A Scotsman in Argentina
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More by luck than skill on my part my first attempt at growing tobacco has so far been successful. A few weeks ago I started to hang some of the smaller scraggy bottom leaves to colour cure. So far so good I think as can be seen in the picture below. My stalk cure plants have much darker leaves.
Now on to the fermenting process which I'm unsure about. What I did notice the other day, when entering the room where some of the colour curing is taking place I could smell tobacco for the first time. This got me wondering as to whether I need to go to the bother of building a kiln....it's not something I wish to do to be honest. I'm in no rush to smoke the tobacco as apart from imported pipe brands cigarette and pipe tobacco here in Argentina is relatively cheap and of decent quality.
I suppose what I'm saying is was the tobacco smell an indication that fermenting is taking place and as long as I'm prepared to wait there's no real need for a kiln? The weather here has been unusually warm for the start of autumn....it was 32c yesterday however today it has only been 22c which is more the norm. For a Scotsman like me winter in this part of the world doesn't really exist and is more like the weather southern Spain gets in winter. Don't get me wrong June/July does have chilly days but the max daytime temperature rarely falls below 15c and only drops below zero at night maybe a handful of times. Will just leaving them hanging for months be okay?
Look forward to reading your thoughts.
Now on to the fermenting process which I'm unsure about. What I did notice the other day, when entering the room where some of the colour curing is taking place I could smell tobacco for the first time. This got me wondering as to whether I need to go to the bother of building a kiln....it's not something I wish to do to be honest. I'm in no rush to smoke the tobacco as apart from imported pipe brands cigarette and pipe tobacco here in Argentina is relatively cheap and of decent quality.
I suppose what I'm saying is was the tobacco smell an indication that fermenting is taking place and as long as I'm prepared to wait there's no real need for a kiln? The weather here has been unusually warm for the start of autumn....it was 32c yesterday however today it has only been 22c which is more the norm. For a Scotsman like me winter in this part of the world doesn't really exist and is more like the weather southern Spain gets in winter. Don't get me wrong June/July does have chilly days but the max daytime temperature rarely falls below 15c and only drops below zero at night maybe a handful of times. Will just leaving them hanging for months be okay?
Look forward to reading your thoughts.