I love how beautiful this plant is.

I liked your comparison on what happens when you don't transplant into a larger pot. The first year I tried to grow tobacco, I had only a couple plants, and they became what I called "bonzai tobaccos," and I actually thought that's all the bigger the plants were supposed to become, because I had never seen tobacco growing before. It wasn't until the next year that I had the full grown plants.... and I was astounded at how big tobacco can get. So your comparison makes an excellent point.

That's me! Already packed and will go out first thing in the morning!!!

thnx for the reply, and congrats on your hobby.

Hey dude, looks good. I am still waiting for my seeds I ordered off you months ago. Excellent site and very infomative thanks.

Oh yeah! Its going to love the heat, humidity and sun! You will have optimal growing conditions there. In fact if you are in south Florida you can plant at any time of the year since there is no real winters there! Just be sure to keep the soil moist at all times, and lots of sun!

@MyWillyboi Awesome! I have that outdoor terrarium and the moss thrive naturally without me doing anything at all, but of course I am in seattle and it grows naturally here. I have tried some natural terrariums indoors and it doesn't do as well. The basics is to keep it moist...but a herp cage needs high temps right? that might be drying it out. We'll see if i can do a terrarium vid coming up! the home cured gave me a headache...I'll make a vid on this too!

Love the video. I am also growing tobacco in seattle and was hoping for some of your knowledge. My Virginia Gold seeds germinated about two weeks ago and was wondering if you think that they have enough time to harvest by the end of the growing season?. Its May 18th today.

@SurfMonkeyCoconut I live in cali, central valley, so its pretty hot! Plus the lamps for heat and uv add to the problem! We have some moss, but it's a lil higher in elevation. Thanks for the videos and the help. And please do a terrarium vid. Keep it up

Hi Brandon. Recieved my seeds today thank you. I will contact you later to let you know how I get on. Your site is very clear and interesting. Thanks old chum. Mick.

Holy crap! I can't believe they grew so large in such a small pot. I was planning to do a few of my plants in 5 gallon buckets, and was concerned the buckets may be to small. I guess not! Did you heavily fertilize? What did you use?

great video!

Yes it is possible to grow in New York, if you are in the city you should make sure you have a spot that gets full sun during the day and has enough room for the plant to spread out. Best time to sow the seeds is in March-April it will give your plants 1 month of indoor growing while its still cold out, then you can move outside after the last frost! I have zero experience with snuff/dip, but processing and is the same for all tobacco, you may just need to add something at the end for flavor?

They look beautiful! Just received 1500 seeds from you and I hope that my plants look half as good as yours. If you have any special advice for me since I live in Phoenix, please feel free to offer it. Mark

@CrapGames2 I think you mean the little jiffy peat pods? The 1" seed starters? You will need to transplant these into 3.5" square nursery pots prior to planting into the ground. Transplant them into pots when they are about 2-3" tall, then transplant into the ground when they are about 6-9" tall. You can watch the earlier videos in this series to see about the size for transplanting!

@rafire34 I recommend using a small pot first, because the seedling when removed from the starter tray is really fragile, even in nice warm weather, the wind can easily break the plant's stalk. Tobacco should be kept indoors for about 3 months using a small pot will allow the seedling to keep growing and get stronger.

Your spot on advice, those plants in ground will go 2 x that size, only take seed from 2 or 3 best plants, that ensures large healthy gerational seed, weed plants same deal, they need many feet of of tap root soil to mature to what they can offer, I grew a breed in Canada, around lake erie, the whole field 8 feet before topping. Each plants produce large 30 " lower leaf, 25" upper. They need lots of nitrogen to reach those levels, my fav is virgina gold leaf 77, smooth high nic, sweet, nature's finest smoke if you ask me

Great job!

Lovely fresh tobacco!

too am experiencing the feeling i have run out of room to grow.., i came home after several months away to find a strange plant had inhabited my greenhouse (i'm in melb oz) to soon discover it was my tobacco i had planted from seed... i picked some leaves and put them on a flat basket to dry, not as big as yours, but yummy looking. i noticed they were a bit sticky and have now hung them folded over the clothes hangar. will let you know how trey are travelling. your other vids seem on point, i will check out your wheatgrass next.. thought of growing sacred acaci

thank you sir planted my seeds and there already sprouting, will be following your guide every step of the way. one more question if you haven't already answered it I'm planning on using my tobacco for cigarettes whats the process for that?

