Tobacco Habano Honduras Seeds

Habano Honduras is a variety of Nicotiana tabacum, the cultivated tobacco plant, offered here as seed for sowing and growing. It is an annual, leafy plant of the nightshade family, and like other plants of the species it is grown for its large leaves and its flowers. The listing name comes from our price list; the product card holds no further description of this variety, so the text below sticks to what is true for the species and says plainly where details are missing.

Also known as: common tobacco, cultivated tobacco, tambaku (Hindi), tabaco (Spanish/Portuguese), tabac (French), Tabak (German), tütün (Turkish)

These are names of the species Nicotiana tabacum. Habano Honduras is the name of this particular variety as listed in the store.

Plant at a glance

• Species: Nicotiana tabacum
• Variety name: Habano Honduras
• Life cycle: annual, grown from seed each season
• Seed: dust-fine, as in other Nicotiana
• Light: the seed is sown on the surface and left uncovered
• Warmth: a warm-season plant that is started indoors in cool climates

Growing Habano Honduras from seed

Nicotiana seed is very small, close to dust, and it is not buried. Fill a tray or small pots with fine, moist, well-drained seed-starting mix, firm the surface, and scatter the seed thinly on top. Press it in gently with a flat board or your palm so it makes contact with the soil, then leave it uncovered so it keeps getting light.

• Sowing: on the surface, pressed in lightly, never covered with soil.
• Moisture: mist from above or water from below. A strong stream of water washes the seed into clumps.
• Warmth: keep the tray in a warm, bright place and stop it from drying out while the seed germinates.
• Seedlings: they are tiny at first and grow slowly. Thin them or prick them out into individual pots once they have true leaves.
• Outdoors: move the young plants out only when frost is over and the weather has warmed up, in a sunny spot with fertile, well-drained soil.

A tobacco plant becomes tall and leafy, so give each plant room and a sheltered, sunny position. Plants of this species are tender and do not tolerate frost.

What is not yet recorded

No seed specifications have been saved for this variety yet, so this page does not give a germination percentage, a viability period, a seed size, a sowing temperature or a number of days to germination. The final height, leaf shape and flower colour of Habano Honduras are also not documented on the product card, and there are no photographs in the gallery to describe. The place or history behind the variety name is not documented either, and none is assumed here. When these details are added to the card, this text will be updated with them.

FAQ

How do I sow Habano Honduras seeds?

Scatter the fine seed on the surface of moist, well-drained seed-starting mix, press it in lightly and do not cover it. Nicotiana seed benefits from light, so burying it works against the plant.

When should I sow Habano Honduras?

The card gives no sowing date for this variety. For the species, seed is started indoors in a warm spot ahead of the season in cool climates, and seedlings go outdoors only after the last frost. Check your own last-frost date and count back from it.

How tall does Habano Honduras grow?

The product card does not state a height for this variety, so no figure is given here. Nicotiana tabacum as a species forms a tall, leafy annual plant, and spacing and light change how large an individual plant becomes.