Category Archives: Cigar Tobacco

Catterton

Catterton Tobacco
Catterton tobacco plant

A heirloom Maryland type tobacco. A very good producer with sharp pointed leaves growing to over 30 inches long and 16 inches wide. Air cures easily to a rich reddish brown color.

A medium flavored smoke which is excellent for cigarettes, alone, or as a blend. Also used in cigars and pipe tobaccos.

Matures in 60-65 days. Although some growers have reported heavy suckering with Catterton, ours have produced nearly none. This variety is one of our personal favorites.

Used for cigarettes, cigars and pipes.

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Yellow Twist Bud

Yellow Twist Bud
Yellow Twist Bud plants

This is a white stemmed heirloom Burley that grows 5-6 feet in height.

It produces few suckers and its pyramidal plant form with closely spaced leaves give it good wind resistance.

The leaves are up to 30 inches long, turn a light yellow when ripe and are easy to cure.

Matures in 60-65 days.

Goose Creek Red

Goose Creek Red Tobacco
Goose Creek Red Tobacco

Goose Creek Red is named after a small river that runs into the Charleston Harbor.

This dark Virginian type tobacco is air cures to a deep reddish brown color and makes an excellent pipe or full flavored cigarette blend. It has a silky feel, making it ideal as a wrapper for cigars.

Grows to about 6 feet in height and matures in 65 days.

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Small Stalk Black Mammoth

Black Mammoth Small Stock Tobacco
Small Stock Black Mammoth Tobacco

A deep dark tobacco that gives good weight and supports itself very well.

This is a tobacco prized by growers because it provides a great wrapper tobacco or a premium snuff tobacco when ripe.

A good tobacco for beginners learning to roll their own cigars or make snuff.

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Madole

Madole Tobacco
Madole tobacco plants

Madole is an heirloom dark tobacco with a rich full flavor.

It’s often fire cured for use as a pipe or cigar tobacco. Its deep colored green leaves air cure to a dark brown.

It grows 5 feet in height and matures early in 55-60 days.

One of the more popular dark tobacco varieties grown.

Dark Burley

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This dark variety is rich in flavor and is a popular Burley that grows into a large plant. A fine commercial strain that is used for its hardiness and rich, smooth flavor.

A fine tobacco plant for the beginner. Air-cures easy.

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Monte Calme Yellow

Monte Calme Yellow Tobacco
Monte Calme Yellow Tobacco

A favorite European variety that features wide, thin leaves that are much preferred for cigarettes and as cigar wrappers.

Grows up to about 6 ft. tall, producing a large crop.

Believed to be of Cuban decent, this tobacco produces a taste not dissimilar to Gitanes.

 

Blue Tree Glaucia

Blue Tobacco Tree
Blue Tobacco Tree

A graceful tobacco which can grow very tall, thus the name tree. They can grow up to 20 ft.

Their flowers are bright yellow and are very striking against the blue foliage.

Also makes a lovely garden specimen. Strictly not a smoking variety, but useful for reducing nicotine levels in any blend.

It is said to have very small quantities of nicotine. A wonderful tobacco which like Turkish is very useful for blending cigarette and pipe tobacco.

Burley Tennessee

Burley Original Tobacco
Burley Original Tobacco

The original and popular commercial strain of burley tobacco makes a great addition to any garden.

It is used for its hardiness and smooth, rich flavor. Good for cigarette making. This variety grows fast and is a high yielding plant.

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Cigar Tobacco Seeds

Cigar tobacco

If you’re contemplating growing your own cigar tobacco and making your own cigars, take a look at our range of tobacco seeds.

Our range is the product of years of research into the  types of tobacco most favored by smokers.

For cigar smokers, we have a great range of cigar tobacco seeds to suit your taste. We have introduced 3 new varieties this year (2021), and these are marked with an Asterix after their names below).

Take a look at the seeds we have that are suitable for cigars :

PLEASE NOTE – All our Cuban seed varieties are produced in the USA and not imported from Cuba and that’s official.

Whilst you’re here, why not take a look at some of our cigarette or pipe varieties too?