Kismet
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Looking for a more speedy cob. Anyone do one when they were 50/50 clear/cloudy?
Tangwena's Malawi-Style Cob Cure: Fermented Cannabis
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Kismet
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Will be doing that with my Sour Jacks. Ready to chop them soon as they get to that point.#Chopchop
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Nightmask2
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I think I finally have everything I need to join the cob train. Yay! I've got a White Widow harvested 3 days ago just to cob ready to roll. I was going to try this yesterday but the 2 places I went only had the vacuum sealer online and not in store, so I had to try elsewhere today and huzzah.
Dehydrator, sushi rolling mat, glad oven bags (instead of corn husks), and a handheld vacuum sealer with vacuum bags. Is that everything I need?
The WW was drier than I'd hoped. I only trimmed it into nugs and put into a jar to check RH about an hour ago and I've been watching the RH go up and it's currently sitting at 75%RH. Guess it's time to try this out and see how it goes.
Dehydrator, sushi rolling mat, glad oven bags (instead of corn husks), and a handheld vacuum sealer with vacuum bags. Is that everything I need?
The WW was drier than I'd hoped. I only trimmed it into nugs and put into a jar to check RH about an hour ago and I've been watching the RH go up and it's currently sitting at 75%RH. Guess it's time to try this out and see how it goes.
How'd the cob rolling go, Nightmask2?
Nightmask2
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I managed to get 2 cobs done at 30g each. I snipped an oven bag in half then stuffed the bud down there and rolled it up in that and the sushi mat. First one I did had a chunk break off, and those went into a vac bag unwrapped. Second one looked much nicer and more even and I kept it wrapped in the half-an-oven-bag (I didn't tie it up though) before getting vac sealed.
My dehydrator is only getting to 33C (91.4F). It's got a much higher setting that apparently gets to like 70C but I don't think I can run that setting for 24 hours. The cobs are sitting at the bottom of the dehydrator so I'll move them to the top and see if there's a temp difference.
*I played with the dehydrator and have got it sitting at 35C (95F) but that's still below the recommended 40C.
My dehydrator is only getting to 33C (91.4F). It's got a much higher setting that apparently gets to like 70C but I don't think I can run that setting for 24 hours. The cobs are sitting at the bottom of the dehydrator so I'll move them to the top and see if there's a temp difference.
*I played with the dehydrator and have got it sitting at 35C (95F) but that's still below the recommended 40C.
JustMeds
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Maybe if you cover some of the vent holes it will raise the internal temp. Keep a close eye on it, a little will go a long ways.
Nightmask2
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Last night I covered 5 vents and left 4 vents open. I checked the dehydrator this morning and the temp was reading 32C. Yesterday in the grow room during lights on I had it sitting around 36C. I've now covered 7 vents and left 2 open so hopefully that works better.
JustMeds
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Here is what my night consisted of.
Nightmask2
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Here is what my night consisted of.
lol I thought that first picture was an empty toilet roll holder and empty toilet roll. Now that would be a bad night. Especially the waddle of shame with your pants around the knees to get more paper. But then I scrolled down further and saw the rest of your pics and your night looked pretty good. Much better than a night on the toilet with no toilet paper.
LOL thanks for the chuckle, NM2!
Waddle of shame... ROFLMAO
But those look like some pretty wicked cobs!
Waddle of shame... ROFLMAO
But those look like some pretty wicked cobs!
Nice Meds!! Thats a cool idea to see implemented, I bet that gets them pretty compact!
JustMeds
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I'll waddle in here and say it looks like it is going to work well. It is in the Cobatron now.
Nightmask2
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So I checked my White Widow cobs today after the initial 24 hour hopefully sweat (temps ranged from 32C overnight to 37.8C during grow lights on) and found a problem. The resealable vac bag the unwrapped cob was in had come loose so it wasn't fully vacuum sealed. Both seemed to have changed colour, both a little darker but not by a lot. The unwrapped one (the 2 bits on the right) mostly smelled like green grass or hay, whereas the one wrapped in the oven bag (on the left) and hopefully still vac sealed had a bit of a citrusy smell like limes with the grass/hay smell. I took them out for a bit but couldn't tell if they'd sweated (there was trichome smudges though) and vac'd them back up and put them back in the dehydrator. I'm not sure if I should do another 24 hour attempted sweat or start the lower 30C ferment. Any suggestions?
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My experience....you have to check seal often. Also make sure to double check the zipper part. Any air allowed in seemed to me to go to the cob or that the cob itself might be generating some gases. Anyway, just check often because you will have a possible mold issue.
DrDoob
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I check mine often and have had two of them lose the seal or whatever it is. I don’t use the zipper bags only the freezer safe vacuum bags. I double seal both ends and am very careful, so it very well could be the cob releasing something although only two out of five have done it. Both times it happened they were sealed fine for a couple days then all the sudden they just weren’t sealed as tight.
I just used it as an opportunity to dry them a bit, then switched to a new bag. I’d have concerns if they were in the bag loosely for too long.
Nightmask2
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I think the issue was that I put them in the vac bag facing up-down instead of left-right, so when I kept folded it over to try and fit it in the dehydrator it must have broke the seal then. So lesson for anyone else, if you use resealable vacuum bags try not to fold then across the seal. Hopefully now they should be fine. I didn't smell any mold, just the damp grass/hay smell.
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I check mine often and have had two of them lose the seal or whatever it is. I don’t use the zipper bags only the freezer safe vacuum bags. I double seal both ends and am very careful, so it very well could be the cob releasing something although only two out of five have done it. Both times it happened they were sealed fine for a couple days then all the sudden they just weren’t sealed as tight.
I just used it as an opportunity to dry them a bit, then switched to a new bag. I’d have concerns if they were in the bag loosely for too long.
I notice a drop of about 2mg every time I open the cobs for drying. I weigh when I open and before I reseal, and there’s been a consistent 1-2 mg of gases released, loosening the space around the cobs somewhat.
@Nightmask2, I would check at around 6 hours at 104°. You’ve started the sweat already, just may have compromised it a bit. The sweat is just the start of the process.
@JustMeds, Damn!
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Neiko got the test results back from the Carnival cob, and the labs create more mystery. Neiko figures there’s something else going on that they can’t measure with current testing parameters.
For reference I pulled up the flower labs.
Neiko’s Carnival labs, cannabinoids and terpenes as grown in soil supported by Doc Bud’s High Brix Blend kit.
For reference I pulled up the flower labs.
Neiko’s Carnival labs, cannabinoids and terpenes as grown in soil supported by Doc Bud’s High Brix Blend kit.
Nightmask2
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Neiko got the test results back from the Carnival cob, and the labs create more mystery. Neiko figures there’s something else going on that they can’t measure with current testing parameters.
For reference I pulled up the flower labs.
Neiko’s Carnival labs, cannabinoids and terpenes as grown in soil supported by Doc Bud’s High Brix Blend kit.
The image sizes were different so the pictures didn't overlap properly but here's an image overlapping the results from Neiko's Carnival, with the lighter green being the buds and the darker green being the cob. The cobs seem to have less of everything. Well there's that mystery solved, cobs work entirely by magic.