Lol! Post em up brother!! Mine are far from pretty, but how they smoke and taste are what's important.
Adventures in home rolling
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Yea the guys over there aren't too fond of using pectin. While that blend is bound to be different since you'd be using different primings I imagine its still worth rolling and probably has a lot of similarities. Plus it works with the leaf you have already. Though don't worry soon your going to have a nice stock pile of different leaf varieties like the rest of us lol. I wish more information was out there about what fillers are used in what cigars. It blows my mind that I can go on breweries websites(Avery comes to mind) where some post their recipes for the world to see yet all I can find about a cigars fillers is what country they're from.
This is such a great thread. I guess the next step for you is to get some seeds.
I would not use pectin either unless you are smoking the cigar right away. If you would like some home grown leaf just pm me and I can send you some. I am out of wrapper leaf but I have plenty of filler and binder.
I would not use pectin either unless you are smoking the cigar right away. If you would like some home grown leaf just pm me and I can send you some. I am out of wrapper leaf but I have plenty of filler and binder.
Sounds like I need to start smoking my stash asap then! Thank you for chiming in!! Pm has been sent and as soon as I have more room I will definitely try to grow some leaf, unfortunately apartment living doesn't leave much room for that. I barely have enough room for my brewing and rolling stuff I have now, lol.
Pure awesome brother!! Thank you so much for sharing! Color me jealous of your setup... I love how you finish the cigar caps, I'm trying to get that part down still.Heres a few pictures
My rolling station
A few cigars I rolled
This years leaf
Heres a few pictures
My rolling station
A few cigars I rolled
This years leaf
Wow that's awesome. I've considered rolling but haven't fully committed yet.
Well, it seems you are right about the different varietals. I couldn't help but just order 3 more lbs of filler leaf: Nicaraguan Habano Seco, Dominican Corojo 99 Viso, and Dominican Ligero. I'm gonna try to get through the filler I have before it gets here. Came up with a logo for some bands the other day, I need to print them out to label what I have rolled and start up a blend journal with the different blends I have rolled so I can keep track and make tasting notes. Yeeehaw!
I sure did!! Threaten me with free samples and that is something I will remember. Lol
So I dug out my Nic habano viso. Going to roll some of the slightly tweaked Eastern Standard blend this weekend. It'll look like this...
2 corojo seco
1 Nic Habano viso
1 Criollo ligero
Dom binder
PA broadleaf oscuro wrapper
2 corojo seco
1 Nic Habano viso
1 Criollo ligero
Dom binder
PA broadleaf oscuro wrapper
I definitely want to hear how this turns out considering I will have the exact same leaves and will have corojo viso to play with too
Playing around with making my own bands, found a template online for 16 basic bands per sheet, did a Google image search for "hooligan", added some text with a photo editor app on my phone and added to the word document. Now I just have to cut them out. I will get some glossy paper for future bands but think they turned out pretty decent for 10 minutes of effort on my part
Thank you brother!! I have still been cutting on the baking sheet but am going to start using a cutting board for that very reason.
Noted!
Did a small experiment from the urging of @Smoqman from an Instagram post I made. Placed a couple sticks I rolled a week ago in a ziploc with the hygrometer to check what the rh of the sticks are to track progress. They are sitting at 69% and if time permits tomorrow I will set fire to one of the "dirty hoes" as he called it, you know, for science and whatnot.
