Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[Baba Karuna]

Amazing looking cobs @Baba Karuna! I always appreciate seeing the cobs you create, the visual quality of them is quite stunning, and I suspect the effects are the same... thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much my friend. I feel very blessed to have access to a community like this where the value of fermented herb is truly understood and valued. Many thanks and praises to all of the contributors and many blessings to @Tangwena for starting this thread and educating us all

🪷Om Punyāham Om Punyāham Om Punyāham🪷

 

[Baba Karuna]

Corn husks Green or Dried?
Dried like for making tamales is easy enough.
If green is preferred, I can still maybe access some ears from a neighboring field?
I also have some ears frozen in the freezer.

I have used both and prefer them to be dry like when used for tamales

When I used fresh ones, some of the cobs smelled more earthy and less like the herbs terpenes. It only happened with a small number of cobs so it could have just been my situation.

🪷Om Śivamastu🪷

 

[funkyhorse]

While I doubt life will give the chance to grow again anytime soon, the biggest asset I got from this growing time is this cure. This cure I will be able to practice anywhere I go
I see a lot of bag waste. You are using a big bag for not so much weed. For 30 grams you can use a smaller bag or just cut a piece of it
I cut the bag smaller and it allows me to make small bags for canaries like the Phu Phan Purple bag I am testing now.
Sadly I wont be able to test all of the weed I made, my neighbours will enjoy it. They love this cure too, better than traditional brick cure

This is done with dry bud, as dry I could get in the wetlands. Dried with firewood during winter, the driest I get in winter is around 45%RH and bud is very dry
It doesnt matter how dry it is, when you compact the buds in the bag, the buds become brick
It doesnt matter shape. It makes brick and I think it makes some fermentation too even it is very dry, the terpenes change from the bud in jar cure. I like it a looooot better than fermented in the yoghourt maker, it beats banana bark cure or corn husk cure big time
Perfect every time when is vacuum sealed. It crystallizes no matter if small canary bud or big brick.
In big brick you get more crystals, I never saw crystals in real life
I would love to try one day a 2 year old brick cured like this

I posted this before and I post it again, many things dont make sense at all in the canna world.
One of them is the myth about jar cure. In real life I never saw anybody in the third world curing in jars
I am comparing same harvest side by side jar and vacuum bag and vacuum bag is the way. When smoking it burns smooth and curing like this vaping is excellent too.
Fermenting in the yoghurt maker is not for vaping, I dont like the taste of it at all

This knowledge you can take with you everywhere you travel, the vacuum bag cure is better than any traditional cure I have tried. It is very impressive how good this is for sativa bud. Even indicas get more interesting cured this way but I think indicas should be made hash as they always were in the traditional world and tested as hash, not as hashplant bud