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arthunter888

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I have been storing some of my buds in standard plastic sandwich bags, and some in plastic pill bottles. I have noticed that both of these containers capture a lot of trichomes (especially the sandwich bag). With headies this is a problem, because clarity and euphoria are generally due to the clear-white trichomes, and these are the ones that cling to plastic the most.

Are there any storage devices about the size of a pill bottle that do not attract trichomes?
 
get a small jar of jam from the shops. ($1-2)

empty it out, or make tons of jam sammiches.

steep it (let it sit) in hot water for a day.
rinse it out, and voila! instant bud storage, that keeps it phresh as phuck.
nothing keeps bud fresh better than glass ;)
 
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Get a nice big grinder with a kief catcher. A nice-sized "ALL-U-MINNIE-UM" (for sega) grinder will only run you about 25 bucks and most can hold a gram or 2 in the chamber. This way all the trichomes fall through the screen and you can save them all.

To maximize your trichome collection, put your weed in the freezer when you get it, then take it out the bag and grind it up cold, the trichomes harden in the cold and fall off more easily when ground up.
 
I Always put my delicate buds into a v old plastic tobacco tin. But seeing as I barely move that tin it does keep them in good shape..
 
Fuck this argument, but by the way it's Alluminium (look in the periodic table). It was misspelled by Alcoa and never corrected.

Anyway back to the point... I forgot to mention that my goal is not to collect the kief that falls off of the buds, I'd rather keep those trichomes on the buds. Then I can know which strain I'm smoking (bc I crave specific strains sometimes), whereas fallen trichomes will mix together, thereby being a hybrid-type effect (yukk).

I'm thinking the mason jars would be good at not sucking up the triches, however I can't seem to find ones that are small and thin like a pill bottle. Most of them near the preferred size are short and wide-mouthed, thus more air escapes/enters when opening. I need a small one with a thin-mouthed jar for security and preservation reasons.
 
If you don't have room for a mason jar, and they really are the best for storing buds, then you could use one of those like, orange pill bottles. They're airtight enough for storing bud for a while and don't have nearly as much of a static charge as plastic bags do, so they won't hold as many trichomes. Plus, any that gets stuck is easy to get out with a needle or some small tweezers.

Edit: Wow, I'm slow today, you said no pill bottles ):

How about an Altoids tin? I managed to make one fairly airtight by putting some electrical tape where it closes and on the hinge holes.
 
arthunter888 said:
Fuck this argument, but by the way it's Alluminium (look in the periodic table). It was misspelled by Alcoa and never corrected.

Anyway back to the point... I forgot to mention that my goal is not to collect the kief that falls off of the buds, I'd rather keep those trichomes on the buds. Then I can know which strain I'm smoking (bc I crave specific strains sometimes), whereas fallen trichomes will mix together, thereby being a hybrid-type effect (yukk).

I'm thinking the mason jars would be good at not sucking up the triches, however I can't seem to find ones that are small and thin like a pill bottle. Most of them near the preferred size are short and wide-mouthed, thus more air escapes/enters when opening. I need a small one with a thin-mouthed jar for security and preservation reasons.
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Are you kidding about the aluminum thing????

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stuckinaloop said:
Are you kidding about the aluminum thing????

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Well, yes that is a correct variation of the word (the western one). However, in fairness to the 'majority rule', aluminium would be more acceptable since more countries use it than not. It's also prefered by IUPAC:

"Most countries use the spelling aluminium (with an i before -um). In the United States, this spelling is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[54][55] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both.[56] IUPAC officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum." ---Wiki
 
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