Stalk Harvesting Turkish , Rotten leaves?

[Brown Thumb]

I am pile curing to yellow the sucker crop but some of the leaf are going from yellow to dark brown in a day.
I am re piling ever day but they go from yellow to dark brown over 24 hrs. Just a few leaves.Are they starting to rot? The garage maintains 70 rh. No control on the temp. Stays over 75 per say.

 

[MarcL]

Do these need to be hanging for curing?

 

[Brown Thumb]

I will hang when they yellow up a little.
i hung the first stalk harvest up and I am not too happy with the leaf color.
I did not let then yellow up.

 

[Fisherman]

If they are thin leaves and really wet is possible it is soft rot.

Is easy to tell when one side of a leaf is brown and thin enuff to see thru and the other side is thick and normal.

 

[Boboro]

I don't think you can pile cure with the leaf on the stalk.

 

[Knucklehead]

I tried to pile yellow some Oriental the other day and the middle rotted in a hurry. Just a few hours. I had them in a box with a towel over it. I think it really needed some air flow. Now I'm hanging them till yellow and then putting them in the sun for sun curing.

 

[Boboro]

I had some stuff I cut down.It was just layin on the ground. It cured to a nice color on one side but green on the other. If I had flipped it I think it would have looked good. But it mite have tasted like crap. I think I mite try a few leaves.

 

[istanbulin]

I will hang when they yellow up a little.
i hung the first stalk harvest up and I am not too happy with the leaf color.
I did not let then yellow up.

This year, I tried stalk curing a Turkish variety (Çelikhan) in a pile. It turned directly from green to brown with dark green hues and never rotted in the pile. I think you skipped the wilting stage before curing or forgot to aerate the pile frequently.