A Taste of Africa from Malawi

[stevewinthrop]

For true cobbing you need to compress harder than a vacuum sealer can get. There can be literally no air in the cob. You can use any leaf, corn, banana, even bamboo. Just load it with bud no stem, then roll it up like a blunt and tie it very tight, wrapping with twine or jute. You don't have to bury it, but try to keep it away from fresh air, it's the anaerobic bacteria that will keep it from molding and provide the cure . So if you don't bury it in sand (I used a Rubbermaid bin full of playground sand), at least vacuum seal the cobs

 

[Tangwena]

Hi Steve I have cobs that are hard as a piece of soft wood you can roll a joint easily by cutting the cob into small rocks like hash and they burn easily like coals. I agree the cobs need to be bound tightly to exclude the air before vac sealing but I prefer not to bury them.
Tangwena

 

[stevewinthrop]

Yeah the burying is only in lieu of vacuum sealer,i hear a vacuum sealer is hard to find in Malawi

I also don't have a vacuum sealer so I use sand. The method of oxygen deprivation doesn't matter, it just needs to be in a very low oxygen environment for the right kind of bacteria to do its magic. Also a good tip is to not let the buds fully dry before cobbing. It's best if there is still some moisture. If buried there is little chance for mold, even if the bud is only half dry when it's cobbed.

I can't wait to cob some Malawi, I already have cobbed blue dream and blueberry, and results were good! It certainly is a different taste and high when fermented like this, something I recommend people try at least once. I am a fan of fermented foods as well, I may be biased.

 

[Tangwena]

Hi Steve I stopped burying my cobs when a rat or something found them and dug them up I was super pissed as I lost my whole stash for that crop.
Its good to hear some others also get into cobbing, can you post a few pics of your cobs I am always interested in what others make
Tangwena

 

[stevewinthrop]

Already smoked mine, I only cobbed half an ounce of each blue dream and blueberry so I could test the method. Mine were somewhat skinnier than yours, and I used bamboo leaves in lieu of corn husk. I also wrapped mine a fair bit more evenly, when it was done my cobs looked like a cigar. Quite hard, but easy enough to use a knife to cut off pieces to crumble. I did get mold on the tips of the cob each time, but it didn't extend into the cannabis very far.

I have researched traditional fermented and preserved foods for a while now and I am considering trying some new twists to the process which I think will yield a much better result. We will see coming up and I will try to remember taking pictures to share.

 

[Tangwena]

Very cool I just use maize husk because I like the taste it seems to impart and the very best cobs I ever bought were in maize husk. The second best were in banana bark not leaf it is like corrugated card board when dried and very tough.
I keep a wine cellar for my wife and keep my cobs in there, they are marked with the date and type of weed
Its the best feeling ever to say I think I will try a 2010 Malawi today or break of a few chunks of different cobs for a lucky dip when friends drop in........ and stay over ha ha
Tangwena

 

[30years]

update on the test:
crop got hit :-(
the male clones i selected from the forest of plants did though
i found a really unique male from the new killer line that was unlike every other plant from the new killer and the malawi mix plants i was sifting. i walked by in the am and this over powering lemon zest just lit up the air and when i checked the stem of the plant it was so oily i thought it was wet. greasy, greasy and pungent. i went back in the mid day sun, good 105 degrees, and the smell was less but it was still raining grease. if there is any real odor at over 105 its a miracle and to have that active oil when that hot is so unusual too.
the new killer line was so even it looked like clones-congrats to the breeders! trouble free from start to finish. the malawi mix was awesome too but more variable. you could run the new killer line from seed and get a pretty similar result, at least from my perspective.
this plant didn't fit the model. he was much thinner stemmed and paler in color. more of an electric green versus a dark green. the woody oily tone dominated the new killer line and the malawi mix meaning both males and females had that scent. absolute minimal variation in the new killer and a nice mix in the malawi mix. some mix plants had a touch of citrus and some deep earth.
i kept 3 males from the new killer line and 2 from the malawi mix. one of the malawi mix had male flowers the size of corn cobs by august 27th and just towered over the other plants. maybe 7 feet high versus 5.5-6 for most of the others. the other males had deep powerful scents and solid structure.
3 are going to the lab this week for predicative testing and the other 2 right after. Ill get an entire terp profile and the cannabinoid totals and ratios. the oily new killer is going into a breeding project as we speak lol i don't need to see the lab results to know he is about to get busy.
i was able to salvage clones off of 3 of the new killer females also and they were just clones of one another so after i test them this winter ill know if i have enough to work this line out from here or are more new killer females needed. the male is a stud so i got lucky on being able to do such a large sift outdoor to find him. after the first breeding round and the resulting test ill be able to see if the grease he carries on his body is passed on to his progeny.
the life of the grower is never for certain except for the certainty that the grower will never stop growing...
thanks again to the crew at ace for such solid gear. pleasure to run your lines and so much more to do!

