Brown Thumbs Walk In kiln, Flue Cure, Attempt

[DGBAMA]

Runaway temp controller? Looks like it got hot in a hurry...... Cavendish curing?

 

[Brown Thumb]

Runaway temp controller? Looks like it got hot in a hurry...... Cavendish curing?

Good diagnosis Close,
I calibrated the Rh controller this yr. as per found on line. It Don't work.
I had to re calibrate 3.0 up on the rh.
More steam = more heat also.
Or I should hang the sensor in the bottom.

 

[deluxestogie]

Yes. It looks cooked, like a pot of spinach. One hallmark of that is actually a cooked asparagus aroma.

Bob

 

[Brown Thumb]

Yes. It looks cooked, like a pot of spinach. One hallmark of that is actually a cooked asparagus aroma.

Bob

Too Funny, Bob
I know the smell Too Well.

 

[DGBAMA]

I think for bulk to work like that, the leaves still should be vertical/ hanging. Horizontal pile probably not so good.

Since you caught it early, maybe just the outer layer of leaf is done?

AmaxB made some racks to emulate the commercial ones a couple years ago, I think it was a good idea for us with a lot of leaf to cure.

I have not ordered my "humidifier" yet, but what I am going to use is more of an atomizer/vaporizer, it creates water vapor without adding a bunch of heat/steam, so should add rh without adding heat.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Im still new at this but is it drying green?

I over cooked, steamed per say, Green, brown, gray. Soggy wet leaf compost.

 

[Brown Thumb]

I think for bulk to work like that, the leaves still should be vertical/ hanging. Horizontal pile probably not so good.

Since you caught it early, maybe just the outer layer of leaf is done?

AmaxB made some racks to emulate the commercial ones a couple years ago, I think it was a good idea for us with a lot of leaf to cure.

I have not ordered my "humidifier" yet, but what I am going to use is more of an atomizer/vaporizer, it creates water vapor without adding a bunch of heat/steam, so should add rh without adding heat.

I had the leaf standing upright. I am going to try it again tho.
The atomizer sounds like a good idea.
I think the coil in the steamer is corroded also, it takes forever to make steam this yr.

 

[Brown Thumb]

I need one of these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnf0B7t1qd4

 

[Chicken]

Your right about it being a wiring nightmare..,

You got wires running everywhere..in that thing.

 

[Muskrat]

I did it the oppisite way, put it on the stove on high, all over the kitchen. Was the wife's high dollar model too.
Gmac

Japanese ceramic repair: http://www.gotheborg.com/glossary/goldrepair.shtml

JB Weld is good to 500 degrees F.
Sprinkling fine gold powder on it would be a nice touch. Maybe make the wife happy.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Well made me a basket per say.
It used up a trailer of leaf and weighed a Ton.
My kid I couldn't get it up in to place let alone 4 of them.
Square one again. Half a load, better safe than sorry.

 

[DGBAMA]

Watching with interest.

 

[deluxestogie]

Watching with interest.

Me too.

Bob

 

[Brown Thumb]

Everything is running Spot On per say for now. 24 hrs into it.
The rats nest is a little better looking now Chicken.

 

[kullas]

Looking good to me

 

[Brown Thumb]

Eight sticks going in in 60 hrs.

 

[deluxestogie]

That's a heap of leaf for a single batch. It looks like the storm trooper scene from Star Wars: the Kermit Rebellion.

Bob

 

[Knucklehead]

View attachment 16299Eight sticks going in in 60 hrs.

I bet the kids are tired.

 

[Brown Thumb]

I bet the kids are tired.

What Kids.
They retired and stay far away from the veg and Baccy patches.
Except Jacob does help out stringing leaf when I threaten to take his I pod away.
Chit I even pay them to help.
These kids have no clue anymore. I think they are breast fed until there
30 yrs old.
WTF

 

[Brown Thumb]

That's a heap of leaf for a single batch. It looks like the storm trooper scene from Star Wars: the Kermit Rebellion.

Bob

never seen it. But I have a Storm Troppers Pinball machine.
It kinda sucks But it is kinda cool in some ways.
No Baccy in the playfield tho.