Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[Tangwena]

After a couple of weeks of aging I'm finding this super silver haze much more palatable and potent. I knew it would improve but it's literally got me drooling like one of pavlov's dogs every time I open the jar now
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The high is becoming longer in duration and it's distorting my perception of time considerably now too. It's making the current moment feel extremely drawn out, short moments like having a snack go so quickly I've wondered if I actually did it or just thought about it and when coming down it feels like an insane amount of time has passed. It's almost like it makes the memories of earlier that day feel like yesterday until you really start to sober up. I really like it for doing chores

That looks amazing lovely resin color. The high is just like I like as well if it doesn't distort reality its not much use.
As it ages further I can see it getting even clearer and way more trippy. Amazing result from an early harvest you should be proud of that cure my friend. Much respect to you brother I could look at those pics all day long.
Tangwena

 

[Tangwena]

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The Zameldica harvested, dried a few days and some in a cobb

Nice job my friend the Zamaldelica cured this way is out of this world, I love the yellow and orange colors in the close ups.
My Zam cobs are so strong I only use them now and then and not ever 2 days on the trot. Love to hear your smoke/chew reports when they are aged a bit. Nice job wish I could taste a slice it would change my day I am sure.
Tangwena

 

[seeded]

Purging is now in progress though I'm happy to report that being a monster I popped that bit of stem in my mouth anyway and the oil has got me incredibly high for only being made with cobbed trim. I can't wait to give it a shot with the cobbed buds after they've been curing for a couple of months. That's going to be a 10/10 experience for sure

 

[Levitationofme]

I have yet to make any BHO out of fully cured Cobb, but I like the Idea of cobbing the trim and making it from that. No decarboxylation necessary. I bet it tastes great!

 

[seeded]

I have yet to make any BHO out of fully cured Cobb, but I like the Idea of cobbing the trim and making it from that. No decarboxylation necessary. I bet it tastes great!

To be honest it initially tasted like leafy oil with a bit of alcohol but once that passed it was sort of like caramel with a hint of licorice. When vaped its caramel flavoured low grade oil with a combo of licorice and alcohol fumes backing it up. It's not unpleasant but it's not comparable to decent tasting oil that's for sure.

The high was very kind from it though. Clean, euphoric, time went out the window, etc. I spent hours training the plants in my garden with a big smile on my face. I've got a pretty big tolerance level and it just cut right through it gently bringing me along for the ride. I really can't recommend cobbed oil enough.

That reminds me, thanks for putting me on to it Tangwena

 

[Tangwena]

To be honest it initially tasted like leafy oil with a bit of alcohol but once that passed it was sort of like caramel with a hint of licorice. When vaped its caramel flavoured low grade oil with a combo of licorice and alcohol fumes backing it up. It's not unpleasant but it's not comparable to decent tasting oil that's for sure.

The high was very kind from it though. Clean, euphoric, time went out the window, etc. I spent hours training the plants in my garden with a big smile on my face. I've got a pretty big tolerance level and it just cut right through it gently bringing me along for the ride. I really can't recommend cobbed oil enough.

That reminds me, thanks for putting me on to it Tangwena

Every time I see a post from you my friend I cant wait to read it, you sure are trying every aspect of this cure.
The oil from a good aged cob is very addictive I used to live on the oil mixed with just enough ground up cob to make it burn.
Until my lungs gave out from smoking a big pipe of it with friends I was showing off and took a huge hit. Then found I could not exhale the smoke, it was as if my lungs had seized up. I finally managed to exhale and have been working with only one lung ever since. I could never inhale fully after that day. But I still smoked the mix just tiny pin joints and then only sipping the smoke rather than fully inhaling it.
The high is very very clear and like no oil you will ever have had before depending on the cob of course.
Its like comparing heroin to opium they are from the same source but totally different.
I look forward to your report, you have the right stuff to make it from and should get an excellent result. Its also very addictive mentally it took me a long time to break the habit and I only stopped after I left Africa and couldn't get the right material to make it any more.
You go deeper and deeper into the experience my friend i salute you, more power to you.
Tangwena

 

[Levitationofme]

"Then found I could not exhale the smoke, it was as if my lungs had seized up. I finally managed to exhale and have been working with only one lung ever since. I could never inhale fully after that day."

WOW I thought I was hard core toker.

I have been put to shame.....

 

[Tangwena]

"Then found I could not exhale the smoke, it was as if my lungs had seized up. I finally managed to exhale and have been working with only one lung ever since. I could never inhale fully after that day."

WOW I thought I was hard core toker.

I have been put to shame.....

