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LOL that IS the hardest part! The seeds are tiny, the sprouts are tiny, and they MUST remain moist and MUST get sunshine immediately or perish. The seeds, unlike most seeds, have no energy supply...

Another thing. As a beginner, don't fall into the trap of buying a mold and trying to roll a cigar of a precise length, shape, gauge, etc. Just grab some bakky and roll, and try to get the tension...

For a Churchill, use more filler. For a Panatella or Corona or other small cigar, use less. A bigger cigar needs a bigger binder and wrapper. A smaller one can get by witl a smaller binder and a...

Neither do I have a sufficiently educated and sensitive palate, nor am I sufficiently pretentious, that I can say definitely where a tobacco is grown by tasting, smelling, or seeing it, with any...

I think there might be some prohibitions or restrictions on unlicensed growing of tobacco in the UK, not sure. Be careful to not run afoul of the law! Or, at the least, try not to get caught. Nosy...

Golden Burley and other Burley varieties have actually been used a lot for domestic cigar production, and Cuban strains are descended from various old North American Burley varieties, mostly. The...

Last year I grew Connecticut Shade, Connecticut Broadleaf, Criollo 98, and Habano 2000. This year, first planting was Piloto Cubano, Big Gem, Yellow Leaf, Monte Calme Yellow, Golden Burley, and...

I grow, I roll, I smoke. I haven't bought a cigar in over a year now.

Just rolling my own allowed me to have my cigars for about $1.50 each instead of the more typical $8 to $15 per stick. Then I...