Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[Tangwena]

So after sampling 4 diffrent strains from 7 diffrent plants, it is very evident that the RSC malawi gold and TLT malawi gold have benefit from this process way way more than the others, which are ace malawi, and Somali taxi ride from rare dankness. Is there anything to this? Like does it have something to do with the terps/cannibinoids? It's weird because as normal flower both ace malawi and STR are better smoke honestly

Its hard to make judgement on any one strain as they all benefit from different methods of curing, it takes many harvests of even one strain to find the best curing methods for that particular type of plant.
Every harvest I tweak the cure a bit more on each different strain.

Dont forget the villagers in Malawi had been growing the same plants for generations.
Every village or area had different plants and different cures usually along tribal boundaries.
We have the luxury of many many strains and hybrids to grow, mastering the cure for each takes many harvests.
As TD said above aging also effects all cures some more than others.
I have found a cob of Panama x Mulanje that ticks all my boxes for a particular type of high. But if I cure it slightly differently it may not have the same appeal.

 

[moose/MI]

Well, that's not Morning Weed!

Going through my cobs at the 2- month mark. Moving on to one's that I did more like a brick.

A Seeded branch of Swabi-Dragon a landrace Pakistani crossed with a worked Panama Red line that has White Widow and G13 way back in the genetic downline.
It was an attempt to see just what I could get away with growing here at 42.2N.
We're warmer than we've ever been before outdoors.

Unfortunately my Super Panama Haze seedling from Ace dampened off.
That was going to be a test.
But I'm encouraged by this Swabi-Dragon cross and some Oaxacan crosses I grew to keep trying more and more pure Sativas in the future.

So number #11 on the cob journey. Interesting colors. It seems dry. The bag was stuck to the cob more than others.

But seemed dry. It felt dry all the way to the center in my hand. Compared to the tootsie-roll candy like center of more wet ones I've made.
It felt dry/light, homogeneous before I stabbed it with the meter.
(I'll go back into my notes and check the process)

I don't know if that's great or not?
I don't know if it's too soon to be that dry or perfect.
Time will tell and the data is saved for comparison.

Lovely colors - interesting smell.
This was my last plant to come down and is just starting to cure as flower.
Not much comparison yet other than this won't be my Morning toke.
The flower has been giving some chocolate notes. None of that with this cob.

I figured it wouldn't be for the morning but wanted to give it a honest assessment.
Just 1-hit in my dynavap and I was higher than I wanted to be that early, in that way. If that makes sense.

Not that it was devastating.
Only that I've been enjoying a smoother soaring Oaxacan/Hawaiian with my coffee that goes in a particular direction.
This was instantly more stoney.

It normally is a Green all day plant according to the breeder.
I got this Purple pheno that no one had seen yet. So who knows how it will turn out.
Back in the vac bag.

 

[moose/MI]

Cob #12 @ the 2- month mark.
Princess Buttercup a hybrid tester I ran for Twenty20 Mendocino. Dirty Blonde x White Truffle.
Another that I knew wouldn't be my Morning toke.

Amazing terps for days on this one. I made the mini-brick twice as large.

This far in, on number #12 and experiencing no mold on any of the different processes on any of the cobs gives me confidence.
I suspect I'll be doing larger cobs in the future.

From my making wine days.
You could play around with wild 1gal recipes to be curious.
But if it was a recipe I was at all confident in it always seemed better to do 3-5gal batches.
Some would always be better than others and if was nice to at least have a few bottles when it turned out great.

Plus I'm old enough that the bricked weed holds lots of nostalgia.
As a Chef I say "You eat with your eyes."
and so this just adds a little something to it I guess.

Amazing aroma!
This one felt light in the hand too. I'm starting to be able to tell before I stick it.

I'll have to go back and check my files for the process.
Determine what I did/how many days/etc. for it to be this dry at this point.

Great colors!
Back under vacuum for more time.