China Voodoo 2020 Grow
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POGreen
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Very nice lookin plants China
ChinaVoodoo
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It looks like that's all she wrote. Wow, what a long year. I'll be picking everything this weekend.
ChinaVoodoo
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As I am expecting freezing temperatures, I picked all my tobacco.
Ideally, I would have a humidified curing space, but that will have to wait until next year. When I pile my leaves, I don't use cardboard boxes if I don't have to. I have found leaves touching the cardboard trend to dry out faster.
I pile them on a counter, sort by size, and cover in plastic. It's easier to sort through more regularly.
When I pile, I alternate from to front, back to back so there is airspace in between them. They don't stick together as much, it decreases the risk of excessive wet spots, and theoretically, it provides space for ethylene to build up and linger and spread around within the mass.
Viequeque
Viqueque left, Delhi-34 right, and in the floor
Delhi-34 front, Viqueque rear
Ideally, I would have a humidified curing space, but that will have to wait until next year. When I pile my leaves, I don't use cardboard boxes if I don't have to. I have found leaves touching the cardboard trend to dry out faster.
I pile them on a counter, sort by size, and cover in plastic. It's easier to sort through more regularly.
When I pile, I alternate from to front, back to back so there is airspace in between them. They don't stick together as much, it decreases the risk of excessive wet spots, and theoretically, it provides space for ethylene to build up and linger and spread around within the mass.
Viequeque
Viqueque left, Delhi-34 right, and in the floor
Delhi-34 front, Viqueque rear
Were you able to get any seed from the Viqueque?
Bob
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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ChinaVoodoo
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Just some housekeeping items:
I received a WLT order today. It took a total of 13 days, so Canadian customs must be doing a little better. I didn't have to pay any duty, again. That's two in a row.
Mental note. Next year I think I want to regrow Goose Creek and Kumanovo. I've been putting off Kumanovo for some time.
I received a WLT order today. It took a total of 13 days, so Canadian customs must be doing a little better. I didn't have to pay any duty, again. That's two in a row.
Mental note. Next year I think I want to regrow Goose Creek and Kumanovo. I've been putting off Kumanovo for some time.
ChinaVoodoo
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I had my first frost this past week, a couple days after I picked everything. There's no way I will grow Viqueque again because I can't rely on such a long season, and it's just ripe enough in early October. I count myself lucky.
Here's a flashback to September 13, 2018
fairtradetobacco.com
And September 21, 2018
Here's a flashback to September 13, 2018
China Voodoo 2018 Air-cured and Rajangan
This is it. I promise. I treated the Isleta Pueblo as though it was an afterthought. Back alley, no special soil, only periodic sucker trims. So when I picked them today, I went through and pruned off anything which I thought might not cure. I was left with a range of leaf sizes. Shed is at...
And September 21, 2018
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Snow-curing!
Bob
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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I still wonder if that's why the samporis and kasturi came out so dark. I don't know what other growers' leaf comes out like. But then again, I've had Delhi 34 out in the freezing weather too and it was very light.
ChinaVoodoo
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I'm currently flue curing some Viqueque. It's a very improvised curing chamber. I felt it important to see what it comes out like because its slow ripening gives me a little doubt as to whether it is flue cured or not. Should be done in two days.
ChinaVoodoo
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This was a surprise. Flue cured Delhi-34 on right. Flue cured Viqueque on the left.
I'm going to have to air cure the rest of the Viqueque. I have no idea what this stuff is now.
I'm going to have to air cure the rest of the Viqueque. I have no idea what this stuff is now.
Tutu
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Doesn't matter what it is! You have seeds!
Together with Bob's, the Timor Leste types have been saved!
Together with Bob's, the Timor Leste types have been saved!
ChinaVoodoo
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I'm still hoping that we can grow Rindi from Sumba. I think that one was interesting. I failed to get germination this year, but I still have seed, I think.
Tutu
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I have a ton of seeds of all the Sumba varieties but germination is a big issue. If you could get these types going and save them, I'll be forever thanking you
ChinaVoodoo
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Viqueque fire cured. My garage is a nice humidity level from the snow melting off the cars. Slightly crispy around the edges to assure me that it won't mold.
Anyway, I sliced this up and it clearly is almost exactly the same aroma as Lapsang Souchong.
Gonna smoke on the way to work.
ChinaVoodoo
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Utterly confused about what has just happened, I immediately filled a second bowl. I honestly don't know where to start. This tobacco does not taste like it looks. It was candy with multiple personalities. Here, have some fruit; here, taste this spice; wait! it's tea time. It did not have that ashy flavour I associate with Canadian bright strains. It's light, and touched with chutney, truffles, and lemons, but then for two seconds, and never to return, you taste nothing but India pale ale. Underneath all of it lays a gentle and sweet tobacco. Closest thing to that which I have had was Canik (from Northwood).
Snowblithe
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Wait, so you just grew an “everlasting gobstopper” in tobacco form? I wonder what it’s like Roahld into a cigar!
Typical case of synesthesia. Have you seen a doctor?
Bob
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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Depends on what you mean by "seen".
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