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My color curing leaves show two very different behaviors.
Some slowly turn yellow, then brown, a very light brown ; and the mid rib have dried homogeneously :
The others turn directly brown, a quite dark brown, skiping the yellow stage ; and the thicker part of the mid rib remain totaly green :
All the pictures given here for exemples are from Ohio Dutch leaves but I noticed more or less the same behavior in all my 4 varieties.
The differences between the two groups is that the lighters ones are from the bottom of the stalk (harvested a week earlier) and the darkers ones from the middle, AND, the lighters ones has been first hanged in a shed with a week of dry climate (several hours per day with RH dropping to 40% and less), then put in a little drying box with controled conditions (between 60 and 85% RH and a little warmer than the ambient temperatures) and the darkers ones has been directly put in the drying box without having to face a RH lower than 60%.
I asked myself and ask you now if those different behaviors are dued to the original position on the stalk or to the different drying conditions?
In your opinion, are the darkers ones going well or may have I made something wrong with it? (this dark brown looks appetizing but……).
Some slowly turn yellow, then brown, a very light brown ; and the mid rib have dried homogeneously :
The others turn directly brown, a quite dark brown, skiping the yellow stage ; and the thicker part of the mid rib remain totaly green :
All the pictures given here for exemples are from Ohio Dutch leaves but I noticed more or less the same behavior in all my 4 varieties.
The differences between the two groups is that the lighters ones are from the bottom of the stalk (harvested a week earlier) and the darkers ones from the middle, AND, the lighters ones has been first hanged in a shed with a week of dry climate (several hours per day with RH dropping to 40% and less), then put in a little drying box with controled conditions (between 60 and 85% RH and a little warmer than the ambient temperatures) and the darkers ones has been directly put in the drying box without having to face a RH lower than 60%.
I asked myself and ask you now if those different behaviors are dued to the original position on the stalk or to the different drying conditions?
In your opinion, are the darkers ones going well or may have I made something wrong with it? (this dark brown looks appetizing but……).