@axldyer that would be a really good idea if you have one! Ground is best, but the larger the container the better. I've seen these in halved wine barrels as well!

wow... great job

yes! it will keep shooting up new tops, so the trick is to keep cutting every week or so! The less energy the plant is sending up, the better off the bottom of the plant will be.

Aweosme! Quick comment! lol Love the videos!

Also, I am in the most northern part of the US we have colder summers as well! They will do fine!

@Vincejoecool typically April to start indoors! It will give your seedlings about 4 weeks to develop prior to the last frost!

what temps and humdity does it like?what im want to do is try a indoor hydro.my temp stay at 80 -90 humedity is 59 %,how light a day does it need to mature?thank for your time .your plants look great.

@giftsfromtheholyland Awesome! 15 acres is a fantastic amount of land! You will find you probably only need a 5' x 10' spot for a good crop of about 15 plants! For winter growing, you will do well in a greenhouse, its what I recommend for the only winter alternative. I don't believe they will do well under sun lamps. These amazing plants have a nearly microscopic seed, but grows into a 7' monster in just 6-8 months, (its entire lifespan), its an annual so will die back after this time.

@rocier LOL, actually its the sticky surface that covers the plant more than anything else.

@TheBearfolk Soil should be moist at all times throughout the life of the plant! If the soil ever gets dry the plant will wilt within a few hours. You can switch to everyday watering when the plants are large enough to start sucking the soil dry, typically after a month or if you live in a really dry climate.

lol! We have decent square footage, but the space goes vertical, separated on 3 floors and barely any yard. My dream would be to move out to a small sized farm property!

@SurfMonkeyCoconut It's not the circular peat pod but a peat pot. Can I just transplant the whole peat pot into the bigger 3.5" deep pot or do I need to remove the soil etc. like you did in the videos? Just wondering if the roots would break through the peat pot. I think they are supposed to bio-degrade but I'm not sure if it would do it fast enough. Thanks for responding!

@MrJuggaloicp around 15-20 leaves can be harvested, accounting for the ones lost to wind damage and such. if you grow very early in the season and have a mature plant mid-summer, you may be able to harvest the plant twice! There are smaller leaves beneath the main leaves which are called "milk leaves" these can develop and grow larger given more-than-ideal conditions!

I grow Havana tobacco as well. I am new to growing it. Recently my leaves developed very tiny yellow dots. I am an experienced gardener and it looks like some sort of blight to me. Have you seen this on your plants?

once the plant is grown, will its leaves grow back? or once you have harvested it is that it?

Yeah, I'm in South FL. Do you know where Boca Raton is? About 50 miles North of Miami. I haven't decided on whether or not to put them in a big clay pot in my yard where I just got rid of some tomatoes or try to put them in the ground. I have seen some people use them for landscaping because they're so beautiful. Any recommendations there?

@tobaccogrower12 Thanks! It was a really crummy growing season last year in Seattle city limits! Hope this year is better!

@reelthing4u Tobacco is a very hearty plant once established. Temps can be from 60-100 humidity can be anything so long as the soil remains moist at all times. In terms of light, it will need full sun for at least 4 hours a day, (which is pushing the low end), any less and it may contribute to stunting and/or anemic looking white leaves.

@MrRando100 We were planning to do a color cure video with the harvested leaves, but it was an unbelievably crummy summer last year, it ended way too early and became too cold and rainy to allow us to do anything with them. We eventually threw the leaves in the compost heap. We hope to do a video series on air curing this year!

Can u still smoke the 1s u brake off if you dry them n stuff? and is it very important when u plant them? thanks

Are you growing it for the seeds? Since the growing season has ended why not top the plant so the leaves will double in size?

question im thinking of growing my own tobacco plants and was wondering if i need a pot as big as the havana plant or can i use the small planter like you did with the other one? will the leaves be able to smoke as the havana ones or would it just be a waste? thank you in advance

So you take the yellowish leaves at the bottom and that the ones you cure?

You say that sometimes you find the 5 gallon pot too restricting, have you ever tried a water trough for your plants?

hey i live in malta we don't have frost and winter pretty mild do you thinck i will manageg to grow this time? nice vids bdw :)

of course! where do you think tobacco comes from?

