Best tobacco for sweet mild cigars

Vangotobacco

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I am growing Connecticut broadleaf and shade this year. I plan to make cigars with them using them as the filler, binder, annd wrapper. I may be adding another to them if they aren’t the best.

My question is next year I’d like to grow some tobacco for filler binder and wrapper and my question to you all is - what is the best / sweetest/ mild tobacco for cigars? Growing and curing ease would be a big benefit.

Thanks all.
 

Wombat_smokes

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To clarify - when you say mild, do you mean mild in nicotine or mild in flavor? Also, when refering to sweetness, do you want a discernible sugar taste or something not overly alkaline (the "burning" on the lips) and bitter?

I plan on growing cigar varieties either next year or the year after. My list is as follows:

American Cigar:
Comstock
CT Broadleaf
CT Shade
Glessner
Lancaster
Little Dutch
Long Red
Walker's B. Leaf
PA Red
WI 901
Zimmer
Ohio Dutch
One Sucker

Caribbean Cigar:
Habano 2000
Criollo 98
Iztepeque
Corojo 99
Piloto PR
Java Besuki
Havana Z299
Havana 501
FL Sumatra
Havana 142
Havan K2-24
Vuelta Abajo

I'm not sure which of these might check your boxes, or mine; but it's what I've been thinking of growing for my Cigar experiments.
 
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