Vaping Fresh Live Buds

[banianz]

Hi yall!
What about vaping fresh buds still wet, straight from the plant? Does anyone do it?
Im immagining the vapors must be more moist hence more pleasant?!?

 

[Bologna]

Not to mention all that fresh and tangy, extra-chlorophyll-y goodness...!
(much like rieslings or gewürztraminers etc... the place where headaches are birthed)

 

[RedEyeFlightControl]

Hi yall!
What about vaping fresh buds still wet, straight from the plant? Does anyone do it?
Im immagining the vapors must be more moist hence more pleasant?!?

It's like vaping wet hay. Has a very grassy flavor and a bit harsher. Dry and cure your bud

 

[MegaMan2k]

fresh bud no good, if u want fresh get some fresh frozen hash rosin or bubblehash, closest ur gonna get to that fresh smell profile

 

[1101010100101]

If your just trying to sample your fresh buds - even just a few days in the right conditions will make it much better. Right off the plant is never gonna be good.

 

[RedEyeFlightControl]

If your just trying to sample your fresh buds - even just a few days in the right conditions will make it much better. Right off the plant is never gonna be good.

Pick a small, put it on a paper plate, and put a very small plastic cup over it. it will quick-dry in a day or two and be usable. Not very well cured, but you'll get an idea of what you have. It will be far preferable to fresh , wet bud.

 

[GoldenBud]

in the drying process the buds lose 80% of their weight..you will have to vape a lot of fresh flower to get high

 

[deadlytoaster]

idk I had some delicious fresh herb from a buddies farm in Austria and it was SO sweet and tasty. Didn't make much vapor until the heat dried the buds out, but boy were they tasty and still hit!

 

[banianz]

Thanks for the hints and suggestions! Yeah definitely the clorophyll will b harsh...but the last comment of Deadlytoaster encouraged me enough and i will try to blast a popcorn nug in the Plenty...il keep you posted!

 

[GoldenBud]

300mg of THCA is found in a dried 1gr (top shelf bud) or in 5gr of wet, same top shelf, herb. you will need to vape 5x times to get the same effects. that's mainly the reason.

 

[1101010100101]

I say @banianz - go try it and report back! Maybe try one fresh, one dried 1 days, one dried 2 etc! I’ve done this in the past and found it’s very much worth it in the big picture to allow for at least 2 days of drying - but u may feel different!

 

[GoldenBud]

by the way, smokers will avoid wet buds because they can't smoke them, only organic materials can get smoked and water isn't an organic compound..
but I think vaping water will have bad effects on the taste?!

 

[Farid]

It works fine it just doesn't taste good.
It doesn't taste good until after several weeks of curing. The vaping process dries it out, and after a few pulls you can get a lot of vapor.

 

[GoldenBud]

It doesn't taste good until after several weeks of curing

that is not right in 2021.. the terpenes content is so higher comapring to the 2000s..i was shocked too.. 1 week after cropping.. 1 week of drying (at low humidity) .. just..wow.

you are right about the taste,nobody wants to vape water

 

[Farid]

It's not water that causes the bad taste, it's chlorophyll. That's why a few weeks of curing is suggested, it allows the chlorophyll to break down. Sure after 1 week the chlorophyll taste will have reduced, but after 2 or 3 it will have reduced even more

 

[Madri-Gal]

I'd say most growers, impatient and out of dried bud, has tried fresh from the plant. Sometimes a microwave is involved. Personally, I'd at least water cure for about a week before I'd try it, if that, but I don't like the chlorophyll flavor.

 

[howie105]

Not having any standards means I seldom run out of vaping materials. Hitting fresh bud works, but good or bad is a user call. For me, it ranks between nothing and rev-aping AVB.

 

[Bologna]

I tried re-vaping AVB once, Nope. Nada. Nasty, even... Then I rolled up a huge fatty... sucked the whole thing down. Zip. Obviously, I'm sure this depends largely on how high heat you go, or so many draws etc originally... but I dunno, as with AVB eddies, isn't the whole point not to consume what vaping avoids, even if it enters the bloodstream differently...?

Edit: and yes, I've used a nukerowave, toaster oven, double oven et al to "rush dry" homie before... in the very distant past, of course.... you gotta do what you gotta do...

 

[Alexis]

Yes it’s simply a totally nonsensical concept. It’s anti science. If you want to do things the better way all round, instead of eating raw basmati rice, do as has always been, and simply cook it.

I can’t think of any real advantage to purposely, through choice, vaping fresh picked bud.

I’ve just harvested 80% of this summer’s run today. Ive been vaping bits we took off a while ago.

Ive much experience at sampling tidbits. Too moist I won’t bother. It’s so high in chlorophyll still it’s just scratchy on the throat and a bit irritating to the airways.

Let alone straight from twig.

About 3 days it’s vapeable, 5 better. It makes all the difference.

A two week cure adds a lot more and a 3 month cure is ace.

 

[banianz]

Allright ....ive been busy today and after reading more comments ill skip the "Test" because it looks like wasted time and i ll better leave those little popcorn buds for some fresh extraction or rosin press!!

 

[GoldenBud]

I know from HPLC tests that top-shelf bud, dried 1gr, contains 300mg THCA, 100mg of water, let's say 50mg of terpenes, 50mg of CBG+CBGA+CBN and the rest is like..chlorophyll? how much from this 60%~ chlorophyll gets cured? I never saw a research about curing and it's interested to see one! I had good experience also with uncured buds, just well dried

 

[C No Ego]

Allright ....ive been busy today and after reading more comments ill skip the "Test" because it looks like wasted time and i ll better leave those little popcorn buds for some fresh extraction or rosin press!!

teh main pupose of curing the flower ( atleast two weeks after one wee k drying etc.... ) is to convert sugars into alcohol . vaping or smoking sugars is harsh and as everyone has mentioned wet chlorophyll would be like just vaping lawn grass piles from the yard .... Yuck

if desperate a quick dry in whatever way you want makes it better to vape

 

[GoldenBud]

teh main pupose of curing the flower ( atleast two weeks after one wee k drying etc.... ) is to convert sugars into alcohol . vaping or smoking sugars is harsh and as everyone has mentioned wet chlorophyll would be like just vaping lawn grass piles from the yard .... Yuck

if desperate a quick dry in whatever way you want makes it better to vape

like something happens to some functional groups of the chlorophyll? like here one group, the one in the bottom of the molecule, became -OH? but how it happens if the jar is closed?

Structure and Reactions of Chlorophyll

 

[Alexis]

Allright ....ive been busy today and after reading more comments ill skip the "Test" because it looks like wasted time and i ll better leave those little popcorn buds for some fresh extraction or rosin press!!

Bubble hash is the best use of fresh harvest. Nothing sacrificed.

 

[GoldenBud]

Bubble hash is the best use of fresh harvest. Nothing sacrificed.

I don't see why, if 80% of the weight will be gone in 1 week of 40% RH dark room, why not letting all the water evaporate? the ice will tear off the trichomes from the plant when it's dried and you will have to work with less weight, volume of trim/buds