ProfessorLefty
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Definitely such a thing as too wet, look at this sour little raisin after a one-week ferment at 25-30C:There is definitely a thing as too moist, start drier than you think, or do more than one at varying degrees of dryness.
24 hours initial drying is too short in general I'd say, especially if your starting material has some density.
As long as there is some (a little) moisture in the stems, you should be able to cob it up.
Wetter leads to very quick colour change and as the cobs continue to ferment, albeit more slowly, even once quite dry, you may find that in a year or so you end up with a black mass that doesn't have optimum aroma.
It will still bend you silly though.
You can see how dark it is and how much moisture the parchment absorbed
It’s actually pretty terpy inside though, intense fresh herbs like rosemary and hops
Edit: harvest weight of this booger was 40g, cobbed at 20g, currently 18g, expect it to be 10-11g all the way dry
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