curing

Hello everyone, I am new to curing tobacco and am seeing tiny green spots on my leaves as they are air curing as seen in the picture (I apologise for its low quality) Is this mould or simply discolouration? It does not rub off from the leaf like I would expect mould to but I wouldn't know...

Hey all getting ready to prep and tackle some fermentation on some leaves im growing for ten tobacco plants I grew myself this year Im airing curing a few that I took off the bottom praticing of sorts as im new to all this. My plan is on setting up a rudimentary curing chamber with a large...

Hello all. I'm a first time newbie grower from the UK, I'm into cigars, so just growing a few havana plants as a trial to see how I do ( there are 2 in the garden and 2 indoors under grow lights, just taking them out when it's sunny a few times a week). They seem to be growing nicely except for...

Hello all, I am Jordan and from Reading UK! I am currently growing my own tobacco indoors as a hobbie (only two plants), this is my first grow! The tobacco plants have been growing for 4.5 months and now the bottom leaves are turning yellow. The humidity in the grow tent is 60-70% and temp is...

Hi everybody. So I guess I’ll make my own little space here to chronical this noble journey in which I go from knowing just about nothing about tobacco OR farming to eventually making the first (and thus best ever) Czech snus. I shall save my subsequent conquering of the global market and merger...

Hi all. Being a long time snus aficionado and having recently moved out of the city, I want to finally have a go at making my own from scratch. This place has been a priceless resource, thanks a lot to everybody who’s made it so. I’m planning a proper field for next year, but this year I...

It looks like I had my humidity off & my leaves dried very green. Is it possible to rehydrate & re cure them?

I've previously cured my tobacco in 80-90 degrees at 80-95% humidity for 1-3 weeks before drying it & would sometimes get mold this way. From reading this forum, it seems like a lot of people use a kiln with very high temperatures to prevent mold growth. I wanted to get some more info on this...

Hello, my name is Cameron and I am located in Prescott, AZ. I am wanting to grow, cure, and ferment my own tobacco for making my own cigars. I know that the traditional method for curing cigar tobacco is air-curing and the tradition fermentation process for cigar tobacco is staking the cured...

Hey guys I have my first harvest of tobacco hanging in my basement now and they’re turning a nice yellow brown color. It’s been about 2 weeks and I plan on going around 6 weeks with the air curing process. I have a stand up fan that rotates left to right down there too. I feel feel like my...

So I have some Burley I harvested last year, and that was my first attempt at growing. I never realized the importance of remembering the variety of Burley planted so I have no idea what kind it is. But here are my questions. 1. Is it best to keep it lightly moist or let it dry up to the point...

I have just a couple plants that I'm trying to salvage. Long story short I have not been able to hang the leaves to let them cure and they are coloring very unevenly and just today I notice a small amount of mold on some of the leaves. Anywho, when is it OK to derib the leaves? Will it hinder...

Hi all, I decided to grow my first crop of Virginia last year and have just completed the drying and processing. WOW, what a great smoke I have created in just a few easy steps I will share with you as it turned out better than any cigarette I have ever smoked. After air drying the leaves until...

I'm getting ready to start curing burley, and we have a lot of humidity swings here in SW Washington. At night it is hitting 90-100% humidity, but in the daytime it drops into the 30-40% range. Right now it is about 50deg at night, hitting around 75-80 most days. Makes trying to control an...

Hey y'all! I'm from Alberta Canada and I'm in the late stages of my first crop. Doing mad research. If your from anywhere in the northern hemisphere you know it's frozen something that rhymes with sock jiff up here. I'm growing hydroponic in a tent using a home made deep water culture/drip...

Hi everyone :) So I am building a small box to press a mixture of cut Latakia and whole leaf VAs & Orientals. I will press it with clamps. I'm planning on 5 days approximately, but I must ask to be safe: How long is too long? A week? A year? What would happen if I press too long? I'm going for a...

I've made some mistakes with kilning my air cured flue-cure varieties (and also by kilning my flue cured flue-cure varieties). If I take air cured Virginia type leaves and put them in the kiln for the full four weeks, the sugars seems to carmelize and burn a bit, to where parts of the leaves...

I'm in Southwest Virginia this week for my job and I drove past a small tobacco field today. There were two racks of Burley stalks in the field in full sun all day and they looked dried, not just wilted. There were no plants in the ground at this point. It sure looked like a form of sun curing...

Hey everyone. My name is Quin. I've grown my own tobacco for three consecutive years, and this is the first growing season that i've deployed more of a method for curing. I've been drawing from T.A. James' book The Heirloom Tobacco Garden and i've been excited to try his method using jars. Right...

The Louisiana Digital Library has, among countless other things, a collection of superb photos of Perique production. They're all copyrighted, so I'll just give a link to the advanced search. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/search.php When you reach that page, enter Guglielmo...