Tobacco Cultivation in 17th Century Virginia
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- Welcome back to the channel! In this video Jay and Sammy take us to Jamestown Settlement’s English Tobacco field to introduce us to tobacco cultivation in early 17th century Virginia, and the work necessary to bring up tobacco successfully.
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Decades upon decades ago, in my fourth grade classroom, we grew a tobacco plant! This wasn't surprising, because I grew up in the county that used to have the image of a tobacco plant (and Pocahontas) on its county seal. Driving from Richmond to Petersburg to visit family, we passed the Philip Morris plant. One could smell the sweetish smell of the tobacco leaves.
That sounds like the description of the seal of Henrico County.
My Childers family came to Henrico Virginia in the mid to late 1600s and I was told they were tobacco farmers. My grandad grew up on a tobacco farm in NC.
Very intresting, i tried to grow my own tobacco plants here in england about 20 years ago,
they grew very well but i couldnt get them to cure properly in a normal shed hung on sticks.
my grandad told me that during ww2 alot of people grew their own tobacco at home but sent them away to be cured for a small charge.
I grew up in Southern Maryland surrounded by tobacco farms. I remember the air having a sweet smell almost like jasmine.
Thanks for another great video 😊
Ah, the memories of our youth! 😊
I found this absolutely fascinating.
I honestly didn't realise how much effort was involved in cultivating tobacco.
Yes, an incredible amount of labor.
Nice to see the tobacco survived this year. Miss you all!
Thank you for sharing. Going to use this in my classroom.
Wonderful! Please do.
My wife’s relative John Johnson (Ancient Planter) is buried on Jamestown Island VA
That was great! Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Excellent, thank you!
You are welcome!
Thanks. I grew tobacco (an old broadleaf variety) in Fort Worth many years ago. Definitely not tobacco country. Barely kept it alive through the hot summer, and it started growing again in the fall til the frosts came. Leaves were OK size, but it never flowered and maxed out at 3 to 4 feet.
Possibly to dry and not humid enough. They've got to be watered quite a lot while young.
I'm curious as to what happens to the pieces that are usually cut off, do they get reused in some way like being made into compost or even used as filler material? Or would they be suitable to be used as animal feed? Or would they just be tossed aside without a thought?
Probably tossed aside. Topping and suckering should properly be done before the buds or suckers have the opportunity to develop or grow. We tend to let them go sometimes so that our visitors can see them, so they can better understand topping and suckering and maybe even try a little of the work themselves.
Does the growing leaf itself have a scent? Does the flower?
Yes, there is a very faint smell of tobacco that becomes much stronger as the plant is harvested and cured.
Apparently like Jasmine bush
Sammy needs his own video to make up for the solo that was robbed from him xD
How many plants were left to go to seed for next year's crop?
Thank you for the question. Do you mean how many plants do we let go to seed, or how many plants would a 17th century tobacco farmer let go to seed?
Well watch for next week's video, because Jay will be covering tobacco seeds specifically.
At our museum we let many more plants go to seed than necessary, especially for our small tobacco field. Probably a dozen plants or more. Letting more go to seed provides us with great educational materials.
In the 17th century, we don't know how many plants a farmer would allow to go to seed. The seeds are tiny, and thousands are produced by one plant. With thousands of plants produced per acre, to let a miniscule number go to seed would still produced enough seeds for the next year, and years beyond. What if a farmer was growing 1, 2, or 3 thousand plants per acre, and let a dozen plants go to seed per acre?
Which are the Rustica plants?
In this video we did not cover rustica.
@JYFMuseums. I know that 2 different varieties of tobacco were planted this year. I just wasn't sure what the difference was in the appearance of the mature plants.
I want Sammy’s hat!
We don't think you'll get Sammy to give it up. 😊
Does the A.T.F give you problems?
I think Dutch wants to do a video of his own.
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Did they know about natural fertilizer?
There would be some dunging in England, but much will come about with agriculturalists like Jethro Tull and the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. In Virginia with tobacco the practice was to simply grow tobacco until the ground was used up and move on to another piece of ground.
When the Indians saw these people chopping Tobacco, Did they laugh themselves to death??????
How so?