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Malawi Style Cob Curing.
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Thats what your looking for, now vac seal it up to cure.https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=65805&pictureid=1577564View Image https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=65805&pictureid=1577563View Image https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=65805&pictureid=1577562View Image
Stuffed inside a heating pad overnight. Looks like sweat.
It's like my morning workout, did I sweat enough
Tangwena
Levitationofme
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GDay Cobs,
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If there is no bad experience with banana Flower leafs
i will try it.
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Never done it with anything but corn husks so far, but after seeing that, id like to give it a go now.
Un wrapped that Z 01 cob, thanks to all youse guys!
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Product will be tested in a couple weeks, will post a smoke report.
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Product will be tested in a couple weeks, will post a smoke report.
i finally made one this week! just over a 1/2 oz of my colombian/afghani girl in rehydrated corn husks from the grocery store (sold for tamales).
i don't have a food saver so i wrapped it as tightly as i could in cling film.
i'll be back with pics when it's ready. many thanks to tang for this great thread!
ps---looking back at some of your pics, tang, i'm wondering if i may have compressed it too far. i firmed it as much as possible before wrapping, and i wrapped it as tightly as i could (i copied some vice video i saw where they tie one end of the twine to a post so they can keep a lot of tention on it while they wrap).
i guess i shall see when i open it up next week!
i don't have a food saver so i wrapped it as tightly as i could in cling film.
i'll be back with pics when it's ready. many thanks to tang for this great thread!
ps---looking back at some of your pics, tang, i'm wondering if i may have compressed it too far. i firmed it as much as possible before wrapping, and i wrapped it as tightly as i could (i copied some vice video i saw where they tie one end of the twine to a post so they can keep a lot of tention on it while they wrap).
i guess i shall see when i open it up next week!
Levitationofme
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Cob out of the bag
Cob out of the bag
Here is my cob. Was sealed up on the 19th, I cracked it open today to check how its doing.
I have since re-wrapped and put in a dark dry place to dry out.
Cob out of the bag
Here is my cob. Was sealed up on the 19th, I cracked it open today to check how its doing.
I have since re-wrapped and put in a dark dry place to dry out.
Levitationofme
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Those are some great looking plants on that other Thread. Thanks for sharing pictures of them.
Giving me Ideas!
Cobb still a little moist, drying slow n steady. My Jar cure going slowly as well, but i'm just figuring it all out. I would think after a few tries it will be second nature.
Giving me Ideas!
Cobb still a little moist, drying slow n steady. My Jar cure going slowly as well, but i'm just figuring it all out. I would think after a few tries it will be second nature.
Hello Tangwena, I have been following this thread religiously, and having just dried some sativa buds to the point where they appear dry, yet will turn slightly less brittle over a few days as the remaining moisture in the stems gradually spreads into the bud, I decided to try and make some cobs.
I took a clean sheet of 8x11 typing paper instead of a corn cob sheath, and rolled the semi dried buds real tight, as though rolling a huge, industrial sized Bob Marley spleef, before twisted the ends to keep it tight without the need to tie the cob with string.
I don't have a vacuum machine just yet, so I placed my three paper-wrapped cobs in a locked airtight container, in the hopes of replicating the results you have described.
Despite my not having used corn cob leaves, or a vacuum machine, I thought I should still run this slightly modified cob procedure by you, to hopefully hear your expert opinion about whether my paper-wrapped cobs stand a reasonable chance of turning out ok after a week or two sweating in the airtight container.
Any advice or opinions you could offer would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I took a clean sheet of 8x11 typing paper instead of a corn cob sheath, and rolled the semi dried buds real tight, as though rolling a huge, industrial sized Bob Marley spleef, before twisted the ends to keep it tight without the need to tie the cob with string.
I don't have a vacuum machine just yet, so I placed my three paper-wrapped cobs in a locked airtight container, in the hopes of replicating the results you have described.
Despite my not having used corn cob leaves, or a vacuum machine, I thought I should still run this slightly modified cob procedure by you, to hopefully hear your expert opinion about whether my paper-wrapped cobs stand a reasonable chance of turning out ok after a week or two sweating in the airtight container.
Any advice or opinions you could offer would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hi Swamp Thang it will not cure properly but hopefully it was dry enough to not mold, I would keep an eye on it.
If you wrap the cob tightly in cling wrap it will help it to sweat.
The main thing that brings on the change is sweating in the start then deprivation of oxygen.
If you dont have those things it will not cure properly, give the cling wrap a go and put it in a warm place to sweat for 24hrs before putting it in the jar. Unfortunatly this may lead to mold growing. Sorry I cant give you a rosier prediction, but it is what it is, as they say.
Tangwena
If you wrap the cob tightly in cling wrap it will help it to sweat.
The main thing that brings on the change is sweating in the start then deprivation of oxygen.
If you dont have those things it will not cure properly, give the cling wrap a go and put it in a warm place to sweat for 24hrs before putting it in the jar. Unfortunatly this may lead to mold growing. Sorry I cant give you a rosier prediction, but it is what it is, as they say.
Tangwena
That Thai Haze x Skunk by Sam will get chopped around the
time I smoke report my cobbed Zamaldelica.
Figure mid April, so excited!
Will cob that thunk despite what Sam thinks, lol.
Good times, good times.
time I smoke report my cobbed Zamaldelica.
Figure mid April, so excited!
