Anyone trie growing and making your own?

[eggopp]

I found this article on growing and making your own cigars

http://www.coffinails.com/growing.html

anyone tried it?

[satch]

I've tried walking into a baccy shop and buying some. dead easy!

[Deano]

Yep my Dad grew his own and I'm doing so this year....they very creamy if I remember rightly.

[G-man]

The Amish grow and it is Conni.Broad leaf not 20 minutes from me. There are lots of diseases that get at tobacco plants. Now weed ya and the burn ahhhhhhhhhhh
Ya wanna see god ?

[rollzst]

I was thinking about trying to grow my own, thats as far as it got though lol. I think as taxes increase we will see a rise in people trying to grow their own.

[eggopp]

I was thinking about it, but i dont think we have the climate

[eggopp]

Yep my Dad grew his own and I'm doing so this year....they very creamy if I remember rightly.

Well i guess we will have to sample the goodies then Deano when they have been made...

[tippexx]

I was thinking about it, but i dont think we have the climate

Exactly ..... 'cos if we did, Imperial Tobacco would have half of Lincolnshire and most of Suffolk under cultivation.

[Ryan]

Tobacco will grow in Ireland and the UK.
King James I suppressed its cultivation, Charles II extended the prohibition with a fine of ?1600 per acre.
Climate is not the reason tobacco is not grown in this part of the world. It's back breaking work that needs lots and lots of cheap manual labour.
Some interesting stuff here, regarding Ireland specifically.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/flora-fauna/the-tobacco-growing-indus/revival-of-tobacco-growin/

More links on the right hand side of that page.
There was a cA article a few years ago about a chap in the US who grew his own cigar tobacco. I think the cigars turned out OK but some of the most expensive he ever had after all the costs were counted.

[tippexx]

[QUOTE=eggopp;66661]I found this article on growing and making your own cigars

http://www.coffinails.com/growing.html

...... but, guess what!

http://www.freesmoking.co.uk/moreinfoUK.html

[eggopp]

Well Tippexx... thats no suprise..

[tippexx]

Yeah .... just as well I only grow tomatoes!