Puffing on my pipes again for mental health!!

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davey

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haven't smoked my pipes for a few years now - but decided to try a few samples. I can buy four or five different samples delivered in plastic pouches I imagine. Each pouch has enough tobacco for 2-3 pipes and they sell 4 pouches equals 50 g total for about $A120 which has doubled in price of course. Should be here in a few days just coming from Melbourne eastern states to me in the west. I used to find sitting out in the evening puffing on a few bowls was relaxing and therapeutic and calming? will let ya know later how it went.
 
I feel exactly the same. I used to love having a puff on one of my pipes. I have 4 pipes including a nice 'Meerschaum' and a 'Calabash'. Tobacco is obscenely expensive in the UK, but I just might buy some when I'm back in Europe - just for old times sake.
 
what is the cost of a 50g tin or pouch of good tobacco in uk then? - I believe that usa have always still kept it reasonably low?
 
yea ya talkin about the wrong ends though - I can get it cheap all over the world but the customs in Oz are crash hot on it all - I once could get 2/3rds in under the radar - no longer i'm sorry to report
 
davey said:
yea ya talkin about the wrong ends though - I can get it cheap all over the world but the customs in Oz are crash hot on it all - I once could get 2/3rds in under the radar - no longer i'm sorry to report
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Maybe try getting a lesser amount so you don’t get charged duty. Growing your own … even better. 😂
 
Never smoked a pipe, but I do have the very occasional cigar, probably 5 to 10 a year. And I like the smell of a good cigar.
Murrmurr said:
Davey, have you thought about growing your own tobacco? It really isn't that hard.
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I have grown my own tobacco, in Florida. It really was easy, and the plants are very impressive, huge leaves.

However once grown I never figured out how to dry or cure it, tried a couple of times but just ended up throwing the leaves in the compost. Did keep growing it as an ornamental. Haven't tried in Utah.
 
Alligatorob said:
Never smoked a pipe, but I do have the very occasional cigar, probably 5 to 10 a year. And I like the smell of a good cigar.

I have grown my own tobacco, in Florida. It really was easy, and the plants are very impressive, huge leaves.

However once grown I never figured out how to dry or cure it, tried a couple of times but just ended up throwing the leaves in the compost. Did keep growing it as an ornamental. Haven't tried in Utah.
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The guy who wrote the article I posted said you don't HAVE to cure it, but I'll bet it doesn't taste good if you don't. He does explain how, though.
 
Murrmurr said:
The guy who wrote the article I posted said you don't HAVE to cure it, but I'll bet it doesn't taste good if you don't. He does explain how, though.
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I saw that, based on what he said my porch probably was not dry enough, mine molded while hanging. Had a nephew who was brave enough to try smoking it, said it was awful, I didn't try. Tobacco is grown commercially close to where I lived. And there are drying barns so if I had kept at it I might have found a way to make it work, but I didn't .

Quincy, Fl just north of us was once famous for it's shade leaf tobacco, used as wrapper for cigars. When Tampa was the cigar making capital of the world they imported most of the tobacco from Cuban but used our Quincy shade leaf for wrapping. https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/03/84/99/00001/AA00038499_00001.pdf
 
Alligatorob said:
I saw that, based on what he said my porch probably was not dry enough, mine molded while hanging. Had a nephew who was brave enough to try smoking it, said it was awful, I didn't try. Tobacco is grown commercially close to where I lived. And there are drying barns so if I had kept at it I might have found a way to make it work, but I didn't .

Quincy, Fl just north of us was once famous for it's shade leaf tobacco, used as wrapper for cigars. When Tampa was the cigar making capital of the world they imported most of the tobacco from Cuban but used our Quincy shade leaf for wrapping. https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/03/84/99/00001/AA00038499_00001.pdf
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Interesting.

I'm thinking of giving it a go now that I have a yard. I'm deciding whether I should build a planter for it. I think that would be best bc then I'd have choices with the soil. Also, I have a shed where I figured I could dry it, but I need to find out more about that.
 
Murrmurr said:
Interesting.

I'm thinking of giving it a go now that I have a yard. I'm deciding whether I should build a planter for it. I think that would be best bc then I'd have choices with the soil. Also, I have a shed where I figured I could dry it, but I need to find out more about that.
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Probably would grow most anywhere, if kept watered. It may need to be sprayed, our got hit by some huge caterpillars once, biggest I have ever seen. One could consume a whole large leaf in a few minutes. Kind of interesting to watch.

You could try the tomato cross...

 
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