Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[brown_thumb]

You know I WANTED to try to finally show some patience.....but......NO...you guys INSIST that I sample the cobs.......so....I guess I will do it JUST in order to make you happy. I'll try a tip of one of the cobs when I open them again in 29 days. The question is: Should I dry and smoke it.....or eat it?

I can't help with cobbed weed but my personal experience with chewing decarbed weed is... it's very different from smoking. In my experience, chewing takes much longer to begin to take affect (2-3 hours) but it lasts for several hours. Also, the effects seem to flow from one type to another. I'm still looking for weed I can chew that's less 'trippy' than the phenos I have now.

My suggestion: Start small.

 

[Old Toker]

My suggestion: Start small.

I've heard this advice before. Thanks. It may take years to reach Tangwena's tolerance levels.

 

[Tangwena]

I have quite a bit of the same bud that is being cured by the more traditional method. Thought I'd compare the cob with the standard cure. BUT....you are right......HOW will I know whether the cob actually does improve with a longer cure unless I try it early AND later? Certainly we know we can't trust Tangwena....his sole mission in life is to convert ALL of us.

Hi brother you are in a very unique position in my opinion.

Try both smoked and chewed once dried, not at the same time of course ha ha.

Try half a gram no more chewed. I do not have a big tolerance just the opposite actually.

Most heavy smokers find half a gram very mild. It seems to work the opposite for me. The more I chew the less I need.

I haven't smoked for 10 years so the memory of what effect smoking had is very vague.

But it is your life if you leave it as you planned it will only get better and better. One day in the future you will get a very nice surprise, dont let me change how you feel about it.
I am just rapt that you tried it and hope you find something you like.
Stay cool my friend and keep enjoying life as you do.

 

[Samuel Caldwell]

edit - double post - weird

 

[Snook]

I have quite a bit of the same bud that is being cured by the more traditional method. Thought I'd compare the cob with the standard cure. BUT....you are right......HOW will I know whether the cob actually does improve with a longer cure unless I try it early AND later? Certainly we know we can't trust Tangwena....his sole mission in life is to convert ALL of us.

eat a half gram.. and get back to us... it wont kill you.
just stay close to a horizontal place 'indoors', not the sidewalk.. or park bench..

 

[Old Toker]

eat a half gram.. and get back to us... it wont kill you.

Thanks for the advice Snook! Thought I'd try a quarter and see how well that works for me...if I'm not happy I can always try a half the next time. I know a half won't kill me.....hell a gram wouldn't actually kill me. I just prefer to be in control of my high as opposed to needing to hug the sofa so that I don't float away. Once I see what I'm dealing with.....I'll likely increase my dose. Plus....it's only Golden Tiger, Malawi and Zam cobs....how potent could they really be?

 

[Old Toker]

edit - double post - weird

Speech impediment?

 

[Tangwena]

Thanks for the advice Snook! Thought I'd try a quarter and see how well that works for me...if I'm not happy I can always try a half the next time. I know a half won't kill me.....hell a gram wouldn't actually kill me. I just prefer to be in control of my high as opposed to needing to hug the sofa so that I don't float away. Once I see what I'm dealing with.....I'll likely increase my dose. Plus....it's only Golden Tiger, Malawi and Zam cobs....how potent could they really be?

Very if you are lucky my friend.

 

[Samuel Caldwell]

Dunno what's going on. Maybe the stuff I've been smoking is better than I thought...

 

[Old Toker]

Very if you are lucky my friend.

Based on my vaping samples of the standard dried/cured bud.....I'm fairly sure I won't be disappointed. Will let you know in a month.

 

[CannaRed]

So to get the full effect from chewing jar cured, you would first have to heat to decarb, correct? And the cob cured is is decarbed when fermenting in yogurt cooker? A friend has been medicating with pineapple Express but no longer wants to smoke. He said he wants to try chewing. I told him I had actually been reading about that and that I heard it was more intense than smoking. Maybe he could play with decarb times so wouldn't be as strong.

 

[brown_thumb]

So to get the full effect from chewing jar cured, you would first have to heat to decarb, correct? And the cob cured is is decarbed when fermenting in yogurt cooker? A friend has been medicating with pineapple Express but no longer wants to smoke. He said he wants to try chewing. I told him I had actually been reading about that and that I heard it was more intense than smoking. Maybe he could play with decarb times so wouldn't be as strong.

