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Where's the THC and junk?

Gingerbeard

Gingerbeard

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If you chop a wet bud in half, top to bottom, you see it's anatomy. Hairs and sugar leaves on the outside, wet biomass inside. Is there THC or anything worth while in the biomass? I can see doing a deep shave of my buds, down to the mass. Everything trimmed turns into Witness (My personal brand of live resin.) and produces a larger yield per column. Since the water in fresh weed gets frozen to way low temperatures, the water stays in the column. If the biomass is mostly water, it's mostly waste.

Y'all get me? I'm thinking out loud while dabbing Witness and diamonds and construction people are jackhammering all the concrete around my apartment. Feel free to talk about anything.
 
I’m of the opinion that the thc and other cannabinoids are not just in the trichomes. I’ve been thinking about it lately (after a weed gummie or two as these things happen) and I’ve made very strong extracts from weed that is not at all frosted. I’ve never squashed out my own resin (rosin? Can’t keep track of everything) but you would have to think that part of what comes out is not specifically from the trichomes it is liquid from the plant itself. The inner biomass may be less strong than the outer portion of the bud but I think not using it will leave a lot of thc on the table.
 
Google 'supercritical fluids.' Just the basics. DO NOT Wikipedia. You will spontaneously combust from the information.
 
Since I started dabbing, I've all but stopped smoking weed except for a quality control bowl of my own, should I save any flowers for friends. Same same for scissor hash. I'm all about the beneficial aspects of MJ. I don't see anything beneficial about smoking the plant matter. Smoking is a lot more mess. Dabbing smells like flowers and citrus and diesel. Smoked weed has one smell: smoke. If I smoke weed, I smell like weed. If I dab, I only smell like a hippie.

Before you old heads yell at me for saying somethings bad about smoking weed, clear your throat and hack out that tar ball.
 
So Gingerbeard , what do you use to dab? I don't care for the torch and heating the banger. I often wonder if there is a bunch of dab getting lost to excessive heat. Is there something maybe electric?
 
There are a few ways to go Ckbrew .
I'm not a fan of the electric nail. I've never owned one but friends have put theirs away after realizing how easy it is to break the crystal banger. If you leave one turned on, it breaks.
There are 'nails' and there are 'crystal bangers.' One or the other is heated and concentrate is put to the heat.
It is as easy to overheat a banger (my general term for nails and the ilk) as to underheat one. Higher temps tend to give more of a headrush. Lower temps go more to the body and taste and can smell like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory if there was a citrus orchard surrounded by flower fields and a diesel gas pump in the middle. It's freaking amazing.
I'm somewhat anal about how I do my thing. Some folks think they can hit the perfect temperature by timing how long they torch the banger and holding their hand next to it. I have myself an infrared laser thermometer. Depending on my mood, I'll take a carb cap on a 450 degree banger and exhale through my nose. The nose hairs and moustache will smell like WW's place. Other times I'll hit it at 650. Less taste. More rush. Then there are the meat heads who dab on red hot bangers. That ruins the whole idea of tasting terps or anything pleasant.
There's a little saying when it comes to low temp dabbing. 'You have to waste it to taste it.' Since the heat isn't as high, not as many of the terps and such get vaped.
 
Well I'm not a cool kiddo and I'm one of the few who still enjoy a good old fashion chunk of hash that smell like an incense stick. Proof you say... Then grow some Kali strains to prove me wrong. Remember vape burns can happen suddenly. Or explosions........

Call me old fashion but I like my joint. At least my rolling paper is made of organic material without the plastic shit from a E-cigarette. HAh !!
 
I'm with you on the vape pens, FB. Too much processing. No control over temperature. They make me cough like smoking an ounce of Mexican dirt weed in a sweat lodge.
The smell of burning hash is better than burning weed. Absolutely. I'll burn a ball for the smell.
 
I vape but not a cartridge with liquids. I use one of the Vapes that you just add plant material to and you can select the temp. I find it a little weaker than doing it other ways (depending on the device) but you can water cure the leftover plant material to get rid of the toasted taste and then extract the remaining thc from it into butter or something. Since you select the temp you want to vape at you can determine which terps will vaporize (I have a chart somewhere showing the temps for different cannabinoids). I’ve been doing it a little less lately and mostly eating edibles but I still do it pretty regularly. I do like the smell of hash but not such a fan of smoke.
 
I'm a fan of flower vaporizers DeadlyFruit. A simple $30 box vaporizer is all it takes. You learnt me something about getting rid of that peanut shell taste of vaped bud. Rinsing it in water? Really?
Made an omelette and sprinkled vaped bud on it. Too much bud, I guess. I was super hammered and kept forgetting why. Edibles have never been my thing because dosing is hit-or-miss and I can't step back from it if I need to be responsible. I've had wonderful experiences as a passenger on road trips. But there was no way in hell I would have been able to drive without stopping every mile to ask if my comrades could see the aura.

"Do you see it, man? Do you see it? Do you see the aura?"
"The aura of what?"
(Crying) "All of it, man. All of it."
"We're in the middle of the fucking desert!"
"All of it, man. All of it."
 
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