Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[Tangwena]

My cobs do not burn clean yet, I wonder if I should take them out of the vacuum sealed bags and let them dry out completely now.

They do crumble nicely with scissors or grinder, so it is not like they're still damp.

The smell is absolutely amazing when I open the bags, but I really feel it did not work as advertised.

I am certainly not going to do any large amounts until I figure it out. Or maybe it is not for me. The effects might be enhanced. Every time I open a bag ( I re-seal it right away ) and smoke a spliff I am always disappointed at the smoke.

The cobs still have a fairly light green color, if I leave a chunk to air dry it will turn brown rather quickly but will still have a darker black-ish ash while smoking a joint.

The same popcorn buds that were left to dry for weeks (no cure or sweat, simply hung and forgotten about) now burn totally clean and also taste like what I am used to with that cultivar. Just to say that it's not like the herb was not grown properly, she had a nice fade on her.

Hi my friend if you post a close up of the buds/cob I can tell you where you went wrong if you did.

The green color is a sign it didn't ferment though.
There should be no green or at least very little before aging.
Please post some pics if you can.

Its a simple process but if the buds were too dry ( a common mistake first time ) it will not ferment properly and stays green.

 

[GET MO]

Tangwena I was curious if youve tried cobbing up straight dry sift? Would be interesting to see what it do with the heat cure...

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Tangwena I was curious if youve tried cobbing up straight dry sift? Would be interesting to see what it do with the heat cure...

Straight kief is probably too dry to ferment. If you use fresh buds, and add kief, you might get something interesting, but your temperatures would have to be on the high side to incorporate the kief. This is something I'll try with my next harvest. But I'm an outdoor grower so it will be a while.

 

[GET MO]

Straight kief is probably too dry to ferment. If you use fresh buds, and add kief, you might get something interesting, but your temperatures would have to be on the high side to incorporate the kief. This is something I'll try with my next harvest. But I'm an outdoor grower so it will be a while.

I was thinkin that too, but then I had some keep sitting with the jar open and the humidity was high in the room due to rain outside n it had moistened the keef and had it all stuck together, i got to thinkin that consistench might be dope with a cob cure... I may do some experimenting myself with this too...

 

[TychoMonolyth]

I was thinkin that too, but then I had some keep sitting with the jar open and the humidity was high in the room due to rain outside n it had moistened the keef and had it all stuck together, i got to thinkin that consistench might be dope with a cob cure... I may do some experimenting myself with this too...

It would be nice to have a moonrock type cob. Moonrocks are all but impossible to break up without it turning into a mess.

 

[Tangwena]

I cant help with the keef I dont grow enough to get large parcels.
But you should be able to just compress a slab vac seal and then heat to the same levels easily enough and see if it made any difference.
I heard years ago that the traditional way with hash was to cure it after compressing but I dont know how they cured it.
Someone posted hash inside goat skins in a warm environment that was reputed to be excellent hash so there is probably something in it.
We in the west have just been using green fresh resin to make hash just the same as green fresh buds to make pot.
So I would bet we lost a step along the way in the rush to get it to market.
I know one lebanese guy I used to know in the UK said his father would not smoke the Lebanese hash imported into the UK because it was not cured.
So I'd say we missed something again.

 

[mexicani-ar]

I will be trying this Malawi cob cure in the future with Acapulco Gold and Highland Copalita, this is a great thread , saludos Mexicani-ar

 

[ThaiBliss]

I heard years ago that the traditional way with hash was to cure it after compressing but I dont know how they cured it.

I've heard things very similar things about hash as cobs. Though similar to what Tang is preaching, I have seen a video of a guy in Malawi sticking the cobs in the thatching of his roof. I assume it is for the heat. Before Tang and that video, I heard cobs were buried.

An elderly dude from Hawaii I met talked about burying compressed kief in the ground and waiting a year. As a side note, it was interesting that the same Hawaiian dude told me that before indica, Hawaiian weed was S.E. Asian and African. He specifically called out Swazi with a giant grin.

 

[robotwithdreams]

Thanks for he feedback. I ended up boiling the husks for 40 minutes, rinsed them with warm water, and then boiled them for another 30 minutes. I feel comfortable that boiling the husks should take of it.

A buddy of mine is harvesting his little 3x3 tent this week. I convinced him to save a small portion for the cobb experiment. Started a small cobb to test. First 24 hours of sweat were around 120-125f. The next 12 hours were at 105f. After 36 hour sweat the cobb is quite wet. Going to let it get 80% drier than current moisture level. I understand it should be try to the touch on the outside and moist on the inside before starting the next month of fermentation.
Cobb after sweat is 45 grams and very wet. How long do u guys reckon it should take it to become 80% drier? A few hours or more like 20-24 hours. I imagine it should be reeady in couple hours.

Many thanks.

 

[Tangwena]

Thanks for he feedback. I ended up boiling the husks for 40 minutes, rinsed them with warm water, and then boiled them for another 30 minutes. I feel comfortable that boiling the husks should take of it.

A buddy of mine is harvesting his little 3x3 tent this week. I convinced him to save a small portion for the cobb experiment. Started a small cobb to test. First 24 hours of sweat were around 120-125f. The next 12 hours were at 105f. After 36 hour sweat the cobb is quite wet. Going to let it get 80% drier than current moisture level. I understand it should be try to the touch on the outside and moist on the inside before starting the next month of fermentation.
Cobb after sweat is 45 grams and very wet. How long do u guys reckon it should take it to become 80% drier? A few hours or more like 20-24 hours. I imagine it should be reeady in couple hours.

