Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[seeded]

Yes you can do smaller sample cobs about as thin as a pencil works fine, just allow less time sweating as they turn faster.
Also the dilemma I face every harvest is whats the best cure for this type of bud. I have a loose group of friends that practice this art and share the results, it makes it a lot faster, otherwise it takes a lifetime.
It has taken most of mine working alone for most of it. Now with people like yourself sharing their results and keeping records of how they went about it, we are making good results a lot faster and its pretty much full proof.
But still a lot of fine tuning to do.
Tangwena

Having a group of friends all put in would definitely make things go faster. I was thinking of miniaturizing the cobs and doing them in bulk lots to test variables but as effective as that will be I'm only one person and multiple testings in a single day isn't going to happen

I'll be buying a yogurt maker I found online that can be set at 36c, 38c and 40c for my experiments. Since I can miniaturize the cobs the plan is to make them up at different harvest/drying/curing times, cook them up at the different temperatures and then as time passes pull a cob out, note down it's info and then reseal the bag so the rest can continue cooking. If I make them at 2g each I can have 0.5g immediately and then again every month for 3 months to test out their progress which will enable the process of elimination to begin from day one. It shouldn't take too long to find out my preferences for temperature range, cooking times, etc. in general so at that point it's just about fine tuning the method for the individual girls in the garden which if I take the miniaturization approach again shouldn't take a lifetime to sort out.

I think the biggest issue I face now is considering cobbing another metric to judge a strain by. We're all used to picking our winners by their tastes, smells, yield, potency, etc. but with so many post harvest variables that can alter a cob's effectiveness I fear that I need to sort the method out before sprouting another seed. I won't because I'm a strain whore with a limited lifetime but the fear of throwing out the best eating plant because it didn't vape as good as it's sister is still very real and needs addressing before I muck up too badly.

 

[Snook]

You dont need such a deep vacuum like on a/c units a domestic food saver machine is all you need.
You dont need to bind the buds up, I also do loose buds the act of vacuuming them compresses them but they expand once out of the bag. for some reason they just cure a lot better bound up.
I always have half an ounce of loose buds in with the cobs inthe same bag, so I can see the change in color as they sweat and know when to remove them based on the color change.
The bags dont expand using a yogurt maker as its a gentle 40c heat the crock pots are faster but they use 55 to 65c thats why the bags expand due to the water vapor inside the bag as it is heated lower heat less expansion.
Crock pots take 12 to 24hrs to ferment cobs while yogurt makers take 3 to 4 days to do the same job.
Tangwena

Yogurt maker! aaha! This is the way I started with rosin, nickel and dimes. now, what am I going to do with that press??
no really, my exploded bag water cured bud is in the vac bag after 18 hours ??? drying out and rewrapping.... there were a few crumbs left on the counter which were ground and vaped.. the taste was hardly anything but smooth as hell. I be able to tell better when I get back next week...

 

[Tangwena]

I took 0.24g of the Mulanji that got seeded by its brother, it looks like shit, smells like something died. But if you want to get right to the edge of your comfort zone in everything, skate right along the ridge at the edge of the precipice , then come of the end feeling so totally at peace and spaced out as, and just get your breath back before the next bigger wave comes, over and over again. This is the weed for you ha ha
I am so happy I have this and Golden Tiger going, sweet I will retire and take a few years off from growing.
Tangwena

 

[seeded]

I took 0.24g of the Mulanji that got seeded by its brother, it looks like shit, smells like something died. But if you want to get right to the edge of your comfort zone in everything, skate right along the ridge at the edge of the precipice , then come of the end feeling so totally at peace and spaced out as, and just get your breath back before the next bigger wave comes, over and over again. This is the weed for you ha ha
I am so happy I have this and Golden Tiger going, sweet I will retire and take a few years off from growing.
Tangwena

Once you start growing cannabis retiring is only suited for the terminally ill as life just feels incomplete without at least one plant on the go. If you do quit though it'll be an exciting time in about a week when you start thinking about your seed stash


Who made the Mulanji? It sounds awesome.

 

[Tangwena]

Once you start growing cannabis retiring is only suited for the terminally ill as life just feels incomplete without at least one plant on the go. If you do quit though it'll be an exciting time in about a week when you start thinking about your seed stash


Who made the Mulanji? It sounds awesome.

Fate made the Mulanji a random one night stand with a Male thai Tanic, its only one of dozens of cobs. I had the lot out this morning and was breaking big nuggets off of the cobs as Christmas mixed bag of cobs presents.
The box of thumb size bights are wrapped up in brown paper.
If you chew them each lump has about 20 trips easily.
I didn't name them but I can tell them of course by their distinctive smells.
My friends will spend the next 3 months off the planet once I school them in the art of chewing the cob ha ha.
They have only just got used to smoking it, now its time to graduate.
I just unwrapped some of my Swazi cobs they are red like blood and yellow and stink of fermented pine, they have been vac sealed for about a month now and should be aged until 3 months vac sealed then they will hopefully be perfect.
I will be cobing a Zamaldelica tomorrow aiming for a red and yellow sticky stinky cob of LSD when chewed. It smells like the golden Tiger I have so must be the GT pheno I think I like it already better than the Thai/Zamal pheno I had before and I haven't even tried it yet ha ha. Its the curing I like the growing is just a means to an end for me its the cobbing and tasting cobs I like the most.
Tangwena

 

[Tangwena]

This will be what I am after cob wise with the Zamaldelica gold and red cob, sticky dense fuck you up kinda weed, with all the scary monsters chasing you especially at night, and one cob made darker for the deeper really fucked kinda I just give up take me away type of high your just not in your body anymore. You cant remember what happened at the party but you woke up naked from the waste down in room full of fully clothed sleeping strangers and you feel really great, you dont know why but it must have been good.
Kinda of weed.

