What's up. So I got into smoking cigars about 6 months ago, then decided I would try rolling last week. Rolled my first on Thursday and was pretty impressed with myself, then rolled more on Saturday. Was a little less impressed with this outing. Oh well, I'm sure it will get better. Ordered a kit from Whole Leaf so if that comes by this Friday, I will give it a try again. Also ordered some seeds from a company this weekend, fairly certain I will fail at that but like I said in the title, jumping in head first. Look forward to learning from you all. I have all kinds of questions...
New at this but jumping in head first. ryanj77
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Howdy from Austin! We have a lot of fun here.
MarcL
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Welcome to Fair Trade Tobacco.
Welcome. Thank you for joining us.
Just north of Houston here. So since you are from here, quick question. Am I too late to start growing my tobacco this year? Seeds will hopefully get here next week.
GreenDragon
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I think you will still be fine. I try to get mine in the ground around April 15.
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Oldfella
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Welcome from me in NZ.
I hope that your grow goes well. Don't forget to start a grow blog with plenty of pics.
Cheers Oldfella
I hope that your grow goes well. Don't forget to start a grow blog with plenty of pics.
Cheers Oldfella
Thanks, actually a little nervous about it. feel like I am coming to the party a little to late this year. Also unsure of my tobacco seed choices. Not sure what does well in my area. I know its a hobby and should relax about it but...
Any variety will do well in Texas. You will make mistakes your first year. You will enjoy the process.
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Thanks, this sets that part of my mind at ease. Now to just get started and hope I'm not too late to start my seeds next week.
ChinaVoodoo
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At the end of the year you will have tobacco you grew, whereas right now, you do not.
You should have plenty of time to get started where you live. I have a long season also and worry more about the timing of the curing weather at the end of the season due to humidity swings towards the end, but there are ways to manipulate your curing micro environment also. How and where do you plan to cure your leaf?
So that is something I thought I had figured out but is now becoming a problem, thought I would try the trash can method I read about but then read this "Flue-cured leaf is not really helpful in cigars". Now I am back to the drawing board. We have hot humid summers in Houston. I have a shed I could convert I think but I wonder about mold.
GreenDragon
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Run a fan to keep the air circulated. That will help a lot. Put an hydrometer in the shed; if it gets too humid, open the door, too dry, close it.
Oldfella
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I am building a Kiln in a shed (check out my blog in How to grow Tobacco, curing arrangements.) I think that if you dry it you can store it inside until you get your kiln sorted. Check out the storing Tobacco threads.
Cheers Oldfella
What is proper RH?
ChinaVoodoo
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Based on my experience.
Fully yellow or brown (uncured leaf) anything below 65%.
Leaf that still shows green - around 65% if no air movement. High 70s with good air movement. About 70% if no air movement but I'm able to give them a shake and change the spread of the leaves every day or two.
Edit: if there is no damaged spots, uncured leaf won't mold except under extreme conditions. What you're doing is keeping rh low enough that the leaf can dry out, without having it so fast that it doesn't turn brown, and keeping it low enough that the cured bits which are also in there don't mold.
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