Too dry, or too humid, or looking good? 1 Photo

[vpnisnice]

I have started to hang my yellowing leaves. At first I started hanging them in my garage, and I have since switched to my laundry room.

Given the leaves in the photo, do these look too dry or too humid or on the right path to everyone here? I'm really not sure. I've spent tons of time researching this stuff but I'm just a little frazzled.

The laundry room where I have them drying is around 50% humidity by default. I have since filled up the sink periodically, and added a small fan, and have gotten the average humidity to be around 60-75% with this method. Is this a good idea? Or are the browning leaves signalling that it's too humid? Around 50% humidity the leaves start to get quite crispy after only a few hours.

I appreciate everyones help in my journey so far, I'm so close!

 

[GreenDragon]

You don’t want them to get crispy until they are fully color cured (brown throughout). 70-75 is probably where you want to be unless you start to see mold. Put a fan in the room for circulation and that will usually prevent mold problems.

 

[vpnisnice]

You don’t want them to get crispy until they are fully color cured (brown throughout). 70-75 is probably where you want to be unless you start to see mold. Put a fan in the room for circulation and that will usually prevent mold problems.

Ah okay so the leaves pictured, they still need for that browning to encompass the entire leaf before they can get crispy dry? As in, if they were that amount of yellow, and allowed to become crispy dry, that wouldn't be good?

I'm just concerned about the brown colour as I've seen people mention like "dirt leaves" that go brown when they are on the plant, and I fear that some of mine are turning that colour already = dirt leaf quality. Here is another photo of the transition I have right now. Far right were the ones I put in the garage initially first, and the far left are the newest.

As you can see the ones on the far right look VERY brown, almost like they are burnt brown. Really not sure.

 

[deluxestogie]

Your leaf looks like it is color-curing normally. Most varieties can be safely allowed to go crispy dry, once they have fully browned. For burley varieties, that is not the case. The white stem burleys should be kept in at least low case for several weeks beyond their initial browning.

Bob

 

[vpnisnice]

Your leaf looks like it is color-curing normally. Most varieties can be safely allowed to go crispy dry, once they have fully browned. For burley varieties, that is not the case. The white stem burleys should be kept in at least low case for several weeks beyond their initial browning.

Bob

Ah okay perfect thank you. I've put so much time into this after a failed year last year that now I've got a lot of pressure on myself to not mess it up. At the rate they are going in the laundry room they will probably take several weeks to get dry then is my guess. Whereas some of the more scruddy leaves I left outside on the ground, are already quite dry but I'm not sure if they've exactly cured correctly as these ones have.