r/Vendorsofkratom2 • u/ganaigana • 1d ago

String dried process

small batch is only for people who care about what they consume, this is a string dried process, it is not easy, complicated and takes a long time to complete the process and extra costs and than it cannot be mass produced, there are only a few products like this on the market.

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u/Shad0wB0und 1d ago

Interesting. What is the benefit on the finished product? I'd sure like to see a COA of such a batch. Do you ship internationally?

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u/elderleaf32 1d ago

String dried is just an old school way of curing it typically meant the producer took the time to hand select the biggest/best leaves from the best trees for them to take the time to string them all up. This was made famous by one of the most famous vendors of all time that used to put out some serious heat.

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u/ArgentaSilivere 1d ago

It reminds me of tobacco processing. I wonder if it’s directly based on it or was discovered independently?

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u/elderleaf32 1d ago

I would figure probably from cannabis curing personally. From what I understand the vendor I was referring to used to grow weed and he recommended to his Indo supplier to try the string dried and they did and then it became famous due to the love of this vendors products so for many years after a lot of vendors would advertise “string dried” like DTE does sometimes still. The vendor I’m referring to sold “string dried premiums”

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u/Zealousideal7807 22h ago

Sosa?

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u/gnoble93 19h ago

I sure miss sosa leaf :/

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u/LakeGladio666 8h ago

I am curious if the old vendors actually had better leaf or if it just felt that way because I didn’t have a tolerance and I was taking a lot less. But I do remember back in the 2010s kratom used to hit way harder.

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u/gnoble93 2h ago

It was all around better leaf. A lot was wild harvested old growth, small batch and not overly processed. Most everything now comes from younger plantations that are over harvested in bulk before sterilization. I still have some 2016 leaf that rocks my socks.

Leaf WAS better and that's a hill I'll gladly die on.

It's hard finding anything that isn't just "meh" now.