right on brother - very cool - do you have any pics of your girls ? It'd be nice to compare the colas and colors ... sure I will share a smoke report : I have a pre-harvest report now...
I am at week 11, pry 1 more week to go I think. I cut some under branches 1.5 weeks ago, I had done most de-foliation, but had left a few branches with large popcorn nugs, for a pre-harvest run of the Malawi cob method that
@tangwena had pioneered (thanks man!!!) .... so I trimmed some nugs from the Malawi, and put them to dry in a wine fridge which I had rigged up with an inkbird controller, a humi and a de-humi in the fridge. the wine fridge has a digital temp setting, so this rig keeps a pretty tight 60°/60%. I dried the Malawi for 1 week, and then made a small cob with it. The quantity was not large. I had tried the fridge method originally 2 weeks prior (end of Sept) with the large de-foliation session..I had first tried a large batch of popcorn undercuttings, and did the dry in the original setup (without the humi / de-humi combo)...I followed
@SweetSue 's method of the low & slow dry, however being a first timer, something went wrong, either I did not have enough wet bud in the fridge, or I did not seal the bags well enough, either way, after 3 days, I checked the first batch and they were super dry (the fridge keeps 17%RH without any changes to the system - that is why I got the <inkbird+Humi/De-Humi>...sorry for all the details...I usually prefer more detail than less....so anyways...after the 2nd pre-harvest, I dried those Malawi popcorn buds for 1 week, and then mixed that with some of the "too dry" pre-harvest from 2 weeks prior...mixed that up and made my first cob, with 1/2 of the 'too dry' pre-harvest bud and 1/2 of the ' just right' pre-harvest popcorn nugs. Mind you - this is all with pre-mature trichs and such - pry about 3 to 4 weeks early - but testing the process....welll after 24 H of 'sweating' and 3 days of "curing" ( I could not wait!) I tried the first Malawi Cob I've ever done, and holy fvk man...! yes it is amazing - the smell and effect are different in a uniquely wonderful way - I can't wait to do the full thing with ripe buds... I am bummed the little guy is running out, and have a
3rd pre-harvest batch drying in the fridge
now...I'll b making my 2nd cob next week
- I will be happy to share all the info I gather from this run. cheers man !
happy growing & Good LUCK on your harvest !!
If some of them want to lay down instead of standing up, they can be pulled through the 2nd screen and tied if necessary.
If you think there's still a lot of stretch left, then don't lower the 2nd screen any more.
). I will probably dry run the cob process with a little bit as well.
Lot's of flowers there.
- we are at day 48, start of week 8.... per the breeders info on these 2 strains (ACE Seeds):
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.. today is "Day 65" of flowering for my Malawi and Golden Tiger
- the sweating period is over (32 H @ ~ 110°F), and now I'm fermenting my first cob - I've got it in a closet under a blanket, maintaining @ ~ 82°F. cheers, y'all 
