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Do you grind your weed before packing a bowl?

It depends!

Different weed smokes differently. Like dense nugs vs fluffy nugs, it could be very sticky.

I can get an epic bong hit from just shoving a nug in a bowl, if its some really fluffy stuff. In fact, if its really sticky, I would never put it in my grinder! I hate going with like a paperclip and gettin all the weed out of my grinder because it just got stuck between the teeth.

It's funny that you think grinding up your weed saves you weed, that's not really too logical (unless an ignited nug burns off smoke into the air). Weed is weed it gets burned and turns to smoke. In fact, grinding it up really finely, means your going to be able to fit a shit ton more in the bowl. So you'll actually use more weed. And when you light it, and its really finely ground, it will ignite quicker. Causing you to inhale more smoke = using more weed.

It all depends, I have several grinders, a small pair of scissors (for the super sticky), and my beaten up fingers. If I'm by myself smoking, I usually just pack small green hits, not ground up, I won't shove like a WHOLE nug in there, but I'll break off a little piece and put it in there. Use my herb iron on it (or beeline or lighter or whatever, doesn't matter). You literally can't smoke bowls much more efficiently then that.


Oh and my weed would never have any seeds or stems or anything like that in it. I know each of my nugs is filled with the same delicious goodness that i see on the outside.


But I will give you this, If you have some dense nugs, and you try to shove a whole one in the bowl, it won't burn so well. Obviously.

In years and years of experience though, I find if i start grinding up my weed, I go through it much quicker. As opposed to if I;m doing small nug hits, or breaking it up with my fingers (or if its too sticky with scissors, i don't want my fingers to be sticky all day haha)
 
I always grind up my weed in my grinder. Especially since I got that awesome Sharpstone for 30$, i swear by it!

And not even talking about that precious keif that builds down there, always a savior when out of weed!
 
But do you ever think about how your not getting ANY of that precious keif in the hits you take of your ground up weed???? I feel like im defying how nature intended THC to be distributed in the plant if i do that!

I've had times where I've ground religiously, but now for me, its in special cases (smoking with a big group and i need to pack a MASSIVE bowl, dense weed)

Of course i always use my grinder for blunts/joints/vaporizing. I'm just talking bowls here, because the title of the thread mentions (packing). I only really smoke out of fairly expensive glass these days cuz im an elitist i suppose lol.
 
Not with a grinder but i can grind weed just as well with my fingers. It is pretty ridiculous at how fine i can get it, the only problem is if I don't wash my hands beforehand, the resin and kief sticks all over my fingers.

I have one friend that will just break off a chunk from a nug and stick it in the bowl. It drives me crazy because it never burns the way it should and you then have to start poking around, blackening your fingers and makes it more likely to suck ash and embers through :X
 
cocacrazy said:
I have one friend that will just break off a chunk from a nug and stick it in the bowl. It drives me crazy because it never burns the way it should and you then have to start poking around, blackening your fingers and makes it more likely to suck ash and embers through :X
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How would it all being in a chunk make it MORE likely to suck ash and embers through? If i pack a whole nug in there and its not burning right, usually its because there is no air flow at all, the least of my worries is pulling ash through. That's more a concern I have if i think what i have packed is too finely ground.

It's always a good idea to tap down your bowls, not usually with your fingers, but with a lighter or something. But usually just use my finger to tap it down. My right index finger is so fucked up lol. (burned many times, a constant theme of when I'm on other drugs, is i tap a COMPLETELY LIT bowl, and don't even feel it, i just care about getting it to burn quicker, and nothing can be more precise then my finger)

Good weed always burns the way it should though :)
 
depends. sometimes i'm just too damn lazy to grind my weed(ya, that fucking lazy) and so i'll just stuff nugs into a pipe and light it on fire. the weed definitely burns smoother and cleaner when you grind it up, and also much faster which allows you to get fat rips. but either way will get you high, so i have no preference really.
 
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Number Love said:
It's funny that you think grinding up your weed saves you weed, that's not really too logical (unless an ignited nug burns off smoke into the air). Weed is weed it gets burned and turns to smoke. In fact, grinding it up really finely, means your going to be able to fit a shit ton more in the bowl. So you'll actually use more weed. And when you light it, and its really finely ground, it will ignite quicker. Causing you to inhale more smoke = using more weed.
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you need less flame to burn ground weed, and the less flame you put to weed, the fewer cannabinoids you overheat and destroy.

i grind mine so that all i need to do is hold the lighter near the weed to get it burning. more control, bigger hits, less waste.
 
double ewe said:
you need less flame to burn ground weed, and the less flame you put to weed, the fewer cannabinoids you overheat and destroy.

i grind mine so that all i need to do is hold the lighter near the weed to get it burning. more control, bigger hits, less waste.
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exactly
 
I've been informed that when u grind it you loose crystal count your ment to hold the nug by the stem and chop up decent size nugs not to fine and it rolls u. and keeping your weed in a sealed glass jar for a while ( 3 weeks)u tripe the crystal count :)
 
No most people don't do it because it's unnecessary and also makes the bud burn faster

Don't for nice goods... It won't hurt for mids though cause of those stems
 
Feels said:
I've noticed that most people I know will just pack some nugs in the bowl (no stems or anything, but they don't grind it up). I always grind the weed, either manually or with a grinder, into as fine a powder as possible as I feel it conserves more. I don't know if this is really true or not.
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People should grind it. If not, I think your stupid. I have friends that think the tightest/most packed bowls are the best.... Yet if you were to take all that weed and grind it and smoke it properly it would go so much farther. If I pack a bowl with a fat nug I would think its burnt out and then if you grind it up theres still tons of green in the middle.
 
yes always it just smokes better and is more efficient, but you may have to put a tob popper (bit of tobacco in the bottom of the bowl) to stop the bud from hitting water before flame gets to it
 
ALWAYS grind for king sized joints. NEVER grind for bowls. I never like the way my bong burns the small pile of dust as it seems to just snap through far prematurely. I like to break the bud down with my fingers and sort of play a small game of weed tetris. Make it fit nice and even all around the bowl. I get a lot more satisfaction packing an even layer of weed as it cherries perfectly one the initial flame ignites the first layer of my weed cake.

To be completely honest I even like rolling my blunts with weed broken down by hand. I feel that trying to pack dust/grinder weed doesn't form together into the blunt shape as well as bigger chunks of bud being rolled into the nice fresh grape swisher. Not a big grinder fan.
 
I always bust my weed, but noticed that if you just shove a nug into a pipe bowl and spark up, it kinda tastes better. Not that herb tastes shitty or anything, just personally, i think whole nugs in a pipe taste delicious
 
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