ChiefScreamingBug
New Member
Hi,
I have grown two small orientals indoors to "practice" for my first growing season next year.
I am now at the stage of needing to cure these leaves.
I first made a somewhat botched attempt at flue curing with a bit too high humidity at around 40C but this seemed too wet, and I have now transferred these leaves into paper towel pile curing.
These leaves have now turned out somewhat brown, somewhat yellow... but they have some strange transluscent areas on them and some of these browner areas look almost red. They are not dry, still moist.
Are they rotting? or is this them just curing or browning before drying out? I was initially terrified of drying them green but I think maybe I went too far in the other direction.
Here are the leaves in question. They released some brown liquid also which seemed not that great. They smell okay.
Sorry if these are stupid questions, I have not done any of this before and am struggling to "distinguish crap from cinnamon" as they say. Also I have very few leaves harvested due to the small size of these plants, so I want to be sure if they are good or crap before I decide to potentially discard them. Thanks for any feedback.
I have grown two small orientals indoors to "practice" for my first growing season next year.
I am now at the stage of needing to cure these leaves.
I first made a somewhat botched attempt at flue curing with a bit too high humidity at around 40C but this seemed too wet, and I have now transferred these leaves into paper towel pile curing.
These leaves have now turned out somewhat brown, somewhat yellow... but they have some strange transluscent areas on them and some of these browner areas look almost red. They are not dry, still moist.
Are they rotting? or is this them just curing or browning before drying out? I was initially terrified of drying them green but I think maybe I went too far in the other direction.
Here are the leaves in question. They released some brown liquid also which seemed not that great. They smell okay.
Sorry if these are stupid questions, I have not done any of this before and am struggling to "distinguish crap from cinnamon" as they say. Also I have very few leaves harvested due to the small size of these plants, so I want to be sure if they are good or crap before I decide to potentially discard them. Thanks for any feedback.
