Posted on 04/30/2010 6:03:11 PM PDT by El Sordo
The weekend is here, so we need another cigar thread.
On the last cigar thread, someone broached the topic of making their own cigars. The idea is intriguing, but I doubt that I would personally have the patience to properly cure the tobacco.
A couple of interesting links I have stumbled upon:
1) http://www.coffinails.com/cigars.html
This site looks quite interesting. They seem to have a good cross selection of instructions, other links, tobacco seeds. I had no idea that there was much of a following for home grown tobacco, but apparently there is. I'm skeptical that my climate would provide good growing conditions, but it might be fun to try next summer.
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohVnoo2DC0g
"How to make a HQ handmade cigar" These things always look so easy when a pro does them. Geeze... how hard could it be? I'm sure I'd find out if I tried. As per YouTube standard practice, there seems to be a good number of other videos on this matter.
So anyone ever tried their hand at this?
And isn't the Internet the most awesomest thing ever?
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I would have trouble finding a fourteen year old virgin, on whose thighs to roll them.
I’m trying to grow my own tobacco this year. Darn those seeds are small and the plants are too. Not going to be easy but I am trying it.
I just started fermenting my own wine, brewing my own beer, and molding my own lead bullets. A regular little ATF I am becoming.
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I have thought about it also. From what I understood, the plants grow quite tall and the leaves you get from each plant are not that many.
Was going to tell Mrs. Jazzy that they were a type of Sunflower plant.
Not by me, of course, but homemade nonetheless.
The problem is not rolling them, which is a pretty straightforward affair, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding.’
The difficult and lengthy part is the aging/fermentation/maturing of the leaf. Bad tasting baccy = bad tasting cigar.
I’ve never done it but I have some of the equipment...rolling table, blade and several presses from an old cigar factory in Miami.
I was just done in Fl. at the Sun N Fun airshow. There was a booth there from the Dominican Republic. In the booth was a guy rolling cigars. It was a man magnate! The booth was overflowing.
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