Many thanks.

That will depend on your RH and temps but yes it can dry in a matter of hours if its warm and dry.
Sounds like everything else is going along nicely.
Some pics would be nice so we can see how it looks.

 

[Tangwena]

I will be trying this Malawi cob cure in the future with Acapulco Gold and Highland Copalita, this is a great thread , saludos Mexicani-ar

Oh thats awesome please post pics of the buds at harvest and going into the cobs before and after sweat.
Get this right and that weed will be amazing my friend its made for this cure.

 

[SweetSue]

Playing with Malawi cobs today. I opened the bag and my nose told me they were ready to come out of the hot box, dry a bit and get back into the bag for the rest of the cure at room temp.

It’s been a month curing so far. That went fast!

Gosh guys, this is the most fun I’ve had in a long time, and that’s saying a lot. I live for fun. Lol! Now the game becomes “how much can SweetSue leave alone to let it grow up?” Lol!

Once again gentlemen, thank you all. :4:

 

[Tangwena]

Playing with Malawi cobs today. I opened the bag and my nose told me they were ready to come out of the hot box, dry a bit and get back into the bag for the rest of the cure at room temp.

It’s been a month curing so far. That went fast!

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Gosh guys, this is the most fun I’ve had in a long time, and that’s saying a lot. I live for fun. Lol! Now the game becomes “how much can SweetSue leave alone to let it grow up?” Lol!

Once again gentlemen, thank you all. :4:

Aced it first time my lady.
That looks about as good as it gets give a couple of months aging and you will have cannabis caviar.
Welcome to cob club my friend thats a life times membership right there.
I did mention (its in the fine print) that the club takes 5% of all cobs from now on. I am sure I did mention that ha ha.

Just had the best day ever fishing from the beach on some Swazi cob I was a fish magnet today ha ha.

 

[SweetSue]

Small print, eh? Hahaha! A small price to pay IMHO.

You and your crew did all the hard, early work for us and my crew picked it up and ran with it, in our own delightful way. I’m hoping this results in a permanent bond between the threads. We have so much to share with each other.

Those Carnival cobs Neiko made have me chomping at the bit to get at my own Carnival. She’s gonna be so much fun to cob.

This chemovar cures golden to begin with, but what Neiko got takes my breath away every time he posts pictures.

Off to grab some young, still immature Malawi cob to kick it up again. Most of them will make it to the three-month mark. Lol!

Have a wonderful day gentlemen.

 

[Gr33nSanta]

sorry Tangwena it took a while. here they are, what is it just over a month after initial sweat. I am finally gonna let them all air dry for a full day or more and then reseal them and see if they will be smoother. I might actually try a tobacco free this morning.

they do smell absolutely heavenly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNpVVdx_Xck&feature=youtu.be

you will probably get a better idea of the colors on the video vs the picture.

 

[Gr33nSanta]

just sitting next to the box right now, they keep calling me, man do they ever smell good! I ll report on the smoothness or lack of a bit later today. I ll pick one that appears darkest, more ripe.

 

[Tangwena]

just sitting next to the box right now, they keep calling me, man do they ever smell good! I ll report on the smoothness or lack of a bit later today. I ll pick one that appears darkest, more ripe.

They look great to me not as green as I was expecting.
From what I see they should be fine. Maybe they just need aging.
I cant see anything wrong with them from the pics.

I am in the bush at a fishing camp and am on limited data so I cant see the video until I get back to civilisation in a couple of weeks but if they smell good then they are on the right track alright.

If after aging they still seem bad then it must be the plant itself some plants mostly Indicas dont seem to get any positive effect from this cure for some reason. do you know what type of plant it is or its genetic make up?

Give them a month and then try them again. Have you tried chewing half a gram to see if that gets you off?
A lot of people who smoke a lot of heavy narcotic strains dont seem to recognize the high at first as its not narcotic and can be quite subtle in some strains. Give it time to age and maybe you will like it then.

 

[Guest]

I am in the bush at a fishing camp ... I get back to civilisation in a couple of weeks

You lucky dog ... Livin' the life,eh?

 

[Gr33nSanta]

Thanks Tangwena, they have brown up a bit more while drying today. The strain is a fast flowering sativa hybrid I have created using dr.grinspoon.

The finished product from the same plant with a normal cure smokes totally fine. Super white ash, not harsh.

So far, the cobs give me a bit of tickle in my throat while I smoke it and a while after.

Maybe I just need to dry them, and age them.

When you guys do it with a cob leave, you have something that dries out when you open the bag for the first time at day 7, when you reseal it, the then dried cob leave helps suck moisture out of the cob. Since I did it naked, maybe my cobs simply have too much moisture in them to smoke smooth?

Anyway, the effects are there, I think I notice a different deeper high. If not, you are likely to hear back from me in about a month after I ve aged them some more.

There was a small cob I made with a different cultivar, only a small chunk left, I am gonna try that one soon, if it is smooth I ll report back.

 

[Tangwena]

You lucky dog ... Livin' the life,eh?

I wish I have been stuck on shore most of the time with strong winds. But the beach fishing has been very good to compensate.
One of the few days I managed to get out I got this nice Golden Trevaly they pull like trains but are not that great eating so it was released.