Quality guide - pot

[Deft]

I don't buy from dealers. I've always been hooked up by friends and family or grown my own.. seems like I am supplying friends and family now lol.

So for someone who has never really had to evaluate bud at face value and could always rely on the word of the source, how the hell do I go about determining grade?

So how do you judge the bud you buy (if you still buy ) without sampling?

 

[its kurmit]

welli dont kno about a full GUIDE persay... but

first look at it in general, any visible trichs?is it brown,dark or light green

purple or what? is it dense or wispy?

then pick it up, does it break apart easy? is it very very dry? if so it will

most likely be very harsh or not as tasty, i would turn it down unless

something in your gut tells you otherwise.... if it is very wet it will not

burn well, may not taste as good but generally you want the bud to be

semi-moist this is the "sweet spot"...



sniff the bud again judge the smell, sometimes by the smell you can judge if

it is potent bud or not but doesnt always work..see if you can distinguish any

smells that really stand out to you. if the bud doesnt smell at all or no smells

really hit you this can be a warning sign that the bud is that good..


then finally just determine if the quality of the bud is actually worth the

moeny being spent for it? generally in my area (s.e. usa) 20 a g for quality

bud, 60 an 8th , 100 a quarter so on....10 a g for good "mids" 30 an 8th, 50 a

quarter

 

[Haps]

If ya go to buy a load of weed, ya roll a joint and smoke it, then you know if it is any good. At least that worked last century.
H

 

[Deft]

Lol I do know good bud when I see it, I think I was unclear. I've been smoking for probably 5 years I just never buy from dealers so I never get shit broken down into different grades. The only bud I have smoked has come from me growing it or friends/family who don't know shit and don't know indica from sativa and if I ask they say something like "its just weed I dunno" so I have to smoke it to find out if its any good.

I been to Amsterdam once, even met a few IC folks before the cup but they sell it by strain name and not grow quality etc.

Just wanted to know wtf people agree on as the difference between shwag mids and top notch etc since no one I know seems to differentiate!

 

[Deft]

Obviously smoking works but doesn't get down to grade since I have no reference. I realize I sound like a retard asking, but its something I just never knew as its never been broken down into grades.. Always just my opinion on if its great or not so great.

 

[its kurmit]

scwag tastes like a donkey's asshole and is in no way pleasant to smoke, mids can be seeded or not seeded, good high/taste, lots of stems, can be too dry or too wet...and quality bud (people around here call it "dro" ) is very quality high/taste, usually compact tight buds with good crystal coverage, long lasting euphoric high's,can be light green to purple, usually dryed well but rarely cured...

 

[JohnnyATL]

shwag is the shittiest. Usually sativa based mexican brick weed.
Price is around 60 a oz unless you live on the border, then expect to pay ridiculously low prices. especially for large amounts.

mids is a little better, expect to find seeds. Still usually imported by mexican cartels or grown outdoors in the states, usually priced anywhere from 90-130 a oz or 25-40 a 1/4

Beasters are def some pretty buds, but looks can be deceiving. Grown in British Columbia by an asian gang, its mostly for profit. You can almost expect buds that are wet and not properly cured.

most beast goes for about 200-300 a oz on the eastcoast, but in Canada and out west prices are alot cheaper

also you get headies, which tend to go for around 200-450 depending on where you live and then exotics which are sometimes up into the high 500's

 

[Stoner4Life]

Obviously smoking works but doesn't get down to grade since I have no reference. I realize I sound like a retard asking, but its something I just never knew as its never been broken down into grades.. Always just my opinion on if its great or not so great.

a simple grading system used by a friend of mine is A, B, C for top, mid, & commercial to keep it simple and discreet. He knows why I call and will drop a hint in the conversation as we NEVER discusss weed, "Hey Dave" he'll say "You've got to listen to an old Stones album I found side A is hot!" I then know to bring enough $$$ to cover his "A" grade prices, or he bitches about the amount of commercials on TV I know not to bother unless I'm desparate for a low grade buzz.

As far as judging for yourself what you have in hand.......
Eye appeal is half the meal, if it looks good (proper curing, handling etc...) that's half the battle, then next it needs to examined with a pocket microscope for trichome status imo. I bought a $10.00 pocket micro from RadioShack. I assume you know what you're looking for in trichomes, just by being here @ ICMag you have thousands of pics to help you guage what's right looking. Lastly of course is the stone of the weed. It sounds like you're now buying enough to fulfill other's needs and so go meet your dealer w/o being buzzed, a few tokes will tell you what grade you're smoking, if possible hang out awhile to determine whether or not it has 'legs,' meaning does the stone last more than 5-10 minutes. Some weed packs an OK punch to begin with and yet the stone might quickly wear off.