@441rider Those slugs eat everything! If the bottom leaves touch the ground the slugs do get them! I would pick off the lower leaves and discard if them. You should wait until the leaves turn yellow, then pick them!

How warm is it where you live in the summer? I want to grow tobacco next summer here in Massachusetts but I'm worried it may be too cold. :\ Also could I grow smaller plants indoors in the winter? I heard that tobacco requires 80 degrees (Fahrenheit) to grow. Is that true?

Of all the growing indoors scenarios, growing in a greenhouse is probably the best bet. Although even better is simply waiting to grow outdoors during summer. If you have full sun where you are during winter, I say give it a shot. Treat everything the same, keep temperatures in the 50's-70's. To strengthen the stalks you mayw ant to create some artificial wind with a fan or something.

lows mid 50's highs can be anywhere between mid-70's-90, sometimes 100, but for no longer than a week.

Im growing tobacco at a large scale about 110 havana plants and I see how you did your fermenter but I was wondering if there was an easier way for fermenting that many leaves? Plz reply thanx.

@GardenerTobak Yes totally makes a huge difference. It was also light deprived. It almost felt like a hibernation of sorts. I suspect if it wasn't winter and (for example), I got a really early start on the season, if I transplanted the stunted plant to a larger pot with lots of sun, it would have taken off like a sprout! but of course it is all speculation! :D Maybe a good experiment for next season.

if you top a tobacco plant, like cut it right above the stem of a leaf, will there be two new tops? like with, erh, other plants?

Slugs in the PNW will eat lower leaves :o( green leaves will go yellow if picked?.

totally! Sweet succulent leaves!

@guns478 tomato fertilizers, they are related to tomatos and have the same nutritional requirements!

hello there I like watching your videos I have few qs if I may! I have a 15 acre land and I am thinking to grow tobacco can you grow the tobacco in greenhouses!! what is the live time for the tobacco plant !! how big they grow?!! how much space between each plant what kind of a weather and so on looking for your reply

Sounds awesome, Buddy. I was just wondering. I'm in Sunny, HOT South Florida. If you were able to get tobacco that big in Seattle, how long do you think it could take to get that kind of size down here? I assume that tobacco likes the weather down here because of the history or plantations and stuff in the South.

How big were the containers that you grew them in? What's the minimum size pot you would use? In liters

@Metal8Lover when tomatoes were first introduced to Europe, it was assumed that they were poisonous cause they are botanically related to plants (deadly nightshade) that were poisonous.

So I grow my rustica indoors, there was a small, very round, eggy leaf that was yellowing, thought it was the whole plant that was supposed to turn yellow, slight misread of the guide I read when sowing. Now it has another yellow leaf, when is the ideal time to harvest tobacco?

does it matter if the plants are outside while its raining?

@LegitXTrinny I have a set of fermented leaves from 3 years ago in a cardboard box that I haven't done anything with. This year we will do a set of vids detailing curing and fermenting, and we will see if the 3 year old leaves are smokable! Stay tuned during the fall!

Tobacco really needs the benefit of being outdoors, it needs full sun, healthier in general if there is slight breeze and a cyclic resting cycle (nights); all this in addition to fertilizer, lots of water and good soil. You can get a really good head start by sowing and growing indoors for 4 months prior to last frost. Generally you want to start 3 months ahead, but you can push it longer so your plant is more mature when you plant outside.

@Wolfspirittt Oh yeah, I know what you are talking about, I would remove it from the biodegradable pot. Only because this plant grows so rapidly, that I don't think the pot will biodegrade fast enough to accommodate the growth. It might, but better to be safer than sorry. If you want you could still throw the pot on to your top soil as mulch or into your compost heap if you have one!

@guns478 Typically these are pest resistant because of the sticky surface and not very appetizing leaf. Personally i've never encountered any infestations, but if you are planning to smoke the leaf, do not use pesticide. You can try getting some lady bugs, but im not sure if they would like the sticky leaf surface. You could also try a one part rubbing alcohol to 3 parts water solution and spray them, that may work, but im not sure how well the leaf will do.

@giftsfromtheholyland Part 1: I think the greenhouse will work great for winter growing, for summer growing 15 acres is great, but if you plan to harvest seeds, each type of tobacco must be separated by at least 1 mile to maintain its varietal integrity. If you let them all grow on 1 parcel, you will most likely end up with mystery tobacco the next year. This is the biggest reason we only offer 3 types of seed, we need to grow on 3 different properties.

