Jojjas 2016 growing

[Brown Thumb]

WoW I'm impressed. Very nice shade Grow.

 

[jojjas]

Harvested 3/4 of this year´s grow , just the top leafs left to prime , mud lugs and succer leafs is going to became raw material for snus fabrikation , and will be the last leafs to take care of

Thinking that it harvesting should be finnish mid next week

conecticut broadleaf to the left and con shade to right , in couple of weeks then they could go in the kiln (sorry about the crappy picture)

con shade to right and damaged leafs to the left ( insect and wind damage leafs , for my snus making )

 

[rainmax]

Now it starts shity weather.
Good luck with your drying and fermenting.

 

[jojjas]

Realised that it was 2.5 months that i posted here since last time , harvested the last leafs in the end of september
Quality good and rich harvest make it a real pleasant year to grow tobacco , well i get a good harvest from almost everything this year , tomatoes got a all time high harvest , over 800 tomatoes .

Some of the stalkcured perique plants
All of them shall end up as perique , this year i run 2 batches side by side , one regular pressure and one "pressureless" batch , third time i try the pressureless method and i think the previus tryouts with pressureless perique has became quite good , in my opinion a little bit sweeter and more fragrant but that is what i think , this test will determent if i only use the pressureless method

approx about 0,5 kg ( just over 1 lbs ) dry leaf weight in each batch .


A few of the first batch con shade is colorcured and out of the kiln

I think i have to run the kiln at least 6-7 months to kiln all my leafs
one more batch with connecticut shade and later con broadleaf and swarr hibsman

 

[Hasse SWE]

Very nice work there Jojjas !!!

 

[Tutu]

Yes it does like very nice indeed! Good looking shade grown leafs. Good luck in the coming months!

 

[jojjas]

Week before christmas update.
Second batch out of the kiln , con shade seco leafs ready , huge leafs this year , average size approx 24x14 inch (60 x 35 cm )and plenty of wrapper´s among them

Sometimes life is good , just let them dry out a bit and then roll the first test stogie

 

[deluxestogie]

The leaf looks tempting. Very nice. I could not get Connecticut Shade to do very well when I grew it in full sun.

Bob

 

[jojjas]

The leaf looks tempting. Very nice. I could not get Connecticut Shade to do very well when I grew it in full sun.

Bob

I have grow them under shade and it seems to be sufficient enough , shading was only 10% but an surprice that i not think of was that temp got up a couple degrees under the "tent" , you see it in post nr 17 , i think you call it aggribon or similar.

 

[jojjas]

Finally , the last batch of 2016 harvest out of the kiln today . Almost every leaf are in premium quality (imho
The end of 2016 grow blog

 

[mwaller]

Can you show us a picture of your kiln? I loved reading your blog - thanks for posting!

 

[jojjas]

Oh , it just a modified refrigerator , nothing fancy at all , just a crockpot for heat and humidity and a fan to move the air around inside , but yeah , a picture is coming

 

[greenmonster714]

Very nice 2016 grow.

 

[jojjas]

On request , my highly advanced kiln

 

[mwaller]

Very nice - it's a big one!

 

[Charly]

Nice !
Every times I see a kiln I ask myself : "Why didn't build your own yet ???"
This year I will !

 

[greenmonster714]

Nice !
Every times I see a kiln I ask myself : "Why didn't build your own yet ???"
This year I will !

I've got to do the same Charly. I've got an old chest freezer to use but I just gotta gather the stuff to use in it. The list of things to get for growing just keeps growing.