Tobacco cultivation at home

Are you among those who love to smoke a strong cigarette? Then you will be interested in this article and you will learn how to properly grow tobacco at home. In fact, this is not as difficult as many consider. It is necessary to adhere to certain rules and then you can collect a great harvest of tobacco, and then share with all those who wish.

An ordinary tobacco, self-adhesive or fragrant - all these concepts belong to a single plant that is easy to grow on its site. It is believed that the principle of cultivation of tobacco is not so complicated, it is necessary only more time to pay post-harvest processing or fermentation. But this is not necessary to be afraid, there is nothing difficult in this work. Especially if you know how to grow garden crops and make a blockage for the winter, then with the fermentation of tobacco, we just cope with "excellent".

What you need to know before sowing seeds?

Let's first reflect and think about it, is it important for you this long process of growing self-like, or is it better not to spend your personal time and buy a pack-other cigarette in the store? No, avid smokers believe that efforts are justified in full, the savings of the family budget is obvious, and indeed a favorite time and effort. Especially since the result will exceed all expectations: the product is clean and tested, no chemistry and additives will be.

These positive moments are not better prove that it is better for a smokers to smoke a cigarette of your own tobacco than to buy a "resin" with an admixture of chemistry. Now, forward, we will study together to grow tobacco.

Before you begin work, you need to know that the direct property of the plant will depend on the soil in which it grows. It adapts tobacco to any weather and climatic conditions, only the end result may differ from the original grown in the south of the country. Now it becomes clear that tobacco is a thermo-loving plant. Do not worry, there are several samosades, which are adapted to the composition of the soil and temperature.

What else should be considered before landing:

1. The composition of the soil directly affects not only the size, but even on the color and shape of the leaves.
2. The fragrance of tobacco depends on the mineral salts contained in the soil, as well as the level of moisture.
3. If the air is not enough (growing in greenhouses), it affects the taste of the leaves.

A little story

It is difficult to say how many centuries ago, humanity discovered the properties of tobacco and the fact that this plant can be smoking. The birthplace of the plant is considered to be Peru and Bolivia. But Europe is obliged to Columbus because he brought this plant and taught Europeans smoking.

Currently, this culture is cultured widely in India, China and North America. In Russia, rather in the former USSR, Tobacco was also taken to grow plantations in countries with a warm climate: Moldova, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Currently, in the Transcaucasia in the depths and until now, people grow tobacco on their household plots, as they say, in the old man.

The basic requirement for growing this culture is a high air temperature. Tobacco loves when heat is standing on the street, so the optimal temperature for preserving the juiciness of the leaves and colors is +30 ^oS. Soil is suitable more moisturized and light, as well as "bulk" with an admixture of sand.

The method of reproduction of tobacco - with the help of seeds, of which you must first grow seedlings, and then plan it into open ground.

Attention! Each of you should know that in the stems and leaves of this plant contains nicotine, and in the leaves it is more (up to 3%). Nicotine is a toxic substance that can cause euphoria. It passes this condition quickly, but not need to abuse tobacco smoking. By the way, tobacco use not only smoking method, but also chewing, as well as sniffing tobacco powder. Natural nicotine is a potent toxic substance, unsafe for human health.

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So still need to grow tobacco or not? Theoretically, yes, if health problems do not care, then you can try to raise smoking tobacco it yourself. The advantage is the first - there is a little space on the household plot, the second is a simple mathematics. It is known that in 1 cigarette there is very little tobacco, even less than indicated on a pack, about 1 g. It turns out that in a pack of only 20 g. If you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, then this is already a blow to the family budget. Suppose, a month will have to buy 30 or 31 packs, and for the year it turns out a big amount. As a result, the tobacco will cost almost for nothing and even if only 6-8 kg will need a year, then this is not much as the cost of purchased cigarettes.

If conditions allow, then only 1 bustle can be obtained up to 30 g tobacco! And just 1 weaving land grow up to 7 plants! Saplings are located at a distance of 20 cm apart, and large-scale - 30 cm, landing density 70 by 30 or 70 per 20 cm. If you take a plot equal to 40 m ²Most will have to plant 300 seedlings. And even if the plant is obtained concentrated or as they say, "evil" tobacco, it will have to dilute the stalks of the same plant, and this is even more profitable.

Learn what plants are better to plant

If you are among those who dream of gathering their first tobacco harvest from their own plot, then you need to get seeds. Landing material need to buy in the store. Consultants will offer to choose from several popular Tobacco varieties, it may be "rural" or "Virginia". Consider in more detail each type of this plant.

Virginia variety - the taste of leaves is soft, gentle. This variety of plants adapts to any climatic conditions. Elite Tobacco varieties are grown in favorable conditions in Brazil. Processing the collected leaves in a simple way: smoke smoke.

The "rural" variety is resistant to changes in weather conditions, a sheet strong and tart. The fragrance is thin.

There are still many different varieties of tobacco, which can also be tried to grow at home. Each variety is derived taking into account cultivation in the middle lane of Russia. It is very important to take into account the locality where the tobacco will be grown to choose the right variety.

So, it is worth paying attention to such Tobacco varieties:

• "Kuban Trapezond", from landing to the collection of the last leaf passes approximately 100 days. The content of the main substance is nicotine, is 2.6%;
• "92 trapezond" is a steady tobacco grade, not afraid of diseases and pests. Short season of vegetation. After landing, 98 days passes and you can proceed to the collection of sheet;
• "New Jubilee" is a short season of vegetation, only 78 days. Standard nicotine content: from 2.0%;
• "85 Samsun" is an intense variety, characterized by high ripening speed. From landing until 105 days passes from landing. Collecting mature leaves from one bush - up to 50 pcs.;
• "316 Ötolist" is a late satiety of plants, is distinguished by a low percentage of nicotine content. The average time of vegetation: 120 days, taking into account the last sheet collection.

