Curring dark cigar tobacco

[Ben Brand]

Reading an article in one of my tobacco files.
The writer states "the longer you can keep the leaves alive after hanging it, the darker the tobacco will cure, this can be achieved by keepin the barn walls and floor wet, to up the humidity"
Personaly I can vouch for that, while my tobacco was hanging in my garage in different stages of drying, we had lots and lots of rain, the air was humid and my garage flooded. I swept out most of the water but the floor was wet for almost 2 weeks. My tobacco dried nice and dark, Im not a expert on cigar wrappers, but I would call it Maduro.
I think if anybody want to try this, they must just make sure they dont get mould.


This is a Little Dutch that I must still ferment.
Ben

 

[Knucklehead]

That's a beautiful color. It may get even darker after fermentation.

 

[jekylnz]

Yeah Ben looking good....nice and thick considering all the rain you guys have had...usually to much makes leaf thinner..and then doesn't handle the fermentation so well and as long...but yours is fine..should turn out great. .

 

[Wilbur]

Nice colour! Let us know how it smokes.

 

[Indianamac]

Reading an article in one of my tobacco files.
The writer states "the longer you can keep the leaves alive after hanging it, the darker the tobacco will cure, this can be achieved by keepin the barn walls and floor wet, to up the humidity"
Personaly I can vouch for that, while my tobacco was hanging in my garage in different stages of drying, we had lots and lots of rain, the air was humid and my garage flooded. I swept out most of the water but the floor was wet for almost 2 weeks. My tobacco dried nice and dark, Im not a expert on cigar wrappers, but I would call it Maduro.
I think if anybody want to try this, they must just make sure they dont get mould.

This is a Little Dutch that I must still ferment.
Ben

That is a nice looking leaf Ben. I have some little dutch seedlings, so this is nice for me to see this. Thanks.