 

[stevewinthrop]

Been in flower since the 4th of July, tent full of donkey dicks incoming:

 

[dubi]

Hi 30years,

I'm glad you are finding interesting parental plants in the different Malawi lines You are right, Malawi New Killer line is already a more inbred 3rd generation, more uniform, with a very classic sativa appearance.

It would be a pleasure to see pics of your selected plants and to test their terpene and cannabinoid profiles. Wish you are enjoying there!

 

[dubi]

Been in flower since the 4th of July, tent full of donkey dicks incoming:

Beautiful Malawi bush stevewinthrop, 2 months more and it will explode! Thanks for share it.

 

[stevewinthrop]

Beautiful Malawi bush stevewinthrop, 2 months more and it will explode! Thanks for share it.

Haha I hope not! Already at 12 weeks flower, I hope it doesn't go to 20 weeks. Already I'm having to tie up the colas because they're so heavy.

 

[Corpsey]

those do look like they need another 6-8 weeks.
1/3 of my seed plants went 19 weeks. another 1/3 took 15 weeks, and another 1/3 took 13 weeks.
when i ran the clones of the 13weekers i took them down at 10 weeks, so clones should be quicker next time.

 

[stevewinthrop]

If they go 20 weeks, I'll be pulling more than a kilo out of this small tent. The colas are 20 inches long and as thick as a 2 liter soda bottle. That would be ridiculous!

 

[Tangwena]

Hi Steve nice plant Ace Malawi is 'ridiculous" you've got a nice harvest if you leave her long enough I took mine to early and missed out big time on the high but still got a pound from one plant indoors ha ha
Tangwena

 

[HerBnGorE(illa)]

If they go 20 weeks, I'll be pulling more than a kilo out of this small tent. The colas are 20 inches long and as thick as a 2 liter soda bottle. That would be ridiculous!

i love hearing about/seeing colas that wouldn't even fit into my growspace!!

my ace malawi is at day 95 since showing sex, and i started to flush it a couple days ago because on the ace website it says 11-13 weeks. This is my first pure sativa so its hard for me to know how much longer til it is truly done. i hope it finishes up in the next couple weeks, but inexperience with this type of plant has me questioning flushing so "early"

my malawi is probably only going to yield a whopping 3 grams or so if i was guessing.... to most its probably laughable, but ill post a couple pics of her on here anyways.

should i add nutes back to her for a couple more weeks before flushing?

 

[Tangwena]

What have you done with the rest of the plant? I didn't think that was possible.
Tangwena

 

[MadMac]

What have you done with the rest of the plant? I didn't think that was possible.
Tangwena

well never flush organic grow...
only clean water the last 3-2 weeks...
3 if you have a big pot
2 if you have a small pot like yours...

M.

 

[dubi]

Hi HerBnGorE(illa),

I wouldn't add more fertilizers, just start the flushing and harvest in 2 weeks.

We are here to help, please contact me next time or post here your doubts during their whole cycle so we can try to get the best potential of the genetics in your setup.

 

[dubi]

New Malawi Killer

New Malawi Killer

A small New Malawi Killer clone planted in August, still had a bit of time to grow up and to branch out a bit before flowering.

In the pics with approx 25 days of flowering, it spent the first stage of the flowering stretching the branches and producing lots of budsites. Now starting to form colas and good resins.

 

[KJB]

A small New Malawi Killer clone planted in August, still had a bit of time to grow up and to branch out a bit before flowering.

In the pics with approx 25 days of flowering, it spent the first stage of the flowering stretching the branches and producing lots of budsites. Now starting to form colas and good resins.

Nice