From Vaping to Bong Tokes and Back for Good

Muttley

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Greetings and hallucinations, fellow vaporizer connoisseurs. For years, I'd rolled joints and rarely used a bong. I've guerrilla grown my personal stash for many moons out here in the tropical rainforest belt of our green planet, so having the right equipment needed to enjoy my harvested and fermented bud is important. Then I ran out of rolling papers, and because the lawbooks call for 14 years of pokey-time with hard labor as punishment over possession of a little as one solitary joint where I live, I decided to try vaping for the first time about five years ago, so I wouldn't ever be spotted buying rolling papers. Thus began my journey into the world of vaping, after years of unhealthy joint smoking.

The mouthwatering aroma and clear-headed high from vaping made me a believer in the notion that the era of joints and bogs would soon be consigned to the dustbin of history. But then came a few months between when my Airizer Solo 1 quit working, and when my Airizer Solo 2 arrived via a very slow postal system in my remote neck of the woods. Having nice fermented buddage on hand in vacuum sealed bags, yet having neither rolling papers nor a working vaporizer to blaze it with, I decided to try bong hits as an interim get-high measure, until my new Airizer Solo 2 vaporizer showed up in the post.

With my very first bong hit, I noticed immediately an unpleasant sensation of dizziness that I NEVER experienced when vaping the same fermented bud. I speculate that the dizziness I felt when taking bong rips is a symptom of mild carbon monoxide poisoning, since that gas, identical to a component of toxic automobile exhaust gases, is released and inhaled when cannabis is combusted. The other unpleasant aspect of bong rips is that the taste of each bong rip was foul and corrosive in comparison to the flavorful aroma and taste of vaporizing the SAME weed. I go to a lot of trouble to cultivate only the most flavorful weed strains, and now I see that vaporizing is the ONLY way to savor those delicious flavors with NO associated stench of burning vegetation.

To paraphrase Henry Ford, who responded to reporters' color option enquiries by assuring the American public they could have any color Ford Model T car, "provided that the color selected is black", I make bold to suggest that discerning lovers of cannabis should feel free to consume weed in any manner they see fit, provided that the method of ingestion chosen is vaporizing.
 

Ramahs

Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
I've never tried fermenting my cannabis. What's the reason-for/benefit-of doing that?

Also, would you care to share how the fermentation process works? Do you start with already dried and cured buds, or would you need to start with fresh and/or frozen buds?
 
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Muttley

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I've never tried fermenting my cannabis. What's the reason-for/benefit-of doing that?

Also, would you care to share how the fermentation process works? Do you start with already dried and cured buds, or would you need to start with fresh and/or frozen buds?
Hello Ramahs and thanks for stopping by to read my ramblings on the benefits of vaping over most other means of chasing that buzz.

I could wax lyrical about the delicate sweet aromas that develop in year-old fermented bud sealed in vacuum bags to prevent mold, or I could describe the complete elimination of all the cough-inducing harshness associated with vaping or smoking weed, but instead I will post a link to the cobbing process that Chill AtGVC has kindly mentioned.

The " Cobfather" is an Aussie who goes by the handle "Tangwena" at the IC Mag forum, and who never smokes or vapes fermented bud but only chews it in tiny amounts to enjoy the most social and humorous highs one could imagine. This discussion runs nearly 500 pages, to give an idea how popular the fermentation process has become.

 

Chicken No Name

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I've been cobbing some of my herb this year, to great success. I'm going to dedicate more herb to this process next year.
It really brings out flavours quicker that's traditional cure, takes up less space and will probably be mistaken for a turd by anyone snooping about :rofl:
This is mighty gold bx1 by rgs. About 10 weeks cure.

Using the fantastic vapman click which offers so much control for the user. Wonderful device for really enjoying all the flavours. If you don't already have one I suggest you have a look at the vapman thread!




 
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Muttley

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I'm raising both hands because the sealed cob method turned out to be the only 100% mold preventative I have ever encountered thus far. Back in my early days growing bud for personal consumption and never for sale, I had to throw out batch after batch of weed that was NOT vacuum sealed, due to mold that was present even in air tight containers holding loose bud.

I bought my first vacuum sealer machine as soon as I saw them mentioned in Tangwena's thread, and have never encountered so much as a trace of mold ever since. When my harvest becomes stem-snap dry, I use a hydraulic press to compact the bud into a small inch-diameter, inch-thick solid puck that looks and feels as though it is made of wood. I then wrap that solid puck in clean paper before vacuum sealing it in a ribbed vacuum bag for that long term fermentation process which improves the taste, smoothness and smell of the bud in much the same way that a fine wine improves with ageing.
 

Ramahs

Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
It is called cobbing. I thought there was a whole thread on it here but I can't find it. See the OG

Hello Ramahs and thanks for stopping by to read my ramblings on the benefits of vaping over most other means of chasing that buzz.

I could wax lyrical about the delicate sweet aromas that develop in year-old fermented bud sealed in vacuum bags to prevent mold, or I could describe the complete elimination of all the cough-inducing harshness associated with vaping or smoking weed, but instead I will post a link to the cobbing process that Chill AtGVC has kindly mentioned.

The " Cobfather" is an Aussie who goes by the handle "Tangwena" at the IC Mag forum, and who never smokes or vapes fermented bud but only chews it in tiny amounts to enjoy the most social and humorous highs one could imagine. This discussion runs nearly 500 pages, to give an idea how popular the fermentation process has become.



Raise your hand if you've read all or most of tangwena's thread at some point :rockon:

It's also referenced in this long 420mag forum post that includes some cool flow charts.

I'm raising both hands because the sealed cob method turned out to be the only 100% mold preventative I have ever encountered thus far. Back in my early days growing bud for personal consumption and never for sale, I had to throw out batch after batch of weed that was NOT vacuum sealed, due to mold that was present even in air tight containers holding loose bud.

I bought my first vacuum sealer machine as soon as I saw them mentioned in Tangwena's thread, and have never encountered so much as a trace of mold ever since. When my harvest becomes stem-snap dry, I use a hydraulic press to compact the bud into a small inch-diameter, inch-thick solid puck that looks and feels as though it is made of wood. I then wrap that solid puck in clean paper before vacuum sealing it in a ribbed vacuum bag for that long term fermentation process which improves the taste, smoothness and smell of the bud in much the same way that a fine wine improves with ageing.

Thanks for all the info, y'all. I've learned something new today.
I'd love to try this one of these days when I live somewhere I can grow for myself.
 
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