New Grower stupid, but --- don't you lose trichs if you grind up a bud to smoke it ?

[oldguyintn]

I am going to take a guess and say this is a stupid question, but here goes anyway.....
Grew and cured my own smoke and got lucky I guess because the buds were(are) dripping with trichs.
Tho they are about 6 months old now, I have been curing them in mason jars with the Boveda humidity packs and decided to smoke a small bud tonight. I carefully picked out the one small bud I am going to smoke using just 2 fingers and my fingertips are sticky from minimal handling.
I placed it in the pipe to smoke and started wondering the best way to actually smoke it.....so did a quick google search.
Seems a whole lot of people say to grind the bud as it gives it more surface area,burns easier, more smoke etc etc
But naïve guy that I am, I am thinking if just by minimally touching the bud got my 2 fingertips pretty sticky, if I stuck this thing in a grinder it seems to me I would surely have to be losing a lot of trichs ?
I am hesitant to even break it up much as I see losing trichs even doing that....may not be a lot, but seems to me it is still a loss....
so am I that stupid ?
is just I spent a LONG time harvesting these things, trimming off every sugar leave etc and then have been trying my best to insure they get the best cure I can give them, so I would like to reap the benefits by getting the best smoke possible as it was actually quite a bit of work......
I am thinking break it up a bit, but not grind ?
your thoughts ?

I am not waiting for answers on this bud of course. Actually for this one I am not even breaking it up, but smoking it as is. Reason for the wait is I go to a pain clinic and now they do a urine test every month. Appt is 2 weeks away and as I have not smoked in ages, from what I have read it should be out of my system by then.

The irony is I got my meds from the V.A. for about a decade thru the mail - never had a follow up appt in all that time. Not doing that great, I thought I really needed some follow up care so went to a private clinic - and of course now I have to take a urine test every month.........and in the mean time I thought I would try some mj as it is supposed to be pretty good for what I have.........only now I really can't smoke it.........no need to express my thoughts on the matter......

 

[Jr kron]

I grind mine and save up the crystals over time.

If your appt is in 2 weeks the thc will still be in your system probably.

Edit: I was thinking heavy smoker having it still in their system for a month and longer. Still sounds like you might be cutting it close, as it can still be in your system 10-13 days

 

[Chester]

Grinding the bud does crush the trichomes and leave a percentage of it's sticky goodness smeared around the inside of the grinder. For a bowl I'd do a minimal breaking up by hand ... Unless your blood work specifically includes a test for pot for some reason it is VERY doubtful that they would be testing for the presence of weed ... I have all sorts of blood work done moments after smoking a bowl but it doesn't matter because they are not testing to see if I smoke but to determine other levels in my blood. Perhaps you could call your Doctor and ask them what specifically your blood is being tested for .... Good Luck ... we all know how it is to consider each and every bud as your baby but you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet ... Good to hear you got the growing and curing down ... now smoke dat shit ...
:Sharing One:

 

[komach]

Ahhhhh thets why I'm more stoned with vaporizator

 

[Alpha Skull]

It's not a stupid question.
It's a great one!

The majority of the THC is in the leaves and bud-meat. It doesn't matter how many trichomes or red hairs you knock off the buds whilst handling them---if it is stonable pot, then it will still get you plenty stoned. You will NOT lose a significant amount of stonable potential even if you knocked off all the trichomes and red hairs. Try it. Seriously. Take a bud and bang it against something for a few minutes or stick it in a bag with some marbles and shake it for a few minutes and do your best to knock off the trichomes and red hairs. And then fire up the bud and see what happens. You will get just as stoned as if you hadn't knocked off the trichomes and red hairs.

I guarantee it.

:tiphat:


Yes, and as for your urine test:
Let's be reasonable and use simple logic: Your urine test is not court, probation, or police related. It is for a pain clinic---a private one at that. It is doubtful they will test for THC but even if they did and they said something to you, they would SURELY sympathize with your curiosity about marijuana and its purported pain-relieving qualities. Being that they are private and that there is a doctor/patient confidentiality thing going on, I simply cannot see them calling the police on you nor refusing to give you further treatments.

Brother, for the hate of pain, please fire up them buds ASAP! "pher Wiggle"

 

[Chester]

I read a post once about a person that would carefully dismantle each bud w/ a set of tweezers and a small pointed pair of scissors (tiny) ... He would dismantle his buds pulling off just enough to fill the bowl w/o grinding or packing ... it works and I'm sure it's all in my head but the buds seemed to carry more flavor when I vaped them w/o grinding ... Of course for convenience I usually grind 2-3 days up at a time, but for a treat now and then I still dismantle my buds w/ tweezers and scissors ... If you're going to smoke it in a bowl there's no need to grind it ... minimal processing is better ...
:Sharing One:

 

[Joedirt]

THC stays in your system for a long time! You need to ask the clinic what they are testing for and if its not THC then by all means smoke those carefully cured and gently handled nuggets!!!
Yes the trycs do fall off but not enough to make you notice any diff. when you smoke it.
Grind it cook it roll it vape it.
Good luck!

:thumbs:

 

[pop22]

maybe also ask your doc about his opinion of medical cannabis. No need to explain you've already started medicating

 

[Chester]

And while you're at it ... if you want to get the most out of your bud you need to light it w/ a beeswax wick in a clean glass bowl ... a match generally adds a little taste and most lighters are a lot hotter than they need to be which can destroy some THC ... Vaping is the bees knees ... the trick is finding the right vape for you ...

 

[oldguyintn]

as far as the pain clinic, trust me when I say that a whole bunch of people are kicked out for smoking pot. I would be shocked to learn they are not testing for thc.
Did you know that even if you live in a state where medical mj is legal and you test positive for thc you get kicked out of the clinic ? Tis true, look it up.

I am not sure how I want to bring it up, but I am going to see if they test me for thc, tho as mentioned, I would be shocked to find out they don't. Just started testing me every month a few months ago - fed standard I would imagine. Before I rarely got tested When I was in the V.A. pain clinic, they mailed it to me every month for about a decade with ZERO follow up appts.......which is why I now go to a private clinic.......unfortunately the tradeoff was still worth it, but it does show the low standards they have for vets. I could have been dead for years and they would not have known.....go to a private clinic, get tested every month now. Keep people off that evil weed, even tho John Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic etc etc have done research after research showing mj not only helps reduce the pain, but it also actually REDUCES the amount of morphine needed for greater pain relief.......but since when did real science matter......,.

thanks on the grind question......I will get a vape if I can ever smoke more than once a month, BUT, after such a good long cure, I do have to say the smoke was as smooooooooth as u can imagine......was pretty awesome actually