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Title: Does tobacco produce nectar?
Post by: bizzybeehoney on July 21, 2008, 12:29:48 PM
There is a lot of tobacco plants around where I live.  And I am noticing that the flowers are starting to bloom.  Does tobacco produce nectar?  If so is there any kind of a wierd taste to?

Maybe I have to ask for I.D. before somebody purchases tobacco honey.  lol
Title: Re: Does tobacco produce nectar?
Post by: Brian D. Bray on July 21, 2008, 06:06:53 PM
Quote from: bizzybeehoney on July 21, 2008, 12:29:48 PM
There is a lot of tobacco plants around where I live.  And I am noticing that the flowers are starting to bloom.  Does tobacco produce nectar?  If so is there any kind of a wierd taste to?

Maybe I have to ask for I.D. before somebody purchases tobacco honey.  lol

Use of tabacco can produce a bad cough.  LOL

The nicotine is a sedative and I'm not sure the bees will work it well.  But if they do a spoonful of that honey would be a good night time sleep aid.
Title: Re: Does tobacco produce nectar?
Post by: danno on July 22, 2008, 04:12:23 PM
I just got done doing alittle research on a weed growing in my back fields and I think it is indian tobacco.  The bee's have been hitting it hard for the past couple of weeks 
Title: Re: Does tobacco produce nectar?
Post by: trumpet01 on July 22, 2008, 06:53:43 PM
I don't know if it produces nectar, but I do know that as soon as it starts to bloom, the farmer will cut the blooms off. They hamper the growth of the plant. Jim <><