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Those clothes pins are good for anything , My wife uses them to close up potato chip bags
 

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Well, Lets see: I have some vapor proof bags, a hand of tobacco that is not labeled and a bottle of Nitrogen. I'll hose some tobacco down tomorrow with water, put it in a vapor proof bag and fill it with Nitrogen before sealing it. I'm only in my early 50's so I'm a little young to be using clothespins. I suspect the leaf will still probably mold due to the fermentable sugars in the leaf.
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Well this experiment was a bust. Almost a year ago I took 3 mason jars and put 3 leaves into each. They were all very heavily cased. One jar I flushed with Nitrogen and sealed. Another jar I flushed with a Carbon Dioxide/Oxygen gas mixture and sealed. The last jar ( the control) I just sealed with nothing added other than "natural" air. These I kept outside under my deck. I opened the jars today. All three were still heavily cased and not a bit of mold to be found on any of them. I was hoping that the control jar would have molded and the Nitrogen not molded, proving my theory that storing heavily cased tobacco with a Nitrogen flush would preserve it long term.

So now this brings other questions to mind. Are there certain cultivars that will not readily mold? Is there a sweet spot where mold forms? ie, too light a case or too heavy a case and you get nothing, but get just the right amount of moisture and you get mold growth. I just find it hard to believe that even the heavily cased control sample showed no mold growth at all.
 

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I store my shredded tobacco in very high case, or wet. With a half vodka half distild water with my casein in it. I keep it that way for 2 or 3 mounths sometimes with no mold as long as I keep the alc. in it. Can it age this way?
 

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Well this experiment was a bust. Almost a year ago I took 3 mason jars and put 3 leaves into each. They were all very heavily cased. One jar I flushed with Nitrogen and sealed. Another jar I flushed with a Carbon Dioxide/Oxygen gas mixture and sealed. The last jar ( the control) I just sealed with nothing added other than "natural" air. These I kept outside under my deck. I opened the jars today. All three were still heavily cased and not a bit of mold to be found on any of them. I was hoping that the control jar would have molded and the Nitrogen not molded, proving my theory that storing heavily cased tobacco with a Nitrogen flush would preserve it long term.

So now this brings other questions to mind. Are there certain cultivars that will not readily mold? Is there a sweet spot where mold forms? ie, too light a case or too heavy a case and you get nothing, but get just the right amount of moisture and you get mold growth. I just find it hard to believe that even the heavily cased control sample showed no mold growth at all.

Had any vacuum sealed themselves?
 

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Bob, it was just ambient temps ranging from almost 100 degrees in the summer to a low of single digits in the winter.
If I try this again I'll put the containers in my kiln for a more controlled atmosphere.
 

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That's quite interesting, I was thinking of storing leaf sealed under vacuum in a plastic bag and storing it in the airing cupboard
 
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