Not really my friend it was a stupid thing to do and I have been paying for it ever since. I just posted it as cautionary note.
On that subject when I was younger I had friends in London who I visited from Africa. I took some Malawi oil and cobs over with me to exchange for acid as that was the in thing and very hard to find in Africa at the time.
Anyway these guys were into smoking pipes called chilums I think thats how its spelt, filled with hash and tobacco I cant stomach tobacco and have never smoked it, I cant see the point if you have a joint.
They also had friends in Goa in India who were bringing in hash oil and selling it, it was really popular.
So I showed the the ounce and a half of Malawi oil and they were really interested as you would imagine. I told them to make a joint with a small blob of oil smeared on the cigarette paper with a bit of crumbled up cob to make it smoke better, you only needed one hit. But no they said thats not enough and rubbed up some tobacco and a big blob of the oil and put it in the chilum pipe.
There was maybe 12 people in the room and they each had one hit on the pipe as it went around.
Each person coughed and past out as the pipe went round. i spent the next hour amusing myself on my own as the 12 people all lay gently moaning and rolling around in bliss on the floor.
When they came round they all said they had never had anything like it before and getting some acid wouldn't be a problem.
The deal was done inside 24hrs and I spent the 3 weeks out of my mind on oil,cob and acid while traveling around England sight seeing. Making friends and turning people on everywhere I went.
when I got back to Africa I gave all my friends 50 microdots of acid each and the next month was well pretty outstanding if you know what I mean.
Anyway getting back to the oil, if its from a good cob theres nothing better in my opinion, its completely different high to anything else out there and mixed with some of the cob its made from is heaven in your head.
Tangwena

 

[Levitationofme]

My days of mass psychedelic ingestion are over other then The mighty Herb.
I spent several years doing lots of Acid,MDA, Mushrooms and Mescaline. I had several extremely good friends with the same appetite for tripping and we saw many a memorable Dead show.
I way overdid it and ultimately It took me a long time to come down.
I remember waking up and thinking WOW now Im not so Hazy Trippy perhaps this is Normal. That went on for a couple months.
I eventually chilled. It was great LOL. Really got High from a bong hit.

I ended up getting in trouble with the Law and after that debacle I moved far away from temptation.

30 years ago anyway.

 

[Tangwena]

My days of mass psychedelic ingestion are over other then The mighty Herb.
I spent several years doing lots of Acid,MDA, Mushrooms and Mescaline. I had several extremely good friends with the same appetite for tripping and we saw many a memorable Dead show.
I way overdid it and ultimately It took me a long time to come down.
I remember waking up and thinking WOW now Im not so Hazy Trippy perhaps this is Normal. That went on for a couple months.
I eventually chilled. It was great LOL. Really got High from a bong hit.

I ended up getting in trouble with the Law and after that debacle I moved far away from temptation.

30 years ago anyway.

i hear you brother I am in the same boat, scrapped by by the skin of my teeth, if I had any acid it now I would end up in the loony bin for sure.
The cob takes me away enough sometimes too much and is all i need these days, well every day really ha ha.
I thank god that cannabis is such a gentle master and rewards you for being its servant instead of destroying you like some other habits.
Tangwena

 

[Levitationofme]

Well said!

 

[seeded]

Every time I see a post from you my friend I cant wait to read it, you sure are trying every aspect of this cure.
The oil from a good aged cob is very addictive I used to live on the oil mixed with just enough ground up cob to make it burn.
Until my lungs gave out from smoking a big pipe of it with friends I was showing off and took a huge hit. Then found I could not exhale the smoke, it was as if my lungs had seized up. I finally managed to exhale and have been working with only one lung ever since. I could never inhale fully after that day. But I still smoked the mix just tiny pin joints and then only sipping the smoke rather than fully inhaling it.
The high is very very clear and like no oil you will ever have had before depending on the cob of course.
Its like comparing heroin to opium they are from the same source but totally different.
I look forward to your report, you have the right stuff to make it from and should get an excellent result. Its also very addictive mentally it took me a long time to break the habit and I only stopped after I left Africa and couldn't get the right material to make it any more.
You go deeper and deeper into the experience my friend i salute you, more power to you.
Tangwena

Jesus that must have been some hit you took to lose a lung. Like I've heard of coughing up a lung, coughing to get off, etc. but damn losing half your lung capacity in an instant has got to be an insanely shitty thing to go through so I'm sorry to hear it happened to you

