New Cigars and Box...

[jmg]

Just a couple of the latest cigars I've rolled. I actually put a pinch or two of some flavored pipe tobacco that I had made into the smaller of the two cigars...turned out really nice. The larger one smoked really great, but about half way through it developed a soft area. This smoked well, but wasn't rolled probably I guess.

The cigar box was made from the same cedar tree that I had cut down and slabbed to build my house. Nothing fancy, but works well.

 

[Ben Brand]

Good looking cigars. Congrats.
Ben

 

[Ben Brand]

What tobacco did you use for filler and wrapper?

 

[Indianamac]

SWEET looking cigars! What type of leaf did you use?

 

[DGBAMA]

Nice job. Love the dark wrapper.

 

[jmg]

What tobacco did you use for filler and wrapper?

No idea. I live with the Hewa tribe in PNG and I just grew what it is that they had and gave me seeds of.

 

[Michibacy]

Living of the land and with your tribe, sound like a good guy. Nice looking cigars and box. I've got some cedar I'm considering doing this with this winter

 

[johnlee1933]

Nice looking work. If it keeps cigars the way YOU like and the smokes are good for YOU then you have total success. We get to look at a lot of esoteric and successful stuff that is way beyond me. KISS and if it works for you -- Excellent.

John

 

[Southern Planter]

I once rode an elephant into a clearing of "illegal immigrants" in the Lanna Kingdom. They were refugees from Burma if I remember. They made nice green hand made cigars, and we all smoked um. As I was puffing it I thought, "sh#t, here I am in the Golden Tryangle, I hope this is just tobacco!" I've got a pic of me smoking the stogie in the back of a land rover, if I can find it I'll use it in my profile.

 

[ChuckP]

Howdy & Welcome JMG!

Nice looking cigars and humidor! The ash looks nice and toothy! Was it a spicy smoke? If you get a chance, grab some seed and donate it to the Forum seed bank.

Again Welcome!

 

[deluxestogie]

Seed arrangements have been made, but the seed will not be available until May 2014. Interested members living in a sub-tropical climate, and willing to bag and pass-on the seed, may have an opportunity to grow the Hewa leaf in 2014.

"Toothy" suggest a Sumatra variant. Since we don't really know what it is, and it is not a variety that GRIN is likely to have acquired, it will be named:

jmg - Hewa Papua.

Bob