First attempt at growing tobacco, so bare with me
Sowed the seeds end of March, put outside in polytunnel in May. Some of my plants have started to flower, but for a few months now I've been picking off the lower leaves on my plants when they've been going yellow.
These are my smaller outdoor plants that I removed from the polytunnel as the others got too big
I've also been priming the odd leaf inside the polytunnel, basically any leaf that starts to yellow or go pale green. Then I rinse the crap off under the tap, and hang them individually for the water to evaporate.
Then I've been hanging them in my living room in bunches of 6 on some string I knotted, using a jumbo paperclip.
Some have gone a nice light brown and smell nice too, so I've picked one, shredded it and tried to smoke it. It doesn't roll very well at all, not very strong, tastes like a garden leaf and the rolled cigarette burns out really quickly.
To enhance the taste I've mixed some water, vodka and honey and sprayed the shreds, but doesn't make a difference? What am I doing wrong?
I've just read on here the humidity needs to a certain percent but how do you know what your humidity is? The weather is mild over here in the UK, and is forecast to rain soon, but I don't have a shed or anything so they can be placed outside in the humidity?
I've just been hanging the leaves until they go as dark and dry as possible, isn't that tobacco?!! The browned leaves have been very dry when I've shredded and tried them. Am I right in thinking that you pick the leaf and hang dry it, then put it somewhere humid when it's gone yellow/brown?
Sowed the seeds end of March, put outside in polytunnel in May. Some of my plants have started to flower, but for a few months now I've been picking off the lower leaves on my plants when they've been going yellow.
These are my smaller outdoor plants that I removed from the polytunnel as the others got too big
I've also been priming the odd leaf inside the polytunnel, basically any leaf that starts to yellow or go pale green. Then I rinse the crap off under the tap, and hang them individually for the water to evaporate.
Then I've been hanging them in my living room in bunches of 6 on some string I knotted, using a jumbo paperclip.
Some have gone a nice light brown and smell nice too, so I've picked one, shredded it and tried to smoke it. It doesn't roll very well at all, not very strong, tastes like a garden leaf and the rolled cigarette burns out really quickly.
To enhance the taste I've mixed some water, vodka and honey and sprayed the shreds, but doesn't make a difference? What am I doing wrong?
I've just read on here the humidity needs to a certain percent but how do you know what your humidity is? The weather is mild over here in the UK, and is forecast to rain soon, but I don't have a shed or anything so they can be placed outside in the humidity?
I've just been hanging the leaves until they go as dark and dry as possible, isn't that tobacco?!! The browned leaves have been very dry when I've shredded and tried them. Am I right in thinking that you pick the leaf and hang dry it, then put it somewhere humid when it's gone yellow/brown?
