Greenness

[davek14]

I'm growing some yellow twist bud this year and have the main harvest in and in boxes to age. I have a few secondary stalks which probably are developed enough to give me a little more quality leaf. I'm hanging them in the basement with a fan on them as mold is a problem this time of year. There are spots on the brown cured leaf which are still green and a green tinge to some leaf. So... the question is, will this "mild greenness" go away and be OK as I age this leaf?

 

[CT Tobaccoman]

I'm growing some yellow twist bud this year and have the main harvest in and in boxes to age. I have a few secondary stalks which probably are developed enough to give me a little more quality leaf. I'm hanging them in the basement with a fan on them as mold is a problem this time of year. There are spots on the brown cured leaf which are still green and a green tinge to some leaf. So... the question is, will this "mild greenness" go away and be OK as I age this leaf?

I grew YTB this year. I cut the whole plant and hang it upside down to dry. the leaves cured to a chestnut brown. Green spots on brown cured leaf are just spots where the leaf has some sort of pathology, not to worry about it. Green tinged cured leaf is another matter however. It means that the leaf dried out too fast, The goal in curing tobacco is for the leaf to go from green to yellow to orange to brown, None of these stages can be skipped, but it is very important that the leaf be allowed to turn yellow, Going from green straight to brown is impossible. So if you are getting a green tinge on dried leaves you need to slow down the curing process somehow, maybe by bulking the leaves first until they turn yellow, before drying them. Once the leaves are yellow they will naturally go to brown

 

[davek14]

Yeah, I did that on my main crop but had to have a lot of airflow on my little secondary harvest because it was so darn wet here then. I wasn't able to give my plants the tender loving care planned and had a few secondary stalks which were pretty well developed. They had yellowing leaves halfway up and all when I cut them. Yellow Twist Bud is a pretty early harvest and as stated my main crop is already cured out in boxes. All the plants have secondary stalks almost chest high now which were just a couple leaves at harvest. They are flowering and I'm hoping for some seed, I won't even try for leaf from them. Anyway, it's not a great loss, so are you saying that lightly green tinged leaf will never cure properly and just pitch it?

I'm liking YTB so far. Supposedly you can smoke the sand lugs immediately, but I tried that and they still had some rankness. However, I harvested some very yellowed lower leaf around July I guess and rolled it tightly so it would finish drying slowly on top of the water heater and it's not bad at all now. It's better than year old Burley.

 

[deluxestogie]

are you saying that lightly green tinged leaf will never cure properly and just pitch it?

Photo would be helpful.

Bob