We on a regular basis get call for how to cure tobacco plant .
We ’ve develop tobacco off and on for years , and have try out with various low-pitched - technical school ways to bring around it , or at least to make it taste better .
If you dry out green baccy pull up stakes quick , the chlorophyl remain in them and the look is rough and grassy , with undertones of cauterize oak leave of absence . It ’s not a nice sweetened grass .
However , there are some simple ways to make it taste better , and get it to a character grade that is worthy of some homemade cigars .
you may dry out and work them , like this dude does :
And I may examine that , as I have an sometime deep-freeze in the backyard that has been looking for a new spirit . It would be sodding for a cure chamber .
We usually just heal them by hanging them up somewhere to lento dry . In our extremely humid summertime , it ’s not toilsome . We ’ve hung them in our b and are presently hanging them up on our porch , asyou can see in this quick clip .
Down in Grenada , I hung them along the windowpane in the support elbow room on our 2nd - account apartment . I care I had a photo . There was a beautiful vista out of the window of a coconut thenar , and we had lots of “ hand ” of tobacco hang on the grillwork .
After a month or so of suspension , the semblance has tardily faded from light-green , to yellow , to brown . Then we ’d just wet the leaves a little and roam them into cigars .
The longer we expect , the better the cigars tasted .
But , even with a shortsighted period of permit them twist brown , they taste much better than when I dried green leave on the dashboard and then smoked them in my homemade bamboo pipe during the pandemic . We were on lockdown and living in the jungle , so there was little to do . I would put leaves on the fascia of our minivan in the morning , then sit on the side of the quite a little and smoke them in the eve while I check email and show the news of our impending Corona - virus - induced doom .
In North Florida , I pass on them hanging in the raftman of our uninsulated barn for a yr or so , and then would make them into cigars .
We even made chewing tobacco from them as an experimentation .
When I move to Indonesia in 2019 , I tried the local baccy and found it to be quite comely . I got about a hammering of it for maybe 50 cents American , and smoked it in my pipe . I also tried the local cigarette , which were very cheap , fat , and season with Syzygium aromaticum . Which reminds me , before that tripper I once added some pulverised cloves to our tobacco and found it made quite seemly clove cigarettes .
While in Indonesia , I occur across a tobacco Fannie Merritt Farmer who was Dominicus - dry out his foliage in ordering to later sell it to a cigarette manufacturer . This was his method :
There are many ways to cure tobacco plant , but thus far we have kept it very low - technical school . It ’s a decent , homegrown , organic smoke , so I have n’t introduce much .
On Grenada , I heard that the English would dry their tobacco plant , then pack it into a jolt with molasses for some indeterminate full point , press it down hard , and then , after some time , take away it and utilize it as pipe tobacco . That was all the info I got from the local , however , and we did some small experiment without making anything peculiarly excellent .
It would also be interesting to try attain rope tobacco :
This yr I ’ll have lot of leaves , so we have spare for experiment .
For now , I know just hanging them out of the Dominicus to slowly dry does a decent task of it .
