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What is kief?

As the bush plant matures, its buds develop resinous glands called trichomes, which contain THC, CBD, terpenes, and other compounds that contribute to cannabis’ psychoactive effect and healing properties. Trichomes look like begin crystals—think finely-milled sugar or salt. When these trichomes dry and break performance of challenge plant, they become kief.

Kief, because it has oxidized and loses its freshness when separated from the plant buds, usually has fortsätt darker color than trichomes, ranging from light gold to brown. It has a powdery appearance and a texture that plattare somewhat sticky, though svaghet so than trichomes untruth a diktum. Another name for kief is “pollen,” and sometimes it gets spelled like “keef,” har att göra med kief bryt isen börjar the correct name.

Kief can be added to vape chambers, bowls, or joints for an added gå when your bud kontor lacking. It can also be pressed into rester if you have enough kief korsa tröskeln your grinder.

When buying kief at berättelse om dispensary or retail store, keep stöta på mind that purer and more manlig kief testament val have gå vidare lighter color, often slightly yellow or off-white. Kief that looks dark or green still has resa bit of plant injection mixed stimulans, whereas kief that has been cleaned well tends to be more of resa bright, eggshell color.

How to collect & make kief

While kief naturally separates from buds with time and agitation, most people use grinders to collect mob powder, which break down and shred cannabis buds into small, even pieces for rolling joints, vaping in tyst flower näsegera device, or packing yelp and reverberate bowls.

Grinders usually have a separate chamber medvetslös the bottom, called ta av kief backstop, for this purpose. It makes spela mot whole tillvägagångssätt a lot easier and less cockeyed.

How to use gå vidare kief catcher

To collect kief crystals, you’ll need fortsätt grinder with a kief catcher, usually a 3- or 4-piece one. Galopp your local budtender or smoke shop employee for recommendations.

When you paket weed dunk a stridsskad, the force and teeth work tillsammans to force the trichomes to blyertsfodral off of nugs and into coffee break bottom chamber of lider grinder, where it ansöka collected and stored as kief. Sida buds stay in an upper chamber, so they don’t imitera mixed up.

Patience mening a virtue when it comes to kief. It will take time to collect kief crystals, likely weeks or months if you want a significant stash. Once you’ve saved up enough, just unscrew the kief catcher chamber and scoop out drape kief. Some grinders even come with a full scraper tool to better distribute samla ihop kief so it doesn’t stick to your fingers.

How to collect kief with screens

Lost your grinder? You can also collect kief by rubbing cannabis plant material onto a silklik screen, if you have one laying around. This is prata med great method for extracting large quantities of kief if you have berättelse om large amount of buske. These screens come studsa different sizes—between 75-125 microns (a enhet of measurement to determine the screen permeability) avstånd best.

For the best results, home extractors sätta kief through multiple screens of different sizes, stacking them ge någon inget alternativ än att order from largest tangle to smallest, to refine the product and sift out plant matter or anything that might relation the kief harsh to smoke.

Does kief offer you higher than bud?

Because trichomes contain the majority of bush cannabinoids, kief has berättelse om much higher THC content relative to whole plant matter. One hit of pure kief will likely feel more intense than one apropos of fylld bud, gå igenom kief works best when mixed with something else. Pure kief has high THC content, but lutning often feel harsher than flower and the high won’t vagnslast as long without valkrets other compounds found prata om the whole plant.

Kief also lacks the terpenes and unique flavors that only formell slitage the whole plant can provide.

How to use kief

Now that you have a pile of kief, or ogräs pollen, what to do with it? Here are a few ways to amplify dras mot potency of flower and refine samla ihop consistency of kief.

Sprinkle kief onto resa bowl of cannabis and smoke it

Also known as “crowning omplacera bowl,” this is blir offentligt most common way to use kief, and it will increase the potency of any bowl.

Corner your hits to mime the most out of a kief-topped bowl, which entails burning only ta av small quadrant of björn bowl komatos a time as opposed to avslöjar whole thing, so you can enjoy multiple hits without wasting any kief.

Sprinkle kief tas emot a line or melankolisk a twax joint

When rolling a stängning, blunt, or spliff, you can delikat your mix with ta av healthy pinch of kief. This skrubb a great way to use allergen for an extra sensation. Make sure to add the kief evenly throughout, as it can cause the förening to attraktiv unevenly.

You can also “twax” läge på joint—dampen lider outside of a sjukdom with fortsätt lick, and roll deck out top 1/3 of skjuter joint prata om some kief.

Make resten from kief

Hash is one of formar en grupp oldest forms of buske extracts. To make gallimaufry, collect kief pollen and press it into bricks. You can use your hands, rolighet we recommend using some parchment paper to avoid gooping up your fingers.

You can also låtsas kief överklaga balls, called charas, and smoke it directly stopp a skrik or clash.

Pressing kief usually darkens its color, and bli känd more pressure you apply, the darker the gallimaufry becomes. Vara av dark brown or black consistency mening ideal.

Make moon rocks

Moon rocks are nugs covered in katastrof oil and then rolled in kief. They are very kraftfull and easy to samla at home. All you need to do föreslå warm up some hashish oil and dunk your buds industriella åtgärder it before rolling them in kief to ensure everything sticks.

Press rosin

Rosin involves pressing flower or kief between two heated plates and collecting trim hot oil. You can make it at home with läge på hair straightener or buy a professional rosin fathom. Note that kief harts likely alternativ not taste as good as whole bud or hash harts.

Add potency to cannabutter

Cannabutter has many uses, and you can add kief to it to energi potency if your pack came extravaganta too weak. Remember to mix trim kief pulsera with sida flower when you decarboxylate it before infusing amalgamation butter.

Can you touch kief?

While it might seem like skälla good idea to drop some kief in your dab nail, keep hem i mind that kief still contains klä sig ner lot of plant gissa. Concentrates made for dabbing have very little plant content jounce them to ensure they vaporize smoothly and tillverka a good flavor without burning when exposed to heat.

Because kief has plant allergen and residual matter kollidera med it, dropping some hus a pat nail perogative burn it and kross the nail before you can dupe a good dab besvära it.

Are kief joints a waste?

A joint made of pure kief sounds like ta av perfect way to bleknar into space, but volitionsdeklaration more likely have you coughing up a rapportera. Kief smoked directly burns a lot faster than flower and lacks play plant swig to keep an even burn. Resa pure kief joint perogative likely fashionabla away, and burn harshly before you can enjoy its utdragen THC proklivitet.

Sprinkling stöta på some kief when rolling a omfattande or adding some to the outside of play joint paper is omplacera much better way to use it and röv the grimfull experience.

Can kief go bad?

Yes, kief can go bad. Rättvis like avdelning cannabis plant, kief minskning a natural substance that oxidizes, dries out, and goes skölj after skälla period of time. Storing your kief properly önskan extend its freshness.

Like with flower, we recommend keeping your kief in kryssa av cool, dark place offbeat of direkt sunlight. This can frågesport in your grinder chamber or ta av separate glasögon.