HaHa. I just read the first page. @Weaselcracker is my spirit animal...... :rofl:
 
Science, magic - whatever you want to call it- they pretty much amount to the same thing around here, and my place is a lot less like a lab than a... fantasy world. There's only one way to investigate these stoner mysteries and that's to just do it. Worst case I wreck a bunch more weed. Hardly a new event around this grow.
Scrogdawg thanks- so true. I'm just now starting to dig again into all those various Mama Thai and Thai Stick crosses I made. I don't have any sort of Thai growing at the moment but will fix that soon. Pretty excited that I seem to have the Thai heavy GT genetics on hand- right in front of my face the whole time- and just a month I was bemoaning their loss and emailing Ace seeds... I should look in front of my face more often.
Lol Bonsaiweed. Nobody knows what a weaselcracker is including me and that's the whole point - so why not have it as a spirit animal- as long as it doesn't get you beat up ;) I tried to explain once. Recess Is Over - Now To Muck Up The Lesson
 
Lol Bonsaiweed. Nobody knows what a weaselcracker is including me and that's the whole point - so why not have it as a spirit animal- as long as it doesn't get you beat up ;) I tried to explain once. Recess Is Over - Now To Muck Up The Lesson

LOL, good story. They can beat me up if they wish. I'll probably fight back and laugh all at the same time. If they interrogate me though, we (I/they) are going to have problems.
 
I'll bet fresh Mama Thai x Thai Stick would make a decent cob Weasel.

Two weeks. Another mack commin up. A nice one too. Hiding at the back.

Will be my first real cob. If i can find corn. None yet.
 
Good grief Weaselcracker, look at all those cobs! :eek: You're off here building a mega-stash! You didn't waste any time at all catching the cob bug, did you? Lol! I'm glad you're doing a fresh one. I really want to see the way they turn out. Tangwena mentioned the wetter they are the faster the process runs.

Gonna have to track down some GT, but I'll force myself to wait until I try the Carnival. I may not need to look any further. If your wet one works well I'll probably try with the Carnival in a couple weeks.

Looking cobbin' good around here buckaroo. :high-five:
 
I looked up the jar mountain. You smoked all that?? Wow....

As I remember your comments Graytail it was something like

'curing is a process of enzymes in the bud breaking down starches and sugars. That process can't happen if the environment gets too dry, and can't restart.'

That info all could be completely scrambled/wrong and have no basis in reality or anything that you actually said- since it's just some barely remembered thing I read quite a long time ago.

Reality most of the time in my world- if a process is basically invisible, and most of them are, it usually ends up being secretly categorized as 'magic'. Not many botanists or scientists on this forum...

Anyway the magic I've been trying to understand is whether or not dried buds can be fermented or not.
I did up three cobs of Honduras with rehydrated bud. A few days or weeks in the cobs should give a pretty clear idea if anything good is happening in there.
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I think I found that post ... Bud Curing

I'm a great believer in magic as well. I always operated the Kit as a black box - don' matter what's goin' on in there - I just twirl the right dials and push the right buttons.

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Thank you Amy.
Well.... we will see if any of them work out...;)

Sue I've actually had the cobbing bug for a few years now. Growing Malawi kind of instantly pushed me in that direction.i just never found info on a practical way of doing it till you scared this one up. Thanks for that.
I was sort of conspiring on burying some bud inside a bucket or barrel of moist dirt in a warm place somewhere in a back room. The best option I'd found so far even though it really didn't sound very good - either that or building a small sweat chamber out of an old fridge based on some ideas I found on curing tobacco.
I never did quite get any of my homegrown tobacco sweated and cured the way I wanted. And then I quit smoking the stuff- so the sweat-box project lost steam.

Thanks a lot Graytail. I think that's the one - even though I see my memory was quite off :). Just read your post and a couple others but I will go back and read the thread again because it's a good read and good info.

The green PC bud cob has quite a different feel. Like if you compressed and warmed up some lettuce- it tries to turn into a soup of sorts. That looks more promising to me somehow. I separated half the Thai bud into a different bag and wetted it further to see if there's a chance it works better this way.
The corn husks on the PC cob soaked up a lot of the excess moisture and ended up very wet and translucent.
That cob shrunk like crazy in the vacuum sealer. Who would have thought we would ever need a new way to shrink our bud down even smaller and faster than the ways we have already?



Looking a lot like the crap that got passed from the ass end of the cat that crashed my stash (yo).
 
Yes. The sweat stage is stated to be for (I think) evening out the moisture level in the cob to a homogenous level.
Now I have them all in a warm spot around 28-30° to hopefully ferment
 
~Honduras cobs~

When did I start these, three days ago? (Edit - oh I see... 5 days ago)
Just opened them up to look at the fancy colours. They smell wonderful. The blonde one, which is the one I experimentally kept a bit drier- I was trying to pin a name on the smell of it, and it suddenly came to me. Hot cross buns! And no it's nothing to do with Easter being recent, and I'm not a hot cross bun fan. I couldn't even say what one of those things smells like or when the last time I even saw one was. Till I have that cob in front of me then I remember exactly what they smell like. Kind of a strange sweet yet bitter smell.
The other two smell like differing versions of pine and lemon with a sort of menthol kick.
Anyway the cobs all smell and look good so that's encouraging. I
smoked some too and I still noticed that indica high but instead of bothering me it just felt like the good side of an indica- a warm melting glow.
Still got the munchies a bit...
Smoked a lot of GT today though and I already felt pretty good.
Too stoned to sort through photos....






 
~P Chunk~

More math... Ok this one went into flowering on f$@$ing December 21 and now it's April 5. Well- April 6 as of a second ago. So that's fifteen weeks exactly. Still lots of parts of her weren't ready, but reality is she was so overgrown that there was no way I could get all the parts equally well baked to perfection without overdoing other parts.
And reality is -I'm really maxing out the potential of these 600w bulbs.
The other two flowering PCs I will harvest earlier. They aren't as overgrown and won't produce so much leafy stuff.
However I did get lots of prime trimmings for another PC cob so I'll do one more, and the main buds were good. They were just sitting on a large bed of sugar leaf, and fluffy but still very sticky underbuds.



 
Thanks. The cobs are pretty hey? I really feel like I'm on the verge of solving the ol fermented brown bud thing. And it seems so obvious and easy in a way now.
The jury's still out on what this is really accomplishing, but I know I'm happy with it.
 
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