Kentucky Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) seeds
- Contents: Approx. 600 seeds
- Open-pollinated variety, seed tested regularly
Regular price:
€2.39
Content: 600 Single seed
Product number: NIC06 GTIN: 4250601203218
Description
Fine Kentucky-grown tobacco seed, giving a high-quality dark tobacco leaf. Kentucky tobacco plants are ideally suited for making the first steps in tobacco cultivation. They are especially robust and perfect for pot culture. Cultivated in large containers and overwintered in a frost-free location, the second year the plants develop into impressive shrubs and provide for a particularly rich harvest. Perennial Kentucky tobacco plants look like large angel trumpets (brugmansia) and bear plenty of slightly smaller leaves. Kentucky tobacco is very spicy, dark, and strong in taste. It's used for smoking tobacco blends (in connection with Virginia tobacco) and for snuff and chewing tobacco.
Plant profile
| Lifecycle | Perennial |
|---|---|
| Species | Solanaceae |
| Characteristics | Needs light to germinate |
| Eventual height | 1-3 m |
| Flower colour | Red, White |
| Flowering months | August, July, September |
| Main harvest | August, July, October, September |
Growing instructions
| Sowing depth | 0 cm |
|---|---|
| Germination temperature | 15-20°C |
| Germination time | 5-10 days |
| Climate | Subtropical |
| Sunlight | Full sun |
| Planting distance | 40 cm |
| Row spacing | 50 cm |
Sowing and care
Annual plant for the garden (under tropical conditions, N. tabacum may be perennial). Loves lots of sun, water, and fertilisation. Sowing: Preculture from February. Only scatter the seeds onto the substrate and press them on gently. Don't cover them with soil. Germinates at approx. 20°C. Harden and plant out in May.
Other names
Botanical name: Nicotiana tabacum, N. latissima, N. macrophylla
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