First grow documenting, Wild Aztec Rustica: @Pj654
The yellowing is a “count your lucky stars” event with Aztec.
Mine usually go from green to brown with a greenish cast to them.
If they are yellowing, and then going brown:
You’re good!
(just make sure to dry them out completely when yellowed/browned, to avoid mold- the stems hold a lot of moisture and can take forever to dry out without heat or a fan)
Mine usually go from green to brown with a greenish cast to them.
If they are yellowing, and then going brown:
You’re good!
(just make sure to dry them out completely when yellowed/browned, to avoid mold- the stems hold a lot of moisture and can take forever to dry out without heat or a fan)
Sounds good, think most of them will be yellowed
! ThanksHumidity is usually extremely low now that the furnace is running so we should be good to go.
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Getting close to the finish line. Most have yellowed and since browned. Few were green then just browned. They had a period of unpleasant cat piss smell everyone warned me of, and are now turning very sweet smelling like brown sugar with extra molasses / raisin.
It's going much smoother than I thought it would. Glad I'm gonna be able to make at least a bit of snuff by the end of all of this lol.. Should be strung up in a 2-4 days I think.
Getting close to the finish line. Most have yellowed and since browned. Few were green then just browned. They had a period of unpleasant cat piss smell everyone warned me of, and are now turning very sweet smelling like brown sugar with extra molasses / raisin.
It's going much smoother than I thought it would. Glad I'm gonna be able to make at least a bit of snuff by the end of all of this lol.. Should be strung up in a 2-4 days I think.
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The left overs from outside I just piled like I did the first small bud leafs? ( Small leafs grown around the flowers ) Pic 2 the older ones, curing black and looks frosty like cannabis haha. I dunno if it'll snuff but hey I'm gonna try it anyway lol
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StoneCarver
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This is a link to a book that deluxestogie suggested to me: https://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/buffalo-bird-womans-tobacco-garden.4101/
In it, she tells how her dad would collect the flower buds of his tobacco plants and smoke them. I did the same with my plants, before reading this book. I'm pretty sure there's no way to color cure the flower buds. I had a few try to bloom on me days after cutting them. As far as I can figure, all you can to is go straight to drying them out. They were harsh to smoke at first. But here recently they've mellowed out a lot.
In it, she tells how her dad would collect the flower buds of his tobacco plants and smoke them. I did the same with my plants, before reading this book. I'm pretty sure there's no way to color cure the flower buds. I had a few try to bloom on me days after cutting them. As far as I can figure, all you can to is go straight to drying them out. They were harsh to smoke at first. But here recently they've mellowed out a lot.
When you allow a seed head to fully mature and turn brown, it is loaded with dried, brown blossoms. I have several Ziploc bags of blossoms from different N. tabacum varieties, collected about a decade ago. There's not much substance or aroma there, when crumbled into a pipe.
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StoneCarver
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I guess I should have clarified that, by flower buds, I am referring to the buds that are mostly too immature to blossom. I was trying to top the plants and kept all the trimmings since I didn't want to waste anything as this was my first grow. As I stated above, sometimes the cut buds would flower whilst in the drying process. I never had any to turn brown on me but they did mellow after a few months.
Ah interesting!!!
I will remember this for next year, mine have all been burned. That's definitely intriguing though!
The older men of Buffalo Bird Woman's tribe (Hidatsa) grew the truly wild tobacco, N. quadrivalvis. All the varieties of N. rustica have been cultivated (rather than wild) for thousands of years. The Hidatsa elders would fry the tobacco blossoms in bear grease, then smoke them.
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Bob
Interesting!
Small scoop of some snuff I made with some of the original leaves I harvested that turned out yellow/blonde that I've been experimenting with. Smell is actually very nice, burns like mad and quite potent, very alert while relaxing to the body. In general same as all snuffs just much more potent. I have some with bicarbonate some without still can quite decide what I'll do with my final snuff, will wait till I have the flour made and go from there.
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All strung up. My oldest largest leaves behaving strange holding onto the yellow in the thick areas but the brown parts don't look like they can take much more turning darker every time I look at them, so I've decided to just hang them all.
Once dry for snuff purposes is there any point curing further or can I just make my flour once dried
Very curious to see if I can spot a different between small younger growth and large very old growth.
Once dry for snuff purposes is there any point curing further or can I just make my flour once dried
Very curious to see if I can spot a different between small younger growth and large very old growth.
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I have found kilning for a month or two, plus a month of rest outside the kiln, really helps the flavors of rusticas.
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