Do you save your stems?

[Puffin13]

Like the title asks, do you save your stems? What do you do with them? Make cannabutter? Tincture? I know that they are fairly low in cannabinoids but there is still a little bit in them. I started saving my stems, on a regular basis, about 2 years ago with the thought of making cannabutter with them. Please share your experiences with using stems.

 

[kaochiu]

I've never tried to get any substance from them, but i don't like throwing them away. So, what i do everytime i harvest outdoors is make a fire with the plant's leftovers and cook a big, big steak. Oils help a happy fire and soon you get ashes, just enough time to cook a top chef steak. It's something like spiritual, and i call it a Steak Weedwood.

 

[PetFlora]

They make great infused oil that adds an earthy flavor

I use a glass jar cut stems to fit then pour either a HQ olive, grape seed or coconut oil

 

[Harry Gypsna]

I used to save em, thinking I'd make butter. Then my mate got busted, and a bagful of nearly a years worth of stems was counted exactly the same as buds....
I don't save my stems anymore.

 

[harry74]

Hello:
I´m usually using them for compost making with leaves roots and everything.
I try to make them small pieces when I´m not in a lazy mood.
This ones are Blueberry stems quite reddish.

 

[Grass Lands]

I save them for tinder to start fires...works quite well when dried completely, they torch right up when using magnesium shavings and a spark....

 

[yortbogey]

currently using my stems for .... late night dog treats to settle them down.... my dogs love a good branch......

 

[fungzyme]

I've always thought that somebody in a legal state (like a dispensary) should get a shitload of stems together and contract with an artist to make some cool artwork out of hemp fiber or hemp paper.
Something they could display in their dispensary. There are a bunch of talented artists working in fiber arts, and hemp fiber is one of the best there is.

 

[Hank Hemp]

I don't know about using them for compost. They seem to stand up pretty well to the elements. They use to make sails out of hemp didn't they?

 

[yortbogey]

I've always thought that somebody in a legal state (like a dispensary) should get a shitload of stems together and contract with an artist to make some cool artwork out of hemp fiber or hemp paper.
Something they could display in their dispensary. There are a bunch of talented artists working in fiber arts, and hemp fiber is one of the best there is.

I often see visions of pot stem / gingerbread houses.... in full blown holiday decor....

 

[supermanlives]

hell no. I got plenty of trim usually I don't need no stems.

 

[supermanlives]

i used to give all my stems to my buddy but he died. rip pepe. little guy was great at de seeding buds too

 

[Jhhnn]

I just chop stems up small, 1" or so when harvesting, put them & the fan leaves in the compost. It'd be different if I were growing trees.

I gift the popcorn & sugar leaves to an oil making charity.

Even though it's now legal in Colorado, old habits die hard. I still see any cannabis that I don't want to consume as an unnecessary liability, treat it as such.

 

[supermanlives]

i always wanted to try a wicker like design and weave a chair or something with the stems . my extra also got chopped up and I added some to garden soil,some to compost pile.but pepe got the small ones. fucker topped all my clones one time tho. I miss that little guy. coolass bird

 

[FRIENDinDEED]

I would say definitely save stems and trunks. I have a couple trunks from my SSH grow, first grow actually, and I plan to make a pipe out of it one of these days.

theres a youtube vid of some kids that had a quart sized metal can full of bud twigs, top of the can had a micron screen , they turned it over, shook all or most of the kief off and got about a grams worth' they smoked really well.

was a great vid because they actually said that they ran out of bud, connections weren't answering phones so pretty much a dry situation so needless to say "there was gold in them thar twigs!"

what kind of situations are you guys in that your getting busted for twigs?

 

[Jhhnn]

I'm not in that situation at all, in Colorado, but that's the way it was decades ago- you could catch a rap for having a bong, or a seed stash, or anything. It's probably still that way in some places.

I don't see any point to keeping stems & fans around when we can legally grow more than we consume. It's now like having a library, a selection from past grows that we can return to & that we can use to evaluate curing & storing methods. We'll see how that holds up after I retire in December, but it shouldn't be an issue. If we run out, we'll just have to resort to buying retail, I guess.

I love it here. I always have. A64 is the finishing touch to a great place to live.

 

[Snype]

I use my stems as the sticks to make THC Lollipops!

 

[supermanlives]

I have yet to try a thc lollipop. had everything else tho

 

[Snype]

I have yet to try a thc lollipop. had everything else tho

They're great for the holidays!

 

[#1cheesebuds]

I've never tried to get any substance from them, but i don't like throwing them away. So, what i do everytime i harvest outdoors is make a fire with the plant's leftovers and cook a big, big steak. Oils help a happy fire and soon you get ashes, just enough time to cook a top chef steak. It's something like spiritual, and i call it a Steak Weedwood.

this is what I do. the only difference is that I use mine to start the fire for my meat smoker. plus its a way of getting rid of the unwanted leftovers.

Also I use to try to make some kief out of it but never got anything worthy.