Smoking tobacco "Lattaquie 92"

Smoking tobacco "Latakia 92" (Lattaquie 92) - Nicotiana tabacum L.
This Tuscan cigar-type variety, originally from France, produces dark green leaves 12 cm wide and 25 cm long.
It is highly decorative thanks to its abundant blooming with bright pink inflorescences on very compact bushes.
Ripening speed: very early-ripening. 
Color: Dark green. Plant height: from 60 to 90 cm.

* Tobacco, a light-loving and heat-loving plant, grows well on soils seasoned with rotted organic matter (compost) (2-3 buckets per 1 m2). Botanically, it is a relative of tomatoes and potatoes, i.e., it belongs to the nightshade family and, like these crops, has early, mid, and late ripening periods.
Seeds are sown in early February. To do this, light, loose soil is prepared in advance in the fall. In a box 5-6 cm high, 4-5 cm of soil is poured, slightly compacted and watered, then the seeds are scattered and covered with slightly moist soil with a layer of 1-2 mm. The box is placed in a plastic bag and put in a warm place.
Seedlings appear on the 6-15th day, depending on the room temperature. During this time, no watering is carried out, since the fragile plants can be disturbed and even killed. After the first shoots appear, the box is removed from the bag and placed by the window without opening it, since early hardening (unlike adult tomatoes) is not yet necessary for them.
Approximately a week later, depending on the condition of the soil, watering is carried out by careful spraying from a spray bottle.
If you water from a kettle, you can kill the seedlings, as they are very small and tender. At this time, it is necessary to make sure that they do not stretch, and add soil up to the cotyledon leaves, otherwise they may fall and die. After the appearance of 1-2 true leaves, the seedlings are pricked out into individual pots, and the central root is pinched off at the same time.
The soil is prepared in the fall; it is advisable to take it from places where cucumbers previously grew.
Caring for the plants after pricking out comes down to watering and maintaining the temperature within +18+20°C, which is easily achievable on a windowsill. At first, the seedlings grow very slowly, so they must be sown 4-4.5 months before planting in the ground.
Seedlings are planted with 4-6 leaves in early June, when the threat of return frosts disappears. Planting scheme is 100-150 cm in a checkerboard pattern.
Care comes down to watering, weeding, and loosening. Tobacco is a very moisture-loving plant, so it should be watered daily: initially 5 liters per bush, and when it grows above 1 m - 10 liters. If you do not water tobacco, it holds back growth, loses its aroma, and becomes too strong when smoked.
Now about feeding. Three are done: the first is carried out immediately after planting in the ground, combining watering with feeding, the second and third - with an interval of 2 weeks. Feeding is done with a complex potassium-phosphorus fertilizer so as not to spoil the taste of the leaf with excess nitrogen. During the first feeding, 1 liter of solution is poured under the bush; during the second and third - 2 liters.
The vegetative period of this plant lasts until frost. In Northern conditions, tobacco sometimes blooms in the garden until mid-October.
About the intricacies of growing.
If tobacco is grown for smoking, then when flowers appear, they must be cut off (topping) and the appearing side shoots (suckers) broken out, then all the sap will go to the growth of the leaf. Tobacco ripens gradually: from the bottom to the top. Wilting and yellowing of the leaves on the stem should not be allowed, i.e., if they dry on the vine, they must be thrown away, there is nothing in them - neither strength nor aroma, they are good for nothing. Therefore, up to five breakings (cuttings) of leaves are done.
The first breaking is at the very ground (if the leaves have sand, they must be washed in water).
The second and third breakings produce the largest leaves (sometimes up to 70-80 cm).
The fourth and fifth breakings - the leaves are smaller, but the most aromatic and strong.
To make the leaves fleshy and large, and the tobacco strong and aromatic, in addition to daily watering, it is absolutely necessary to remove flower stalks and suckers. The leaves are dried in the attic without access to sunlight. They are strung on twine in such a way that the leaves do not touch each other.
For a smoker who consumes a pack of cigarettes a day, it is enough to grow 10-12 plants to provide himself with pleasure for a year. This tobacco is very aromatic, memorable, reminiscent of the classic "Golden Fleece" aroma. The crushed stem can be added to the leaf to reduce the strength, while the aroma is not lost.