First batch of perfectos is setting up, in a tight lid jar with a humidipak. Wrappers shrinking tight. Might have put too much tobacco in them. Hope they draw. Rolled them entubado, so... we'll see. Got another batch of perfectos bound in the press now. Wet down some wrapper for them last night. It's damping up real nice now in a big flat tupp from the dollar store. Hope to find time to wrap them this evening after handball. Time is at a premium around here. Then they will need a couple days in the press; then a couple more to set up tight. This all means that my packages ought to be ready to go by early next week. Going camping weekend after, so I got to get on the stick. They look ugly but they rolled quick.
Hey, here's a question for ya guys: What's a tobacco beetle look like? Do they run real fast? Pulled some leaves from the bag of WLT Criollo 98 Seco and a beetle raced out of it. Didn't get much of a look at him, cause I had to thumb that bug quick as a wink or he'd have got away. Brown, round, size of a small raisin, fast. Is that a baccabeetle? I do not find any bite holes whatsoever in any of the tobacco. None. I been looking.
Sure looked like this:
Question is: Are they fast runners?
Last thing I need is beetles laying eggs in my stash. That's why I put the perfectos aside in a jar, instead of sticking them in a humidor. Just a heads up to contestants: smoke em up don't stash em.
If this is the case, then I'll have to quarantine both the cooler which contains my leaves and the home rolled product of those leaves, put them all in the garage, far from any other stuff. Have to roll it all up, jar the product, clean out the cooler, and disinfect. Unless you guys know some other way to get rid of them. We had a super buggy year here last Summer, cause of all the rain. I grew some black thumb tobacco in the back yard, not too buggy; but over at my surrogate gardener, who did most my plants, bugs ate it all to Swiss cheese. So in reality, this bug might have come from some other batch and crawled into Don's bag. I don't blame them. His Criollo 98 smells so much better.
Nuff babbling. Got to get to work.
Hey, here's a question for ya guys: What's a tobacco beetle look like? Do they run real fast? Pulled some leaves from the bag of WLT Criollo 98 Seco and a beetle raced out of it. Didn't get much of a look at him, cause I had to thumb that bug quick as a wink or he'd have got away. Brown, round, size of a small raisin, fast. Is that a baccabeetle? I do not find any bite holes whatsoever in any of the tobacco. None. I been looking.
Sure looked like this:
Question is: Are they fast runners?
Last thing I need is beetles laying eggs in my stash. That's why I put the perfectos aside in a jar, instead of sticking them in a humidor. Just a heads up to contestants: smoke em up don't stash em.
If this is the case, then I'll have to quarantine both the cooler which contains my leaves and the home rolled product of those leaves, put them all in the garage, far from any other stuff. Have to roll it all up, jar the product, clean out the cooler, and disinfect. Unless you guys know some other way to get rid of them. We had a super buggy year here last Summer, cause of all the rain. I grew some black thumb tobacco in the back yard, not too buggy; but over at my surrogate gardener, who did most my plants, bugs ate it all to Swiss cheese. So in reality, this bug might have come from some other batch and crawled into Don's bag. I don't blame them. His Criollo 98 smells so much better.
Nuff babbling. Got to get to work.
