Hi everyone,
this year, I started my first crop of tobacco, and since I like experimentations, I decided to try to make my perique (because i love VaPers in my pipes !).
I'm french, so excuse my english
My first question is about the bubbles one can see escaping from the leaves under pressure : my leaves started to bubble after about one day under pressure, and continued to bubble during about 5 days. Now they are not bubbling anymore. Don't they need to bubble longer ? I thought the perique would keep on bubbling for a long time... how long did your perique bubble ?
I used "cherry red 401" virginia leaves for my perique, since it is the only strain that gave me enough leaves to experiment.
The method I used for my perique is inspired by the one from an old book (http://www.saveseeds.org/library/books/Tobacco_Leaf/tobacco_leaf_1897.html) :
- I used color cured leaves, washed and stemmed
- I put my leaves under pressure in a jar (using the "jar in the jar" method)
- I opened it after 24 hours (it smelled like some light tea), aired the leaves for an hour (separated in a plate), then put them under pressure again (putting enough pressure so that all the leaves are under the liquid).
- I opened it 2 times since, I layed the leaves in a plate (separating them), after 1 hour I put it under pressure again.
The smell of the jar changed during those days : light "tea" the first day, vinagary/leathey after 3 days (not great aroma), then more fruity after 5 days (quite pleasing).
I plan on opening the jar in about one week and see what changes.
I've got a lot of other questions, I'll post them in the right places soon.
Thank you for all the informations available on your forum, this place is heaven for someone willing to smoke his own tobacco !
Charles.
this year, I started my first crop of tobacco, and since I like experimentations, I decided to try to make my perique (because i love VaPers in my pipes !).
I'm french, so excuse my english
My first question is about the bubbles one can see escaping from the leaves under pressure : my leaves started to bubble after about one day under pressure, and continued to bubble during about 5 days. Now they are not bubbling anymore. Don't they need to bubble longer ? I thought the perique would keep on bubbling for a long time... how long did your perique bubble ?
I used "cherry red 401" virginia leaves for my perique, since it is the only strain that gave me enough leaves to experiment.
The method I used for my perique is inspired by the one from an old book (http://www.saveseeds.org/library/books/Tobacco_Leaf/tobacco_leaf_1897.html) :
- I used color cured leaves, washed and stemmed
- I put my leaves under pressure in a jar (using the "jar in the jar" method)
- I opened it after 24 hours (it smelled like some light tea), aired the leaves for an hour (separated in a plate), then put them under pressure again (putting enough pressure so that all the leaves are under the liquid).
- I opened it 2 times since, I layed the leaves in a plate (separating them), after 1 hour I put it under pressure again.
The smell of the jar changed during those days : light "tea" the first day, vinagary/leathey after 3 days (not great aroma), then more fruity after 5 days (quite pleasing).
I plan on opening the jar in about one week and see what changes.
I've got a lot of other questions, I'll post them in the right places soon.
Thank you for all the informations available on your forum, this place is heaven for someone willing to smoke his own tobacco !
Charles.