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Posted by earthnut WA/usda8/ahs2 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 15, 07 at 19:55
| I am new to hydroponics and would like to figure out the best way to grow tobacco plants hydroponically. They will be grown indoors in a laboratory environment, I can pipe in air, oxygen, or CO2 as needed, and light is easily controlled. I've done a little research, and it seems the first question I should ask is if the tobacco would grow better in solution culture or medium culture. If you have grown tobacco, what exactly did you do? |
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RE: growing tobacco
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| doesn't look like many people have tried to grow tobacco in hydro. Bump |
RE: growing tobacco
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| The reason almost no one grows hydro-tobacco is the plant size. don't get me wrong, you *could* grow an oak tree to maturity in a well enough constructed hydroponic system but the cost/difficulty of it is preventitive from anyone accually doing this. other than size, there is no reason you can't grow tobacco using a Bato Bucket or DWC system of some type. even Ebb&flow would be condusive to this type of growing. good luck. |
RE: growing tobacco
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| Hi -- Since the expected yield of a tobacco plant is about 3 ounces of dry product and they are 7-8 feet tall and require about 4 sq. ft. and they need FULL SUNLIGHT, growing them indoors under lights just isn't cost effective. You can get tobacco seeds from a seed supplier by sending an e-mail to GYOtobacco@yahoo.com and he will send you a catalog. Bob |
RE: growing tobacco
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| bob kemp, I raised a bit of tobacco when I was younger and we never had any plants get 7-8 feet tall. We planted them 18" apart with 32" rows. The decent size plant would yield 4.5-5 ounces of tobacco when stripped (Leaves pulled off plant after it cured) though it had enough moisture that it could be handled. Mike |
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