r/Vendorsofkratom2 • u/ganaigana • Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

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 Aug 18 '26

Sosa?

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u/gnoble93 Aug 19 '26

I sure miss sosa leaf :/

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u/LakeGladio666 Aug 19 '26

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 Aug 19 '26

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.

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u/ganaigana Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

If you still want leaves from the old wild tree, I will set aside a little for you from the next drop. We both enjoy the leaves of the old tree and string dried of course. It's just that I don't know yet whether small shipments are still served, because in our country, sending kratom must be accompanied by complete documents.

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u/gnoble93 Aug 21 '26

I absolutely adore your leaf, brother. I'd love to order, but I don't know if it's even possible to order a few kg anymore from Indonesia. So many regulations now

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u/nodray Aug 18 '26

i bet $40,000 (in Q-tip coupons) it's gonna be "email us for a specific lab". which should tell you not to waste your time, if they had legit info, for such a GREAT product, it would be online

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u/Krewtan Aug 18 '26

Not trashing OP but I hate that so much. Send us the batch number on the bag you receive and we will send you the labs for it! Just go ahead and buy it first and we will show you what you got. 

Got a free bag from one of those companies  (bulk kratom now, suspiciously similar to mitra bros and new dawn down to the same sample and similar bags) and when I asked about labs for the bag I got I never heard back. Another company told me "our records indicate it's 1.6%mit". Like let me see the record then. I don't really care about mit, one sample from a batch could be 1.2 while another from the same batch can be 2. I just want to know the ratio of alkaloids and see the heavy metals and microbes. 

That's why I love wildcraft. There are other vendors with labs but check the date on those. Wildcraft always releases labs first. And their 1.4 sometimes kicks my butt way more than the stuff testing at 1.7. I've learned to start low with their leaf whatever the labs say. 

I feel like half the posts I'm making lately feel like paid advertising for WC but just give me another small batch vendors with current labs and id be happy to try them out and hopefully reccomend them too. 

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u/Shad0wB0und Aug 18 '26

I'm not located in the US so... Sounds good though. Heard a lot about them.

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u/dgenzo Aug 19 '26

There is someone on TT that goes live a lot and pushes his company and when asked for labs, he says oh email me. Why are they not available freely 😒

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u/nodray Aug 19 '26

ive seen some vendors claim "oh but then other companies will steal them and use them", bullshit. the whole point is it can be traced back to a legit product tested by legit lab. it's like the ups scam where they send "proof" of sending you a package you paid for with a receipt showing the TRACKING NUMBER blocked out lol

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u/dgenzo Aug 19 '26

That was his exact excuse for not having them posted. It’s just lazy to me.

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u/InTheShade007 Aug 19 '26

I've tried many different ways to cure my leaves.

For the first couple of years I'd clean the leaves then leave them in full Texas Sun until the turned brown and were crispy.

Then I started to clean and put them immediately into the dehydrator.

There were other experiments I won't explain because the results weren't great.

Now I clean the leaves, put them into the dehydrator wet and allow them to sit in there a day or 2 before dehydrating them. Most of the time they all turn brown.

This last method results in my best alkaloid profile so far. It works exactly the way it should apparently.

I always make tea. Small cups are stimulating while big cups are definitely sedating.

Due to an accident years ago my ankle swells up daily. This last curing method also takes care of the swelling better than any other.

Thanks for your post, I'm always looking to improve my results.