I had received samples over the years of one sucker with various purchases from BigBonner and I would mix and match it various ways and it always seemed fine but I never tried it by itself and never really thought about it much until this year when my seeds failed and I had to buy starts if I wanted to have a grow. I ordered a couple different dark air varieties that I wasn't familiar with and started growing. I was talking to BigB later about something else and he mentioned that the one sucker type he sells is narrow leaf madole, the same as the plants I was growing this year. This brought a renewed interest in that type and I got some more of this leaf sent out to me.
It arrived while I was at work, I only had time to make a twist and get it pressing a little bit until now. I just got in from smoking some of that twist and wow I am in love. Before with the samples I'd add a strip here or there or use 1 leaf or something. Twisting up about a pound of leaf provided something way different from what I was used to. I cut a couple really thin coins off it and fluffed them up before stuffing into the pipe and it started going great.
The flavor is usually compared to fruits or treats but I want to go out on a line here and say it tasted like tobacco full, rich, glorious American tobacco with a massive volume of smoke. It's over two years old and not kilned, just hung to air. The unburnt twist smelt slightly of raisins, but once sparked up it gives way to a really robust smoke that I enjoyed immensely and the flavor just kept getting better as the pipe smoked down.
I'm really a fan, and glad that seed lot failed or I never would have tried this awesome American tobacco variety since I tend to go looking for the exotic types of tobacco that can be really hard to obtain. It turned out one of the best is grown right here down in Kentucky.
Thanks BigB.
It arrived while I was at work, I only had time to make a twist and get it pressing a little bit until now. I just got in from smoking some of that twist and wow I am in love. Before with the samples I'd add a strip here or there or use 1 leaf or something. Twisting up about a pound of leaf provided something way different from what I was used to. I cut a couple really thin coins off it and fluffed them up before stuffing into the pipe and it started going great.
The flavor is usually compared to fruits or treats but I want to go out on a line here and say it tasted like tobacco full, rich, glorious American tobacco with a massive volume of smoke. It's over two years old and not kilned, just hung to air. The unburnt twist smelt slightly of raisins, but once sparked up it gives way to a really robust smoke that I enjoyed immensely and the flavor just kept getting better as the pipe smoked down.
I'm really a fan, and glad that seed lot failed or I never would have tried this awesome American tobacco variety since I tend to go looking for the exotic types of tobacco that can be really hard to obtain. It turned out one of the best is grown right here down in Kentucky.
Thanks BigB.