Luckily and by choice, the dispo I do go to now and then live weighs your bud when you’ve made your choices. They have a few go to strains when needed. Purple Punch (you in the face)
Runtz
Four Prophets
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I only grow for personal use but I’ve let friends try it and they are all completely blown away with the taste and quality of the LSD and the Bruce Banner I’ve grown. I knew it was good to me, but glad to hear other people feel the same.
And from what I’m hearing, California is absolutely saturated with cannabis right now. There are so many growers and shops. They can’t get rid of it fast enough, so I’m sure there is plenty of weed out there that is getting ‘stale’ and ‘over-handled’.
I think I’ll be growing my own from now on.
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Ive never factored my cost per zip. Kind of scared to tbh lol.
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Happy Birthday @Bonjoyle my trips to my wholesale smoke shop, he has good flower different almost daily. Keeps me out of my grove bags. Showed me the vape pens I really like those.
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Jumping in late. I haven’t read every post and maybe someone’s already mentioned this. I think there’s one huge difference between dispensary and homegrown. Dispensaries might as well brick their buds, they crush every trichome. When I harvest and cure my weed I disturb the trichomes as little as possible. If you are handling your buds and you smell the sinsemilla perfume, it means you’re disturbing them. This is one of the main reasons I’m growing my own, I want undisturbed trichomes so that when I put it in the bowl that smell of sinse just reeks because that’s the first time I’m crushing the them.
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Those of you that are of the younger set are probably not fully aware of what things were like 40-50 years ago. A lot of weed was bricked. It was much easier to smuggle when the bulk is reduced as much as possible. It wasn’t until the 90s or so before they stopped bricking weed. The way they made bricks was to make an open wood box approximately 6" x 12" a couple feet underneath a solid cross beam. They would put the weed in the box put another piece of wood on top of it and then take a car jack and place it between the top piece of wood and the beam and jack it until it crushed the weed into a brick. Of course when someone bought the brick it was dried and cured by then. I don’t know what condition the weed was in when they bricked it. I don’t know how dry it was when they did this, I imagine it varied. In fact the first brick I bought when I got out of the service was this red Jamaican and it was awesome. Compared to the bricks that were available in Arizona around 1975 that were nothing but compressed leaf and you had to convince yourself after smoking a ton of it that you were stoned.
Anyway, if I ever manage to grow a surplus I am going to try bricking some of the bud. I’m going to try to create some 1 ounce bricks. I’m thinking they have to be almost dry but not cured and will cure in the brick. They have to be slightly moist probably just to create the brick and then probably let it age normally to cure before sealing it up. Any thoughts on this are welcome. I might try an ounce brick with this crop.
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I believe it would have to be dry to atleast 12% to prevent mold from forming. Although most the moisture is getting squeezed out and oxygen removed so its really hard telling.
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Maybe this is part of the reason why dispensary weed isn’t that good (in my opinion). Back in the day when they crushed it into a brick they broke all the trichomes but it was all in a solid mass so it probably kept a lot of the THC amongst the buds. The dispensaries have all the buds separate so after they break all the trichomes all the THC that they broke on the surface of the buds can oxidize because it’s all exposed to the air. Loose buds have a lot more surface area.
What i have gathered from bits and pieces of threads about dispensary weed. It gets tumbled or similar process to knock some trichs off those buds so they can make edibles and such.
Then they are sold. We think those 60.oo zips that crumble with no visible crystals are what we been getting black market tx 200 to 300.oo zip.
Ps, that stopped with first purchase of ilgm beans aug. 2022. We went cold turkey for the first time in decades for 60 days to start cannablizing our first banana kush. Never going back to those days.
Again, thanks grommies for your knowledge snd the sharing of. Thanks
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Losing some trichomes on the surface shouldnt affect the weed to the point it sucks though. If you crack open a frosty nug and place it under a scope it should be loaded with trichomes. And you can’t shake out the the center only the surface.
Loose buds can be shook because theyre larfy and the centers are more open for destruction.
Granted they shouldnt be shaking thier nugs and only shake the trim but the way they see it is most mfs dont know, one way or the other whats really going on behind the scenes and if they can take a zip and turn into a zip and some dabs then theyre going too.
What needs to stop is the over production of commercial weed. Its a purposeful action being done to drive the prices down nation wide to try and kill the dark market before the feds take over and change the game once again.
Over saturate the market, drive prices down, create a market collapse, seize farms and investors that cant pay back the loans, feds swoop in and take back all the equipment and land and give it to their corporate overlords, the end! Or something like that
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The dispensaries harvest the trichomes to sell you for Kief and then after they’ve harvested the kief they roll the shake to sell you in joints they’re definitely in it for the money not to sell you good product they try to have good product but they’re more in it for the money turn around IMO
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This doesn’t look to me like it has any intact trichomes. They’ve all been rubbed off and the bud is solid so the internal ones are crushed as well. They are extremely fragile. It’s a tiny spike with a ball of THC that is covered by a thin layer of waxy substance. The lightest touch will break that waxy layer and expose the THC. That’s the intense smell. It’s also why you get much more of it crushing your own bud, you still have your trichomes.
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If I said dispensary weed sucks, it doesn’t suck, it’s just not near as good as it could be if they handled it gently or as good as anything I’ve grown.
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To the average consumer its probably the best theyve ever smoked and in their mind worth the added cost and ease of service.
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Made me think of milk, cream, butter… at least they tell ya it’s only 2%or skimmed so you know youre getting less product for your money.
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Yeah should definitely have a label on it that says pre tumbled or something 
and then the money down here it’s about 260 to 280 for a top shelf ounce then if it’s recreational you pay 25% sales tax so you turn your $260 Oz into 315 or so crazy
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Whoa yeah crazy. NB Cannabis has nearly reasonable prices. Govt retailer.
I just got back from the rez dispo, they dont ask for a band card. 10g for 40 bucks right out of their jar, tax free, but I dont wanna get caught… This is their packaging:
@Jaysittinback You are allowed to be in possession of up to an ounce in a vehicle or on your person, 4 living plants at home, and up to 1 kg dried product total in any form at home. Since we are allowed to grow, it doesn’t have to be stored in Gov’t-supplied/labelled bags, little plastic ziplock is good enuff! You’re golden!
The rez weed looks nice, not overdried or stale like the stuff from the government outlets. At least you get to see and smell it before you buy it!
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Mostly or half time yeah its crap, then 1/5 times moldy. Right about getting to see it first
What rez?
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