Curing and Processing Homegrown Virginia Gold Tobacco

This slideshow represents my first year crop of Virginia Gold tobacco, grown in the Central U.S.

When I first began researching for this project, I found that information on proper curing, aging and processing of Virginia Gold tobacco is scarce, and that information for home growers is non-existent.

Virginia Gold Tobacco makes up the largest body of tobacco used in most smoking blends, so mastery of proper curing, aging and processing of Virginia Gold tobacco is a must for anyone hoping to successfully achieve a tobacco result that would please any tobacco user. Through much work and study -I have acheived this goal. I am compiling a booklet of the (fairly simple,) technical instructions for these procedures and may offer for sale, some of the tools required to complete them.

I would appreciate commentary and input from any of the thousands of new home growers in regard to whether they may find this product line of interest.

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• Gold
• Flue
• curing
• Tobacco
• Homegrown
• Home
• Grown

[TweezerAddict]

A shower will make it dry weird. Air-curing is performed by hanging it in a covered structure, that is open to the East and West, to allow wind to move across it ...and pressing tobacco causes it to ferment, which is why they pile it -the weight of all those leaves causes the pressure. You can make it happen with small quantities by pressing it into a plug. Press it for a few hours, slice it while it still has moisture in it, don't disturb it much, toss it in a jar for a while to complete. Easy.

[eightballproaudio]

Hello Tweezer Guy, I like your video, as I have watched it several times! I have a dilemma, in my garden grows three rows of plants that are all tangled up. One is Kentucky Barley, one is Virginia Gold, and was is the ARABIAN TOBACCO. How do you suggest I cure all three of these tobaccos in one place? I also grew some shamans tobacco but it is only a few inches tall.

[TweezerAddict]

@eightballproaudio You've grown three different varieties, Air-Cure, Flue-Cure, and Sun-Cure, but if you'll research a bit about properly Air-Curing all of it, you'll probably be happy enough. After you properly air cure it, you could steam it, and press it, and slice it as I did in this video, and get a fairly smokeable result. (Particularly in a pipe.) If you seal it in a jar after slicing, it will improve with age. Good luck.

[tripvids420]

so much respect to you for growing your own. I am wondering if I can cure it without owning a machine? otherwise can I use the same kiln used for ceramics? I will be researching this and growing my own this season. I can't wait for the experience, I will feel like a native american indian:)

[TweezerAddict]

@tripvids420 I cure by traditional methods -I don't mess with "kilns" and all that stuff they discuss online. In this video, I was learning to flue-cure Virginia Gold tobacco, AKA "Flue-Cure Tobacco. If you want to understand that process, find out how flue-cure barns work, and make yourself an apparatus that can do that -as I have. Burley tobaccos are what is known as "Air-Cure" -this is what you see hung in open barns. Turkish tobaccos are known as "Sun-Cure" and they have a process for that.

[TweezerAddict]

@ro0tt Crying about that on youtube should make you feel as though you have done your part.

[Sceptorful]

@Alfonzz01 I apologies, i didn't word it the right way. I'm saying THC kill the mutated cells before they become cancerous, for the most part. Also, CBD has been known to elevate the ROS generation in faulty cells, which induces apoptosis.

[077mrx]

@tweezer addict im giving it a try this year hope you make another video soon

[eightballproaudio]

@TweezerAddict Yes after further research I think I will let it dry in my shower for 6 weeks and then let it ferment in a pile for 6 weeks. Do you ferment your cigarette tobacco?

[ewetubesuxass]

@Alfonzz01 WTF! where in any Country on this rock could you find clean air other than an Oxygen tent in a hospital? Dumbest comment of all time!

[TweezerAddict]

@noclassatall Oh! Well that's different! ...yet I'm still managing to not care. You should maybe look around for some youtube videos that seem to be posted by people that want to discuss your theories.

[TweezerAddict]

@noclassatall I think that we all die of something. Perhaps you should go find whatever your thing is.

[Alfonzz01]

@Sceptorful is THC magic fairy dust? Literally not figuratively, last time i checked or went through basic science courses, I was under the impression that matter cannot be destroyed, only transformed, and unless THC performs something akin to alchemy it wont be transforming tar into giggles. Dont kid yourself.

However, i do agree, that certain substances should be legalized. Because at this point I would have assumed that people understand the risks. Apparently not in all circumstances.