Good luck & NEVER meet anyone nearby a school to do what you have to.

 

[panopticist]

Looks can be deceving, I'm going with Haps on this one.

You gotta fire that shit up to know the real deal, and any legit dealer will understand and comply...

 

[drunkenstoner]

i can generally tell how good its gonna be from trichome coverage .... i mean if its covered in crystal you know its gonna be atleast some decent bud. Also if its fresh ... nice green weed .... nothing worse than getting an old bag of brown.

 

[Sammet]

How well it's trimmed / or dried. If it has a wet or hay smell then it's uncured or rushed weed. Trich coverage is good too, if it has that sandy look However sometimes looks can be deceiving!

 

[8cyril8]

The Fire test. Smoke it.

 

[Verite]

Different if you are judging your bud at face value for quality. Things change when you eval it for cash, for that you have to know what your market area allows and what its currently got in it. When all esle fails go with what you last paid for it when you werent growing and judge its value on how much better it is than the local schwag.

 

[Haps]

I was picking up some pounds of weed and hash, and a bit of coke from a bud back in the late 70's, and he pulled out one of the most beautiful buds I had ever seen, and massive, I was in love. He said that ain't what you want, I'll sell ya some, but it just barely gets ya high, and he was right. Looks can be tricky.
H

 

[Deft]

Yea I've smoked good looking/smelling bud that barely did shit and lasted only minutes in the head.

I know not to do anything near schools, the minimums are nuts... Always hearing news clips about 18 year old kids getting years for a one j sale on school grounds.

I guess the smoke test will be it then, should get a magnifying loup too as the radio shack microscope is a PITA to get in focal range and doesn't transfer light well to the eye.

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

shwag is the shittiest. Usually sativa based mexican brick weed.
Price is around 60 a oz unless you live on the border, then expect to pay ridiculously low prices. especially for large amounts.

mids is a little better, expect to find seeds. Still usually imported by mexican cartels or grown outdoors in the states, usually priced anywhere from 90-130 a oz or 25-40 a 1/4

Beasters are def some pretty buds, but looks can be deceiving. Grown in British Columbia by an asian gang, its mostly for profit. You can almost expect buds that are wet and not properly cured.

most beast goes for about 200-300 a oz on the eastcoast, but in Canada and out west prices are alot cheaper

also you get headies, which tend to go for around 200-450 depending on where you live and then exotics which are sometimes up into the high 500's

Those three pics are the reason why I grow. ugh!



minds_I

 

[Dr Dog]

Hello all,







Those three pics are the reason why I grow. ugh!



minds_I

I hear that, the first one looks like teh stuff that builds up underneath my lawnmower

 

[TheBigGreen1]

People around my way are all about weight. My buddy tried to sell me a "quarter" of weed. "It sticks to the bag." Me "The reason it sticks to the bag is because it's straight off the plant and into the bag." Him "But its dro, and it weighs 7.5g" Me "Dry it, and cure it, and then I'll buy a 7.5g bag off you." Everyone else goes crazy for it. Not me. It would worth it if it was dried and cured. Its not really bad herb. Just wet, with no cure.

Later on, I met the douche he gets his weed from. (A coked out pill head) And he tells me "It's not really Hydro, it's grown in dirt." "I just call it hydro." What a joke. I grow my own, and I can tell the difference. The funny thing is, if its not bright green and wet, people where I live think its dirt weed. I'll stick to my dirty brown (cured) weed that I grow myself. I leave the "dro" for everyone else.

 

[Sammet]

I hear that, the first one looks like teh stuff that builds up underneath my lawnmower

I hear that. Man that's some funky weed.

I don't think we get the stuff in the first photo in the UK - I've certainly never seen brick weed like that here, even in keys shipped into London.

Get lot's of beasters style bud here (well within my social circles), it tends to be badly grown dried and cured but it's still reasonable compared to that stuff up there!

 

[panopticist]

I don't think we get the stuff in the first photo in the UK - I've certainly never seen brick weed like that here, even in keys shipped into London.

Then thank your deity of choice...

For a while, the Mexibrick was all that was going through my community for some time. Friends and I would blaze L's of the stuff all day long and still only catch a mediocre buzz at best. A good 1/3rd of the bag would be stems and seeds, and the rest of the so-called 'smokeable material' would be so harsh and dirty that smoking it out of a bowl or bong could be considered some form of attempted suicide.

Going to college taught me about sensi/nug. Learning to grow my own taught me that those kids in college didn't know shit about good weed...