Sorting into hands

[NWgrower]

Previously, when I’ve sorted my homegrown leaf, I made hands based on size of leaf only in order to have uniform hand sizes. This meant I lost track of leaf position.

I’d love to know how you all sort your leaves throughout the entire process.

I currently have a batch from a few seasons ago that has not yet been kilned. It air cured and has been hanging for about 2 years. On this batch I did keep track of leaf position but I used a tag made of tape on the twine tying the hands. This label will not survive the kilning process. How should I label them so that I can still tell them apart after being kilned. I thought maybe colored twine but wanted to hear what methods are used.

Thanks all!

 

[GreenDragon]

Pencil will not fade during the kilning process.

 

[The Haroo ln]

I just use different coloured ribbon threaded through each priming of leaves when curing and then keep that same colour to ties those same priming leaves into hands for fermentation/kilning.

I bought a pack of about 10 coloured ribbons from my local hobbycraft store, works a charm.

...or you could just try to feel each leave after kilning and try to best guess seco, viso and ligero and sort like that?

 

[WillQuantrill]

All of my air cure hands are by priming, 1 for Seco, 2 Viso, 3 Ligero. I just cut small tags of cardboard and label variety and priming on each stringer. I also have an inexpensive dry erase board mounted on the exterior so I can log dates of the different hands by position.