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It got me wondering why more people don't grow their own?
My grandad used grow his own tobacco and then send it off to get dried and he’d get it back in the post.
It gets grown in research a lot as it’s a model organism so you can change the genetics comparatively easily.
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Mine use to grow his own as well and pack it into blocks, then shave it off with his pen knife - but this was for a pipe.
My grandma stopped him doing it as she read in Reader's Digest that smoking your own tobacco could make you blind.
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My grandad used to grow his own as well, he was a poor as poor could be subsistence farmer in rural mid-c20th Spain. They made their own wine and firewater too, customs and excise didn't bother them. No roads, it was still mediaeval times for Spain in those days.
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It gets grown in research a lot as it’s a model organism so you can change the genetics comparatively easily.
Friends PHD involved splicing gloworm genes into tobacco so you could find your fags in the dark.(as an easy to find marker identify GM tobacco)
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RonAsheton
Dibble
I noticed quite a few tabacco fields in France which I haven't seen for a long time.
It got me wondering why more people don't grow their own? I mean if people indulge in ridiculous practices like growing tomatoes or looking after chickens, then surely growing and shaving your own backie must be trifling.