So im new

u smoke the buds of the plants.

 

look around in the forums read threads like new pick up with pics or whatever the green in the pictures in those threads are the BUDS that is wat you smoke.


http://forum.grasscity.com/seasoned-tokers/340690-new-pickup-afghan-goo-pics.html
this is bud

 

In the second picture, The main part you see in the middle is the 'bud' (or cola but thats more referenced when growing so dont worry about it.)

But you take that off the plant, Trim off most the leaves and smoke the 'bud'.

The leaves have very little 'THC' or other chemicals that get you high.

Ive smoked straight leaves before when ive done grows back in the day and its something id never do again. Tastes horrible. No buzz. Jus overall shitty.


You can get 'buds' that are more broken up already when you buy it, Its known as shake.

You can get 'buds' that look close to the 2nd pictures but not on a live plant, And smaller and well jus take a look in recrecational marijuana use, The forum under this, And you'll see plenty of 'buds'. Most those are 'dank' or really good weed which is going to be really exspensive.

If your starting out id jus go with some rego's (regular) weed and jus be aight with it.


Hopefully i make a lil sense, Im stoned as fuck.

 

the second picture is what you smoke. cut off the leaves and that big middle part with all the hairs and what not makes the bud.

of course, it is dried or "cured" before you smoke it. so it will shrink quite a bit since all the water gets depleted, and in the end that second plant would look like one big, thick, long nug.

 

Think of an cherry tree. There are leaves and there are sweet beautiful cherries. You don't eat the leaves (god no, they have cyanide in them ya know, shit kills horses on ranches it's a real prob) you eat the cherries.

 

Its in growing stage. Not flowering stage.

 

that is more towards the base of the plant. not all are heavaly budded like the second picture.

 

because marijuana plants only "bud" in the right season. basically, there's two stages to a marijuana plants growth.

1. vegetative- this is where the plant grows from seed to adult. it wont have bud, itll just look like the first picture. just stems and leaves. this occurs during spring/summertime.

2. flowering ("budding)- once the plant grows trhough its vegetative state, it will stop growing and start budding. budding usually takes about 2 months, the second picture you posted looks like its finished budding. this occurs during the fall.

once the plant is done budding, it is harvested. also note that male plants do not bud, only females do, which is why only female plants are smokeable.

 

The bud is what you smoke - technically the flower of the plant However the leaf is the symbol of marijuana. You wear it on t-shirts, see it on posters, so that picture shows the symbol, for whatever reason. You don't usually smoke the leaves, though you can roll a blunt in one

 

hey man..no shame in questions...u learn by doing...soooooooo go out there and smoke some happy trees!!

 

you should learn it all from this video [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVxMcW2G3h0"]YouTube - how i trim[/ame]

you remove the leaves after the plant is harvested, then you dry all the hairs you see in the middle on pic 2, then you smoke it.......