Turkish Tobacco Tütün or Oriental Tobacco

Hello Wade! You sure said it there, about the raw leaf tasting good. I grew some turkish tobacco this year, it's my first time growing. I planted my seedlings late, (July) I purchased my seeds online. It's now November 3rd 2009 and I'm smoking my own homegrown tobacco already, well, I have been for around a month or so now. I just hung it up and let it dry on nylon cord I bought at the dollar store for a buck, 3/16" to 1/8" dia. It's hanging across my living room right now, it somehow ended up forming a triangle across the room, how cool is that? I just love ducking under it while I'm passing through, "no" I really do love it! I used rubber bands to tie the leaves together at the stems, then hung the bundles of leaves over the cords. The only difference is the color, mine are still mostly green after they dried. I could not believe how tasty the turkish was, it has the most sweet taste and the finest aroma I have ever smelled. Definitely the finest cigarette I have ever smoked in my life! It only took a couple of weeks, "give or take a few days" to dry out enough where I could smoke it. As tobacco goes, it fully develops from a four inch plant in 60 to 70 days. I grew several different types of seed and nothing I grew came close the the turkish. I have an enormous amount of seeds from the turkish plants, which makes me very happy. By the way, I live in Michigan, and I never entertained the idea of growing my own tobacco until the cost went up so high. I guess partially because of my location and my lack of knowledge about growing, needless to say, I have learned alot from this venture in the last few months. What a blast, watching it grow and taking care of it, from start to finish. I'm hooked! It will grow anywhere in the U.S.A. or most of the world. And Wade, bby the way, I am very impressed with the photos you took, very nice! I'm saving them to my computer, thank you! So anyone that wants to grow there own, go for it. But please, keep a low profile, for the sake of all of us growers, if you know what I mean. Someone could be watching and listening that may want to ruin all of our fun….. That is my biggest fear! "You know who" Take care all.

Hi Wade,

Turkish tobacco in a pipe works amazingly well. It’s a key ingredient in mixtures like Dunhill Early Morning Pipe or Samuel Gawith’s Skiff Mixture, so smoking it straight is very much like these, only even milder and oilier-spicier. I use Turkish in a broader cut, though (the one sold commercially in Europe and the US for pipe tobacco self-blending), and the finer shag cut of cigarette tobacco will make it burn too fast in a pipe. It’s very hard to make it burn unpleasantly hot or wet, thought, eve when it’s dry, and it will never bite like Virginia tobacco can when you puff impatiently.