Qbit
cannabanana
Don't dry your herb with too high heat, like above maybe 60C/140F. If you go much above that, the terpenes (aromatic essential oils) may begin to evaporate slowly. Mind you there are some people who like high temp drying (like medical users), as they may not wish to have the 'spiky' effects of the terpenes, giving them a less brain-bending and more sedative high. That means drying at anything up to 120C/240 F. It kills the flavour though.steiner666 said:You know, i was just thinking the other day about using the aroma top/dish on my DBV for this purpose, after cleaning it out good of course lol. I haven't really deliberately dried weed out, like by using a mild-ish heat source, before. I've always figured that my DBV dries it out pretty thoroughly during the first hit and vapes it just fine afterwards. But with this I've realized that it is pretty important. This past week i've been grinding the stuff up in my 4 piece grinder (just regularly, not up-side-down) ahead of time and leaving it in there and then i put the grinder on top of my stereo which gets a bit warm. I take a bit out and grind it up finer in my 2 piece grinder if i'm going to use it in my LB. It does make things much easier and you go through batteries a lot less lol.Qbit said:Perhaps you're not drying your weed properly. Make sure you put your weed on top of your TV or hot water heater or some other warm appliance for a couple of hours before grinding. It'll make your bud brittle and crumbly instead of sticky. You should be doing this anyway for weed you want to vape.
Of course you'll still get some build-up in your grinder, but it shouldn't jam or clog it up. And it should be easy to scrape out with something pokey.
And the grinder-on-the-stereo sounds good, although I wonder if it might be less effective at drying weed that has been compacted during the grinding process. But yeah give the whole-bud-drying trick a shot and see if it makes difference.