4 years ago Then proceed in one of the following ways: Further up the page, I suggested that you let one plant flower for seed. Canadian Virginian plant, so I've not looked back. I live in Kansas and they are growing like crazy. Did you dry indoors? Question: I've grown plenty of tobacco except I've always just microwaved the leaves or in the oven to dry and smoked the plant still green. Regarding smoking the tobacco though, cigarette and pipe tobacco available commercially is a bit "moist" and pliable. I've gone 2 weeks to 6 months. The Wide mouth 1-gallon glass jar with lid is one of the most popular jars today because it's cheap and effective. Thanks. I did miss a stage in my above aromatic observationsbetween the wet grass and raisin stage there was a strong cereal smell..like toasted corn flakes, which probably lasted for the entire 2nd week. You might try planting cabbage amongst the 'backy to deter the cabbage butterfly; I intend to this year. Most people use wide-mouth quart or half-gallon glass mason jars,. A factory barn with hundreds of thousands of hands fermenting, wellthat would be a whole different level of aroma.Q: Surf Monkey Coconut, your insurance agent called me looking for you. There are several ways to ferment at home. Feed a thin tomato stake (or something similar) through these slits so that when you hold the stick horizontally, the leaves hang down about an inch apart. Adding moisture to cure is not a good idea, the bud should be dried properly first. Answer: An airtight container's a good idea, but I can't tell you how long the tobacco will last. Question: Thank you for the article. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. on Introduction. you have done a excellent activity on this matter! I actually think I am on about or coming up to my 6th year smoking my homegrown bakky. Taking the focus away from tobacco congratulations once more! This is predominately a writers/informational blog, but can be quite social in its comments, as you may have noted above. . You'll have lots of them. If you hit 71% or greater, you will have to take the bud out to dry more. He constantly kept preaching about this. You too can join the ranks of tobacco plant enthusiasts and with some luck and planning, your efforts may be rewarded with a homegrown cigar! 3 years ago. Sit back, drink your moonshine (I'm writing an article on distilling), and watch them grow. Love it. The Old Firm (author) from Waikato/Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand on September 21, 2014: Here's some info that i copied and pasted from this hub a couple of years ago. I understand that Tobacco in Cigars, Pipes, Roll your own, cigarettes, snuff and all other types are from the same tobacco plant. Tobacco is an amazingly prolific plant. I assume that you want to either roll a cigarette or use a pipe. Let them dry out on the plant. I'm curious to uncover out what blog system youre employing? (You probably know this already!). Put it in a pipe and it smoked fine. He then filled about 1/6 of the cylinder with water and propped the leaves up on another piece of aluminium with a small vent hole in it. Question: Is fermenting necessary to grow and cure tobacco at home? Some leaves are 500-600mm in length and still rather green. Then I put the buds into 1 qt mason jars to cure. Your blog by far has the most simplistic and helpful information on growing tobacco. Hang the tobacco where the humidity is consistently around 65 percent. It's fine to jar bulk tobacco; it will resume fermentation. Wonderful hub. Did you make this project? Is that safe to smoke? there seems to be a new trend in vaping lately as more people are the cost of cigarettes beyond their means and are turning to vaping, i grow my own tobacco and process it myself and have experimented (Mucked around in my kitchen) with 0% nicotine menthol e-juice by cutting my tobacco in an old electric coffee grinder and adding the e-juice bit by bit to the mix until i achieve the strength i desire.. The Old Firm (author) from Waikato/Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand on February 17, 2015: No I haven't tried that. Using the ones made for smoking, bleached, or with added chemicals is not ideal, to say the very least. Awesome article!!! Don't humidify kiln to prevent rusty lids. Otherwise, do as a lot of people I know do - buy a cheap lighter and put up with lighting up often, its a lot less costly than getting store-bought tobacco! Hang the leaves somewhere dry and warm, like