Lighting the bowl to much with my lighter?

If your smoking by yourself you can light up as much as you want, but when your smoking in a group most people prefer when you corner the bowl.

 

what he said ^^

 

just practice, it'll come to you eventually; but yeah, you should corner the bowl instead of roast it. when you go to light it use the smallest amount of flame that'll work instead of sticking the whole flame in and cooking it all (especially if you're smoking with others, roasting it is a good way to show that your a begginer).

 

Did you try toking it without using the lighter? If that works, why fight it?

 

^^
ditto what he says
i only light my bud when it's not lit

 

if you move the lighter around and light all of the weed you will have a thicker smoke and more likely to cough if you are new to smoking. you wont waste much from doing that but you should always check if it is still lit, or "rolling" before you decide to use the lighter with it again.

 

To prevent you from "overlighting" or whatev you wish to call it, get a beer bottle cap (metal ofcourse) and as you are pulling from the lit pipe or bong slide put the bottle cap over your lit bus to smother the flame and thus less waste.

 

ya exactly, someone passes it to you and its still burning, hit it.
if you gotta light it, put the light like directly beside the bowl and suck so you just burn the edge.

try not to hold the flame over the middle and torch all that shit.

 

You'd be surprised how big your hits can be when it's already cherried.

 

As long as it's cherried as I call it, you can take the hit no problem. If it's got a good cherry going, you'll be able to take the hit and it will just grow so you'll get a perfectly fine hit.

 

ya when im wit my friends and were just chillin and passin the bong we just light it again
no use in trying to keep it goin when its a cherry if its gonna b a crappy hit

 

If you still have any cherry at all, just tap the weed down a little bit with your finger and take it hit. It will usually spark right up for you.

 

You should corner the bowl. Just let the end of the flame touch a lil bit of green. Keep burning this part until it's all ash and then start another part. This way, the weed isn't all burning in between hits, and you'll get more hits. And to answer your other question, you shouldn't light it if it's already cherried.