OK Ladies and Gents, here we go...
As mentioned i used the smallest popcorn buds from a Sour Hound I took down earlier this week on Monday. They were sat in paper bags at the top of my tent for the past three days and were dry on the outside, but still kinda squishy and moist on the inside. I wanted to make sure that they all had enough moisture in them to make this thing work, so I decided today was the day to get this going.
I used fresh corn husks from corn I purchased immediately before starting. I very carefully cut off the remainder of the stalk so that I could gently peel off the leaves without having any rip along the seams. I chose to use the middle to inner husks as they were cleaner, bigger and a little thinner. You can see below the amount of buds I used. I didn't weigh beforehad, but I would guess it was somewhere between 15-30 grams. I used garden twist tie to secure it as that was all I had on hand.
Next step was to carefully pull off all the stems I could from the buds. Luckily these were small so they didn't have much.
Getting the buds into the husk neatly and uniformly was probably the most difficult and time consuming part of the process, but not that hard, all things considered.
I had nitrile gloves on, so worked to pack and compact the buds in as best I could. Kind of using a cigar rolling kind of technique. After I had them as tightly rolled in one husk as possible, I rolled it up like a joint and then wrapped a couple more husks around it so that it wouldn't come undone. I cinched it as tightly in the middle as I could with some twisty tie.
You can see here where I pushed in as hard as I could on each end to get it as tightly compacted in there as I could. I used my fingers and the end of a screwdriver wrapped in a plastic bag to jam it in there before cinching it off on each side.
Here is the point where I took long lengths of twine and constricted the living shit out of the cob to again make sure it was as tightly wrapped and uniform as possible.
One more go-around with the twisty tie and I felt that it was as tight as could be. The whole thing was very compact and dense, like a little cudgel. I then took the cob, stuck it in a plastic grocery bag, loosely wrapped it up a few times in the bag and stuck it on a plant tray germination heating pad in my basement with a germination dome over it(with the vents halfway open). This should keep it in the 70's to 80's, I am hoping. I'll be monitoring it closely, as the tutorial and article stresses that this "sweat" is a critical component to getting a good cure. In 24 hours, I'll check on it, snip loose ends off either side and vacuum seal it for a week or so. I'll be back with more updates then. Wish me luck!!
I almost forgot again! But I do actually have a couple of corn husks now and my Sour Stomper is scheduled to come down on or about May 29. This does look interesting
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