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Not sure if in right thread here but im sure it will be moved if not.

just about to embark on a new project of growing our own tobacco.both hubby and i are smokers and one of or fellow allotters has already got his well and truely underway and gave us the site to get our own seeds .
We have bought our seeds which arrived this morning through the post and hubby is off now to prepare the ground ready for first lot..

Now i know it is legal to grow your own tobacco in this country but illegal to sell so we thought we would give it a try .but i wasnt aware that it was possilble to grow but if it does work it makes a lot of sense for a smoker to grow thier own as it means you no longer have to pay the extortionate prices we do for cigs .apperently you dont even need a garden as it can be done in pots according to the website. www.coffinails.com

Did wonder if anyone has tried though and been successful?

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Are you sure you bought tobacco seeds? ;)

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Can I order some menthol ones please?:D

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I would have thought the problem would lie not in growing the tobacco, but in drying out the leaves.. As far as I am aware, you can't exactly hang your baccy on the washing line - they don't even do that in Cuba or South Africa - so it is ulikely you will be able to hang 'em from the underside of the North Pier.

Still, a fasinating experiment...maybe one day, with global warming, the finest Havannas will have given way to the best Blackpools.

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Hehehehehe nice one cherokee you will have to let us know if its successful:D

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well according to the instructions leaves can be hung in a conservatory , outdoor lean to or garage for drying . then transferred to loft until curing. there are 8 pages of instuctions n am not going to type em all off lol.but way i look at it is it must be possible ,(yes even in blackpool) if the guy across from us is on his 3rd year . time and patience and ability to follow intructions might just save me a small fortune if i wish to carry on smoking

be assured i will keep you updated after planting and will put pics on as they develope

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I can't believe no one has commented on the site url name :)

I agree though.. interesting.. havent had a fag in 10 years meself but still interested..

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yes it is an appropriate one haha ..tried giving up last year but only managed to last 5 mnth

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After 25 years of smoking I smoked herbal cigs from the chemist for a year... 1 quid for 20 and they stunk.. but aftre a year of smoking them it was easy to give up cus no thingy in em... and as bought from chemist then not bad for ya..

plus the moon was in the right orbit and stuff like that I suppose... :)

My wife smokes 3 or 4 times a year.. usually if out with a bunch of other women... has a load of fags when too much beer.. then thats it.. can go 6mths a year without another... summat wrong there eh :)

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take a lot of will power and self dicipline to stop and start like that good on her

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Are you going to sit by a waterfall and roll the baccy on your thigh, like they used to on the old tv adverts?:D

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No thats the summat wrong bit... smoking doesnt interest her the rest of the time.. In fact Aug now she has probably only smoked twice this year :)

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I can do that if you want mate... But I charge .... or was it directed at someone else ?:)

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OMG garinda dont remember those ads how far back are going ? lol

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Thanks for the offer Kipax...buy I think I'd prefer to roll my own!:D

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Haa another rumor confirmed :)

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Rumour?

It's a fact.:)

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Just stepping back a bit .... I ahve noticed more and more women rolling there own.. it was unheard of a few (hmm probably a lot) years ago.. you would just see a few blokes..potless or ex cons .... then it spread and now women... it was never really seen as a women thing to do...

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Hubby and i used to spend just over hundred quid a week on cigs till we had a go at giving up last year , then when we started again we both went on to rolling our own its saved us a fortune think we spend bout 40-50 per month now .still a lot .. but we still buy cigs if we go out ie, to pub or club

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I used to roll mine in the latter years of smoking.. One day while out someone offered me there baccy to roll one.. I rolled myself a fag and they looked at it.. decided I had used too much baccy and said..... Do you want a brandy with that!

:)

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I just given up smoking (well, tried). Hadn't had a ciggie for nearly a month, then on Sunday night started again. I'm on about 6 roll-ups per day now, better than the 20-25 a day i was smoking. Back to the chemist tomorrow for some more nicotine patches. Then try again.

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yeah i must admit i dont smoke half as many rollups as i did cigs we used to be on 60-80 daily between us now if i smoke 10 rollups thats about it

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they are 20p a pack more expensive because you have to put polo mints in teh soil :)

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Well untill you try you wont know if you can. So are you going to make your own rolling papers as well???

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isnt that what the bible is for ?

well thats what i heard they used in prison for papers :)

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What were you inside for?
Indecently assulting a pussy cat?

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when neil was in prison he was on 30 fags a day yet i dont recall him ever having a ciggrette and wouldnt they be hard to light in the showers ? :eek:

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Ive been on roll-ups now for nearly 10 years. Got to admit i cannot for the life of me handroll and have to use a little rolling machine. I still put a filter in as well.

