The next stage

[Jockross]

Good morning everyone and apologies if this has been discussed previously. I’m struggling a bit navigating the forum, not so tech savvy here.
I managed to grow my golden Virginias well and have had a lot of the first picked leaves aired and turned a lovely brown golden colour. The rest of the plants have been cut whole and have them hanging, they are turning yellow and brown well.
My main concern is, I won’t be able to set up a kiln at the moment so had planned to just bag all the colour cured leaves into bags or jars and leave until they have aged or I have the time to set up a kiln. But I’m struggling to get the humidity of the leaves right before bagging up. I live in north of Scotland and the weather is turning now. I put the leaves in bags with a little humidity sensor and it’s reading roughly 74. But one bag of leaves which are bone dry read the same as the bag with the more pliable and leather like. So I’m not sure where to store and how to get the humidity down to say 65.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jockross]

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[Wombat_smokes]

How long have the sensors been in the bags? I would guess that they humidity is showing the "ambient" humidity from when the bags were closed and haven't reached an equilibrium.

As long as the leaves are in low case - crisp and noisey, but not crumbling to powder when handled - they keep just fine. High case is when the leaves are pliable and feel like leather. Medium case is half way between - firm, leathery, and still slightly pliable.

 

[Alpine]

Unless bone dry, i prefer to store my leaves in cardboard boxes. Cardboard allow the leaves to “breathe” and age naturally with time. Of course you want to store the boxes in a fairly dry part of the house, mine are in the attic for example because my garage is way too humid and cold and the risk of mold is greater than in the attic.
BTW you don’t need a kiln at any cost: if you are patient enough, tobacco will eventuallly age (like everything else in this world after all).

pier

 

[Jockross]

I left the sensors in overnight. Took the bags into my house today, they have been left in my workshop for drying. Must be too cold in there as the texture of leaves isn’t changing. So the leaves that are still medium and high should be left inside somewhere warmer to get them to low case texture then bag them up is what you think is best? Thanks for your reply wombat.