Australian Grown Cigars

[JackFNQ]

Just wondering if there was any Australian Grown and rolled Cigars? Up in FNQLD there are some places where farmers grew tobacco. And the volcanic ground is very similar to Cuba.

[JackFNQ]

I believe the govt revoked all tobacco growing licenses about 2003.

[Fuzz AI]

DJs used to sell Australian rolled cigars. Pretty sure they were made from imported tobacco, though.

[btp1979]

Quick but interesting:

http://www.mareebaheritagecentre.com.au/tobacco/

[cigcars]

Well Darn! I'm so interested in sampling possible Australian tobacco! Although, as was earlier stated, it probably was mostly imported tobacco!

[NJP]

Brother in law still grows every year in central Victoria. He worked on farms in the table lands twenty years ago and grows the same stuff. It reminds me of White Ox, pretty rough and should only be supplied to Jails.

[drunkbuckeye]

Australian tobacco would be interesting. With all the differences in soil composition, flavor may vary depending on region/climate. It's a shame they put red tape, otherwise I would be interested in buying some!

[El Presidente]

Just wondering if there was any Australian Grown and rolled Cigars? Up in FNQLD there are some places where farmers grew tobacco. And the volcanic ground is very similar to Cuba.

We indeed did. Here is an interesting article from 1914

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/10815051

My understanding is that we last produced cigars in the 1970's.

[Smooth]

There is a guy up on Mt Tambourine that grows and rolls his own. My father knows him and got me a couple. They taste akin to an ERDM choix.

Ex Army vet. The powers that be leave him well alone.

[Fuzz AI]

Another article from 1949.

[Duxnutz]

Ive always been interested in horticulture.

[Smallclub]

And the volcanic ground is very similar to Cuba.

The ground in the West of Cuba (where the best tobacco is grown) is not volcanic.

[Waah954]

Funny you bring this up, a couple years ago i got on a buzz where i thought i was onto something big.

I was thinking hey why dont i look into getting cigars rolled from Australian tobacco, get it grown here and sent overseas like the Philippines to be rolled, sure it would be something diffrent that would have a market.

Started doing the research where i found that in the 1990s Australia made tobacco growing a big NO NO and became illegal.

To my surprise the penalty points were higher for growing tobacco than marijuana, go figure

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[JackFNQ]

I stopped in at the Mareeba Visitor's Centre after passing it by for many years, free entry, and they have a regional tobacco growers display. (Thought I'd add value to the sentence by adding the word 'regional'). Probably the only one of its kind in Australia, unless the snuff section at Sovereign Hill counts. Certainly worth the stop if you are in the area. It runs a couple of TV's on a video loop, at different sections of the display.

[JackFNQ]

The ground in the West of Cuba (where the best tobacco is grown) is not volcanic.

I am not talking Mt St Helens volcanic.

The pictures I see of Cuba with lovely red soil, and surroundings in some cases remind me of this region, also tropical.

[Fugu]

I am not talking Mt St Helens volcanic.

The pictures I see of Cuba with lovely red soil, and surroundings in some cases remind me of this region, also tropical.

Perhaps reminiscent of, but not at all related to. Terra rossa never is volcanic (neither the Australian one). The red and white soils of Vuelta Abajo and Vinales are of sedimentary origin, weathered soils and karst formations deriving from erosion of ancient sediment rocks. Some of the oldest geological formations in Cuba in Pinar del Rio Province.

[Warren]

Probably the only one of its kind in Australia, unless the snuff section at Sovereign Hill counts. Certainly worth the stop if you are in the area. It runs a couple of TV's on a video loop, at different sections of the display.

I think our local video store had a snuff section.

[JackFNQ]

Perhaps reminiscent of, but not at all related to. Terra rossa never is volcanic (neither the Australian one). The red and white soils of Vuelta Abajo and Vinales are of sedimentary origin, weathered soils and karst formations deriving from erosion of ancient sediment rocks. Some of the oldest geological formations in Cuba in Pinar del Rio Province.

The rich red soils and tropics was the main similarity I wanted to make, maybe I got the volcanic bit wrong. There are certainly volcanic influences here though. Will have to talk to some farmers.

Does Cuba have lava tubes?

[Ken Gargett]

north qld and the king valley in victoria had serious tobacco industries. not sure what they grow instead in north qld but in the king valley, they have moved to grapes. very successfully.

[JackFNQ]

not sure what they grow instead in north qld

Avocados, mango, paw paw, lychee, bananas, sugar cane, grey nomads, pineapples, lemons, limes. Actually we mainly plant grey nomads.

[Ken Gargett]

Avocados, mango, paw paw, lychee, bananas, sugar cane, grey nomads, pineapples, lemons, limes. Actually we mainly plant grey nomads.

enough with the grey nomads!

most of the others would have already been there, i assume? so it was simply a matter of increasing the percentage of them?

[JackFNQ]

increasing the percentage of them?

Maybe not necessarily on the same farm, just transitioned over to new produce.

Coffee, passionfruit, potatoes (more atherton side), watermelons, chia, Nerada tea is not that far away from Mareeba area towards more dairy country.

I didn't live here back then.