Making brick weed

[qwizoking]

Yea some of the best weed I've ever had was bricked. Still buy a good brick every time I see one.
Last brick weed thread I just got some, was purple covered in trichs, dank. Aaaand you got that crazy sativa high.
Bricking weed doesn't inherently destroy it. It wasn't first done to smuggle either.

Its an art though to do it just right, if its too moist with the heat it quickly goes bad. They hang it to dry till it snaps, similar to how we do, they then press it manually in a press. The families do anyway, cartels machine press and fuck shit up. Anyway once bricked its basically sealed, it continues to cure fabulously and the inside recieves little light and doesn't dry out very quickly.
This was necessary for the foxtailing airy buds to get a cure at all

Traditional families bricked up half lbs or lbs at a time. They weren't idiots. Cartels now typically do 20's and 50's aren't uncommon...they weren't chopping down super early, you can see amber trichs. But the sativa buzz needs to be maintained anyway, you ever grown a 26 week sativa? I'm guessing no, you don't want amber all over that girl.

And the genetics are superb. I'm taking a trip down to Acapulco to see family for Christmas hopefully gonna snag a shit ton of genetics I lost

 

[BWG707]

We used to get 20lb. square bricks of some type of Gold weed, probably Mexican , more than likely Colombian. Kilos were much more common. That was in the mid '70's.
@Vnsmkr , tell them to start exporting some of them sticks. Lol

 

[qwizoking]

Lol I remember the old "Mexican oz"
What like 24, 26 grams? I forgot, and ain't doing the math. Seemed like they switched from keys in around 2000. Still popular in s.a. though

 

[reapersfamiliar]

Yea some of the best weed I've ever had was bricked. Still buy a good brick every time I see one.
Last brick weed thread I just got some, was purple covered in trichs, dank. Aaaand you got that crazy sativa high.
Bricking weed doesn't inherently destroy it. It wasn't first done to smuggle either.

Its an art though to do it just right, if its too moist with the heat it quickly goes bad. They hang it to dry till it snaps, similar to how we do, they then press it manually in a press. The families do anyway, cartels machine press and fuck shit up. Anyway once bricked its basically sealed, it continues to cure fabulously and the inside recieves little light and doesn't dry out very quickly.
This was necessary for the foxtailing airy buds to get a cure at all

Traditional families bricked up half lbs or lbs at a time. They weren't idiots. Cartels now typically do 20's and 50's aren't uncommon...they weren't chopping down super early, you can see amber trichs. But the sativa buzz needs to be maintained anyway, you ever grown a 26 week sativa? I'm guessing no, you don't want amber all over that girl.

And the genetics are superb. I'm taking a trip down to Acapulco to see family for Christmas hopefully gonna snag a shit ton of genetics I lost

i know it's an art, but i get similar results by: dry to snap and put all in one of those "ziploc big bags"..like huge, oversized baggies. press out air.

keep it out of the light, make sure you've bled out the air if you re-open to keep the press.

 

[qwizoking]

They haven't been around forever. This process is as old as say hash making, a very traditional thing. Why we don't do it in the u.s. of course there are better ways. But it was quite remarkable at the time. A must for sure..and its still done by families, passed down techniques along with genetics and how to grow. I can't knock any of them. I wish I could grow as well as some of the farmers I know down there. Bricking is effective


I definitely would advise against plastic though. That's not moving very far forward

 

[reapersfamiliar]

They haven't been around forever. This process is as old as say hash making, a very traditional thing. Why we don't do it in the u.s. of course there are better ways. But it was quite remarkable at the time. A must for sure


I definitely would advise against plastic though. That's not moving very far forward

those huge zip bags are such a convenience.

once dry, i can store and trim when i can.

 

[Vnsmkr]

Plastic is shitty storage man. Get yourself some glass jars