jrutherford
420 Member
I'm a fairly sensitive medical user, and have been vaping 100-150mg of dry herb daily for about 18 months. I'm still having trouble with consistency. Sometimes I get exactly the smooth, dreamy anxiety-reducing high I’m looking for, and other times I get an unpleasant racy experience or, alternatively, I get a feeling like the dose was too low. Can anyone look at what I'm doing and suggest what I might be missing?
I typically grind a medical batch (always the same strain purchased from NETA) on a 4 piece grinder once a week or so. Then each day I scoop out a bit with a metal spoon. I'll try to get an even mix of the bigger leafier bits and the smaller bits but this is very subjective. I weigh the bowl on milligram scale - usually between 100-120mg. Then I preheat my Mighty at 375F and once heated, pour in herb from the weighing paper. Typically puff until the taste changes. About 30 minutes later if I didn't get the effect I was looking for, I'll re-up another 30mg or so. I take notes on nearly every session.
What I hate about this is that I can't actually measure the potency of each bowl, and there are so many variables at play. I try to select a few different nugs from the bottle before grinding. I try to turn over the ground herb a few times to evenly distribute things. But I can't help but think that maybe the smaller leafy bits are more potent than the courser bits but I can't figure out how to control for that. Sometimes I use a kief shovel to make sure I get an even blend of sizes. When I'm near the end of the grind, I'll often just save off the result somewhere else and grind fresh because I suspect what is left over must be much higher potency (surely not all of the kief is too small to fall through..?) But after a year+ of doing this I still can't get to the point where I can confidently get the same effect every time.
I've read extensively the notes from @SweetSue and others but no one seems to have any direct advice on dry herb consistency.
Much thanks in advance for guidance!
I typically grind a medical batch (always the same strain purchased from NETA) on a 4 piece grinder once a week or so. Then each day I scoop out a bit with a metal spoon. I'll try to get an even mix of the bigger leafier bits and the smaller bits but this is very subjective. I weigh the bowl on milligram scale - usually between 100-120mg. Then I preheat my Mighty at 375F and once heated, pour in herb from the weighing paper. Typically puff until the taste changes. About 30 minutes later if I didn't get the effect I was looking for, I'll re-up another 30mg or so. I take notes on nearly every session.
What I hate about this is that I can't actually measure the potency of each bowl, and there are so many variables at play. I try to select a few different nugs from the bottle before grinding. I try to turn over the ground herb a few times to evenly distribute things. But I can't help but think that maybe the smaller leafy bits are more potent than the courser bits but I can't figure out how to control for that. Sometimes I use a kief shovel to make sure I get an even blend of sizes. When I'm near the end of the grind, I'll often just save off the result somewhere else and grind fresh because I suspect what is left over must be much higher potency (surely not all of the kief is too small to fall through..?) But after a year+ of doing this I still can't get to the point where I can confidently get the same effect every time.
I've read extensively the notes from @SweetSue and others but no one seems to have any direct advice on dry herb consistency.
Much thanks in advance for guidance!
