binder

Hello! I'm shopping for the seeds I'd like to plant for next growing season and I need opinions. I'd like to have a crop in order to make cigars of a single variety. I'm wondering which variety would be suited for this. I suppose I have "functional" constraints: - I won't grow in shade. Not...

Well I got my Melodioso kit the other day, Thanks for the Corojo samples Don, and started rolling a few this morning. I prepped the Sumatra binder last night but still had concerns rolling. The binder is very thin and I found it difficult to keep in from falling apart. I guess I need to prep...

Hello all! New to rolling but not cigars. Just got my second batch of fresh leaf and my binder seems to have a gritty feel to some of the leaves. It looks like salt and leaves grit behind as I'm getting it ready to roll. My question is, have any of you ever received their new hands with plume...

Hello FTT, It is a pleasure to meet all of you. I am a cigar smoker, I love all different types. My goal from this forum is to learn about the different types of tobacco that are grown in the United States, and the growers as well. I also want to learn the different types of leaves and parts of...

When I roll long-filler cigars, I end up with two categories of scrap, which I store separately: long scrap (mostly from wrapper trimmings) and short scrap (filler trimmings from the foot and head). Long scrap can be used as filler in the same manner as long-filler. It usually makes a...

Although Comstock Spanish is classed as a cigar binder, and Zimmer Spanish a cigar filler, the distinction between the two was not clear to me prior to growing them side-by-side. My seed for these two varieties came from New Hope Seed. Both are nearly identical in appearance, and conform to the...