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Malawi Style Cob Curing.
- Thread starter Tangwena
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Yes, put it in a vacuum bag and then between a seed tray warming mat and a section of rigid foam insulation for 1 hours. The plastic bag went from being tight to the compressed bud to being blown up like a balloon. It also had a pretty good sweat going.
I opened the bag and let the COB dry out for 24 hours. I needed to cut the two lower corners off because the way the air in the bad caused the foam to be at an angle caused a lot of the sweat to go to the two corners and they were wet. After cutting off the wet corners I let them dry out separately. I put the now dry COB back into a vacuum bag to age for 3 months.
Sforza - Did I get that right? You got that gold color from a 1 hour sweat?
Looks great!
23 hour, TB.
At the time I did the COB, I documented how I did it.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=7889643#post7889643
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=7889657#post7889657
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=7890308#post7890308
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=7890320#post7890320
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=7891002#post7891002
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=7892429#post7892429
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beefalo bill
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A month in the hole...
A month in the hole...
...or in the bag, really. I pulled these out to give them a good dry down, and get me a little piece to sample. I won't go into depth just yet, but I can say I certainly didn't waste or ruin any material in trying this curing method.
A month in the hole...
...or in the bag, really. I pulled these out to give them a good dry down, and get me a little piece to sample. I won't go into depth just yet, but I can say I certainly didn't waste or ruin any material in trying this curing method.
Looks like a good cure there my friend. The dark cobs usually give the strongest results once its dried and aged a month or so it should be very good....or in the bag, really. I pulled these out to give them a good dry down, and get me a little piece to sample. I won't go into depth just yet, but I can say I certainly didn't waste or ruin any material in trying this curing method.
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From the cross sections I can see its very well cured.
Please give an in depth smoke report ect once you feel its ready.
Welcome to the cob club brother you are on the road to perfection.
Tangwena
SierraPadre
Member
Greetings Tangwena....this stuff sounds like it could have you seeing Alice or talking to dolphins!
Ha Ha you've been reading my mind.
I had some Zamaldelica cob today and I traveled back in time to a trip on a plane I took a few months ago, only difference was I wasn't strapped in this time ha ha.Awesome tripping high I can become myself at 18 without any cares in the world therapeutic when you are old and tired ha ha.
Purple Mulanji winter grown
Purple Mulanji winter grown
These buds were hung dried for 24hrs then sweated for 12hrs at 40c in a vacuumed bag.
Now being air dried well more like surface dried before being resealed in the vac bag to (no cob) to cure for a month at room temp.
They smell of sweet fermented berries at the moment.
Purple Mulanji winter grown
These buds were hung dried for 24hrs then sweated for 12hrs at 40c in a vacuumed bag.
Now being air dried well more like surface dried before being resealed in the vac bag to (no cob) to cure for a month at room temp.
They smell of sweet fermented berries at the moment.
Old Toker
Well-known member
Looking forward to seeing the 30 day update!
beefalo bill
Member
For those of you chewing your cobs, when is best... on an empty stomach, with food, a while after eating?
If I may answer for me any time any place.
Most of the initial effect comes from the chewing, if you chew it long enough say 10 mins you will be left with a small ball of powder.
The powder can be swallowed wash it down with a drink.
This will give you two distinct waves of effect.
The chewing should come on strong after an hour and keep getting stronger peaking at 4 hrs. Then maintaining the high at the peak for two or three hours.
If you swallow the chewed cob you will get a second wave of stronger more crazy effects that start at about the 3 hr mark and depending on the strength of the pot and how it was cured lasts for 6 to 8 hrs peaking at the 5th or 6th hour.
If I just want a quick 3 to 4 hour high I dont swallow the cob, I spit it out.
If I want the full tripped out stony type of long lasting high.
I swallow the chewed cob or make a cup of tea using the chewed cob mixed with tea.
The effect is the same if you swallow the dust that will be in bottom of the cup.
Now all this depends on the strength of the pot used. I only use the strongest I can get my hands on. Most of Aces stronger strains fall into this category for me.
The next most important thing after good pot and curing technique is the dose. Its really easy to overdose and just end up a tripped out jelly on the floor for 4 or 5 hours.
