I just rolled my first blunt, something went horribly wrong.

[chronicinjury]

I just managed to roll a crude blunt out of a SWISHER SWEETS wrapper...... admittedly it was a pretty bad attempt; it wasn't tight at all and the wrapper was coming apart. So I light the fat bitch up and the thing just starts burning like crazy. I couldn't stop it, all the smoke was going to waste, so I just started smoking it as fast as I could. The flavor of the smoke was unmatched, I'll give it that... smooth and delicious... it made the shitty weed I got yesterday seem better... but, it was all gone inside of 3-5 minutes. The wrapper also burned back much faster than the contents, so I kept losing unsmoked bud at the front as the burning wrapper fell apart.... I probably went through three bowlpacks worth in as many minuts... any advice for how to prevent this from happening again??

 

[d4.]

Congrats on your first blunt! Their tricky at first, but you'll get the hang of them.

Sounds like to me that you didn't pack the bud in there well enough. Usually things burn quick because their not tight.

EDIT: Need be, just try the table rolling method. Works good for beginners and experts. Usually makes for good tight blunts. If your a custom to your own style, close up one end of the blunt, grab the other end with the tips of your index finger and your thumb and sort of flop it up and down - you'll see the bud pack right in there! Should make for a good smoke.

 

[Truthman]

Roll it tight. It was too lose and the air heated up the blunt quicker than the bud.

Go to www.everyonedoesit.com and get a roller until you learn how to roll so you won't waste your herb.

Practice rolling using the tobacco from the blunt and reconstructing the blunt. Peace.

 

[chronicinjury]

yeah, that's what i was thinking...... i don't have a grinder so i have been cutting my bud up by hand which i think may result in larger pieces which i think may cause it not to pack as tight

 

[PoppinFresh]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... im sorry.. wait a min.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH lol. i never heard shit like that before. the bud was falling out while it burned? please tell me you've got pictures. lol. ok ok ok im done being a dick.

don't feel bad at all buddy! not like i rolled my first (2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th lol) blunt perfectly either. it's a learning process. but the most important thing i can tell you is to make sure you break the bud up right. that is going to be the key to proper air control and smokability. if it's too coarse which is what i think you had a prob with, the paper will burn faster than the weed obviously and may even catch fire more likely. remember you're bringing in oxygen too fast. that will spark that bitch up something serious. if it's too fine, then the air flow will be all ****ed to hell and you will have to pull on that shit like mcdonalds shake! then you'll just get a migraine or pass out lol.

all you need is your fingers and some spit! don't be a pussy with all the fancy gadgets like some people (just teasin d4 lol).

but, seriously invest in a grinder before anything. get the one with the screen in it that's pushed up against the holes. remove that screen. do this because when the bud falls thru the holes, you'll know it's grinded juuuuuuuuuuust right! if you really want the screen to get the kif as you grind for later use, find a grinder where the screen is far from the holes. personally, i hate the regular flat grinders. if you dont put it in right, you over grind in some parts while you've got fat cherries in others. unnecessary drama.

if you can't wait for a grinder, you're gonna need to take your time in breaking up the bud with those fingers. just put up with it lol. get used to it. it's a good little skill to have in a pinch. lol. imagine how the air is flowing through it. do you want the air to flow through huge canyons or do you want the air to flow through a densely packed forest. pull the weed apart with that in mind.

when you're rolling, form the weed in the wrap into a semi-tight cylinder. if you can pull the wrap back and the weed itself maintains it's cylindrical shape, you're good to go! remember imagine the airflow. don't roll it too tight - mcdonalds milkshake migraine lol. when you spark that shit up, it should burn nice and smooth for ya.

good luck with it.

 

[chronicinjury]

guys... I rolled two more blunts tonight, each better than the last... and, on my third time, I had a breakthrough!

I packed it tight in to a PHILLIES Titan blunt wrapper, it burned slowly and succulently, and I beat the shit out of it. And man did it beat the shit out of me! So I was about 60% through the blunt, and suddenly it hit me- it was like someone had dripped me with THC intrarveinially. I just kept getting exponentially higher by the second, my head damned near exploded, and I just couldn't smoke any more! I had to put the blunt out. I wasn't prepared for that at all. I had to use an old cup I had under my passenger seat as an ashtray. And now I'm spliffed out of my f*ck! Can ya tell?

I'm putting my homemade 2-litre bottle bong in the closet. I am officially a blunt man. There is simply no other way to smoke.

 

[TwoOhSix!]

Blunts are fun, especially when you have a group of people smoking. But for personal sessions they aren't as good cause they use lots of herb, and if you have good weed its not as fun to be smoking blunt wraps chock full of chems.

 

[kurlyq2g]

I get that same feeling (way high, very quickly, and all at once) when i smoke blunts.

I get that effect from the tobacco.

Makes me feel light headed and suuuper stoned, but its just the tobacco i think.

I too, am a bong person. I dont smoke tobacco but maybe 3 times a year, in blunts. So the tobacco really effects me....

Anyone else notice this, and make the same connection?

 

[chronicinjury]

guys, i just rolled my fourth blunt....... if my third one was a breakthrough, this one is a REVOLUTION...... the only problem is, I'm way too high already, and I'm going to end up having a seizure if I smoke this shit. I don't know how long I can resist though. For God's sakes, say a prayer.