How much time does tobacco need to grow starting from sowing until harvesting?? please respond:)

I haven't tried that! We are only able to concentrate on 3 types because you need to separate each tobacco crop type by 1 mile to avoid possible cross-pollination and to maintain genetic integrity between varieties! One of these years I may try growing an exotic strain at home away from the seed crops!

Could a plant grow all year long if conditions are rite ?

@CanadianSwine All tobaccos are pretty much the same, just regionally distinct. There are no dwarf tobaccos that I know of. But again a dwarf tobacco would miss the point as the leaves are the product and typically the bigger the better! We recommend starting indoors on a window sill, but their nutritional requirements and size increase exponentially after 3 months. If you have a greenhouse, or a really sunny area in your house, it would be the most ideal indoor situation.

do yu hav tu use a small pot? or can yu just use a big pot to grow from there...

@LeperMessiah95 you still need to dry and cure the tobacco. then cook it with mollasses and sugar etc.

ok i live in Bahrain, a hot weather country, it reaches 45 C degree at summer, but winter can drop by 20s, so can i grow mine here too?

what kind of tobacco is Copenhagen usually made of

Can I just grow my tobacco in regular soil from start? I have a lot of ground/soil near a forest and I'm planning to grow some tobacco. Would it work?

@sexylilthug77 Last year was a bust, the weather turned to crap after this part was filmed. This year we got an earlier start and we will hopefully make a video about color curing and fermenting if everything works out!

@SurfMonkeyCoconut I tried many times to grow moss for my various reptile cages! any tips? Did you smoke the havana? How Is it

what about growing all year long in the greenhous?

Sweet Sweet bug poison! :D BTW, Beer is a good slug poison!

@Vladivostok41 Cool! You got firsties! Thanks for the positive comment!

@christuimbirek Absolutely! if you are lucky enough to live in an area that doesn't have a proper Winter season like the rest of the world, this plant can grow at any time of the year!

@SurfMonkeyCoconut What size plant pot is the BIG tabacco in, you say 5 Gallons but they look tiny

what is the best temperature for tobacco

they typically hit a certain height, about 7 feet, then stop growing. Eventually the weather will turn too cold to survive and the plants die by the first frost.

what did u do with them after

how many dried leaves does it take to make a pound?

Cover the flowers with plastic bags to avoid cross pollination.

@LeperMessiah95 Eeep! You've stumped me, I've never attempted to make a processed tobacco for chew. My expertise lies with boutique cigars. I assume the curing/fermentation part is the same then you would process it further, shredding, adding flavor?? You will see from future vids, the tobacco leaf remains quite moist after curing, if you wanted to go 'all natural' its possible to chew the cured/fermented leaf as is! I've done this in the past just to taste and it has a nice spicy note.

what type of plant food you give them ?

Its best to start indoors, the seedlings are very fragile when they are less than 1 month old. Wind, rain or critters could easily kill them. It wouldn't be a problem to bring in the outdoor soil indoors into seedling starters or pots.

@mrsiepel1 Oh man! Tobacco horn worm is a problem, we don't have many (if any at all) up here so we haven't ran into this problem yet. I am not sure if there is food-safe caterpillar killer, but if you are planning to smoke the leaves later, this may not be a good idea. Hornets and birds are natural predators, I wonder if you put up a bird feeder to attract more birds to your yard, so long as you don't have other veggies they may want to eat. The last solution is long-term with...cont.

Is it legal to grow tobacco in washington?

absolutely! go to my channel page on the left there are links to my website if you are in the states or if you are international click on the ebay link.

can you harvest from small plant?

Surfmonkey use 24 inch diameter and depth 24 inches regular watering and once a month bio grow fertiliser in tubs described above.

We are up in the Pacific Northwest so we are lucky to see mid-70 degree weather in summer. For just one or two weeks (like right now we just peek into the 90's). so I am living it up while I can! After this, its back to the 60 degree weather we normally have. So to answer your question. No, you do not need 80 degree weather, however your plants would love it, if you so happened to have it. The plants in these videos were grown in full sun in about 60-70 degrees.

Now what about drying the leaves? This is my first time trying to grow tobacco and I have no clue of what I'm doing lol

If I wanted make a chew like red man how do I do that? Like dry and cure?