Tobacco Grown In Containers

I've always thought that tobacco was a strictly outdoors type of crop, but reading up on the matter shows that tobacco can be grown indoors in containers. Who would have thought. It might be an intesting addition to any current garden. Some strains can be grown specifically for organic pesticides!

Here is the article for container grown tobacco:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Tobacco-Growing-Minaturized-for-the-Small-Indoor-Garden

Great thread man,,Im intrested in the organic pestacide aspect of it,,
Lavander works good for ahpids,,to exchange abit of knowledge.
take it easy

Just take care as many plants get sick from tobacco.
As far as I know tobacco needs lots of sun, wonder what they will be like indoors... I have quite a bit of seeds.

bunnyface said:

Great thread man,,Im intrested in the organic pestacide aspect of it,,
Lavander works good for ahpids,,to exchange abit of knowledge.
take it easy

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Thanks for the exchange of info man. I was unaware of lavendar for aphids. I would imagine you would soak dried lavendar flowers in water and use as a foliar spray? As far as tobacco goes, there are certain varieties that are better for pesticide use. Nicotiana rustica is a tobacco strain perfect for pesticide use as the levels of nicotine contained in the leaves are 3-4 times higher than regular cigarette tobacco strains.

ANC said:

Just take care as many plants get sick from tobacco.
As far as I know tobacco needs lots of sun, wonder what they will be like indoors... I have quite a bit of seeds.

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If grown disease free and totally organic, tobacco shouldn't make plants sick. I would imagine that if your tobacco crop was infected with the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV), and then used as a foliar spray you would get sick plants. Cannabis can contract the TMV virus, so know where your tobacco is coming from.

As far as the lighting, the tobacco plants in the article were grown under a 4 Foot, 4 Bulb H.O. T5 lighting system. The plant shown in the article was grown under that lighting just to give an estimate of size. The lighting supplied by flowering cannabis, will probably be more than enough to grow tobacco.