Jukkas Grow Log 2025

[JukkaPekka]

Harrow velvet

 

[JukkaPekka]

Cherry red

 

[JukkaPekka]

What is left of my Tofta.

 

[JukkaPekka]

Growing tobacco is easy. Trying to colour cure it is pain in the ass. It’s either green and dry or green and moldy.
Looking forward to next summer and growing new plants.

 

[Knucklehead]

Harrow velvet
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Beautiful leaf. That wood is gorgeous, too.

 

[JukkaPekka]

Growing season 2025 is finally over.
Only Harrow velvet is colour curing nicely and other probably soon goes to compost pile.
Virginia leaves are wery thick and dark green. They are just drying green and not turning to brown or yellow.
Cherry red and Tofta are colour curing slightly better but not like I was hopeing for.
So I may get 1/2 gallon mason jar of Harrow velvet that I van try to ferment.

I bought some tobacco and new pipe to ease the pain that curing tobaccos is the most difficult part and not recommended for newbies.

Trying to colour cure last virginias

Virginia

 

[Knucklehead]

Was there time for them to have ripened more on the plant? That will always help, weather permitting.
Is that a sauna room they are in? Can you use that to raise humidity?

 

[deluxestogie]

curing tobaccos is the most difficult part and not recommended for newbies.

Once you catch the disease, you have to do the cure. Even Frog Morton has leaf curing on the wall of his cellar!

Bob

 

[JukkaPekka]

Now the weather is colder and I am assuming that they won't get any better in the plant.
I could have kept the toftas and cherry red little longer in the field growing.
The sauna has no electricity so I can heat it but no way to control humidity. Some of my tobacco got mold so increasing humidity is a big risk since I can't visit my curing sauna everyday.
I think the place is more suitable for some varieties than others. Burley (Harrow Velvet) liked the place.
I am now trying to heat the sauna to 120F for the next couple of days and we shall see what happens. If it goes strait to hell I will buy some MacBarens and C&D pipe tobacco from Germany.

 

[JukkaPekka]

This growing season is over.
Better luck next year.

 

[JukkaPekka]

Harrow velvet is the only one that is brown and good looking.

 

[JukkaPekka]

Cherry red is brown/green and probably soon going to compost.
Virginia and Tofta are already in compost.

 

[Knucklehead]

Cherry red is brown/green and probably soon going to compost.
Virginia and Tofta are already in compost.View attachment 57572

I would sample it first.

 

[Sergey Ukraine]

Harrow velvet is the only one that is brown and good looking.

Is this an undried middle vein? Or am I mistaken?

 

[Hemlock]

Harrow velvet is the only one that is brown and good looking.
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My experience this season is that Harrow Velvet dried a nice brown too. Shirey under exact same conditions has been very difficult and kept its greenish hue for a long time. Lately with temperatures cooling and humidity rising it seems to be having a positive effect- green is fading away.

I would try what Bob suggested to hang in the shed for months perhaps even over winter. It's my plan and seems to be working.

 

[JukkaPekka]

Is this an undried middle vein? Or am I mistaken?
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I have 6 leaves that were harvested much later and those are still drying. I tossed them in the same bag because I thought that they wont bring that much moisture.