Brown Thumbs 2014 Whatever

[POGreen]

PO, Your grow was the top of the line for snus type leaf as well as all of the how to pics. and vidio's.

Much obliged Mad.
Seed is comin your way in a bit.
Cigartype of seed from Germany.

 

[Mad Oshea]

There is sport in any, and every thing We do- You just have to find what is sport. Mad-

 

[Brown Thumb]

Just got done feeding the hornworms. They eat more leaf than Ismoke in a day.

 

[POGreen]

So , hornworms to beat IS u mean ?

 

[Brown Thumb]

The Pa Red Stalk cured in the garage turned out awesome, no mold either.
Nice Mahogany color.

 

[DGBAMA]

Very nice. Looks like one is still growing a sucker, worm food.

 

[Brown Thumb]

A bunch have flower heads popping out. They just don't give up. Gonna bag them this weekend and fire up the chamber for some kilning.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Picked some Harrow velvet suckers today and hung them in the smoker at 115 degrees this morning.
They are browning up all ready.

 

[DGBAMA]

Will look forward to your results.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Well they are looking pretty good. The camera flash makes them look green a little. But they are brown and darkening up Slowly. I Found a bag of mesquite chips buried in the garage so I am off and running again. It's been raining so I can't chip any wood in the wood chipper. I could but I just don't want to get wet.

 

[DGBAMA]

Looking good. I was worried about starting with green leaf. What I smoked last year was already color cured so no worry about drying too fast.

 

[Brown Thumb]

The first leaf pics look greener than what they are.
I posted A link i use on the other Fred is Flue cured thread.
It is somewhat like Flue Curing. Moisture and Heat.
I Kept my water pan full and kept her under 125.
Seems a lot easier than Flue Curing.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Chipped me some pear and oak today. I am good for now.
You know what a tru redneck is.
Letting your 14 yr. old Daughter sit at the kitchen table and smoke.
With her three kids at the table Too.

 

[DGBAMA]

Bet that makes good smoke. I need a chipper.

 

[BarG]

View attachment 13498View attachment 13497Chipped me some pear and oak today. I am good for now.
You know what a tru redneck is.
Letting your 14 yr. old Daughter sit at the kitchen table and smoke.
With her three kids at the table Too.

You might be a redneck if: Her 3 kids had 3 kids. And you smoked at the table.

 

[Brown Thumb]

It's been a bummer day, cleaning house of my mistakes. I have never lost so much leaf. But it comes with the learning curve I guess.
Chipped the moldy stalk cured and unstrung the chamber load of flue cured that got steamed to death.
It has been a good year tho.
I got perique made out of perique in the bucket fermenting.
The chamber gives me real flue cured leaf for the most part.
I did get a nice load of Pa Red.
A Bucket of steamed leaf that got put in with the shredded stalks and stalk cured.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Bet that makes good smoke. I need a chipper.

Well it was looking good. So I busted a half a leaf off and put it in my bowl.
God dang. It was the.





Worst tasting chit I ever smoked.
Still Gagging.

 

[cyrilraymond]

Nice baccy, and child labor.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Nice baccy, and child labor.

Thank you, You got to take advantage of what you got when you can.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Well this was a big boner I pulled last night.
i was tired of tripping over a box of stalk harvested PA Red leaf in my basement.
I put it outside Saturday on the firewood pile under the porch while it was raining trying to get it into higher case.
Sunday it was blown all over the yard. So I spent a hr. finding as much as I could.
It was in very low case. So I got the idea and put my wife's New Crockpot I bought her to replace the one I broke in the kiln. I put it in the small chest freezer that is holding all my Dark air dried Baccy. Wrong Idea.
I ended up with Pa Red Cavendish, Oops but it smells Awesome.
I chit my pants almost this morning when I found it and took it out. Now half the leaf is in high case and half in low case.
I am going to put into a garbage bag and hope it comes into med case without mold.
Last pic is what it looked like when I put it in. I still have a little left yet that dident fit in the freezer.