White v. Yellow smoke

[Bob the Awesome]

So, for 4/20 I purchased a small acrylic bong that hits very well, much better than my old one. It gives great hits, however I've noticed something.

If I fill it enough with smoke, it brings this cool, white smoke that hits well. However, if I really try to get a HUGE hit, the smoke turns a slightly creamy, yellow-tinted color and it makes me cough a lot worse.

My question here is, what causes the smoke to turn slightly yellow? Is it from just smoking mids and not anything better, accidentally smoking stems (I don't normally take out but the biggest stems), or is it from another factor? Thanks in advance for any help :jointsmile:

[suhl]

every weed i have ever smoked be it really bad or really good has had a white grey type smoke. if it was yellow i wouldnt smoke it i would be afraid it was mustard gas. nothing good gives off yellow smoke

[LIP]

every weed i have ever smoked be it really bad or really good has had a white grey type smoke. if it was yellow i wouldnt smoke it i would be afraid it was mustard gas. nothing good gives off yellow smoke

You took the words right out of my mouth! I was going to use the mustard gas joke lol.

Seirously - yellow smoke? White/grey/bluey smoke is the only smoke i breathe.

[Bob the Awesome]

It's not like extremely yellow here, I mean it's slightly tinted yellow (off-white) when I really try and take a huge hit.

[eetmiefuk]

i've had waterfalls that the smoke was so dense in looked almost yellow but, never out of a bong.

[funfubarman]

The smoke is spoiled that is all

[Tree_Burner]

The thicker the smoke, the more yellow it's gonna be. I can't explain it, but it happens often to me, and I don't think you'll get mustard gas poisoning from smoking yellow herb smoke. If that was so, then people would actually start dying from smoking herb.

Peace :hippy:

[LIP]

The thicker the smoke, the more yellow it's gonna be. I can't explain it, but it happens often to me, and I don't think you'll get mustard gas poisoning from smoking yellow herb smoke. If that was so, then people would actually start dying from smoking herb.

Peace :hippy:


Well it's obviously not going to be mustard gas is it - it was just a joke :thumbsup:

[Nissan_420sx]

Same thing happens to me..I'm pretty sure it's either all the smoke tinting it or some of the smoke turning stale...

[Matt the Funk]

It actually looks KINDA yellowish out of gravity bongs....but normally my smoke is greyish/whiteish....

[rebgirl420]

hmmm that sounds shady to me

[orangeman]

Umm..I guess I'm fucked then lol, because unless I'm smoking a joint/blunt or glass pipe I always make sure the smoke gets thick and yellow. Every time I smoke the g-bong or my bong I made the smoke always gets thick and yellow. Not like solid yellow, but yellowish/whitish. We cough because all that smoke is inhaled at once.. It means you're gonna get fucked up, simple as that :p.

edit: I don't know if the smoke is yellow without there even being a build up. But if you have a lot of smoke and it's yellow I don't think it means it's stale because my bud does that and I never buy stale/shitty weed.

Lol just gave me an idea. I'm gonna take a pic of when the g-bong is filled with smoke :).

[jaGerbom]

could just be the lighting in your room? maybe?

i know i never get any yellow hits 0_o

[KL4D4]

I've gotten many many yellow hits in my life. The first time I saw one was from a GB. I've gotten it soo many times and the hits takes like ass, I figure this was because there was too much stem inside the bowl that I'd packed. There isn't much worse than taking the yellow hits which make me wanna puke, and they are so harsh on your throat a terrible burnt taste linger in your mouth ;(

[orangeman]

I followed some one's advice to cool the smoke. Although you still feel some heat from yellow hits, it's more like warmth rather than burn lol. Still makes me cough bad though. And I just hit the g-bong and made the vid but you won't believe what happened. It didn't get the part when I actually took the hit. I mean the video file is there but it has 0 bytes and it was an error when it tried to open it...wtf! I'll just make another vid when I take a hit from the g-bong and put it in with this one lol. Don't worry, my next hit will be just as good as the one I just had if not better.

[Matt the Funk]

I followed some one's advice to cool the smoke. Although you still feel some heat from yellow hits, it's more like warmth rather than burn lol. Still makes me cough bad though. And I just hit the g-bong and made the vid but you won't believe what happened. It didn't get the part when I actually took the hit. I mean the video file is there but it has 0 bytes and it was an error when it tried to open it...wtf! I'll just make another vid when I take a hit from the g-bong and put it in with this one lol. Don't worry, my next hit will be just as good as the one I just had if not better.I had the idea of taking a pic of my filled chamber after taking a few gbong hits...but I was too incapacited to do it lol...

[miraz]

Im almost 100% sure that any "big" hit, and I mean a BIG hit, turns yellow. Bongs or G-bongs are the best place to see it. My reasoning is that I havew a buddy who always used to make me take fat rips. it was when iw as younger. Anyway we would have some real good weed. And if still took a big hit it just turned cream yellow

So I'm pretty sure a yell smoke cloud ( at least while still in the bong, not while exhaling) If its yellow thats good.

[miraz]

wow im high and i fucked that up

[twitch]

its cuase its thicker smoke so the tar in the smoke is closer together thats why it is yellow its just a HUGE hit like you said

[KL4D4]

So its just the tar which makes me hurt interesting, I sucked on a ricola cough drop to ease my throat!

[Setzer12]

I like the stale smoke theory, but i dunno ive seen it before usually in gravity bongs or waterfalls not really sure what it is but it seems to be in large amounts of smoke.

