Hi all, I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the holiday season. I've shut down the kiln and am happier than hell with the results. The leaf is beautiful and smells incredible. I've done a little processing so far and have pressed a straight virginia plug, made 3 small batches of cavendish 1 from Virginia's, 1 from Orientals and 1 from burley. I've got so much darn burley I made a plug out of all burley, but to mix things up I toasted some of it and made the plug from a mix of plain ol' burley, burley cavendish and toasted burley. I've got some half cocked plans to roll some rustic stogies out of some of my pennsylvania red, ahus and brown leaf. Still need to get an order over to WLT for some latakia and bright leaf so I can get some English mixtures in the works. This whole process has been a ton of fun and I really appreciate all the support and info you all gave throughout the process. As I'm getting all my leaf cleaned up and ready for storage, I'm wondering if you all strip the stems prior to storage, or wait until you're about to use it for something to do that?