Start with 0.5g thats half a gram some people need more if they have a high tolerance but not more than 0.75g if you need more than that something is wrong. Weak pot or not cured properly.
I regularly use 0.25 to 0.35 and find it more than enough to get me where I want to go.
I think you build up a floating charge for want of a better name. When you use it every day and it does not seem to take as much if you use a different strain every day.
If you use the same strain you will build up a tolerance quite quickly and need a few days drug free every 3 or 4 days.
Lastly the effect is not the same as smoking it, while it can be very strong on the right cob, its very clear and natural to begin with and some people do not recognise it at first and get tempted to smoke some or take some more and get knocked out when it finally hits them. Others mainly heavy smokers dont find it strong at all and dont like the different effects it has.
You will only find out by trying it, just experiment with the lower doses first and build up if its not strong enough rather than OD first off and not enjoy the ride.
Let us know how you go and your opinion if you give it a try, its not for everyone but for ease of use there is not much easier no smell and you can eat it anywhere just remember some mints skunk breath is a give away ha ha.
Thanks brother I am addicted to the high I get from it and cant spend more than a day or two without it.Great post Tangwena! It may be difficult to find anyone with more experience chewing/eating Malawi Cob than you.
The fact it lasts all day though means you have to get the initial dose right.
I find additional doses dont have the same effect. You get one shot and its important to get the dosage right, if you do your in for a good long ride my friend.
beefalo bill
Member
Well then...I'm not quite sure what to saw about this cobbed material I have. It smokes fine, despite being more fidgity in breaking it up. It's a bit different than the jar cured, but it's not a huge night an day difference. Taste and smell is different, of course. Last week, I chewed up a chunk, .1g, IIRC. It didn't do much at all for me, but I was also smoking. The next day, though, I felt a bit more sluggish than otherwise, like I had an edible the night before. Saturday, I went all in. I chewed up one of the ~1g chunks. Onset was VERY slow. A couple hours before I was really aware of it. It lacked any sort of heaviness to it. It wasn't tripped out much, either. I did feel EXTREMELY sluggish all day yesterday. FWIW, I have a jar of de-carb'ed stuff that I make into a lassi, of sorts. Usually a gram of that lays me out, and quickly. My experience with that stuff falls right in line with what you've posted above.
I wonder if the car-cure didn't get enough heat into it to decarb it fully.
I wonder if the car-cure didn't get enough heat into it to decarb it fully.
I have never ate a bit of COB, so I have no business chiming in here, but in my experience with alcohol and other drugs, taking them on an empty stomach results in a quicker, harder hitting high.
If I wanted to get off quick and intense high from eating a COB, I would do it on an empty stomach and then have an alcoholic beverage as a chaser to get the psychoactive substances into my bloodstream and from there to the brain, as quickly as possible.
Oh well somethings wrong then, I hear this from people now and then I cant explain it.
I get really really high from chewing it so do some others and then some people like yourself say not.
I cant comment on your cobs without seeing and touching and tasting one so i cant help.
I hope you dont feel disappointed. I have to balance the occasional bad batch with the comments I get from happy people otherwise I would feel down.
Using a car as a heat source is a bit hit and miss, but I got a very strong cob using that method.
Although I now use a yogurt maker to sweat them its more constant.
Hopefully they will grow on you as they age mine do.
I have tried hash as well and the high is different again. Of course thats strain dependant.
But be warned beefollo bill above had a bad result so be sure to follow the recipe and use a constant adjustable heat source like a crock pot or yogurt maker.
I prefer the high from chewing cob over the hash as its easier to get the dosage right.
Please review your experience I would be very interested thats for sure.
I have some Zamal cob from a friend along with some lovely hashish that he got with bubble bags I think.
The highs from the two chewed are related but different enough to use them separately.
I find the hash high is similar to an oil type high, very strong and in your face at least with this strain.
The cob high has a lot more things going on in it and I find it nicer it allows me to leave and be here at the same time ha ha.
It feels milder but lasts just as long as the hash.
These days theres a rainbow of hash around its anything and everything in it. Unique slabs of hash that are one off's must be awesome.