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well i must admit i struggled at first but think i got it of to a fine art now with the tips, takes seconds rather than mins lol

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We need a giving up smoking thread :)

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why has accyweb fallen under the no smoking in public places rules ? :D

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KIPAX seems to be on a crusade. We will just publicly support it but scream blue murder in private areas. :p

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Hey Cherokee, maybe your Virginia Cousin can be of some assistance in this endeavor. Wasn't it Sir Walter Raleigh that first brought tobacco over there from Virginia? Send me some seeds (or info on where you got yours) and I'll send the finished product. If Customs has a problem with it we can say we're conducting some sort of Historical Re-inactment:) .

At the moment we are being hit very hard by the "remnants" of that hurricane. With 40 mile-an-hour winds and 5 inches of rain so far, it doesn't feel much like a remnant. It is SO nice to finally break the drought and 90 degree weather.though!

Unfortunetly, the aforementioned weather is causing some big trees and limbs to fall. So while you're all nice, tidy, and warm in your beds, I'll be doing a walk-about the fence-line and checking on the critters!

See Ya!

Brian

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As a non-smoker, who never has, why on earth am I reading this thread and wondering if I've discovered another use for my Flatley?
I could rent it out for drying space when not being used for clothes! :D

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just wondering if anyone has seen the link that i put on with first post www.coffinails.com there is a forum there and folk all over are actually growing it successfully so fingers crossed:smoky: :smoky:

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Just had a quick shufty at the site. It seems a bit complicated unless you live in the tropics.:eek:

How are you going to grow your's? Indoors, outdoors, or in a greenhouse?

Sounds exciting though. Keep us posted on how it goes.:)

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Will be doing both Garinda , the guy across from us has his outside and boy do they look good, cant wait to get started.So many people miss out on things through believing they arent possible but I am a big believer in giving things a go even if it does seem like the impossible , and im not affraid of failing because at least i know ive tried. Unfortunatly cant plant until feb so its just a matter of preparing the ground at the moment, but once planted will be posting regular updates and pics

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I think waiting for the Spring may be wise.

It says they take 10-12 weeks to grow in frost free conditions, but the way the weather has turned we may be getting frost in 10-12 days.:(:D

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Better watch were you do grow it in case the police decide to raid the place thinking you are growing drugs. :eek:

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well if they have done thier homework they,d know lol

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Police do their homework now thats a laugh. They get a kick out of busting into peoples homes.

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Right back to this...the experiment has begun, all seeds have gone into the proporgaters and my camera is at hand for when they peep through . so fingers crossed that it works ..

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Hope you haven't planted them in the swimming pool, like your neighbours in Broughton did, just before they were raided the other day.

Oh sorry, they were growing whacky-baccy.:D

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I'm telling ya folks, let your virginian cousin grow it for ya. It was good enough back when the colonist shipped it back from here! Save some seeds for me and I'll bring the finished product over in the fall.

No how about finding seeds to grow my own tea???? Okay, maybe for another thread.

Brian

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Would the leaves be good enough to make a decent cigar then? As for tea you might need to be in the Rockies somewhere.

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Two quick points-
1. My Grandad used to grow his own tobacco after the war and dried it in the airing cupboard so it can be done.

and

2. The majority of cannabis cultivators getting done these days are being caught by the Police helicopters. It is increasingly standard practice to leave the thermal imagining camera on when returning to base from a job. Bobbies then later review the tapes- "Cold roof, cold roof, cold roof, cold roof, RED HOT!!' lets go and have a look at that one"

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No point doing that up here as they dont do it in their lofts (majority housing is flats) Besides you should see a thermal image of Grangemouth the towns glow can be seen for miles a bit like when London was being bombed in WWII a lovely pulsating glow.


;) :p

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Just wondering if the seeds took and if any crop was gained?????????

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thats the experiment ber999t seeds only just gone in and will let you know of the progress as we go along ..:)

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are you sure its tobcco and not the other you are a law- baying person now your sure it not a rubber plant

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Easy way to quit smoking: have your surgeon mention that if you don't quit you will die a painful death. Worked for me, that and the surgery. Everytime I feel like getting some smokes I take a long look at my scars.

I gather that smokes are expensive in the UK. Around here they are cheap. On the reserve the Mohawks sell them for $15.00 for a carton of 200. My partner is from the Tyendenaga First Nation and she can get them for $10.00. That would be, let me see, about 75p for a pack of 25.

The other kind of tobacco is only $10.00 a gram.