I am very fussy about drying and curing. I always use my grow room to dry since it is climate controlled. I set my humidity to 65% and temp to 62%. These parameters usually allow me 12-14 days drying time.
For the first 4 or 5 days the dehumidifier is running, then after that I am actually using dual humidifiers to maintain my humidity.
Doing it this way has been giving me very good weed that usually has very high terpene levels.
I have messed it up before though. Forgot to turn on the humidifiers and went away for a few days. Weed dried too fast and was shit.
But no one is perfect.
Sounds like you have your drying game pretty tight.
My method when I was into drying flower was to do an initial dry then slow things down with different sized cardboard boxes as another form of humidity control.
You defs do want to check out the Malawi cob curing method over at icmag since you like precision.
It is kind of the next level for this type of flower. Changes the taste in good ways apparently - more sweet and hashy. It also makes the effect stronger from nearly all reports. Fermented terps?
I like it because I’m lazy and it gives me a quality product thats quicker and easier to iso wash
It also cuts initial drying down to days and takes a month or two off curing as far as I can tell.
You compress and vac it partially wet and sweat ferment it. It’s like a process they do for fine tobacco afaik..
i have done it with an African x cbd cross I made.
I didn’t do the twine wrapped cobs thing though I made round bricks by compressing into 6” cake tins with a mini grape/wine press. Vac’d the bricks into vac bags.
Then I bought a black garlic fermenter out of China eBay as the temp controlled fermenting chamber.
My results were ok - I didn’t nail it the first time as I dried it too much before compressing (it could have been wetter!)
So my bricks didn’t get smoked as I don’t smoke anymore they went in to ISO wash for some RSO which was strong.
It is a method I will use again because it is easier and faster.
Great method if you want a product for making joints I’d Imagine.
The Dude who champions the thread on it slices off bubblegum pellet size pieces of cob and chews it for a crazy African buzz he says.
So I guess long story short is there is hope for any Malawi that don’t smell that good if a different curing process can make it edible lol
