{"id":17047,"date":"2017-06-11T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/11\/the-mendocino-mating-call\/"},"modified":"2017-06-14T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T06:27:09","slug":"the-mendocino-mating-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/11\/the-mendocino-mating-call\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mendocino Mating Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a decade and a half of herb grinding, we still can\u2019t recommend grinders enough for newbies. We don\u2019t see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind. More and more cannabis aficionados are grinding their weed before they smoke it, and with vaporization, the trend is getting even hotter. Herb grinders are usually small, palm-sized, puck-like discs that split apart to reveal little grinding teeth. Load in the herb, close up the grinder and twist a few turns to transform the stickiest, densest bud into fluffy, green-white grinds perfect for joints, pipe bowls and vaporizers that take flower. According to\u00a0High Times\u00a0icon Danny Danko, grinders got their global launch in 2001 with the company Sweetleaf. \u201cHow to Smoke Pot (Properly)\u201d\u00a0author and expert David Bienenstock said, \u201cThere\u2019s been few truly game-changing innovations in the cannabis paraphernalia game, and the grinder is definitely a big one. Naturally, people ground up their herb before there were \u2018grinders,\u2019 but not as often, easily or efficiently,\u201d said Bienenstock. \u201cGrinding your cannabis flowers, whether you\u2019re smoking them in a joint or bowl or vaping them, is vital,\u201d he said. Grinding helps the heat of a lighter, wick or vaporizer oven penetrate flower bud material completely, making for more potent and flavorful draws. Modern medical cannabis can be so dense and resinous it\u2019s near-impervious to the flame of a lighter. The outside of a nug will get charred and black, while the inside is still green and unconsumed. It\u2019s inefficient and tastes suboptimal. Ground bud smokes more optimally, with better flavor. Just be careful, your first bowl of ground bud will be very potent and flavorful compared to bud broken up by hand. Some purists swear off grinders, saying they need to feel the bud\u2019s density, resin, dryness and smell its aroma on their fingers for the best smoking experience. But grinders are finding more and more fans, especially as they come in different colors and sizes, with attachments like a screen and kief catcher. Kief is the collected dust-like trichome matter of the cannabis plant, and is more potent than whole bud itself. Bienenstock advises: \u201cAlways grind the herb thoroughly, stopping before it becomes powdery. Perhaps the biggest mistake rookie rollers make is either over or under-grinding their weed. Because if you keep going until it gets powdery, the flavor will seep out and the joint will burn harsh and quick. And if you leave your buds too chunky, the joint will be hard to roll and burn unevenly.\u201d Leading companies like Santa Cruz Shredder mill their grinders from single blocks of aluminum and use computer-optimized teeth designs, rare-earth magnets and anodized colors and designs.\u00a0 Grinder cards are also surging in popularity. The credit-card sized, perforated steel sheets shred up herb at a fraction of the weight of a full-size hand-grinder. Fun fact! When emptying a metal grinder, users often tap the two sides together to loosen any herb caught in the teeth. That characteristic \u2018clink-clink\u2019 of an emptying grinder has a special name in California\u2019s\u2026
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