After about a month, the plants should be monitored for small shoots that needs to be pruned or snapped off to allow the bigger leaves to grow larger, this pruning of the smaller leaves and shoots will give more of the nutrients and water to your bigger leaves, as well as making your tobacco plant grow taller. This pruning should be done every week. Do not be afraid to snap off the small leaves and shoots, at the same time, don't get carried away by stripping down the plant to nothing. You will get a feel for it after the first couple of weeks.

When the plants reach a height of approx. 4 feet, your flower stalk will start to develop, this flower stalk will rise from the top of the center of the plant. I did not top (snap) it off until the flower stalk was developed almost to maturity.
By topping or snapping off the flower stalk, you are allowing the tobacco plant to grow taller with bigger leaves.
You may want to leave a couple of flower stalks to go to flower for the purpose of saving the tobacco seeds to plant next year, or just to have the flower as an ornamental/decorative plant in your garden.

BUGS…

When your plants are transplanted in the garden, you will have bugs eating the leaves. For myself it was aphids and other strange bugs. The bugs came to dine on the leaves for a while, and my leaves were tasty to them critters. I did not worry too much, even though I had over 100 plants in my garden. The bugs had their fill, and the banquet began to come to a halt, they only could eat so much before their bellies were stuffed. I did not worry too much because what little damage they did to my leaves, didn't merit any pesticide action.
The bugs ate here and there a little, but overall, I had more untouched and healthy leaves than could be numbered!

PESTICIDE…

The best natural pesticide in the world for most bugs is a homemade pesticide.
The ingredients are…tobacco, dish soap, pepper (preferably red), and garlic (optional).
Take your tobacco (any kind) and soak in warm water (gallon) for a couple of hours or even overnight. Next step is to add your pepper (teaspoon) and your dish soap, a good squirt. Also add a clove of garlic if you wish. After all the ingredients have been added, you need to filter this secret formula through a fine filter, I used a coffee filter, so that when you pour into a spray bottle, it will not plug up the nozzle.
All done making your formula? Good! Now go and get all those critters on the leaves, the soap in this pesticide is suppose to prevent them from getting oxygen so they cannot breathe.