a garage or attic. I dip the lid in the boiling water, and making sure the rim of the jar is free of tobacco pieces, place the lid on the jar and lightly set the ring. Question: Im in the Wairarapa and just got some seedlings from the local garden centre. Have you ever tried soaking leaves to flavour them? I assume that you're in the northern hemisphere, which means that you are in late Autumn, so I suggest that you pick the leaves and hang them to dry. From new and estate tobacco pipes to tin pipe tobacco and bulk pipe tobacco, we have everything you need. When the plants reach maturity, they'll set flower heads at the top. A friend hangs his tobacco for about three months, by which time it has both a nice colour and texture. at home depot, clamp assembly is not needed)-30W light bulb (heat source)-Aluminum foil-Clean paper towels-Plastic bag-Sterilized spray bottle (use bleach solution to clean, rinse and dry thoroughly)-Distilled water. Its been about 6-8 weeks of drying. The dried leaves will be slightly sticky, and theyll have the feeling of very thin leather. This article has been viewed 141,782 times. It's half a keg with a bin lid and a light globe for heat. Reckon next year I will have to double my crop, I may be a bit shy this year. The place else may just I get that type of info written in such a perfect way? I really enjoyed your little tobacco story guideAwesome. A neighbour hangs his leaves in a carport to dry, then presses them in a shallow wooden box with a bit of plank on top and a weight (gallon drum full of water) rolls up the end product and slices thin with a sharp knife. When I think of ammonia, I think of a sharp biting smell, the chemical smell from either a bottle of windex or urine..(I once had mice as pets, which had that horrible smell) When I was researching tobacco fermentation I pictured those fermentation barns in central America to be awful, perhaps like walking into a tear gas chamberTaking this into consideration I have my fermentation cooler in an unused bathroom which has the ceiling vent on a timer (it turns on for 10 mins every hour). Looking at this post reminds me of my previous roommate! For those of you more comfortable with metrics, 1 ft = 30 cm. I have found your article and follow everything as you recommended but in the end, I am disappointed. wikiHow's Content Management Team carefully monitors the work from our editorial staff to ensure that each article is backed by trusted research and meets our high quality standards. If you want to cure and smoke it, put in at least a dozen plants if possible. This is a cheap and accessible possibility to achieve the conditions required for fermentation. Answer: I've never struck that problem, and it hasn't been mentioned before, so it's probably not an issue. Set up a dehumidifier if you don't have a dry spot to store the leaves in so they dry faster and don't develop mold. Tobacco curing is sometimes referred to as color curing because as the tobacco undergoes the process, the color of the leaf will invariably change because its chlorophyll content is being altered, gradually becoming more yellow to brown in color. x3' high lined with 1 1/2" styrofoam 3 100w heaters in bottom controlled by cookerstat,fed in moist air from a humidifier.Humidity 80% temp 120/130.Cured leaf for 4 weeks. Hang these sticks (or string the lines) somewhere dry, out of the way, and preferably warm. If it's too rainy or it gets too much water, the tobacco gets weak and thin. Question: I'm new at this. I spent many years at sea in the MN, as Captain since 1975, so cost wasn't an issue then. If it's too rainy or it gets too much water, the tobacco gets weak and thin. 4 years ago. As you said, I leave the "Best/Biggest" plant to flower and take the seeds from it for the next season- tho of course you only need one seed pod to get 1000's of tiny seeds for next year's crop. Put tobacco in jar. The same rules apply: pinch out or otherwise remove them. Fill your curing jars 75% full. After drying my iwn tobacco I put a little bourbon on it in a deep pot and roasted in oven at 50 degrees with a lid on. smokes well,mild,smells a bit like cigar. Mine is 40ltr any old water boiler come tea earn will do. Answer: As people in the UK and the USA have been using my article for over ten years now I can see no reason to prevent you. How soon before I can smoke them? I want to try it. The end result looked like nice moist almost store bought tobacco. 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