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As I said, the batch that didn't go moldy is still curing, so I haven't smoked any yet. My biggest tip so far would be: Make sure that humidity never goes above 70% when you are curing your tobacco. Growing it is easy, the aging and curing is what needs care. Looking at your cellars, I think...

I was never really into gardening and this is also my first go at growing something "useful". In this case I'm twice as determined because in GB tobacco is approx $8 an ounce which is an insult and I want to stick it to the b'stads. Had a setback with my GB harvest, half of which went mouldy in...

As someone who recently started growing their own pipe tobaccos (which are not ready to smoke yet) I'm interested in knowing how many of you would consider it. Do you have the space for growing it?

I make it a special point NOT to buy stuff that's advertised. The more it's pushed in my face the more certain that I won't buy it.

Being in GB, Tea is the thing I have many times a day, though not necessarily with my pipe. BTW, avoid artificial sweeteners and diet products, they contain Aspartame which does your head in.

If you can grow tomatoes you can grow tobacco: http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.htm http://www.thetobaccoseed.com/

Hehehe, know what you mean, LIPIPE ! I've even had comments that my tobacco smelled nice! The compulsive non-smokers are so surprised they don't know what to do. In fact it's so much trouble for anyone to actually do anything about smokers, they invariably don't bother. Trying to ban smoking...

It's got to the stage where I just ignore such diktats here in GB. I smoke where I like, as long as it doesn't bother people, this includes baggage handling areas of airports for example. Nobody has ever told me to stop! I also treat "No Smoking" signs as convenient places to tap the ashes from...

I note that Egypt managed to close down internal communications, net and cellphones at the flick of a switch. BTW, this is a GB blog/forum I frequent: http://www.oldholborn.net/ And this blog/forum is the one most read by british politicians: http://order-order.com/ If you check the comments...

"Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is the mantra Britain's surveillance society is trying to drum into the sheeple. I'm all for gvt. leaking like a sieve, it makes it more difficult for them to lie and cheat. Most of what's leaking is stuff we should know about anyway. Incidentally, Tony B'liar...

Tobacco must be one of the easiest plants to grow. Even if you don't have any land you can still grow it in flowerpots for next to nothing.

Thanks for the welcome! Have to say though that my baccy crop isn't very spectacular compared to what the folk over at http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com manage to achieve. If you check out "SCyankee's" post on the 'grow log' subforum you'll have more pics of the stuff at every conceivable stage...

As a new pipe smoker who has just started growing his own tobacco mold is a particular worry for me (since about 1/4 of my curing leaves have just been lost to it while I was away for 3 months). I know that various home growers use "Serenade" on theirs, which is a bacterium used in gardening...

As per title! Started smoking pipe about a year ago after a few decades of smoking rollups. Within a week I stopped coughing! Due to the crazy price of tobacco here in England, I get most of mine from abroad but... I have now started growing my own tobacco, both in England and in the Azores...