Posted by Coffee's For Closers on February 25, 2010, 6:56 pm
White_Noise_1@webtv.net says...
>
> I've also thought about this. The tobacco I'll be growing is a big
> beautiful plant with lush green leaves and beautiful flowers. I could
> place a few at the end of my garden for decorative purposes and also as
> a conservation piece. I don't think many folks here in the north east
> ever even saw a tobacco plant let alone one in bloom. Tobacco seeds are
> very tiny, about as fine as ground pepper so I'm told. Perhaps I could
> then allow my plants to go to seed and then harvest just the seeds.
> From my understanding, each pod contains about 100 seeds. That's a lot
> of seeds from a few plants! The seeds could then be used as a barter
> item in a future economy that seems to be getting worse with each
> passing week month and year. There are a lot of tobacco users out there
> who can't buy their tobacco products when they don't have jobs. Smoke
> some, perhaps. Harvest seed to barter, perhaps. Seems to me that
> this plant could have lot's of possibilities now and in the future.
If someone is having difficulty affording cancer sticks, wouldn't
a more effective solution be to stop smoking?
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Posted by gloria.p on February 25, 2010, 6:18 pm
EVP MAN wrote:
> As the price of tobacco products shoot sky high it seems more people are
> taking an interest in growing their own. I'm considering a dozen or two
> plants this spring myself.
If you or a nearby neighbor has a garden that grows tomatoes, please
don't grow tobacco. It often carries the tobacco mosaic virus which
will transmit to tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, some flowers and other
food crops.
gloria p
Posted by Wildbilly on February 25, 2010, 10:09 pm
> EVP MAN wrote:
> > As the price of tobacco products shoot sky high it seems more people are
> > taking an interest in growing their own. I'm considering a dozen or two
> > plants this spring myself.
>
>
> If you or a nearby neighbor has a garden that grows tomatoes, please
> don't grow tobacco. It often carries the tobacco mosaic virus which
> will transmit to tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, some flowers and other
> food crops.
>
> gloria p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_mosaic_virus
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is an RNA virus that infects plants,
especially tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae.
Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants that contains a number of
important agricultural plants as well as many toxic plants. . .
The family includes . . . Capsicum (paprika, chili pepper), Solanum
(potato, tomato, aubergine or eggplant)
If your willing to lose your and your neighbor's chili peppers,
potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants it shouldn't be a problem.
Maybe you could be a good guy, and help save a little bit of the world
while your at it: and grow organic.
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Posted by dr-solo on March 4, 2010, 11:34 am
just get TMV free seed. it is just as likely that the tomatoes, etc will carry
it to
the tobacco. actually it takes a lot of mechanical damage to introduce. tobacco
must be hand suckered to get nice big leaves.
and BTW, the sheds are opened during "casing weather" or during the Jan thaw so
the
leaves can absorb enough moisture so they can be packed without breaking.
Ingrid
>EVP MAN wrote:
>> As the price of tobacco products shoot sky high it seems more people are
>> taking an interest in growing their own. I'm considering a dozen or two
>> plants this spring myself.
>If you or a nearby neighbor has a garden that grows tomatoes, please
>don't grow tobacco. It often carries the tobacco mosaic virus which
>will transmit to tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, some flowers and other
>food crops.
>gloria p
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> I've also thought about this. The tobacco I'll be growing is a big
> beautiful plant with lush green leaves and beautiful flowers. I could
> place a few at the end of my garden for decorative purposes and also as
> a conservation piece. I don't think many folks here in the north east
> ever even saw a tobacco plant let alone one in bloom. Tobacco seeds are
> very tiny, about as fine as ground pepper so I'm told. Perhaps I could
> then allow my plants to go to seed and then harvest just the seeds.
> From my understanding, each pod contains about 100 seeds. That's a lot
> of seeds from a few plants! The seeds could then be used as a barter
> item in a future economy that seems to be getting worse with each
> passing week month and year. There are a lot of tobacco users out there
> who can't buy their tobacco products when they don't have jobs. Smoke
> some, perhaps. Harvest seed to barter, perhaps. Seems to me that
> this plant could have lot's of possibilities now and in the future.