Pics of your sticks!!

[waikikigun]

Am I missing something?

"It was grown a second time in 2017 when Hurricane Irma hit the Island of Hispaniola. This tobacco was intended to be grown as a shade wrapper, but I suspect the hurricane altered the growing conditions. The resulting tobacco is a very dark, thick leaf with a nutty flavor. It’s highly unlikely to see this tobacco in this condition again once the available inventory is exhausted. "

Bob

You weren't but I was. I've never seen that text before. I was just trying to understand what you were saying. Now I do. Thank you.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Yeah, the first couple times I read it, I thought it was a recipe with two tobaccos in it. CV Black, and that hurricane wrapper, which I figured was probably something you grew.

 

[Easydoesit]

 

[tullius]

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Wrapper: Habano
Binder: Dominican
Filler: piloto/criollo Seco, T-13 Viso, Dominican ligero.

Earthy with hints of baking spices

Used the more ligero type leafs from the T-13, so went with the more visoish leaf of the Dominican ligero. Next time I'll try this blend with the more ligeroish ligero leafs.

Pretty stick: very nice work. That wrapper is next on my list.

 

[RexLaughlin]

 

[deluxestogie]

Morning cigar against an unmowed lawn.

Bob

 

[buck]

I believe in metric that's $21CAD

ha, ya you bet .. ran out of leaf was stuck buying at the B&M, $20 for a Brickhouse Robusto and $12 for house blend :-(

 

[Easydoesit]

Healthy breakfast

 

[IXanadu]

Batch #3.

This puts me at about 25 rolled sticks. Construction coming along slowly. They are a tad loose. I love an easy draw, but these might be too easy. When I try to roll tighter at the binding stage, I break the binder. I must by pinching wrong somehow. I'll watch some more vids before the next batch. Getting the hand feel for a 52 ring gauge is spotty, which results in different length cigars when I cut the stuff overly fat or overly narrow off.

The blend was inspired by Blis - an ever-ready coach. I'm hopeful this blend will be very smokeable. Also at Blis' coaching, I rolled 2 each in different wrappers. I just wrapped yesterday, and can't wait to light them up, just how sure how long to let them set first.

Anyone every put new rolls in a dehydrator in either fan-only or low mode? Any downsides to quickly drying a stick out like that for the impatient?

 

[deluxestogie]

Any downsides to quickly drying a stick out like that for the impatient?

I'm afraid so. You can rapidly dry leaf tobacco. But a finished cigar dries from the outside inward. Drying tobacco "shrinks". So the wrapper will tighten onto a filler that has yet to dry. This most commonly results in splitting of the wrapper at the foot--which dries first, if the head is closed. Occasionally wrapper along the shaft of the cigar may split.

Conversely, a cigar that is already dry, and is placed into higher humidity (say, a humidor) humidifies from the outside inward. So there is no risk of splitting, even if the humidification is rapid.

Bob

 

[tullius]

scrap short filler trio drying down: nice wlt sumatra wrapper, my shoddy cap work, nos. 259-261.

36 x 4.75

 

[tullius]

no. 260 test burn: scrap short filler, Dominican binder, sumatra wrap, all tobacco WLT.

Strange timeline: found 3 scrap dolls sitting in the 36 mold several days ago, they've been in there for several weeks, put them in humidor for 2 days and wrapped em this morning and burned this one after an hour. FANTASTIC draw and flavor, best draw and flavor out of any of my scrap filler cigars so far, by far.

 

[nict]

Happy Sunday.

 

[waikikigun]

Happy Sunday.

Nice job.

 

[Tricomike]

Here is one I rolled using a kit. Thing burned great and tasted wonderful. Cost less then a dollar

 

[Mathaious12]

Something to keep me engaged in the spreadsheets.

Wrapper: Habano
Binder: Sumatra
Filler: Abojo hab. Ligero, Paraguay Seco, Corojo Viso

Sweet liquorice and peanutty.

 

[PressuredLeaf]

Rolled and smoked today:

2 Nic viso
2 Pelo d’oro ligero
Vuelta Abajo binder
Ecuador Maduro wrapper

Lots of smoke, definitely needed to dry more. Smoke was medium at the most. Seemed very high in tannin, like a strong cup of black tea. Fairly savory and honestly pretty flat, won’t do this one again. It definitely needs some sweetness/ creaminess to balance the tannin. Maybe some seco?Oh well, good learning experience.

 

[MarcL]

New Olor Wrapper

 

[PressuredLeaf]

Smoked this one today:
2 Pelo d’oro Seco
1 Piloto viso
1 Pelo d’oro ligero
Vuelta binder
Ecuador maduro wrapper

Started out as a pepper bomb, but quickly calmed down. Nice medium earthy stick. Final third had a real nice buttery complexity that I really enjoyed. Overall much better than the last one. Might try this one with the corojo oscuro wrapper .

 

[MarcL]