Pretty sure that's the normal price for the 48qt igloos. They hold humidity way better than any of my humidors. I'm up to two of them now and probably going to have to add a third before long. First world problems...
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I'm typically a few degrees cooler than room temp in the cooler. All my new leaf that comes in spends 3-4 days in the deep freeze as a safety measure after having an outbreak in a leaf stash before.
Have never worried about it. Have never frozen leaf., Have never had a prob.
Today's delivery. As much as I was trying to avoid making new blends, new leaf from LO kept calling to me. Some old reliables as well
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What's the one on the far right?Today's delivery. As much as I was trying to avoid making new blends, new leaf from LO kept calling to me. Some old reliables as well
Ecuadorian habano ligero wrapper. Should have added more Mata Fina and Arapiraca wrapper to this order. Oh well, will place another order soon. Wife may kill me but "it's business"
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It's all about the frequent 1/2 lb order on Wednesday nights (arrives following Wednesday), which has the cheapest per-pound shipping, at least out here to the left coast. Here's my order from last Wednesday, arrived today. I ain't used their PA Oscuro for a few years, but I want to put my improved skiz to the test to see if I can get a smooth stick out of one of them honkin' leaves:Ecuadorian habano ligero wrapper. Should have added more Mata Fina and Arapiraca wrapper to this order. Oh well, will place another order soon. Wife may kill me but "it's business"
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I can't believe the massiveness of these PA Oscuro leaves. Those angular cross section rectangles that go from the center vein out to the leaf edge are each big enough to roll a corona. You could wrap 30 cigars from one leaf. 34 inches long, 18 inches wide. Easily 3+ times the square yardage of your average wrapper leaf.It's all about the frequent 1/2 lb order on Wednesday nights (arrives following Wednesday), which has the cheapest per-pound shipping, at least out here to the left coast. Here's my order from last Wednesday, arrived today. I aint used their PA Oscuro for a few years, but I want to put my improved skiz to the test to see if I can get a smooth stick out of one of them honkin' leaves:
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Yes! that's how I'll use it as an added binder or accent filler.
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That's my house binder for 2018. That and the Piloto are extremely impressive.
You use the seco for binder? I use the olor seco binder. Perhaps they don't list it any more.
Either way, yum.
I went back to WLT for Dominican binder recently. After I'm done with that I'm gonna give that a go
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I don't recall them listing that. They have always listed a Piloto seco binder, though. But they've been out of that for nearly a year, seems like.
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I'd guess the binder yield--meaning wide smooth leaves with no holes--is around 30%. I'll update that after I check this new pound. I also use the Piloto and Honduran seco for binder. The Olor is the fave, tho.
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I use that one for binder, too. I reckon it's nearly the same leaf as their piloto binder, which they ain't got no mo...
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Okay, I just sorted that bag of Olor seco. First off, 134 whole leaves! Holy shit! High quality, unratty, actual whole leaves.
53 of them I graded as binder. That means the whole leaf can serve as a double binder, no holes in either side, thin, wide, long. Not all will make a toro, but all will make a corona, most will make a robusto. In a pinch I could go end-to-end and make Churchills with all of them.
81 I graded as filler, which means I move them to the bottom of the stack, and when I get to them most of them will have a half leaf that'll become a binder leaf, either as a single binder or matched up with other half leaves. The other side of the leaf has a hole in it somewhere, so those become used as filler.
53/134 = .3955, so 40% binder yield. Pretty darn good.