BarG
Founding Member
Need to put a bottle there and save it, might need it to water the plants in the middle of the summer! Can't believe the cool temp we had today, in the middle of May?
Your just trying to get me in trouble.
Need to put a bottle there and save it, might need it to water the plants in the middle of the summer! Can't believe the cool temp we had today, in the middle of May?
John, I had no idea you were "THAT OLD".. in the future if you want, I can type my messages using the largest font available...
WHAT ?
jOHN
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.
Randy B
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?
What was the average temperature under the deck, during the time the cased leaf was being stored there?These I kept outside under my deck.