Are These Cured?

[Balgaire]

I don't know if I cured these enough or not. They have an odor not unlike tea leaves. Is this smokable?
One picture with flash, the other without.

 

[deluxestogie]

What variety of tobacco is that? And, "enough" for what purpose?

Bob

 

[Alpine]

If, when you open the bags, can smell ammonia... more kilning (or open air aging) is required. Anyway, the older... the better! If no ammonia smell is detectable, your tobacco is smokable, but aging will still mellow it.

pier

 

[CobGuy]

It looks like it may have color cured too fast and dried green instead of yellowing.
If it doesn't taste good as a smoke, you could always make a green snuff!

~Darin

 

[burge]

Doesn't looked cured enough leaves should be yellow presuming this is virginia.

 

[Balgaire]

It was literally a mixed bag of seeds I bought online. There were a lot of different leaf shapes and color. I was trying to grow it for pipe tobacco.

I made a homemade curing box and was not able to regulate humidity the way I wanted to. It was my first attempt.

 

[burge]

I do know when some of the leaf I get has chlorophyll my apartment varies in heat and in the vapour proof bags I am noticed that those spots disappear with the differences in temperature.

 

[deluxestogie]

Nabbing the leaf color correctly in a photo indoors is difficult. It might be greenish or not. I can't tell from the photos. Virginia, as well as many other varieties will color-cure (air-cure) to a dull brown that may be light brown or dark. Virginia is yellow only if it is flue-cured, so don't worry about that.

Your basic question can likely only be answered by shredding a bit, and packing it in a pipe. Worst case is that it tastes bad. More likely is that it will sort of taste okay, but not great. Give it a try, and let us know.

If it seems hopeless, then make it into a batch of Cavendish (see Key Forum Threads).

Bob