My First Tobacco Flower.

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Originally Posted by shilala

I still have no idea what I'll do with it (the tobacco), but I may see how to cure it for chewing tobacco (my first love).
That has to be far easier than curing it for cigars. I hope.

Well really old school, say pre 1700's, snuff wasn't even cured tobacco. It was just ground up leaf that was pressed into the gums. As for curing cigar vs chewing I don't think there is much of a difference, don't really know though. Just hang the stuff somewhere you can control the temp. Hell a clothes line in the garage would work if the temp didn't swing much. The commercial boys just use oversized open air barns. Maybe I can get more info from one of my peeps that worked at the USDA Tobacco lab before they closed it down in 02.