SHAG opps tobacco

[Dennis Mapletoft]

I smoke! ok its a frowned on thing now days but i do it none the less, so what do i smoke when my baccie's run out in the wilds? have you any ideas that will quell my nicotine cravings? UK plants only please guy as i dont get out much
Yours only Den
ps no illegal stuf please!!!!!!

 

[JonnyP]

Coltsfoot leaves are used in herbal tobacco, its an acquired taste..........Jon

 

[Goose]

Good question!
Can you grow tobacco in Britain too?

 

[bushwacker bob]

Good question!
Can you grow tobacco in Britain too?

Yes. nicotiana genus is a popular garden flower.

 

[The Joker]

Good question!
Can you grow tobacco in Britain too?

About 5 years ago I had grown some tobacco, followed instructions on what to do with it, got my rizla's out, rolled it, lit it, and it tasted pants. Never bothered again

 

[JonnyP]

Just found a wild tobacco recepe for you..........Most herbal tobaccos are based on coltsfoot, other herbs added include arnica betony,buckbean,annual chamomile,eyebright,lavender,mallow, mugwort, rosemary, thyme and yarrow. Final blending includes liquorice, salt, saltpetre and sugar............Good luck.
We as kids used to smoke mullokins........Old dried hemlock stalks, stuffed with dried leaves, though I would not recommend...........Jon

 

[The Joker]

Just found a wild tobacco recepe for you..........Most herbal tobaccos are based on coltsfoot, other herbs added include arnica betony,buckbean,annual chamomile,eyebright,lavender,mallow, mugwort, rosemary, thyme and yarrow. Final blending includes liquorice, salt, saltpetre and sugar............Good luck.
We as kids used to smoke mullokins........Old dried hemlock stalks, stuffed with dried leaves, though I would not recommend...........Jon

Think I'll cook my own grub at Dartmoor

 

[JonnyP]

Think I'll cook my own grub at Dartmoor

Don't fancy nettle soup then...............Jon

 

[The Joker]

Don't fancy nettle soup then...............Jon

As long as there's no Hemlock in it

 

[arctic hobo]

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=4541&page=2&highlight=smoker

 

[scruff]

okay you perhaps dont find it in te wild but how about cinnamon stick?

 

[KIMBOKO]

Kephart says that the inner bark of the Red Osier Dogwood was much prized by the American First Nation. It grows in this country as a garden plant although I have seen it as a garden escape. Bearberry leaves (seen in Scotland) were also said to be a good substitute.
Its less hassle to give up.

 

[Tantalus]

Ok there is a lovely list of smokable wild plants here

I suggest mixing a little of them in with your regular baccie to start with

Mebbe just a rollup or 2 to test, i wouldnt even make them as strong as half and half

Try a few different plants, or methods of preparation

As time goes on you will find preferences and mixtures that suit you

I remember one guy working on the farm used to mix sugar beet pulp into his baccie to make it go further

as with any smoking, (even silk cut !!) as time goes on you will notice the difference less and less and may even be able to wean yourself off nicotine completely while still smoking the odd herbal rollup

should keep the midges off just as efficiently

perhaps not the best thing to do while down the local pub though

Tant

 

[Daniel Edwards]

Something which the Victorians used is wild lettuce, although some people call it lettuce opium because it is supposed to 'enhance your dreams' if smoked just before you go to sleep.

 

[tomtom]

there was another old thread on it here which i think had some info about mixing it

Nessmuk writes some nostalgic bits about smoking iirc!

 

[stovie]

I've never really tried anything "alternative" (well....that's not strictly true... ) and I think it's about time I stopped anyway. But in the meantime, I might try a few experiments.....Now where's that lettuce.....

 

[gregorach]

I've tried a couple of clotsfoot smoking mixtures in the past. Always found them to be absolutely foul, and lacking in the obvious necessary ingredient - nicotene! I reckon that if I'm going to smoke dried leaves, with all the dangers that entails, I want it to be appropriately psychoactive.

 

[Dennis Mapletoft]

your ideas have given me something to go on with thanks all :Thinkingo
Yours Den

 

[tomtom]

i've hard hawthorn leaves are nice.. i thin gb has tried them, maybe he will chip and and tell us what he did!?

 

[Longstrider]

If you are serious about growing your own proper baccy in the UK it's perfectly feasible. The garden flower mentioned earlier in this thread is NOT the plant you want though. A "proper" tobacco plant can grow to 5 or 6 feet high and has BIG leaves. The first thing I ever smoked was home grown baccy in a clay pipe, (Wonderfully aromatic Rum and Raisin flavour!) though I did not grow it myself. I have known a couple of old boys who grew their own (Now sadly no longer with us to pass on info, and no, it wasn't the baccy that "did for" either of them.), but it seems the most difficult part of the operation is the correct drying of the leaves before processing. A quick Google should show up plenty of links....