Seed to Cigars
Last Sunday morning my wife Jill, two youngest boys and myself all took a day trip to Casillas Cigars in Citrus Heights, CA, that's not to far from Sacramento. About a 2.5 hour drive for us.
I had called Pedro earlier in the week to let him know that we would be delivering a couple of tobacco plants and dang if he wasn't pretty excited about the whole thing.
My wife had picked up a few cigars for me several months ago while working in the area and when she was there she mentioned that I grew tobacco. Pedro presented her with a small packet of seeds that a friend had sent him from "Miami". He mentioned that he did not have much luck growing and perhaps the seeds where not viable. She let him know that I would do my best to see what we could get growing.
For those of you that have read or followed my "Cigar Birthing" thread you are familiar with the plant that I delivered to Pedro.
When we arrived it was like we where family dropping in for a Sunday visit after church. Pedro and his son Pierre Perales where excited and pleased with the two small tobacco plants we had brought them as was the head torcedor, Marvin Ruiz, AKA "The Doctor". One of their partners, Ricardo was there helping Pierre and Marvin prepare for a trip to Calistoga where they would be rolling cigars as part of the wedding celebration.
It wasn’t long before I was being asked what size cigar did I want Marvin to roll for me. I stood there amazed as he bunched the filler, applied the binder and finished the wrapper with a bit of glue to secure the cap.
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Last Sunday morning my wife Jill, two youngest boys and myself all took a day trip to Casillas Cigars in Citrus Heights, CA, that's not to far from Sacramento. About a 2.5 hour drive for us.
I had called Pedro earlier in the week to let him know that we would be delivering a couple of tobacco plants and dang if he wasn't pretty excited about the whole thing.
My wife had picked up a few cigars for me several months ago while working in the area and when she was there she mentioned that I grew tobacco. Pedro presented her with a small packet of seeds that a friend had sent him from "Miami". He mentioned that he did not have much luck growing and perhaps the seeds where not viable. She let him know that I would do my best to see what we could get growing.
For those of you that have read or followed my "Cigar Birthing" thread you are familiar with the plant that I delivered to Pedro.
When we arrived it was like we where family dropping in for a Sunday visit after church. Pedro and his son Pierre Perales where excited and pleased with the two small tobacco plants we had brought them as was the head torcedor, Marvin Ruiz, AKA "The Doctor". One of their partners, Ricardo was there helping Pierre and Marvin prepare for a trip to Calistoga where they would be rolling cigars as part of the wedding celebration.
It wasn’t long before I was being asked what size cigar did I want Marvin to roll for me. I stood there amazed as he bunched the filler, applied the binder and finished the wrapper with a bit of glue to secure the cap.
continued on the next post...