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...
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...
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...
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.
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Not for Flue Curing
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THe Parts:
1 Refrigerator.
1 Old Crock Pot
1 Wireless Temperature / Humidity Sensor (new $28.00) I got the kind that has...
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...
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...
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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