Is it common practice to grind up your weed before putting it in a glass pipe. When i did that, some pieces fell through the hole. Does anybody just put the whole bud in there?
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Is it common practice to grind up your weed before putting it in a glass pipe. When i did that, some pieces fell through the hole. Does anybody just put the whole bud in there?
No. lol you have to break up youir weed, you cant just stick a nug in there :)
Yes you can. You can either bust it up or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stumps
Use a screen. You can buy glass screens for about $2 each. Kind of a pain in the ass they fall out, but if you're just using it at home, then it's not biggie.
Or just don't bust it up, or don'rt bust it up as fine. Rather than busting it fine, just pick a bud apart in slightly bigger pieces than busting it.
But no, you don't HAVE TO grind it up.
Yeah, but when i break it up some pieces fall through the little hole and i guess it gets wasted cuz it just sits there at the bottom where the flame doesnt hit it.
And what about the ash falling through the hole? What do i do about that?
if you grind it up, little pieces are gonna fall through until you have some resin built up in your pipe :) if you're super concerned about it, buy a screen and use it or something...glass screens are great!! a lot of screens have a weird taste, but you don't get any taste with glass screens, so if you want to use one for your piece (although i don't think it's necessary, and i can't think of a time i ever used a screen in my glass pieces when i smoked weed...the only time i did was for salvia), i would recommend a glass one :) just don't forget it's in there and throw it away
edit: lol i was typing my post up and posted it just a minute after nochowderforyou's post...lol so it contains some of the same info
Thanks guys, but what about the ash?
A screenQuote:
Originally Posted by onequestion
really, it's not that big of a deal. i don't ever use screens in my glass pipes (with the exception of salvia), and so yeah, sometimes little bits of bud or ash fall through. no biggie, because i can get it out when i clean my pipes...so unless you find it extremely annoying, then i wouldn't bother with a screen
u can use a glass screen and u shouldnt be pulling through any weed. what i do is just break off a piece of a nug just big enough to sit on the hole (i call it a base nug) then i grind up the rest of the weed and pack it down on top. or instead of grinding i just rip off a bunch of lil pieces and pack it in tight
Thanks, base nug sounds like a really good idea.
Little pebbles are the best, it's free and disposable after each uses....
i've only ever broke a bowls worth of bud into 3-5 big peices... burns so quick if you grind it... probably getting as much smoke, but bowls go quicker... besides, just cuz it's burning doesn't mean it creates smoke... to soem extent some does get burned and not produce anything everytime you put the flame to it again...
in buds, atleast logically, the loss would be less then a fully grnided bud....
but it's such a small insignificant ammount it really comes down ot personal prefrence... if you like big milky white hits and aren't gonna just cough it out instantly and waste it, might as well grind...
you can still get big hits from 4-5 peices of bud, but it won't be as thick... but it does last longer..
Huh? What pebbles? Im talking about weed not crack.Quote:
Originally Posted by djm187
pack a piece bigger than the hole and a few more on top, then break it up however you want. don't pull like you've been oxygen deprived when the bowl is dying, or you'll get ash in your mouth.
noooooooooooo dont grind it up, break it up a little with your fingers so that theres like 6-7 little pieces of nug per big bowl pack. grinding it up is a waste, it makes huge hits, that unless you have lungs like a character from a fairy tale, you will cough up.
It is all bout the base nug put a bigger piece on the bottom so the smaller bits don't fall through.
Pebbles as in little pieces of small rocks that you can find in your backyard, at a park or pretty much anywhere... clean the rocks and pop 1 into your bowl, put the weed on top and you'll never suck any weed through the hole...Quote:
Originally Posted by onequestion
I used to be sooo against grinders untill a few years ago. I thought it was just a lazy way to break up the weed. Then I bought one with a keef catcher, and omg, it's great. I save up the keef for a few weeks and use it on top of bowl packs. Very potent and tasty;) And you'll have something to smoke if you run out of bud.
YEs Ive been using pebbles for my glass piece for awhile and it works the same as the screen I got with it (I lost it). So yes go get a pebble from outside stick it in the bottom of the bowl and filler up.
Or.. you know, just dont take huge ass hits from the pipe/bong?Quote:
Originally Posted by jamblock
Personally I prefer having my weed ground up and smoked that way. Lets me microwave it quicker and easier, packs nice, and burns evenly and I usually only have to light the bowl once.
It really comes down to personal preference. I prefer having it ground up, of course I also am happy as hell when my dealer hooks me up with the shake from his batch of weed, full of nummy keif, and I dont have to break it up at all. No seeds or stems ftw!
this is what i do, break off a nug big enough to cover the bottom without falling through, then break up the nug into small little pieces and pack the bowl. the more the weed is grinded up the more its going to cherry.. i wouldnt suggest using a grinder for a bowl in a pipe tho. grinders work good with bongs:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by onequestion
yup, I use the base nug as well. Works great!
If for some reason you are down to shake and can't make a proper base nug you can tear off a small piece of a rollin paper, poke a few holes in it and use that as a disposable screen
:)
^^^ that works too :P
Take a screen out of one of your faucets...just remember to replace it later or it will spray everywhere;)
When I left my last two apartments, I left them with no screens in any of the faucets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluntmasterbabe
Gotta make sure that they are clean though, dont want any rust or calcium buildup on them when you go to smoke through them. I usually stick them under a flame for a few minutes to burn off anything that is on them, after having washed it thoroughly.
I only grind up weed for rolling.
In a bowl, I stick the whole nug in, with what's left of the the stem poking down into the hole.
Those tinky glass hole-covers that look like jacks are also GREAT.
When grinding up your weed, save a small dense nug that is a good sise to not fall through the hole, stick that in the bottom and put everything else on top of that. If done correctly this method works just as good as glass screens
we have these weird rocks by our house that look like glass... they pwn:jointsmile:
Depending on the size of the hole in the bowl, a glass jack(screen) works nicely once you get it resin'ed in. I just cant stand having to place the damn thing back in repeatedly on my glass pipe, not to mention the hole on mine is so big that I have to get the largest jacks my head shop has, and even then if they dont get put in right they fall through.