Growing fragrant tobacco

For the cultivation of tobacco from seeds, you first need to prepare landing material. It's easy to do it, so we prepare any seeds before landing: just soak them in wet fabric with the addition of antiseptics (it can be a wine acid or a little potash nitrate). Dry seeds wrap in a rag moistened in water with the addition of antiseptic, we leave for a day. This method allows you to improve the quality of seeds.

After exposure, it is necessary to wash the planting material, carefully squeeze the excess liquid, decompose on a saucer or enameled dishes, and then put on the windowsill (the place should be warm). From time to time it will have to moisturize fabric with seeds. Make sure to prevent the germination of spickers for a length greater than the size of the grains, then the sprouts are rapidly clouded and the tobacco germination decreases.

After the seeds are sprouting, they become dry or bulk. They must be mixed with a special solution (sold in stores) or with sand.

Approximate date of seed landing: at the end of February or early March. Sowing tobacco seeds is carried out at home. Watering is very careful not to overcover and dismissed the soil, as it negatively affects the aroma of the leaves. Moisten the soil every day, supporting the optimal level of humidity. Indoor temperature + 23-25 ^oWITH.

It is very important when growing tobacco seedlings to make feeding, it can be chicken litter or mineral fertilizers.

Ready for landing in open seedlings reaches 15 cm growth with 6 developed leaf and strong root system.

7 days before the estimated landing date, it is necessary to gradually teach the seedlings to changes in temperature conditions to harden young plants.

Tobacco seedlings landing

It is very important when cultivating tobacco from seeds choose the right place to land. Choose such a plot so that in this place there is no stagnation of moisture and draft. Faulty and threshing well. Fertilizers are suitable such: manure or compost. Be sure to remove the weed grass from the plot before planting.

Tobacco landing rules:

1. Dates of planting seedlings - the end of April and inclusive until the end of May. Just these months - the most favorable time, because frosts are already behind.
2. Seedlings need to be planted, holding a distance of 20 cm. Between the rows, leave a gap equal to 70 cm so that each plant develops fully, and the leaves were large.
3. In each well after planting seedlings, tobacco it is necessary to pour 1 l of water.
4. Side shoots and inflorescences during the landing period must be broken.
5. The first feeding - immediately after planting a mixture of dull-grade with superphosphates. You can also use water, with the addition of sulfur powder.
6. When you see the first inflorescences, treat each bush with tincture on a onion husk or water infused on garlic.
7. After 7 days, it is necessary to repeat the processing of plants onion tincture, and another week later - the last time. Then it can be achieved that tobacco grew out fragrant.

About pests and diseases

Tobacco has a lot of "fans", so it is necessary to carry out protection measures in time to preserve the harvest.

Common tobacco pests:

• TLL PERSICS, Tobacco or Orangene - the most terrible pest for this plant. Amazes many cultures, including wild. TLL sucks all the juices from the plant, reducing the quality of the harvest;
• "The black leg" is striking the whole seedlings, hitting the base of the stem. On the surface hit by pest, a dark or light raid appears. The causative agents may remain in the soil for a long time;
• "Mosaic" - the distinctive properties of this pest are visible to the naked eye: light spots appear on the plant. Over time, these affected leaves die off;
• "Muced dew" - on the leaves there are spots resembling a web. The torment of the raid gradually becomes solid, hitting the tops of the plants;
• "Root black rot" - this pest is infectious to hit young plants, but the disease is also exposed to an adult plant. The leaves gradually fade, on the roots are white with black spots;
• "Ryabuha bacterial" - the tips of the young leaves in the seedlings and young plants are covered with oily or wet spots. If the street is wet, then gradually the plant dies.

Right harvest

Tobacco cultivation at home - an interesting occupation. Gradually, you have mastered the subtleties of growing seedlings, and now the harvest time has come. First you need to form lower leaves from each adult plant. The collected leaves must be decomposed in a 1 layer in the sun and leave for 2 days. After that, transfer the leaves into a dark room with high humidity. Leave leaves for drying for a month. To maintain a certain level of humidity in the room, you can put in the room where the tobacco leaves are dried, water container and monitor the level.

Be careful when collecting tobacco. The fact is that each bush consists of 4 tiers and the leaves of each tier ripen gradually. Therefore, when collecting each time you need to sign the collected harvest, so as not to get confused. Break between harvest collection - 2 weeks. Collecting leaves now - from the top-down. The top leaves will be the most valuable.

How to perform tobacco fermentation

Proper drying of the leaves is half success. It will remain quite a bit to achieve the final result and smoke a long-awaited cigarette of a handicraft grown tobacco. It is not worth a hurry to improve the quality of the material collected, it is necessary to perform the fermentation procedure. This can be done on your own at home. But for this will have to try.

For processing of leaves, a special cabinet is required. You can make it yourself from the old refrigerator. Inside place the thermostat and heating element. Remember that each grade of tobacco is a different fermentation technology.

What is fermentation? This is a complex process of processing the collected raw materials at high temperatures (+50 ^oC) for 2-3 weeks.

What is necessary for complex fermentation? To get rid of an excessive fortress, that is, to reduce the content of nicotine, reveal the resins and improve taste.

If there is no possibility to build a special cabinet for drying leaves, accelerated fermentation is allowed. Place the crushed leaves in the oven (the temperature is not higher than +60 ^oWITH).

Ready tobacco can be crushed, stored in linen bags, protecting from moisture. Smoking his own grown tobacco in the tube, tapping cigarets using special paper (sold in stores).

Now you know how to grown tobacco at home. Good luck to you in your endeavors!