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Ground Weed Vs. Regular Nugs

Discussion in 'Marijuana Consumption Q&A' started by Algore, Mar 9, 2015.

  1. What is your guys' preference on what you load up in your bong/bubbler/pipe? I've been doing more and more thinking lately on why I don't like grinding my weed for anything other than a joint. When I think about it, ground weed burns up really fast in a bowl so it doesn't last very long at all. It ignites up so fast, and with the extra air flow it can kill a bowl in one hit. Idk about you guys but part of my love for smoking is for the taste of it, and something I've noticed is that ground weed will always give you those yellow milky hits that I'll admit they do get you really baked in the process but they taste something gnarly. Also, when I grind weed I'll put in a couple big sized nugs and get one bowl out of that when if I chose not to grind it I could have gotten around 3-5 bowls just from picking them apart with hands.
     
    The reason I like weed when you either leave it as a solid nug or pick it apart and de-stem it is that it smokes longer. I don't want to load a fatty bowl and get less than 5 hits from it. I can load a nug into my bong and get over 10 big hits from it, and as long as I'm not covering the whole bowl with the flame I can make the green last for a while too. I just don't get WHY so many people use only ground weed, it's all about preference but I just want to know why the ground weed fans like it so much.
     
    What are your guys' preferences?

     
  2. You're wrong. It's like saying why chew your food when you eat cause if you swallow it whole you get full faster. It's about surface area and air pressure. Plus who likes touching all that great sticky bud with their fingers? The point is to touch it as little as possible. What you have to do is not count bowls and hits. Get a scale, smoke a .5 in whole bud form and another .5 ground up and I'm sure you'll enjoy it more and longer ground up.

    And that only applies to freshly ground bud. Cause you're right, grinding it up does make it loose flavor and smoothness, over time. But if you grind and smoke right away it's fine.


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  3. Yeah those are valid points about handling it with fingers because I still hate having to do that to those poor buds lol. The part about flavor I'm talking about which is the main killer for ground weed in my preference is that the way it burns. In my experience, I've gotten flavorful hits just from hitting the green and cornering the bowl, and then you know when the bowl is blackened but not ash and it obviously tastes worse and produces a very dense yellow milky hit? Those hits just always taste awful to me, obviously they can get you really high but that's not the only reason I smoke. That is what happens with ground weed, even just one hit, the ember is spreading at such a rapid rate that you aren't getting greens after like a second of hitting the bowl, and that makes my big rips taste bad. Sure it is an efficient method of smoking I agree, and can be nice once in a while to do some persy bowls, poppers, whatever the fuck you wanna call them with ground weed, but I prefer smoking up for a longer time and going for the better taste, don't wanna load a big bowl that is gone in a few hits and the session is already over(just cause I can't afford to buy tons of the stuff).
     
  4. I grind weed with my hands pretty much always. I love the touch of it. I only use nugs if I'm using an emergency apple pipe because you can't grind it for them or you'll suck in the ash lol.
     
  5. The sense of touch also appreciates trichomes. Squeeze your nugs and touch your stash. Get sticky
     
  6. Also if you grind everyhing you smoke in a 4 part grinder you get shit tons of keif i almost had a gram after 1 or 2 weeks
     
  7. I carry a nug around in my belly button all day.
     
    When I smoke it, I feel a bit closer to the nug.
     
    :smoking:
     
  8. Personally I would prefer ground bud.

    As far as the burn it all depends on how fast you pull and how heavy its packed.so nugz is a personal choice imo
     
  9. I don't know what I'd do without my 3 chamber grinder.
    I love that i can just clear bowls through the bong in one nice hit. And the keif is a plus.
     
  10. It's not just grinding that you need to worry about. Ground weed can burn slowly but you have to pack it down. I end up using about .5 grams per bowl but it actually has a metal screen on the bottom. When I pack a bowl it ends up essentially as a slightly compr3ssed disc. Then you can easily corner it 4-5 times and not ash the whole bowl over. In fact what you do is toke and the ember will spread slowly to new weed instead of burning everything.

    Doing so avoids creating that dreaded yellow or brown smoke which is essentially burning cannabinoids from smoking at too high a temperature. Grinding, packing and learning how to corner bowls will let you more efficiently use your weed even though technically you are packing more weed by packing it down. But since you're not burning as much cannabinoids you're getting more out of an improperly packed bowl of the same weight.
     
  11. I always grind regardless of my smoking method.  When I pack bowls in my bong I pack around 0.05-0.1g of bud and take in 1 hit.  I will maybe toke up every hour and this save me a lot of bud.  I can stay high for 5+ hours off of half a gram.
     
  12. I grind it. When you grind bud, you are creating a greater surface area so it will burn better. You get huge milky hits when you smoke ground bud because you are getting a lot of smoke. When bud is not ground, what you are doing is getting "airier" hits. You are spreading out the same amount into smaller hits. A good compromise might be to use scissors and cut it up into bigger chunks instead of using a find grind. 
     
  13. #13 KayoKilla, Mar 9, 2015
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    Nug n plug, I never do that, always grind it up whether it's my hands or my grinder
     
  14. it depends....
     
    bong tokes- grind it up into single lungful hits. 
     
    pipe- typically nugs. i think they taste better in a pipe.
     
    doobie- grind it up. no way to get it to burn right with out the proper grind.
     
    one hitter- ground up single lungful hits.
     
    that is just what i have found that works for my personal tastes.   :metal:
     
  15. Grind everything. I love my kief
     
  16. For joints I always use my shitty little grinder. For my bubbler, I just rip my buds into smaller pieces by hand.
     
  17. Wow, a lot of good points were made here. I get how ground weed could last longer for multiple big hits throughout the day to keep you high, but I've always been used to like 30+ minute sessions with people and playing a game or something while we smoke. The other thing is that when I grind my weed it can be annoying since the majority of the thc is escaping down into the kief compartment, while this may be nice to top off bowls, I don't like having weed that I pretty much have to top off with kief for it to get me baked.
     
  18. I think what you are reffering to in the way of losing tase when grinding is the fact that it is much easier to accidently roast the whole bowl causing more combustion/butane interacting with the herb meaning a worse taste. If you try and corner the bowl or hold the flame more above the bowl you should get better taste
     
  19. I prefer breaking it up with my hands. It's part of the experience for me. I can get the strong smell while breaking it up and I get to feel each bud and get a feel for its characteristics. With a grinder its like you grid it up and yeah, that's weed. Kinda boring. I try to break the nugs up into just their individual calyxes, I don't put big chunks in my bowls. It may take longer than grinding it up, but hey, what's the rush?
     
  20. With a bong I prefer to gff


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