Will cob that thunk despite what Sam thinks, lol.
Good times, good times.
Thanks for this corrective reply, Tangwena. I will adjust my methods here as you recommend, and report with a potency test here in a couple of weeks.
uh oh i hope i didn't miss a step!
i chopped the plant and hung dry the whole thing as i generally do.
2--3 days before i'd normally transfer to buckets to start the cure (just dry enough to smoke but stems still bendy), i collected a little over 1/2 oz of popcorn nugs for the cobbing.
i rolled it in a corn husk, firming the herb inside like i was rolling a big joint. when it had a good even shape and firmness, i wrapped the corn husk tightly around it, then bound it even more tightly with garden wire (like green plastic coated bread ties).
i wrapped it in cling wrap immediately after binding it up. i think this is where i skipped something...
i see you've already clearly explained the step i missed:
Levitationofme
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@14 days
@14 days
14 day cobb
I unwrapped, took small piece and rewrapped. I will let it dry out a few more days then seal it up for more cure time.
@14 days
14 day cobb
I unwrapped, took small piece and rewrapped. I will let it dry out a few more days then seal it up for more cure time.
Levitationofme
Well-known member
BTW
Smell is becoming coffee like. Sweet I will smoke it in the morning
and post a Wake n Bake report.
Smell is becoming coffee like. Sweet I will smoke it in the morning
and post a Wake n Bake report.
Congrats! Its gonna change your life Heady Blunts! Well maybe not that significantly, but its a game changer, imo. You'll love it once you get to smoke it, but like Tang says, "Age it for best results". Even a 2 month aged cob is so much better than a 1 or 2 week old cob. The problem is you'll consume it all before you ever get it to age 3 or more months. At least, if you're anything like me.
I strongly urge you to get fresh corn in the supermarket, walmart, etc rather than rehydrate dried husks. There is a certain smell and taste imparted into the cob by the fresh corn husks. You're probably depriving yourself of that with rehydrated cobs. Give it a go with fresh corn husks next time and see if you like it more.
I need to try other ways to wrap them and see what other tastes & smells are available.
Maybe Tang will be kinda enough to go into detail about that again for us.
I strongly urge you to get fresh corn in the supermarket, walmart, etc rather than rehydrate dried husks. There is a certain smell and taste imparted into the cob by the fresh corn husks. You're probably depriving yourself of that with rehydrated cobs. Give it a go with fresh corn husks next time and see if you like it more.
I need to try other ways to wrap them and see what other tastes & smells are available.
Maybe Tang will be kinda enough to go into detail about that again for us.
Hi Dave , the next major type of cob is the looser bound type, if you dont bind it really tight, but still sweat it well and then vac seal it for a week or two as usual,.
The buds seem to cure individually, they can be easily separated when you open the cob.
Under a micro scope the resin is not all amber like in the tightly bound cobs. I have no idea why, but the buds are all cured and smoke very smooth and strong just like the tightly bound cobs, they are just very trippy and speedy compared to the denser compressed cobs which to me are more deep and intense.
I had some panama from both methods on consecutive days and it may as well have been different strains they were that different.
There are so many variables to try
1 harvest early or late as we all know effects the high
2 degree of drying of the buds
3 length and temperature of the sweat
4 length of time it is aged after the sweat.
A lot of variable and thats not even taking into account strains, bud formation ect.
The buds from well grown, harvested, dried, sweated and aged cobs are very powerful and a different high to the same buds jar cured.
But it takes a lot of practice and experience to get everything right. Luckily even a cob with only a few things right is still a good smoke but the really well cured cobs of strong buds are nearly a class A drug compared to normal buds IMO.
Tangwena
The buds seem to cure individually, they can be easily separated when you open the cob.
Under a micro scope the resin is not all amber like in the tightly bound cobs. I have no idea why, but the buds are all cured and smoke very smooth and strong just like the tightly bound cobs, they are just very trippy and speedy compared to the denser compressed cobs which to me are more deep and intense.
I had some panama from both methods on consecutive days and it may as well have been different strains they were that different.
There are so many variables to try
1 harvest early or late as we all know effects the high
2 degree of drying of the buds
3 length and temperature of the sweat
4 length of time it is aged after the sweat.
A lot of variable and thats not even taking into account strains, bud formation ect.
The buds from well grown, harvested, dried, sweated and aged cobs are very powerful and a different high to the same buds jar cured.
But it takes a lot of practice and experience to get everything right. Luckily even a cob with only a few things right is still a good smoke but the really well cured cobs of strong buds are nearly a class A drug compared to normal buds IMO.
Tangwena
As the legalizing of weed sweeps the West spawning numerous related business enterprises, whoever first invents a hand-held TCH concentration meter will retire a very wealthy inventor.
And when such a device becomes available, it will only be a matter of time before someone carries out an exhaustive scientific analysis to measure with precise THC concentration readings, just how the four variables of cob making, as mentioned above by Tangwena, correlate with potency of the finished product.
Such a study would go a long way to reducing the trial and error aspects of this exacting procedure of cob design, as it were.
And when such a device becomes available, it will only be a matter of time before someone carries out an exhaustive scientific analysis to measure with precise THC concentration readings, just how the four variables of cob making, as mentioned above by Tangwena, correlate with potency of the finished product.
Such a study would go a long way to reducing the trial and error aspects of this exacting procedure of cob design, as it were.
