Don't feel like you need to bag the entire head either unless you are doing a business. A single flower, honestly, would be more than sufficient.
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do the varieties change much in how many are in one flower ?
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Mad Oshea
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I may get it for this, but Latakia is not a plant- but a cure? Mad
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if it's a cure whats the disease
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It is both a named variety and a curing process, not necessarily both at the same time.
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ok sure it does look like a long smoke curing process .what is the flavour like with no smoke curing ?
Here are some good threads about the Latakia process: http://fairtradetobacco.com/forums/31-Latakia
I don't think anyone has conclusively determined exactly which variety has traditionally been used to produce Latakia. We're pretty sure it was an Oriental.
I don't think anyone has conclusively determined exactly which variety has traditionally been used to produce Latakia. We're pretty sure it was an Oriental.
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thanks that was very interesting ,i had only heard about farmers curing the strung hands from their roof beams before but if i had to extract something from that i liked this quote
/// I'll post some info here on Latakia from an 1863 book I have. It kind of jives with your latest post. The author says ( if I remember correctly) that Latakia tobacco was made from Rustica as well as a few other types. I suspect that the Latakia that is smoked today is totally different from that of 150 years ago. Tobacco blends/formulas change to meet the changing desires of society.////
Same as a person on the land today you might use everything you had available and that might include some tobaccos that weren't that palatable or tasty before the curing process as in a mix of orientals and rustica
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i thought it was a plant and a curing process ,if it's not a plant what are they labeling as latakia ?
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Only as suckers. What are the approximate length and width of these?
Where were the leaves located? They look similar to leaves on some plants I had that were "frenching". http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/1067-Is-This-Tobacco-Frenching
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These are not only on suckers but on the main stem of plants as well, they are 100mm or 10 cm length and 2 to 4 cm width though they do vary and are quite hard and rigid with the leaf material quite thick
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They were located from the top to the bottom now i only see them from the middle to the bottom leaves .some were no more than a centre rib with a slight feathering of leaf either side and very hard and firm ,and it also was only a couple that looked quite differant while others around it looked completely normal . and no i looked at frenching i don't think it looked like that it was thinner with no point of the leaf , rounded on the end only.
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One trait of frenching is the main rib normally stays green. What variety are they? A white stem burly like ytb could look like that with frenching leaves.
Any chance they have been over watered?
Any chance they have been over watered?
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We have had a lot of storms and rain so yes they have had a lot ,but still no brown spots or fungus kill anything .i thought they were virginia but they just looked so differant and shorter than the others apart from the funny leaves looked perfectly healthy
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A pic of the plant they were removed from would be helpful here.
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