kiloisalb

what "traits" should the weed have

t-1000

difficult to answer. Really, you need lots of experience smoking many different qualities of bud.

I look for:

1) lack of seeds
2) lime green or brighter coloring
3) noticable crystallization
4) good smell - this one you just have to know

things like red hairs etc... dont really mean a whole lot.

Generally, once you know it's weed and not a ripoff, if it is seed free (sensimilla) and has a nice healthy green look it's probably gonna get you very high.

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5drive

I hope you're not having to buy without sampling the product. If so, I'd be looking for another source.

Hashishi

Stickiness and density. It should have lots of oils. Obviously, the composition of the oils in terms of how much THC they contain is a factor, but most commercial bud is bred to naturally produce higher concentrations of THC- so, taking that as a given, you`ll be wanting to look for quantity: i.e. As sticky as possible.

My father, when he travelled in India, used to rub fresh, wild cannabis between his hands. After an half hour or so of doing this, he could rub his hands together over a piece of paper and harvest a large ball of resin. That`s what gets you high- the oils which cannabis 'sweats out'. Everything else is pretty much just aesthetics.

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chadwick

1. good buds no flat sides that just means it was probably comercial quality not conisuer quality

2. look for plenty of hairs and or plenty of crystals

3. little if no shade leaves still on, they just add weight to the buds

4. color, you want the crystals to be either clearish, milky, or tanish; also the buds should be either a nice dark green or a lime green, never brown were it should be green

5. colors are always good to look for, like purple, gold, red, orange, blue, differnet colors are always good because buds that have colors like purple are mostly high THC strains

6. a couple little things that can help are if your hookup keeps it in a jar than he probably the apreciates quality that the bag destroys(just squishes them a little) than he is probably going to go out of his way to get good bud to put in the jar

7. fresher the better, so stronger smell is apreciated as is the moisture content of the bud, if you can pich the top and twist it completly around with out breaking it off completely just about half off than its probably fresh

8. dense, rock hard buds are the best, you want them to give a little but not much, if your fingures are sticky after that than its good,

9. always have your dealer weight it out, i have notice sometimes when i have rock hard bud that looks like half as much as the less dense stuff that i weighted both out on the same scale

troublemaker_42

You've already recieved good advice, but simply put, sometimes you just don't know til you smoke it. i've had weed that looked like really good KB, seedless, hairy, etc.....and it was completel garbage. A blunt of it MIGHT get 2 people high. Then, I've had schwag that was seedy, stemmy, and looked like horrible weed.....yet, when smoked, it was actually suprisingly potent

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Hashishi

Good point: now I come to think of it, bud that has an ever-so-slightly 'greasy' feel- as in a incredibly light oil as opposed to a dank sticky oil, is the bud that has got me the highest- converse to what I said in my OP.

A friend came back with some bubblegum from Amsterdam, and while it smelt great it wasn`t 'dank' or 'sticky'- it was light, nice-looking bud from what I can recall of my first impressions. ...Everything beyond that`s a total haze, though.

t-1000

Exactly... Stickiness doesnt always mean much. The best dro I have smoked has always been just slightly sticky, but mostly just soft. It should roll into a J really easily.

Buzzby

Hairs are decorative, no more. Crystals is where the potency resides.

Weed doesn't reach its peak potency or aroma until it has been properly dried and cured. Fresh bud has very little smell compared to the aroma after a week's drying and a month's curing. The most basic test to see if your crop is dry enough to start curing is that the stems snap rather than bend. If you can twist a top completely around without breaking the stem, the weed has a ways to go before it's ready to smoke. If you seal it in bags or jars at this point, chances are that it will be covered with mold in a few days.

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TemplarProphet

I would have to aruge that point. I agree that hairs have almost no THC compared to the actual crystals that emit from the resin glands. However, usually lots of colored hairs indicate good weed. For instance, Hydro I always get has mucho hairs. Pedro sometimes in the summer I find myself getting brown, nasty mursh, that has little or no hairs.

Buy a pocket loop and look at the crystals closely. There are vids on You Tube from High Times magazine, that tell you what to look for.


[quote=Buzzby;854972]Hairs are decorative, no more. Crystals is where the potency resides.


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