Wow! thats going to be killer cobbed. Thai is a very special high I have never had it cob cured though.
Wait so is this done more than once?update on my first cob curing adventure:
I took it out and inspected it after 3 days, as I was nervous because the cobs were a bit moist when i started. It had indeed started changing color, becoming very dark. I re-wrapped it in overnight-dried husks, tighter, with better string, and vac-sealed again for another 5 days, this is what it looked like:
today I decided it had been long enough, and took it out to inspect it again, and I determined it was definitely finished. . . .
as you can see the color changed drastically to deep deep brown, almost black in places, and the pistils are now a neon bright red.
here's a before and after
before (left) & after (right)
and just like Tangwena said - it has the consistency of hash. it smells sweet - a bit wet (because it is), and essentially the same as it did going in, just with a bit of a twist on it.
Now, I don't want to get too excited, and I'm doing the 5-day dry in a cool dark place, but I just cut off a few chunks and am quick-drying them in my veg room to try in a joint. This stuff looks too crazy to not try now, . . . .
(especially under an LED, lol)
wish me luck . . . .
i shall be back, someday, with a smoke report.
Welcome aboard brother!
I see
On a side but I'm just guessing it's to be dried before the cob cure process right?
As brother @Hombre del mont said, welcome aboard the cob train!I see
To answer your question, it depends... you will get different results depending on how moist/ dried your weed is before cobbing. Very moist = dark, intense, (not my style), of a cob. It will be good, just different. If you have dried your weed to the point where it's almost ready to jar and cure (almost, but not quite is the key here), then you will end up with a lighter coloured cob with different effects. I prefer that style but both are good.
What would sweating it mean exactly? Wait so the effects are racier if it's what exactly? I'm really confused on these two.As brother @Hombre del mont said, welcome aboard the cob train!
Here's something that I saved that @Tangwena wrote a while ago that sums it up nicely.
"The shorter sweats def give more color and taste, also drying earlier after sweating keeps the color and taste.
This also keeps the high racier. The longer you cold cure (after sweating) vacuum sealed the darker the result and deeper the effects.
I like 6 to 12 hours myself I use it to push the boundary on certain buds like Mulanje or Aces Panama.
I like to watch the color change but you have to pick it right just before it turns to much.
Then cure it for 2 or 3 days inspect dry and re seal I like the sticky compacted cobs like hash for chewing.
The shorter sweats or even no sweat at all can produce electric effects if you get a nice warm cure.
You have to watch and sample regularly for each cure until you get a feel for it and then you can leave it longer."
I've been leaning towards the "no sweat at all" approach and love the results so far. I aim to have the weed dried to about 65-70 % RH, or if you roll a joint it barely stays lit between hits, when I cob. YMMV! Enjoy!
Ask again when you get a timer or its not going to matter.
Actually I won't bother you for now with more questions instead I'll just keep reading your Thread because it's awfully amazing
And obviously a great necessity for my needs...
Oh wow ... I never knew some of this stuff...
All the members here have long experience in both growing and curing you came to the right place.Actually I won't bother you for now with more questions instead I'll just keep reading your Thread because it's awfully amazing
Great work though Tangwena... I think I've seen this thread before
Yeah but it seems like I'll have to leave it vacuumed in fermentation during our travel.... I'm worried about reading how it has to be taken out to get rid of moisture...
If I wanted to smoke from it, how would I grind it if it's rick hard? Or just using my fingers?
So this method only works with a corn cob or what are the other alternatives?^^^^ thanks man! Just in time too, I got so excited about this shit last night I went to the grocery store, bought corn, and did it.
sounds like putting em in my normal drying closet which maintains ~70F constantly is the proper place for this cure (not the bag of FFOF I buried them in in my garage last night while on a good one, lol).
I used just slightly over an ounce for the cob, and left the other half (another ounce) to do a jar cure, for a nice side-by-side comparison. Gonna take em out in probably in 5 days just to be safe, re-seal, then do another 5 or 7 days as you say, since it's over an ounce. here's the beginning of the journal, as you see I got lazy and used some string from a reflector hanger (didn't have any skeletons laying around to pull hemp string from). Super excited to see the results!!
I/we love to mix different cobs.
No you don't, providing it's quite dry before you start. Many of us just chuck it in a bag and leave it for many months in a dark place at room temperature. In fact the long slow cures are the best, imho.
Corn husks, banana leaves, bamboo tubes, they all work. I don't use anything other than the bag. I keep intending to try corn husks but the corn season in my location is well finished by the time I harvest.
It will suite your situation perfectly just allow 2 to 3 days drying time.
I actually remember once before in the past, bought this incredible bud but this was years back and it was still new and not even trippy or psychedelic and I was unsatisfied until I had wrapped it in paper with a shit ton of tape in my backpack and I left it there some time, opened it up once to smoke and actually felt high and then put it back like that. Over time eventually if became rock solid trippy psychedelic at least for the time being it was where I wanted to get... Does that have anything to do with similar fermentation? Or is it different...