I'm fairly new to cannabis but in my limited experience, yes, chewing decarbed weed is more intense and longer lasting than smoking. But it doesn't hit you immediately like smoking does... and it's very different. I seem to experience some amount of psychotic effects... with the strains I've tried. It takes 2-3 hours for you to even 'begin' to feel the effects. But once they start... oh crap. As Tangwena suggests, you must chew it for 10-15 minutes before swallowing. Otherwise, the effect is very limited.

Yes, it must be heated to decarboxylate it if you don't cob it.

I've been wrapping my buds with citrus peels, leaving some of the inner wet cells intact. I wrap them in parchment paper then semi-seal in aluminum foil and bake at 250F inside a large covered pot with the weed insulated from all sides to moderate/regulate temperature at the weed. I must take care not to chew too much unless I want to fly to Saturn.

 

[Tangwena]

So to get the full effect from chewing jar cured, you would first have to heat to decarb, correct? And the cob cured is is decarbed when fermenting in yogurt cooker? A friend has been medicating with pineapple Express but no longer wants to smoke. He said he wants to try chewing. I told him I had actually been reading about that and that I heard it was more intense than smoking. Maybe he could play with decarb times so wouldn't be as strong.

good on him for giving smoking away its a wasteful habit IMO.

To get milder results just eat less, try small amounts 0.25g to start with and WAIT ! for the effects to begin its easy to overdose and nobody likes being glued to the floor while your mind goes walk about in alternative worlds.

i have used uncobbed buds that have just been sweated then sealed in a vacuum bag for a month they worked great.

If your friend can get reasonably moist green buds he can sweat them himself. He will use a lot less bud to get medicated for the whole day.
0.35g lasts me 10 to 12 hrs at that dose.
The strain he is using should work well without cobbing and he will thank you forever.
Its the way to go for long lasting medicated type effects.

 

[Old Toker]

..nobody likes being glued to the floor while your mind goes walk about in alternative worlds.

I know people that like this. For those of us that don't....this seems like very solid advice.....which I will definitely take.....most of the time.

 

[Samuel Caldwell]

You'll never know your limits if you don't test them.

 

[Snook]

I, once, at Ithaca College in the late '60s, before Woodstock (a hole nother story) I did some DMT?!! Didn't know what but was with a dealer friend/partner.. they told me to sit on the bed!!!?? what? I smoked out of a Marlboro box made pipe, 1.5 flakes of some clear coated parsley. They held the pipe and match... they told me it was made 5 days ago and wasn't as potent... I hit the firs whole flake, exhaled and remember seeing the match going to the half flake left, from then on (turned out to be bout a half hour) I saw colors, of undefined objects and heard various undiscernible sounds mostly, mawaaaawa, wawa, womba!" kinda sounds, turns out it was them laughing at me, smoking a bone.. kinda like a dream in color with sound.. they wanted to know if I wanted more... Phak no! some control IS required.

 

[Tangwena]

I know people that like this. For those of us that don't....this seems like very solid advice.....which I will definitely take.....most of the time.

Haha I was just being diplomatic ha ha I look to loose control at least every other trip.

But for some people small steps are needed. Its a bit scary if you have never let go before.
If it does not take me out of myself and change my day its no good to me ha ha.

After all thats the main reason most of us use the stuff.
Apologies to medicinal users, but there are strains for them that dont have the THC effects.

Malawi and its crosses do that for me change my whole world for the whole day when chewed around 9am in the morning.
Thats my medicine its like acting in a movie every day. It puts life and its varies problems on the back burner for the whole day, blissful.

 

[Sal81]

Hi guys I have 6 autoflower and 3 of them on flower stage from 2 weeks... and 3 just starting now.... the oldest one start having yellow leaves on the bottom near the soil and the leaves are bit fly I don't understand why ...the young one are ok and growing day by day a little .... I think I add bit too much nute but really little bit more like2-3 ml more, in 1.5litreof water ! No much how I said!
An other fuct is the temperature rise over 31° Celsius sometimes ...and I have to keep my tent open ! ( Risk light contamination)( ?) I have a tent of 80cm x80cm and 160 high...2 LEDs one mars 300w and an unknown brand of 1000w ( 110+5% watt actual power)
And I just add a CFL 200w for the flower stage ! Need help please !

 

[Sal81]

Sorry new here ! Don't really know where ask my question s !

 

[Snook]

Sorry new here ! Don't really know where ask my question s !

type 'autos' in the 'thread title search' field and hit enter.. should bring up topics about autos... read some and ask questions that are pertinent to your dilemma.. oh and welcome and good luck..