burley

Hi, I am currently air curing a batch of Burley 21. My "air curing chamber" is a small plastic greenhouse-tent inside my boiler room. As I live in Finland, I can't air cure outside or in my unheated shed, as the temps are getting very low and at least my first test batch did not cure very...

In case it helps anyone else, here was the productivity by variety for our first year grow in zone 8a (cured, dried and de-stemmed at the end of the season). Thanks to SkyChaser for the seeds. TN 90 LC: 6.0 ounces / plant VA Gold and VA 116: 4.4 ounces / plant Black Sea Samsun: 1.3 ounces /...

Hi there, I've recently received a 2kg bag of burley (from eurotabak), when opening the bag it smelled absolutely rancid. upon folding open some of the leaves i found a whole bunch of different colored mold (Green, Yellow, Black and grey/white). I've had mold on previous orders before and all...

I've seen people looking for American Spirit blends, but can't find anything on the DARK blue (there is light blue though). And dark blue is a significantly different blend than light blue. The dark blue pack is the non-organic, all US grown variety. WOW is that stuff good. I can't find anything...

I'm still very new to whole leaf, but I thought I'd share one of my early experiments for any new members or folks who wander here to learn. I bought a 7 type sampler from WLT, which as of Sept. 2023 includes lemon, bright, and red VA flue-cured, Izmir Turkish, dark fire cured, KY burley, and...

Hello everyone, I'm currently something like 5 weeks into kilning a bunch of burley and a little bit of Monte Calme Yellow. This is my first ever kilning. For the first couple weeks a didn't realize I had cracked the ceramic bowl in my crock pot and it was leaking. This caused the humidity to...

I have 5 Kg burley tobbaco. But so strong . How can I weaken and give it a delicious taste? And in what proportion? Thanks in advance! I read lots of of cocoa, glicerin etc.. but I do not know how and in what proportion.