sure to test your nicotine with the kit if you ever decide to use it.
I brew beer and decided to grow hops. They now cover a good portion of one outside wall of my house. All summer I'd water them, check for bugs, etc. I pulled them down to harvest and dry and ended up with 2 oz., which is about $4 worth. Tobacco takes up a whole lot of ground space - definitely look into usable yield per acre!
Cheaper just to collect all your friends' old ....-filled ashtrays i reckon! >
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Cheaper just to collect all your friends' old ....-filled ashtrays i reckon! >
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Growing tobacco is not too much trouble. Knowing when it is ready to harvest, and how to cure it is a different matter. Extraction is a science all it's own. Study well the process of extraction.
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Everything else aside, I doubt it would ever reduce the cost of your habit. Agriculture is "cheap" as far as dollars are concerned, but it takes labor. That's what you're paying for when you buy tobacco: the work involved in making it, not the cost. Skoot's hops story isn't a one-off tale.
Look at farmers and what they have to do to profit from farming. They grow in huge batches and use the largest machines they can to do as much of the work for them as possible. Mostlyclassics says the planting-to-extracting time is 15 months. Basically that means if you can't grow a year's worth of tobacco at once it's never going to be cheaper. Even if you could, I don't see how that much work can be worth the money saved. Sure, it's a great exercise in self-reliance, but as you can probably imagine, it takes a lot of land to actually be self-reliant.
Growing huge amounts of plants in one place so that everyone doesn't have to do it is what created civilization. It's what allows us do spend our lives doing other things. I'm happy with the arrangement
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i think that at the very least it would be a good idea to know how to do it, and even if it is labor intensive, IMO when you vape your juice, you will have a great feeling knowing that you harvested that tobacco and extracted it for your juice!
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