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  1. Patriotguy

    Fermentation while curing /drying

    Ive been reading a lot of free kindle and ebooks from the 1800s on tobacco, one thing I read that was shocking to me is that if you gave your tobacco proper manure / soil that the leaf will ferment while it cures and that a fermentation on its own is only needed for poor quality tobaccos that...
  2. D

    Fermenting air cured flue-cure varieties in a kiln - mistakes

    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...
  3. J

    Hello all…from New York

    Hello FTT, It is a pleasure to meet all of you. I am a cigar smoker, I love all different types. My goal from this forum is to learn about the different types of tobacco that are grown in the United States, and the growers as well. I also want to learn the different types of leaves and parts of...
  4. AmaxB

    My Simple Kiln $31 Bucks and an old Fridge

    Ok got me a small Fridge been in the garage the last 4 years going to make it a Kiln for fermenting / aging my tobacco on the fast track. .... Not for Flue Curing .... THe Parts: 1 Refrigerator. 1 Old Crock Pot 1 Wireless Temperature / Humidity Sensor (new $28.00) I got the kind that has...
  5. B

    Havana tobacco

    Ok here is a question that we all may want to know . What is the best type of HAVANA to grow ? Vuelta Abajo (Is it a Havana or not ?) Havana 142 Havana 41 Havana 38 Havana 263 Havana 425 Havana Lonnies I know the Havana 142 seeds that I recieved from Don are way different that the...
  6. rainmax

    How to rainmax grow 2013

    Grow log This year I will grow 23 sorts of tobacco for smoking and preserving seeds. That’s mean I need at least 23 bags. I start seedlings on 11th of March at 00.00 and today it looks like all plants started. Some sooner (Havana 425, Mutki, Havana 38, VA Bright, CT Shade, Xanthi Yaka 18a...
  7. H

    An Old book about processing Cigar leaves

    Hello I've found that old book which holds some useful info. Curing and Fermentation of Cigar Leaf Tobacco (1899) you can read it online at http://ia600303.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.php?file=0/items/curingandfermen00loewgoog/curingandfermen00loewgoog.djvu Enjoy Hakamo0o
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