Nicotiana tobacum - This is the type typically grown in the Appalachian piedmont. If you’re growing it to smoke, planting in less fertile soil produces finer, more desirable leaves. Otherwise these plants love fertility, and in good soil will reach 6-7 feet topped with tubular pink blossoms. An easy to grow annual. The tiny seeds requite light to germinate; press them into the surface of your growing medium and keep moist. Several hundred seeds