Let’s start with the bees since I’m really excited about them.  Looks like they have been busy little…well, bees…they’ve started building their entrance tube…

Sorry about the pics, you can tell I really can’t take pictures to save my life!

Anyway, about tobacco.  Last I talked about it, I didn’t know whether it was going to dry properly but fortunately the weather has cooperated and I managed to get almost all of it in a condition to proceed with curing.

After it turns brown, I make a mixture of honey, water and my chocolate essential oil which is then put into a spray bottle and sprayed onto the dried leaves.  I had a photo of this but all you could see was my big hands…The sugar in the honey helps the leaves stay moist but allows them to dry without being brittle (in the finished product).

What I do next is stuff everything into a three inch PVC pipe fitted with wooden blocks and use a stick to stomp all the leaves in, like so…

After all this has been done, I get my 20 ton jack, go under the house and do this…

Everyday, I increase the pressure until the leaves cannot be compressed anymore.  The leaves will continue to ferment and develop all of those wonderful aromas that nicotine addicts love, especially since extra chocolate oil was added.

And then…you keep this whole setup going for six months to a year before it is done…it turns out to be a very good way to stop smoking tobacco, afterall, surely you can’t still be physically addicted to nicotine after six months to a year!!

Cheers!

 

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