Maybe another day of the yellowing stage?

[Controlled Chaos]

Does anyone have experience with this? How did the smoke from your final product turn out? This strain has been a bit different than what I grew and cured last year as far as ripening and yellowing has gone so maybe they needed another day to finish yellowing.

Once the leaves were showing entirely yellow lamina I began to slowly raise temperature and lower humidity, thinking the veins would finish turning yellow but some of them are still a bit green. The leaves are now dry enough to make noise when they run together but are still pliable.

 

[deluxestogie]

In the last photo, is see a fat, succulent-looking, green stem. I would need to know the temps and durations of each flue-curing stage to provide a meaningful answer. The one concern I have with the method shown in your photos is that multiple leaves were bunched together during the process. So the entirety of each leaf was not fully exposed.

Try hanging them (individually) in full sunlight for a day, to see if the green will vanish. You won't be smoking the thicker parts of the central vein, so that won't matter much.

Bob

EDIT: Too long in the yellowing stage will result in brown leaves.

 

[Controlled Chaos]

This actually started on Monday so there are some days not pictured on the graph

 

[deluxestogie]

The last half of the flue-cure process is missing.

Bob

 

[Controlled Chaos]

They're still in the chamber, they're not done yet. But it looks like most of the green tint has faded so far. Guess we'll see how they turned out tomorrow

 

[Controlled Chaos]

Try hanging them (individually) in full sunlight for a day, to see if the green will vanish. You won't be smoking the thicker parts of the central vein, so that won't matter much.

Thanks for the tip. That took the green right out of the veins. They went from school bus yellow to a slight amber color but no more green