 |
 Bolivar Cigars | | Cohiba Cigars | | Combinaciones Cigars | | Cuaba Cigars | | Diplomaticos Cigars | | Fonseca Cigars | | Guantanamera Cigars | | H. Upmann Cigars | | Hoyo de Monterrey Cigars | | Jose L. Piedra Cigars | | Juan Lopez Cigars | | La Flor del Cano Cigars | | La Gloria Cubana Cigars | | Montecristo Cigars | | Partagas Cigars | | Por Larranaga Cigars | | Punch Cigars | | Puritos, mini y club Cigars | | Quai d'Orsay Cigars | | Quintero Cigars | | Rafael Gonzalez Cigars | | Ramon Allones Cigars | | Rey del Mundo Cigars | | Romeo y Julieta Cigars | | S. Cristobal de la Habana Cigars | | Saint Luis Rey Cigars | | Sample Pack Cigars | | Sancho Panza Cigars | | Trinidad Cigars | | Vegas Robaina Cigars | | Vegueros Cigars |
|
Home | Latest Cigar News | THE STRINGING OF THE CUBAN CIGARS LEAVES
THE STRINGING OF THE CUBAN CIGARS LEAVES
One of the first works carried out in the curing barn, is stringing, when referring to sun and shade grown tobacco (strung). Mainly women carry out this work, develop skills and high productivity.
Factors to keep in mind for carrying out the work of stringing appropriately
As it was stated in the aspect related to harvesting, the leaves should be free of dew and water.
The leaves after having collected and before being strung should not be exposed to the direct solar radiation.
During the transportation process, the placement of the leaves in the platforms and stringing, the leaves should be treated with a lot of fineness and love.
The platforms and the baskets should be perfectly covered with sackcloth.
The stringing of the leaves of shade grown tobacco is different from those of other types, medium needles are used. Women in this activity should string the leaves in pairs, that is to say, two leaves at the same time and opposed.
The quantity of leaves per pole varies according to the type of tobacco and the position of the leaf in the stem, the number of total leaves in shade grown tobacco varies between 120 and 170 leaves.
The poles should be without bark and free of nodes, they should also have enough strength in order to tolerate the weight of the leaves.
The poles should not have an excessive elasticity, so that they don’t be curved because of the weight of the leaves.
The string should have the required quality.
The workers should not smoke.
Women should be trained so that they separate the leaves that do not have the requirements according to the type of tobacco.
Particularities of stringing in the different types of tobacco
Shade grown tobacco. It is strung with the sheaf of the leaf pointing out what allows an appropriate and more homogeneous lost of water, the leaves are placed in the needle in pairs and afterwards they are put in the pole. In the case of dark tobacco the leaves reach bigger size and they are also the most delicate, that is why less quantity of pairs are put in the poles, they require the biggest specialization of workers.
Sun grown tobacco (strung). The leaves are placed in the pole with the sheaf pointing inside, this facilitates that the poles can have a considerable number of leaves. Here those leaves affected by plagues, mechanical damages or heatstroke are eliminated. In this type of tobacco the needles that are used are bigger than those used in shade grown tobacco, the leaves are placed until filling the needle to place them later in the pole that in most of the cases include six or seven needles ( 160 or 200 leaves) according to the size and development of leaves.
Sun grown tobacco (en palo). When the combined method of harvesting is used, the basal area of the plant is collected leaf by leaf and strung according to the approaches outlined when referring to sun grown tobacco (strun and en palo).
You can appreciate in these two pictures the initial process of stringing that is in fact to pass a steel needle through the central nerve of the leaf, in one of the ends of the needle the string is strung.
You can appreciate in the above pictures that in this case sun grown tobacco is strung, because the needle is completely full; observe the string and the leaves that are already strung in the pole additionally.
Observe that the woman is placing the leaves in the needle with the sheaf pointing out.
A good stringer completes in a day not less than sixty poles when it is sun grown tobacco.
|
« Back to News Index |
