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Malawi Style Cob Curing.
- Thread starter Tangwena
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Specimen
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Merry Christmas everyone!
So i have made my first cob from some thai haze aka SSSTN. I dont know if it was moist enough. I have sweated it in around 40 C for about a day and few hours. I have unpacked it and looks ok i think. Sealed it again and left to ferment.
The cob smells like some oriental spices, reminds me of cinnamon and ginger. Different smell than the dried buds.
Few pics below
So i have made my first cob from some thai haze aka SSSTN. I dont know if it was moist enough. I have sweated it in around 40 C for about a day and few hours. I have unpacked it and looks ok i think. Sealed it again and left to ferment.
The cob smells like some oriental spices, reminds me of cinnamon and ginger. Different smell than the dried buds.
Few pics below
Buzzzzd
Well-known member
Very interesting color I reckon seal that up and age a few months and you will be very impressed I'm sure.
You guys are knocking it out of the park some beautiful work there fellow enthusiasts.
Its nearly midnight and I'm speeding my balls off on some Colombian x Mulanje its so euphoric I just want to party all night. It feels like its new year ha ha.
Off on fishing Safari next week I and have this premonition that its going to be awesome. I cant contain my excitement the land is speaking to me like it does to the aborigines sometimes. Its going to be very special I even know where to go its very specific ha ha.
This stuff is awesome man.
Its nearly midnight and I'm speeding my balls off on some Colombian x Mulanje its so euphoric I just want to party all night. It feels like its new year ha ha.
Off on fishing Safari next week I and have this premonition that its going to be awesome. I cant contain my excitement the land is speaking to me like it does to the aborigines sometimes. Its going to be very special I even know where to go its very specific ha ha.
This stuff is awesome man.
jonesfam7715
Well-known member
At first no, it didn't smoke well to much air coming thru, but after it got lit well it was perfect, I took the smallest one I made for test, i will give these out to freinds on 4/20 is the plan. this is the first batch I've ever done but I've been watching @Tangwena thread for years, very inspiring. I will do this with part of every harvest in my future. There is no way 1 person could smoke that whole stick.
Just what I thought looking at them ha ha.
Probably better to just break pieces off and smoke them.
jonesfam7715
Well-known member
Been sampling different cobs I try to take a Picture when I remember, favorite way to enjoy these is hands down the bong rip, I can't believe how much smoother the hit is i can take as big a hit as i want its rsc malawi gold tonight
Heres some others i have sampled past week somali taxi ride and ace malawi
Heres some others i have sampled past week somali taxi ride and ace malawi
moose/MI
Well-known member
This is my Christmas Cob. #4 Bruce Banner. An experiment this cob was made from nugs left in a grove bag since 2022 season
It's now been 2 months
It smells fantastic. Terpy like the buds before I vacuumed them
It's lost some moisture coming down from 34%
More natural light.
Sticky, great smelling like it was before I cobbed it. I have kind of cheated with this one. A reverse cob maybe? I sealed it back up for another month.
It's now been 2 months
Sticky, great smelling like it was before I cobbed it. I have kind of cheated with this one. A reverse cob maybe? I sealed it back up for another month.
Amazing colors brother absolutely love them they look nice and waxy like a good Pula cob.
The best cobs were called that if I remember correctly there was the dried bud cobs and the sticky dark Pula cobs my favorite.
Wonderful brother the cobs being posted the last few weeks have been mind blowing.
The moisture content readings are golden as well follows the cure nicely it will give new cobbers something to shoot for.
I have been getting tripped out on some year plus cobs lately there's no other word for it tripping on cannabis just as it should be ha ha.
Nice job brothers.
Members here are trend setters thats for sure it makes my heart glad to see the art kept alive on IC.
Respect to everyone who participates here.
My Colombian is finally down and hanging and I’m trying to decide which variation of the cure to try on her to bring out her gold. I’m thinking almost dry, packed into vacuum bag like brick, no sweat, long and slow..
For comparison I also cut 2 of her branches early and dried for only 2 days, sugar leaves withered and crispy on just the edges, rolled using parchment paper and vacuum sealed naked like canary/jerky. Sweat at 42C for 24 hours, paper towel to dry moisture from cob and bag, resealed and fermented at 33C for 24 hours, let dry at 25C overnight. She smells fruitier. Her flowers have a creamy lemon lime sweetness but the cob is more fresh orange juice and lavender.. I’m terrible describing smells so asked my sister.. “the flowers smell like really good weed, the cob smells like a louder kinda more mature really good weed!” So that was insightful haha. Starting the cure/slow drying stage in the cupboard it’s around 20C. I have high hopes anyway and 2 rooted clones to try again.