 

[Sforza]

You cant remember what happened at the party but you woke up naked from the waste down in room full of fully clothed sleeping strangers and you feel really great, you don't know why but it must have been good.

Your post reminded me of a Keith Richards' quote, "But for Ronnie, one of the biggest thrills was meeting Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who were the opening act for the Ronettes on their UK tour. The feeling was mutually shared by Richards, who wrote of his relationship with Ronnie: "The first time I ever went to heaven was when I awoke with Ronnie (later Spector!) Bennett asleep with a smile on her face. We were kids. It doesn't get any better than that.""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ronettes

 

[Tangwena]

8 week Zamaldelica

8 week Zamaldelica

This is the Zamaldelica partially dried and ready for cobbing, magic in the making here.
It could have gone another week maybe two but circumstances prevented me leaving her longer. But with the right cure she will be awesome. .Tangwena with sticky fingers

 

[One Güey]

Thanks Tangwena.

I was wondering if you can a cob the buds right after harvest vs. Waiting for a few days to dry a bit?

One Güey

 

[Tangwena]

Hi my friend these are dried for 2 days the smaller buds were starting to get too dry, but the larger buds will re hydrate them in the cob as they cure.
Tangwena

 

[Tangwena]

8 week Zamaldelica cob making

8 week Zamaldelica cob making

These will get some secret treatment if it works I will show the results in a few weeks or a months time. Always trying to get better and stronger ferments.


Tangwena

 

[LostTribe]

These will get some secret treatment if it works I will show the results in a few weeks or a months time. Always trying to get better and stronger ferments.

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Tangwena

I need to know about the corn husks is it ok to use already dried corn husks like for tamales? Do they have to be vac packed? For a week? Then left for 1-2 weeks more to dry right....

 

[seeded]

I need to know about the corn husks is it ok to use already dried corn husks like for tamales? Do they have to be vac packed? For a week? Then left for 1-2 weeks more to dry right....

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=7728265&postcount=961

 

[seeded]

I've been eating a bit of cobbed bud every day since I made them up and my tolerance is building to them quite rapidly. It's the super silver haze I used doing it but at least I learned that like vaping I just need to mix it up a little to keep the effects fresh.

On a side note the lighting was pretty good today when I cracked open the cob and it really looked like the inside has been curing away in a jar for months. I'm starting to think we're just hurrying things along by heating them up but as I'm unsure I'll put that to the test sometime next year by eating a bud cured for half a year and one that's been freshly cobbed. I would do it sooner but I've always turned my old stash into edibles or oil to avoid stockpiling due to the laws here but I'm happy to keep some around for testing purposes. Also sorry for the low quality but pics or it didn't happen for the lighting

 

[Tangwena]

Hi seeded the cob isn't finished curing you need to age it for at least a month. After this the high emerges, all you have now is a stony high, it gets way trippier and more intense by the time its 3 months old.
Try some aged cob at 3 months and some jar cured bud at 3 months you will see a difference then not much now.
Tangwena

 

[Tangwena]

I need to know about the corn husks is it ok to use already dried corn husks like for tamales? Do they have to be vac packed? For a week? Then left for 1-2 weeks more to dry right....

Tamales corn wrappers are fine dry the buds for around 2 days, wrap them up seal them in a vacuum bag.
Then put that bag near a heat source 40c or higher for a week.
Then remove the cob dry it until its just slightly moist not wet.
Then reseal it in the vacuum bag for 30 days after that open dry to smoke able texture and you will have what you are looking for.
Easy just follow the instructions and you cant go wrong, once you have that working for you, you can try some other curing styles.
Tangwena

 

[heady blunts]

I need to know about the corn husks is it ok to use already dried corn husks like for tamales? Do they have to be vac packed? For a week? Then left for 1-2 weeks more to dry right....

i used tamale corn husks.

they have instructions on the package for rehydrating them.

once you've done that they should work perfectly for tang's cob method.

 

[Tangwena]

Zamaldelica cobs

Zamaldelica cobs

High Heady Blunts how are things going my friend, any more nice cobs to show us? I wouldn't be surprised if you are still chewing your way through that last lot you posted pics of stella cobs my friend.

Here are the two cobs I made a few days ago, one day sweating at 40c then one day drying at ambient temps of around 30c.
Now they are being sealed up for 3 weeks cold curing, then dried further and sealed up again for 3 to 4 weeks to start the aging.
After that I will taste them, but at the moment they smell of sweet piney wild honey, they smell fantastic I know these will be 5 star.


Have a happy Christmas I have my presents already ha ha
Tangwena

 

[Riddleme]

I have posted my new method for doin this to buds here,,,
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=7752720&postcount=2702

 

[Tangwena]

I have posted my new method for doin this to buds here,,,
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=7752720&postcount=2702

Great to see people trying new ways to cure their buds, how is the smoke, does it make it smoother?
Good on you for thinking outside the box, or jar as the case may be ha ha.
Tangwena