Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[repuk]

The big challenge is leaving it alone so it can cure properly. Lol! We’ve been down that path before in my virtual neighborhood. They’ll do it again.

That's undoubtely the hardest part leaving them alone to cure!

Though cobbing is the fastest method to reach a properly and thoroughly cured state:

- 1-2 days drying
- 1 day sweating
- 1 week fermenting
- 1 month curing

For the suggested timeframe, that means less than month and a half, vs several months required for (specially sativa) cure.

 

[SweetSue]

Thank you repuk. Excellent! If any of my guys come up with something more visually exciting I’ll bring it back for your review. This looks very usable, IMHO.

You’re making my job easy. Lol! I have a thread to design before tomorrow night.

Tyco, we thought it was Lamb’s Breath when we got the cola but we’ve determined it isn’t. That was something of a disappointment, but the obvious wild genetics in the chemovar was exciting enough. When we had a harvest tested and found out its profiles I figured it’d work for my daughter’s anxiety. Turned out to be a perfect match to her ECS.

It would have been nice to get some lamb or king.

Mick, I found that intriguing. I wasn’t aware of the systemic changes one could expect from such a transplant. With what I know of the ECS and it’s involvement in digestion it shouldn’t have surprised me. Thank you for the knowledge. I have a friend looking at this transplant, while trying out a cannabinoid therapy. This gives me more hope for her prognosis.

 

[repuk]

Posts updated with a second revision (link in my sig)

 

[repuk]

And a third one.

 

[Tangwena]

And a third one.

Hi my friend your flow chart seems to have captured the essence of this recipe quite nicely and is easy to follow well done.
It feels quite strange seeing it laid out like that and simplified.
I dont know about the assumptions ie yeasts ect we dont know that for sure but the stages times temps ect are spot on.

 

[AgentPothead]

This thread is incredible watching it go from a single experimenter, to a bunch of people, then ending in almost a recipe for how to do it. I can't wait to try this with some of my next batch. Thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, it's a masterpiece.

 

[Minb]

Sounds like killer weed to me ha ha I'll have a pound of that one please.
Did you get to experience the high? Some pics would go a long way too. This is a very visual thread sort of like a cartoon we need picks to keep the interest up.

hahaha
I´m going to bring some pics of my next try
but i´m changing the weeds for Amnesia this time.

 

[SweetSue]

I'm in awe gentlemen. If we had a curtsy emoticon.....

I started to review the first few pages and Tangwena had me laughing into page 21 before I had to stop for sleep. Lol!

"...insight and clarity" those were your words Tangwena. What I've been hoping to get every time I fire up. What I've yet to experience, and I've been smoking daily for almost 40 years - albeit dirt weed most of those years. Some of what I've grown over the past three years has been good enough to raise eyebrows, and it's good enough to keep me stratigraphically situated most of the day, but I'm looking for what you're describing on these pages.

Sunday I begin my own journey. I'll be sure to keep you informed of progress. I couldn't be more excited. Good God, this is gonna be fun.

I'm pretty sure

 

[Tangwena]

hahaha
I´m going to bring some pics of my next try
but i´m changing the weeds for Amnesia this time.

OH no you will probably forget to post along with who you are and where you live ha ha. More power to you my friend.

 

[Tangwena]

This thread is incredible watching it go from a single experimenter, to a bunch of people, then ending in almost a recipe for how to do it. I can't wait to try this with some of my next batch. Thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread, it's a masterpiece.

Yeah I had a lot of experience buying the end product in Africa but I never had to make it.
It took a while and then I found this place and then I found some people who make the world go round.
People I would never have met any other way, and now we are one sharing everything and enjoying the fruits of our labor.

Its pretty special in my mind like its got a mind of its own the more people who turn on the the more knowledge we assemble.
Soon we will have people making gems that are unique and worth collecting and stashing in your vault like rare bottles of wine.

All this magic is not exclusive its able to be in everyones hands unlike some other products that only the rich or influential can afford. This is right up the ally for boutique growers who will not have to compete with anyone but themselves.
Sorry I ramble, flying on Panama air lines at the moment no landing in sight.

 

[repuk]

Fourth update, hope the emoticons provide an idea or inspire the difference in effects, something complex to put into simple graphics.

Hi my friend your flow chart seems to have captured the essence of this recipe quite nicely and is easy to follow well done.

It feels quite strange seeing it laid out like that and simplified.
I dont know about the assumptions ie yeasts ect we dont know that for sure but the stages times temps ect are spot on.

Thanks to you my friend!

Cobbing is a craft, and an art, and as such is really complex to put it into a simple to follow recipe including all the subleties and nuances of the process; my goal was providing a baseline so that as much people as possible feel confident to bring theirselves to try it.

 

[SweetSue]

I like the emoticons. Lol!

A question, my new friends: the first seal - for the initial sweat - is it done less constructed than the cure seal? I noticed early on there was reference to wrapping it more lightly in plastic for this step. Sies this still hold?

I’m hoping to get enough of the Malawi to do two cobs, so I can experiment with different timings the first time out of the gate.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

From what I understand:
The cob is tied and vacuum sealed. After the slow/rice cooker heating (40c for 24-48 hrs), the vacuum seal may look like it's broken and the bag will be a little swollen. You unseal it and pat it dry and let it dry to 80% or until the corn husk wrap is dried, then reseal. Sometimes the cob may need to be rewrapped to tighten it (but not usually).

Some people keep them loose and some are trying to keep the buds loose and trying to maintain bag appeal. Personally, I don't think it'll keep much bag appeal. But who knows.

I'm new to this so I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[SweetSue]

So snug it up both times. I can do that. Lol!

 

[McKush]

Always keep them in a vacuum seal, unless you have them opened for a period to dry or you have dried them out fully after the long cure. Foodsaver-type vacuum sealer is what is most often used. Vacuum them immediately after wrapping them also or the likelihood of mold is really high. As TychoMonolyth pointed out, the bags will often expand from the offgassing which is by product of the fermentation we think, the amount of expansion correlates to the temperature of the sweat also so i only do about 4 cobs per batch along with canary bud. in a crockpot i use two or three bottled water bottles to weigh down the bags since they will float once the gas expands.

i keep them all vacuum sealed even after the final dry just to preserve them at their freshest, only mold problem ive had is from letting the compressed and wrapped cob sit for a few days before i vacuumed it, you don't want the moist weed wrapped tightly in a corn husk sitting like that.

the smell upon opening the bags is heavenly....

 

[TychoMonolyth]

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i use two or three bottled water bottles to weigh down the bags since they will float once the gas expands.
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Good idea!

 

[SweetSue]

Thanks McKush. I’ve seen the trick of weighting it down by sealing a stainless utensil in the bag. I can see I need to review my yogurt function on the Instant Pot.

 

[SweetSue]

Excuse me gentlemen, but what method are you using to maintain 104 degrees F for the sweat? I've checked my Instant Pot and Crock Pot, and both devices maintain a much higher temp at their lowest settings, according to the manuals.

 

[Dr. Grinspoon]

Hi Sue,

I used a heating pad in a box with a couple towels between the heat and the cobs and was able to hit 100F pretty easily. I just used a simple thermometer on the towel layer with the cobs. I just added towel layers until it was not too hot.

-lazyfish

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Hi Sue,

I used a heating pad in a box with a couple towels between the heat and the cobs and was able to hit 100F pretty easily. I just used a simple thermometer on the towel layer with the cobs. I just added towel layers until it was not too hot.

-lazyfish

Another great idea. Thanks Doc.

The folks in this thread are awesome. No one keeping secrets, and everyone shares and contributes.