I think the ultimate way to use cannabis is a dry herb vape but I’m curious what the lemmings think

lmk

  • FrostyTrichs@sh.itjust.worksM
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    Short answer -

    I’ve tried a lot of different things and settled on multiple variations of dry herb vaping, preferably through water, as my favorites.

    Longer answer -

    The more I experimented with weed the more I realized I cared a lot more about it than the friends I was doing it with. For a long time my daily drivers were 510 vapes and edibles from a dispo since I wasn’t a smoker. As my tolerance built my satisfaction with those options soured, I started smoking flower. I kept all kinds of notes about different strains and what they tasted like, what the experience was like, etc. My throat and lungs couldn’t take smoking 5+ joints a day to manage my medical issues, so I started experimenting with dry herb vapes and fell in love. It was like I finally discovered what weed was. Literally every part of it was better for me. Fast forward a couple years and my opinion on that had begun to sour as well. The sessions were great but the highs and relief were lacking. After hunting through all kinds of different vapes I finally realized it was the bud that was lacking. Dispo weed works to an extent but it lacks soul and high end devices can only bridge the gap to a point.

    So the complete answer is dry herb vapes (preferably through water) with some quality homegrown loaded in the bowl. So far nothing else comes close for me. Concentrate and whatnot is great too, but now I’m making all of it myself. I’d highly recommend it.

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      Hell yeah! I’m on team dry herb vape w the dynavap and induction heater, home grown when I can but I smoke too much and don’t have enough space LOL! Thanks for this man I’m for real interested in what people are doing these days. I use mostly indicas for calming so yeah smoking 5 joints a day would give me COPD at my age.

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        I’m not OCD but at the same time when I get in to something I tend to get deep in it.

        These days I have databases for my seeds and grow journals instead of spreadsheets, and I still log my experiences and flavors. One thing I’ve just recently started doing is chasing particular terpenes instead of strain, or sativa/indica dominance. In the past I assigned the value of a strain to it’s overall terpene profile but I didn’t get specific about what was dominant or different from one grow to another and why that might do certain things for me.

        In the long run I’m trying to pin down specific terpenes that give me relief from the things that ail me so I can buy or breed a strain to grow until the end of my days. There’s a bit more to it than that, but that’s the general idea.

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          Woah sweet. I am sort of new to growing and I actually don’t really have enough space to grow as much as I use for now but working on it. I smoked so long in an illegal state that I was always happy so long as it was weed. I found I prefer indica and flowers over 28% but haven’t chased down specific terpine profiles… Yet. I don’t think this is OCD this is cool lol

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            One of the traps of growing is chasing everyone else’s suggestions. A lot of the growing communities are toxic as hell and a lot of it is the blind leading the blind. That’s not to say I know it all or know better than anyone else, just an observation.

            I think something that gets forgotten too often is that there are multiple ways to grow weed, and infinite variations of those ways to help growing fit your life and your space. The way I do it isn’t necessarily the best or better than anyone else’s technique, but it’s working well for my life and my needs. That’s the main thing I think gets lost in the excitement and allure of weed cultivation.

            Then people inevitably run into problems and head online for help only to be insulted and ridiculed by someone that may not even grow or smoke. It’s a terrible way to learn.