Another bag goes moldy ??????!

[Brown Thumb]

Looks like Green mold. This is my bag of catterton red tips, I am bummed.I do not see anyone else having problems when storing Baccy with mold.I don't have mold in my house and my basement is dry. The Baccy is in low to med case.This just don't make sense. Any IdeasBT

 

[Matty]

It's a crying shame to have moldy tobacco, something which I am WAY to familiar with. The only thing I do now is throw out the moldy stuff and store everything bone dry. Another thing I do is remove the midrib before storing as it holds moisture much longer than the lamina. Anything that is highly suspect is stored sealed away from everything else. Mold spores are everywhere, all that is needed are the right conditions for it to bloom and then all hell breaks loose. Once tobacco has gone moldy it is garbage. I feel for ya, mold is the devil.

 

[Knucklehead]

My first thought was that your stems aren't dry, but the mold looks like its everywhere on the leaf. What is the humidity of your basement? Maybe you should crack the seal on the rest of the bags and let them dry out more. You can bring up the case before you shred.

 

[Chicken]

i let my baccy hang till it's time for use,

i believe matty hit it right on,

what bacca i do store is allready dried and shredded,

and as that large stock-pile dwindles down. ill shred up some more,

i like to keep about 5 varities on hand.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Matty I thought the hornworm was the devil I am reconsidering that.
I would destem it but that is a lot of work over 100 pounds. I did that last year and shredded it. Stored it in hefty garbage bags only to lose two bags to mold also 30 to 40 pounds. Used them bags for archery practice.
Knucks it is 34% rh in the basement . I think It is the stems . I just checked the Havana red tips and all are fine then I checked the 309 tips and found a couple of spores on a few stems
These stems on tips take forever to dry I guess.

 

[Knucklehead]

I dried my stems on seedling heat mats. Just pile the leaves on the mats and turn the pile every couple of days. When the stems snap like matchsticks they are dry. The leaves also dry flat like you had ironed them.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Thanx Knucks I will try that on the tips next year. I pulled most of the air cured Baccy Bags and no sign of mold.
I will smoke hornworm chit but I will not smoke mold.

 

[Ben Brand]

For what's it's worth. When I was a commercial tobacco farmer and we got mould I took a mixture of vinigar and water 50/50 and some vanilla escens for the smell and just dumped the tobacco in this mixture. The vinegar killes the mould spores and the vanilla males it smell nice so the buyers couldn't detect the mould. After that you must let it dry out completely and then rehydrate the tobacco. Good luck.

 

[Ben Brand]

We also use methelated spirits? with vanilla escens that also killed the mould spores. I wouldn't bin the tobacco, try and save at least some of it first.
Ben

 

[Boboro]

I store mine bone dry ant cheack ever stem before I pack it in the box. I pack it in the box and put it in the sun for a few hrs. to dry it. I have had some mold but not much.

 

[leverhead]

I don't know how Don does it, but for me plastic bags and tobacco don't work too well. I have too much humidity most of the year. I keep mine dry, in hands, covered with cloth to keep the dust off.

 

[jekylnz]

I find it helps to make sure everything it comes in contact with is clean. .u tend to get mold where you've handled it..yours almost looks like its come from whatever it was in contact with..the bag?

 

[Brown Thumb]

A lot of good suggestions here. Thanx.
I think it was a wet stem or two that might have started it or it might have had some stem mold I never saw when I bagged it. I just don't want it to happen again if possible.
The bags are new also.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Now I am pulling my Hair Out!!
A member wants some Bright Leaf seed so I thought I would send some leaf with it so he could taste what he was going to grow.
I found this bag of air cured.
At least the flue cured is not affected.
Bangs Head OFf LollyColumn ( no smiley for that one) I am at a WTF.