The flowers
Naked cob ready for sweating
Ready to ferment
Need to find my microscope, phone sucks
After fermentation the bag was damp again Colombian above, Black Opium below
I have this other plant in perpetual harvest, Black Opium, she’s a powerful medicine that I use to completely replace all of my MS management pharmaceuticals (pain, sleep, muscle relaxers, mood stabilizers, appetite stimulants etc etc etc).. I hate the name personally yet it’s an accurate warning. Being heavy Indica I can’t function if I consume her during the day. She’s reserved for topicals, night time use and bed rest days only. She’s a dark hypnotic mistress that demands your full attention and I had zero intention of cobbing her as she’s already quite scary but after taking my evening dose and tending to my garden she was calling out from the drying cupboard to “let me shine too”. I told her I would once she was drier but she insisted she wants the black cure! I impulsively cobbed up 38g of fresh leafy flowers (hanging less than a day!) this time I kept it wrapped in parchment paper and I was ruthless with the compression. 43C for 12 hours, opened the seal and paper towel dried the juices every 4 hours, dried a few hours before resealing, fermented 24 hours at 33C and some much more juice was released, dried overnight until 25g in weight but still feels very moist. I sealed her again to cure at 20C but after only an hour there’s more liquid in the bag and I heard her say “enough!”. So I’m listening and letting her dry out. I don’t know if she thinks she will be more mellow toke or more dangerous oil with this treatment but I’m excited to find out.
The branch that spoke
After first 4 hours of sweat (I wanted to stop but she told me to keep going so I dried her off and obeyed)
For comparison I also cut 2 of her branches early and dried for only 2 days, sugar leaves withered and crispy on just the edges, rolled using parchment paper and vacuum sealed naked like canary/jerky. Sweat at 42C for 24 hours, paper towel to dry moisture from cob and bag, resealed and fermented at 33C for 24 hours, let dry at 25C overnight. She smells fruitier. Her flowers have a creamy lemon lime sweetness but the cob is more fresh orange juice and lavender.. I’m terrible describing smells so asked my sister.. “the flowers smell like really good weed, the cob smells like a louder kinda more mature really good weed!” So that was insightful haha. Starting the cure/slow drying stage in the cupboard it’s around 20C. I have high hopes anyway and 2 rooted clones to try again.
The flowers
Naked cob ready for sweating
Ready to ferment
Need to find my microscope, phone sucks
After fermentation the bag was damp again Colombian above, Black Opium below
I have this other plant in perpetual harvest, Black Opium, she’s a powerful medicine that I use to completely replace all of my MS management pharmaceuticals (pain, sleep, muscle relaxers, mood stabilizers, appetite stimulants etc etc etc).. I hate the name personally yet it’s an accurate warning. Being heavy Indica I can’t function if I consume her during the day. She’s reserved for topicals, night time use and bed rest days only. She’s a dark hypnotic mistress that demands your full attention and I had zero intention of cobbing her as she’s already quite scary but after taking my evening dose and tending to my garden she was calling out from the drying cupboard to “let me shine too”. I told her I would once she was drier but she insisted she wants the black cure! I impulsively cobbed up 38g of fresh leafy flowers (hanging less than a day!) this time I kept it wrapped in parchment paper and I was ruthless with the compression. 43C for 12 hours, opened the seal and paper towel dried the juices every 4 hours, dried a few hours before resealing, fermented 24 hours at 33C and some much more juice was released, dried overnight until 25g in weight but still feels very moist. I sealed her again to cure at 20C but after only an hour there’s more liquid in the bag and I heard her say “enough!”. So I’m listening and letting her dry out. I don’t know if she thinks she will be more mellow toke or more dangerous oil with this treatment but I’m excited to find out.
The branch that spoke
After first 4 hours of sweat (I wanted to stop but she told me to keep going so I dried her off and obeyed)
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Forgot to say the wet black opium has a mild soapy smell now. Found this on a home brew site that indicates I overshot the fermentation (no kidding hahaha!)
“Soapy flavors can caused by not washing your glass very well, but they can also be produced by the fermentation conditions. If you leave the beer in the primary fermentor for a relatively long period of time after primary fermentation is over ("long" depends on the style and other fermentation factors), soapy flavors can result from the breakdown of fatty acids in the trub. Soap is, by definition, the salt of a fatty acid; so you are literally tasting soap.”
“Soapy flavors can caused by not washing your glass very well, but they can also be produced by the fermentation conditions. If you leave the beer in the primary fermentor for a relatively long period of time after primary fermentation is over ("long" depends on the style and other fermentation factors), soapy flavors can result from the breakdown of fatty acids in the trub. Soap is, by definition, the salt of a fatty acid; so you are literally tasting soap.”
moose/MI
Well-known member
Welcome!
I believe the previous advice was if your brand new go back to the beginning and read about the first 25 pages to get the gist.
Then jump ahead to around page #345 and read forward from there to see how changes were made to the process.
Thank you very much --NOW I have a plan thanks to you
Goodherb
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Awesome.
I can't to try cob.
