Malawi Style Cob Curing.

[CDNINCA]

For me it is remove the stem,leave the sugar leaves on the cob,and pay close attention to larger cobs to get proper cure!

Ditto what @ost says, I'd remove the larger stems as they can hold a lot of moisture that might promote cause slower/ drying/curing and maybe promote mold. I know, it's tempting just to cob the giant cola!! I usually break mine down into smaller "bud-lets" (if that is the proper term...) and remove even the more moderate sized stems. It's just a personal preference as far as I can tell as to how much stem you remove, but that seems to work really well for me. I'm sure others will chime in here with their thoughts and approach, cheers!

 

[Baba Karuna]

I agree with @ost and @CDNINCA

I cut all the major stems out and make sure to retain as much trichome covered plant matter. I have been making some very large cobs (multiple ounces) lately as it saves me time because I have so much to harvest (my wife told me not to grow so much because this is so time consuming ). But I make sure to cut everything into small pieces so that it meshes well when pressed, I feel that large stems can get in the way of that especially since I like to con entire plants and I make sure to mix the buds from all over the plant throughly.

🪷Om Kürmmāya Namah🪷

 

[Tangwena]

Ditto all above my friend remove large stems and I personally leave all sugar leaves intact as once its all cured and aged it becomes one solid mass of goodness.
Keep us posted and we can guide you so that you can get a great finish.
Good quality pictures well focused make that job a lot easier as well.

 

[Scottay]

Hey yo Tang!!! Guess who figured out his old password!!! Yessssss!!! So I turned a negative into a positive. I snapped a really nice branch of my plant while moving around and I decided to just go ahead and cob it up!! My first cob!! It's a small one. I've got it in the cob-a-tron @ 40c/104f for a day. It won't get opened until tomorrow night but I'll try to remember to take a picture of it. Happy Thursday/Friday!!

 

[Tangwena]

Hey yo Tang!!! Guess who figured out his old password!!! Yessssss!!! So I turned a negative into a positive. I snapped a really nice branch of my plant while moving around and I decided to just go ahead and cob it up!! My first cob!! It's a small one. I've got it in the cob-a-tron @ 40c/104f for a day. It won't get opened until tomorrow night but I'll try to remember to take a picture of it. Happy Thursday/Friday!!

Very fortuitous my friend cant wait to see what your playing with ha ha.
I was zoned in on my job today bricklaying or rather limestone block laying ha ha.
I wish every work day was like today totally happy as a pig in shit ha ha
Blasted my mind on some Colombian Gold x Demon Latcher cob. I had 5 phenos and 3 are absolutely amazing highs.

 

[CDNINCA]

Welcome "back" @Scottay, it's good to have you in here!

I've got three plants in and are about ready to cob which will probably start to happen later today. I thought I'd show the next to come in as she's getting close! No amber trichomes yet and I like to harvest my plants
when there are barely just a few showing, so it shouldn't be too much longer. She's a 2.1 meter, or 7 feet tall beauty of Tropics Mulanje Gold from brother numero uno here

Then next is another one of his, but more on that later! Love the long-flowering sativa's! Hoping the weather cooperates a little longer...

Following the "pics or it didn't happen"... here's how she looks as of yesterday!

Cheers all!
P.S. It l looks like either the system doesn't like my images or they are too large in size - only one preview shows an image. I've tried resampling them down in Photoshop but even one that has been greatly reduced in size doesn't show. Maybe they will after the system "thinks" about them a little more? Anyway, here you go!

 

[moose/MI]

I had this one open over night to dry a bit. Cob #3
It was feeling pretty good so I wrapped it back up and sealed it.
Beforehand I stabbed it with my moisture meter just for a reference.

This one however I feel I got excited and jumped the gun. Cob #2
It had only been hanging 4 days iirc. when I made it.
It smells good. I'm just thinking I'll give it another day or so to dry out a little more before rewrapping.

Trying to have a little more patience on the next ones. Giving them more time to hang.

Tomorrow will be 8 days since chop @ appx. 60/60.
Is this more inline with what most people are finding works for them?

 

[CDNINCA]

I had this one open over night to dry a bit. Cob #3
It was feeling pretty good so I wrapped it back up and sealed it.
Beforehand I stabbed it with my moisture meter just for a reference. View attachment 19089399 View attachment 19089394
This one however I feel I got excited and jumped the gun. Cob #2
It had only been hanging 4 days iirc. when I made it.
It smells good. I'm just thinking I'll give it another day or so to dry out a little more before rewrapping. View attachment 19089361
Trying to have a little more patience on the next ones. Giving them more time to hang. View attachment 19089386
Tomorrow will be 8 days since chop @ appx. 60/60.
Is this more inline with what most people are finding works for them?

Looking good! I find that mine hang for about 6-8 days but it all depends on the humidity where I have them and the size of the buds on the plant. Some go a little longer... I dry them like I'm going to just jar cure them and pull them a bit earlier so they still have the moisture I want for cobbing. I tend to find that I prefer cobs that don't start out too wet but preferences vary!

I find that if I keep the room at about 60-60% RH, as it slows down the drying which keeps more of the goodness of the plant, that works well. Cheers!