I can see how it could be addictive enough to lead a person down that path though as I'm already getting stuck into the cobs like mad and absolutely loved the oil until the hangover the next day. Instead of my normal morning vape being a reward or because I was bored it felt like I was an alcoholic needing some hair of the dog to be functional again and I mean walking type functional and not that give me a coffee and 20 mins and I'll be fine type deals too. I couldn't think worth a damn, I was was aching all over, I couldn't open my eyes fully because my darkened room was too bright and when the alarm on my phone went off reaching out to get it took most of my energy and filled me with utter despair as I knocked the bastard on to the floor instead of turning it off. After sorting it out I wobbled/dragged myself out to my lounge room, loaded up my vape, turned it on and then 12 mins later it woke me up with the beep it lets out when it turns itself off. A few hits later though and complete normality came rushing back like my batteries were being recharged and it didn't stop until I was elevated in both mind and body. The high was much stronger than the bud could have given alone and then stayed for a couple of hours before gradually wearing off which was really nice compared to the rough treatment from earlier. I imagine if I had put some oil in my mouth the effects would have been much greater and I would have been paising it day and night but avoiding it for a day let me see how strong it really is and it's scary stuff. Well scary is the wrong way to put it but with a decent supply anyone could justify losing themselves in a binge and if you avoided the indica traits that bring my gear down it would be heavenly 24/7. I can see how you lost a lung overdoing it and am somewhat thankful mine are already screwed from smoking otherwise I'm sure I'd make a similar mistake myself

btw good on you for dropping a dozen people

 

[Tangwena]

Its to be used carefully especially if you take it orally like a tiny drop on your tongue and dissolve it, its very hard to get the correct dose and I know of no way to measure it due to the sticky nature of the beast. Smoking is the best way to meter the dose I have been wiped out doing good oil orally. But that said the high is fantastic and worth doing.
We are talking about oil made from a good cob well aged and cured, from a tripping type plant of course. I have had plenty of boring sleepy tranquilised type of experiences from low grade oil, its best to make it yourself or from a trusted source, you never know what craps in it otherwise.
I knew of some guys who used to dissolve blocks of hash into acetone I wouldn't touch that stuff.
Tangwena

 

[DjKinetics]

Yo Tangwena I'm Mos Def going to give this a shot with my outdoor harvest (Brazil kc). Thanks for the comprehensive thread !

 

[seeded]

Sorry for the shit pictures. My house broke and is being repaired tomorrow morning so I'm putting these up while taking a break from desussing my house.

Those are all from the brick I made a month ago. There's a very noticeable difference in spongeyness as the humidity goes up and the trichs are a lighter colour too. I have no idea what that means yet but I'll come back with a chew report on the 75% gear tomorrow night if all goes well.

 

[48N]

I also use boveda packs
I'm interested in the difference of the three humidities, this is gonna be interesting

 

[48N]

Thanks tangwena for this thread
I experimented with fermentation before but this guide helped me tremendously
I cobbed ALL of my harvest because I knew this was going to be good
And I'm very satisfied with the results
I just like what the pressure and sweat does to the herb
And it really is a total different effect, especially when they're not aged yet
phew, my coordination

 

[McKush]

Right on 48November!

I cob all my harvests too. Keep only a few zs from each plant jarred now since i do still combust buds in the form of Js mostly.

Ive done many variations on them as well. Try compacting bud that has been hanging a while in a husk and bind it then vacseal with no sweating at all, u have to vacseal after u compact right away to prevent mold and drier bud is better for this.

Or try sweating the bud in a vacseal or jar and *then* compact it, wrap and bind and vacseal (dont sweat it again.) Lol. Dont know the effects yet as they are still aging.

The aromas after 3 months in a vacseal were mindblowing. Lol ive prolly done some other variations too... keep notes on each cob more or less. Ive been drying out a batch of mango haze cobs that were last sealed in November. So they aged 3 months more or less before i did this dry out on them. I find they lose about 3 grams of water during this 1-3 day dry out.

Peace
McK

 

[Tangwena]

Sorry for the shit pictures. My house broke and is being repaired tomorrow morning so I'm putting these up while taking a break from desussing my house.

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Those are all from the brick I made a month ago. There's a very noticeable difference in spongeyness as the humidity goes up and the trichs are a lighter colour too. I have no idea what that means yet but I'll come back with a chew report on the 75% gear tomorrow night if all goes well.

Awesome report, this should be interesting I dont think anyone has tried this yet. Going where no man has gone before ha ha
Tangwena

 

[Tangwena]

Thanks tangwena for this thread
I experimented with fermentation before but this guide helped me tremendously
I cobbed ALL of my harvest because I knew this was going to be good
And I'm very satisfied with the results
I just like what the pressure and sweat does to the herb
And it really is a total different effect, especially when they're not aged yet
phew, my coordination

Thank you its the members here like yourself that help progress this method, seeded and Cob King McKush are thinkers outside the box, the more open minded people who try this the better. There is still a lot to learn and the more people involved the better the result.
This method can produce mind blowing results but it take practice and when you publish your findings for all to share it just accelerates the learning curve for everyone involved.
Its like an explosion of energy and ideas I love it, its the internet at its best.
Tangwena