 

[PoppinFresh]

YESSSSS SIRRRRRRRRRRR

welcome to blunt land lol! hahahahahahahahaha! you'll actually find that the "take your time" feeling from a blunt will get you ****ed up and YES LORD it does creep up on ya something NIIIICE! you're just sitting there enjoying a puff and not really doing a whole lot and then you move your head and the environment doesn't seem to move the way it did before LOL. yes my good man, i know this feeling all too well. don't try to get up too fast either. and kudos to you because you learned much faster than i did LOL.

although i agree with what TwoOhSix i find it's worth it. you can always stop smoking and fire it back up later. that's what i do depending on how i want to feel. you'll find your own pace after some time! and the extra chems do suck but they're not as bad unless you're putting away a lot of blunts a day. then you might want to split your time.

when (lol) i have a stash, i wake-n-bake a quarter of a blunt, half to whole at night... but lately i've changed the game plan. i unroll that final quarter and put it back in my blue case for reuse. roaches have become annoying to deal with so i just don't put up with it anymore! that way im not burning my lips and fingertips LOL.

i've never really liked using the bong. but i will by request. i use my trusty one-hitter if there's not enough for a fat blunt LOL! it's always good to have those extra items around for people to experience everything. i've got an electronic vacuum pipe as well.

in the vein of finding your own blunt pace, you'll find your own general routine of course. once again, welcome to blunt land!

 

[Guest]

perfect joint rolling first. a lot less costly.

 

[suckerrepellent]

people can give you tips for days, but blunt rolling comes down to experience, straight up. with experience you will find the perfect grind texture, that perfect amount of spit to seal the blunt, and the perfect amount of flame to toast your blunt pre smoke. this will be a hobby that will soon enough become such second instinct you could do it with your eyes closed and hands not tied behind your back.

 

[Truthman]

perfect joint rolling first. a lot less costly.

All he has do to is like I stated and that's just reroll the blunt with the tobacco that came with it.

This is how I learned. I looked at a blunt I had on the side while I was rolling another one but making it smaller than the other one.

He's lucky because now a days there are videos for it on youtube. So this shouldn't be a problem. Just don't use herb unless you have a good connect and money to spend. Peace.

Here's a video from metacafe to help you out:


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/569676/how_to_roll_a_blunt/

This song also helped me and A LOT of other people on how to roll a lbunt and its the classic from Redman's "whut thee album" in 1992 "How to roll a blunt".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhb-e3p-W_A

 

[Papulz]

i say its experience. theres a 101 techniques for this so go with what works.

in my life, i picked up the skill from watching for a year or two then trying my own hand at it. remember, you can always use a new wrap if it comes out shittay.

one other note, i never have been able to roll joints so i would argue the skills are not exactly similar and transferable... i actually dislike them to a degree because of their fragility and size, but i can definitely roll up some nice ol blunts.

 

[PoppinFresh]

i say its experience. theres a 101 techniques for this so go with what works.

in my life, i picked up the skill from watching for a year or two then trying my own hand at it. remember, you can always use a new wrap if it comes out shittay.

one other note, i never have been able to roll joints so i would argue the skills are not exactly similar and transferable... i actually dislike them to a degree because of their fragility and size, but i can definitely roll up some nice ol blunts.

yeah, papers are much flimsier and a little more difficult to hold and roll compared to a big ass blunt wrap. but that's cuz i've got these fat stubby ass fingers too lol.

i'd say it's hard to roll a joint but it's hard to roll a blunt right!

besides i've always felt papers were more like "plan b". they're nice to have for when you don't have a blunt! blunts are more fun. rolling joints is like gettin a hand job... yeah you get off but is that what you really wanted lol!

 

[Lune TNS]

Like others have said, it all comes down to practice in the world of rolling. Over time you'll develope your own style. My only advice would be to ditch the wraps and use an actual cigar.

 

[Feyd]

I find joints to be more enjoyable when I'm smoking by myself. Or if someone is smoking with you and you don't quite feel like passing anything around lol.

Blunts on the other hand are great to enjoy by yourself AND in groups. Smoking with 1 or 2 other people is great just passing around a blunt (except when people treat it like a microphone!).

It also depends on how much weed I want to smoke. When I fire up a blunt I usually just smoke it all anyways and then wish I had only smoked like half because I was stoned halfway through anyways! Whereas with a joint its no big deal

 

[PoppinFresh]

...(except when people treat it like a microphone!)...

GUILTY

 

[LatinThug]

ya.......good choice with the philly titans......they are so big its hard not to mess up with em(unless you pack it huge)..........i really like the philles because i usually slice em down the side, gut it seperate the outer wrapper(itll be in 2-3 pieces) from the inner one. roll up the bud in the inner, stuff the extra in the ends with a pencil or golf tee, use the two bigger pieces of outer wrapper and wrap the blunt tight going along with the angle the outer wrap makes, leave the mouth end for the smallest part of the outer wrapper and roll it really tight on the end so the mouth piece is a lilttle bit smaller than the rest of the blunt, let dry, spark, inhale,pass, shotgun, inhale, pass........

I do this method because i really cant roll a tight blunt my first go around so i go back with the outer wrapper to tighten it up alot, and it seems to work for me.....outta the 60-80 blunts ive rolled over the years ive probably had 1 or 2 of em run on me( i really cant remember the last time one has ran on me)........they look like the ugliest step child of the blunt world but they sure do smoke like a champ


sorry for the gloating

 

[backwoodburner]

Man you gotta try some BACKWOOD sweet aromatic and the honey berry are good..banana too... man we stuff 1/8ths in these things all day. 8 in a pack= 1 zip a pack!!!