growing Tobacco in Kazakhstan

[madhouse]

Hi folks just a small find on growing Tobacco and processing it in Kazakhstan

growing Tobacco in Kazakhstan http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.voxpopuli.kz/post/view/id/421/hlg&usg=ALkJrhjnFYmKq1tmt2YdhPo9xkr1wfvNUg


Processing Tobacco in Kazakhstan http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.voxpopuli.kz/post/view/id/506

 

[johnlee1933]

Good one. Thank you.

 

[deluxestogie]

What great articles, and with dozens of spectacular photos:

Bob

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Very interesting, especially the box of tobacco butter shown at the end of the article.

 

[jekylnz]

Very interesting, especially the box of tobacco butter shown at the end of the article.

Does anyone know anything more about this cell beneficial oil from bacci flowers...or heard of it before??

 

[Seanz]

What a cool Photo essay thanks for posting

 

[BarG]

Me and my whole family and our friends might have to quit our day jobs to do that.

 

[Fisherman]

"Collect the first tobacco leaves from mid-July and lasts until the end of August, when the leaves begin to turn yellow. "

WHere are the yellow leaves? ever notice they always tell you this and then all they pick is green ones

 

[AmaxB]

I did enjoy this
All look happy but have a hard life I think.

 

[jekylnz]

"Collect the first tobacco leaves from mid-July and lasts until the end of August, when the leaves begin to turn yellow. "

WHere are the yellow leaves? ever notice they always tell you this and then all they pick is green ones

I have noticed and seen this a few different times...confusing? ?? They all look pretty green to me? ?

 

[leverhead]

I've noticed that my camera "lies" about the color a little bit.

 

[johnlee1933]

"Collect the first tobacco leaves from mid-July and lasts until the end of August, when the leaves begin to turn yellow. "

WHere are the yellow leaves? ever notice they always tell you this and then all they pick is green ones

I think that makes sense. If I read it right they stop picking when the leaves start to yellow so naturally all you would see them picking are green.

 

[Fisherman]

reason I am concerned is I dont know when to pick mine. One thing says wait till yellow and the other says when crisp and green.
Im growing brightleaf virginia.

 

[johnlee1933]

reason I am concerned is I dont know when to pick mine. One thing says wait till yellow and the other says when crisp and green.
Im growing brightleaf virginia.

Deluxe Bob wrote a post a while back indicating leaves for cigars were picked earlier than those for cigs. I can't find the thread. I pick for cigars only so that's the way I do it. Perhaps BigBonner will chime in about cig tobaccos.

 

[deluxestogie]

For white-stem burleys, you can allow the entire plant to yellow, then stalk harvest it. For bright leaf (Virginias), which I prime leaf-by-leaf, I usually wait for a leaf to get at least a slight yellow tip. In general, yellowing is a sign of ripeness.

Cigar leaf is primed at a mature, but not yet ripe stage. A mature leaf, which is all green, shows some corrugation, and crispness, as well as a subtle change to a deeper color. A mature leaf will snap off the stalk like celery.

So, for your Virginia, make sure the leaf is at least mature, preferably somewhat ripe. For flue-curing, allowing more ripeness will (like fruit) give you a bit sweeter leaf. For air-curing Virginia, it probably doesn't matter.

These are just my approach. Some folks like to harvest very ripe leaf. The riper the leaf at harvest, the easier it is to color-cure.

Bob

 

[Fisherman]

Ok thanks Me Deluxe and Mr Johnlee. I went and picked 50 leaves real quick and gottem hanging. Most are ok but some are sorta ragged out. Dam me and that iron spray