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Home | Latest Cigar News | CURING AND FERMENTATION OF THE TOBACCO LEAVES
CURING AND FERMENTATION OF THE TOBACCO LEAVES
Loosening
After having concluded the curing of tobacco and when the content of water in the leaves is almost 20 percent the growers proceed to the loosening of tobacco. Our peasants know the moment to begin this operation if when pressing a group of leaves with the hand and when loosening them they return slowly to the initial position, this requirement is very important because if tobacco is very dry the leaves are damaged (contents of humidity of 15 percent or less), on the other hand, if the humidity content is over 20 or 22 percent the process of fermentation is forced, then rottenness can appear caused mainly by fungi mainly of white or gray color.
In the cultivation of tobacco there are two approaches with similar interpretations, they are loosening or tying - both terms, although contradictory, are good to denominate the same operation -. Of it depends on the quality of the future Cigar.
Up to now the leaves have remained in the poles –60 pairs of leaves per pole in the case of shade grown tobacco and in the case of sun grown tobacco and other varieties that are not for wrappers from 80 to 90 in each pole–, now they are descended. This activity is carried out in the morning, when the sun does not irradiate too much heat, because otherwise, to the contact with the hand, the leaf can be broken if it is too much dry. Pylons of fermentation.
The man who carries out the work cuts the string and the leaves are liberated, conforming bunches with which are formed the pylons of fermentation that vary according to the type of cutting.
These are the pylons for the fermentation of the leaves made by the peasants, later they are covered with yaguas or with sackcloth blankets until completing 45 days of fermentation for their sale to the merchant, which defines quality and price of the leaves, the following step is packing.
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