This is when you make a cob, or in my case vacuum seal the best buds. I figured that the act of binding the heads tightly in a banana leaf or corn cob husk just compresses the buds and then burying them reduces the oxygen available so mould doesn't grow but the buds age and start the decomp process.
Rather than burying the cob I vacuum seal it, it has the same result. So I tried vacuum sealing the buds, they got compressed and cured the same as if they were in a cob.
I am not a scientist so I dont know if it degrades the resin, all I know is from experience that I prefer the taste and the high seems better if not stronger.
Being compressed its hard to know if thats just because its concentrated or not.
I dont claim anything other than this is how to get the same result as if you bought a good quality Malawi cob in Africa.
If you Google "Malawi cob" you will see some fine examples of the worst crap you can buy.
The good stuff doesn't look dry and powdery or full of seeds.
Every farmer is growing Chumba most dont have a clue how to cure it. They just sun dry it and then bind it up. The real old experienced growers grow superb buds and produce cobs that are beautiful to look at compressed sticky sticks that when unwrapped stay compressed like a stick of ganja, golden orange colour and when mulled up smell like they did when made just matured.
So any way thats what I try to reproduce in the vac sealing process, I will try and post a few shots of different strains I have cured this way later today. I hope they show what I mean but sometimes the pics dont do them justice.
I have some Zamal jar curing so in a few weeks I will open the vac bag and post pics of the two and you will see the difference
The pics are from my Malawi diary but you can see 2 buds one jar cured normaly the green one and one swet cured for the same amount of time. plus a cob done also for the same amount of time.
I hope that helps its like anything practice makes perfect and you need to fine tune your technique to your own taste.
Tangwena