[Fissle]

I know what your talking about. that happens when I take massive rips. I have had a really SLIGHT tint of yellow before, nothing serious.

and if anyone is thinking of it being laced then your wrong. it just happens. dont worry about it bro. just dont try and take massive rips. they are sweet but you cough like hell

[thNk.m0rbid]

iv had yellow smoke pulling gravities with some kb.. had it with mids also though too.. sometimes with steamies.. it got you sooooo high like my one friend was running around my house chasing me and my friends.. it was crazy lol.. but i just think there's SOOOOO much smoke in there it just turns a yellowish color

[J-dubb206]

Are you talking about when the chamber filles?

[suhl]

i have never seen yellow smoke and i have a pipe that is basically impossible to clean, and it holds a decent amount in it if you dont clear it, so it is easy to get stale. i can get it concentrated in there very easily by hitting it hard with the carb totally sealed. never once have i seen yellow smoke. im not calling any of you liars, im just saying it isnt something that happens any time you hit a dirty pipe, hit stale smoke, or take a big concentrated rip.

[J-dubb206]

i have never seen yellow smoke and i have a pipe that is basically impossible to clean, and it holds a decent amount in it if you dont clear it, so it is easy to get stale. i can get it concentrated in there very easily by hitting it hard with the carb totally sealed. never once have i seen yellow smoke. im not calling any of you liars, im just saying it isnt something that happens any time you hit a dirty pipe, hit stale smoke, or take a big concentrated rip.

Most likely cause your hitting a pipe, if you ever hit a clear bong or waterfall or whatever you see the smoke gets so dense it turns yellow

[jaGerbom]

speaking of waterfalls. I FSCKING LOVE THEM.

[scStOnEr]

Ok i think i know this one, as the smoke gets older it turns kind of yellowish/brown color that indicates "stale" smoke, but its just kinda old.

im high

nailed it.. in my expirence this is the case. like when you take a hit off a longer bong you'll notice smoke turn a yellowish tint

[stick]

I first noticed it with waterfalls and later on with pipes and bubblers. It seems like green, fresh hits give a nice white smoke, but if you're hitting a lot of already burned bud, the smoke that comes out will be yellowish. The way you hit your pipe will affect how much yellow smoke you get.

[Bob the Awesome]

Wow, OK, so at least people know what I'm talking about ^^'

I never got completely solid yellow smoke, but when I take a big rip or hit my gravity bong, it gets tinged yellow. And yea, makes me cough more.

That idea of the tar building up, that seems like it'd make sense. More tar in the same area is probably why it colors.

Now, the question, does higher quality buds have less tar? That would be how to achieve huge hits that are pure white, which is what I want :jointsmile:

[LIP]

Ok, i'll try and explain it [i think this is why]

When you smoke a cig the filter goes yellow with tar. The particles of tar are in the smoke. It'd do the same with weed.

So these yellow particles are in the weed smoke, and the denser it gets the more the particles stick together and give the smoke a yellowish tint.

So it's all to do with the density of the smoke in the bong.

My bongs red though so i cant see it properly - so i cant say it's ever happened to me.

[Bob the Awesome]

Who knows. From how you talk about your smoke, you've got some of the best stuff out there so maybe you don't get the yellow smoke as quick as others do. I'm smoking on just some local mids right now, not bad but nothing notably good.

[LIP]

Something else has just popped into my mind - could it possibly be ferts used in growing? I dont think it is, im almost positive it has to be the tar, but ferts may make a differnce. I dont know though, just an idea.

[rollinbz]

I agree with LIP, its the densityof the smoke that gives it a yellowish tint. We you blow through a dube tube after a while the first dryer sheet starts to turn a dark yellowish brown with resin and tar from the smoke.

[Bob the Awesome]

I agree with LIP, its the densityof the smoke that gives it a yellowish tint. We you blow through a dube tube after a while the first dryer sheet starts to turn a dark yellowish brown with resin and tar from the smoke.

That's true, I used a toobie and it got that way also.

I'm trying to research now if higher quality buds yield less tar.

[JaMakin07]

stale smoke if u feel like wasting weed just load up a chamber with some creamy white smoke then wait and it will turn yellowish ive heard takinga hit of stale smoke can make you sick so keep it fresh

[fauxsho]

I always get yellow hits from my bong, that's how I do. I pack a bowl, light it, suck slow, the smoke milks, and right before i snap the bowl, the smoke is yellow.

[lil josh]

I Know what you mean...lol i think some people are getting the wrong idea when you say the word yellow lol. do you mean a thick dark cloud of smoke like the pic belove? if so yh i get that aswell when i cream my bong up to the max.

+.Josh.+

[Caduceo]

is that dude inside a giant bong or what

[dean0000]

If I cream a fat bong slowly the smoke gets the yellowish tint you talk about. I love these type of hits, make it feel like you lungs expand to more than their capacity. Its get you absolutely baked alsom

[AlwaysBlazed]

you guys are all high, as the smoke becomes more concentrated it seems to be a bit yellowish and of course it's going to make you cough because you're taking a big hit :thumbsup: It's more noticable in a small glass bowl like my roor steamroller, pretty much every hit is yellow smoke because I fill it up the the limit

[iStaaHi]

all resin is is concentrated smoke... right? and its black

[DirtyDarin]

Yellow smoke is that related to yellow snow? Mabe you should not piss in your bong. LOL...

[YahtzeeG]

its cuase its thicker smoke so the tar in the smoke is closer together thats why it is yellow its just a HUGE hit like you said

I think that is the reason too. WHen you let smoke sit or if your trying to snap a bowl and keep lighting and gets super thick it just turns yellow.

[stick]

I get the yellow smoke while hitting my glass pipes/bubblers. Yellow smoke usually makes me cough at least a little, but the high also hits harder and faster.