Total weight of 2010 tobacco crop

with all plants now cured and dried, it's just a waiting game now for them to age enough to smoke. so I brought out the scale to see what the crop produced and I've got a whopping 2.9lbs of tobacco from my measly 25 plants. So per plant I got somewhere around 1.8 ounces.

Not a bad haul for my first year.

This coming year I'm planning to plant 850~900 plants and if my yield figures for this year hold true for next year, that equates to about 100lbs of cured tobacco

So how many cigarettes will that make?

I weighted how much tobacco I use per cigarette and it averages 0.0338 oz each, so 100lbs will make over 47,000 cigarettes.

I smoke 20 a day or 140 sticks a week x 52 weeks = 7,280 a year

so 100lbs of tobacco should last me about 6 years

Now for the economics of grow-your-own

a pack in Texas now is around $5.50 average or $0.275 each stick. so 100lbs or 47,000 cigarettes would cost me $13,000 if I bought them from a store.

Total investment for my 2011 crop is estimated to be about $650 (water, fertilizer, storage, etc) or about 30 cents a pack!