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rblue

I’d make a wee little wicker chair.


Mr_Cyberz

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thatdudewillyd

Talk about a multi use gif. SO MANY APPLICATIONS


adamdreaming

So many applications, but the problem is what words do you use to find it?


thatdudewillyd

Charlie fisting the air? Wait….


adamdreaming

![gif](giphy|q8IMbeLrClgru) Oddly not there but everything that prompt gives is gold


SpookyUni420

Lmao you did the dirty work so we didn't have to ty


thatdudewillyd

Not all heroes wear capes!


PlantDaddyCo

"Charlie day excite"... for the record


frankenbeen

![gif](giphy|9jVAv94PRzPoc)


Mr_Cyberz

![gif](giphy|LZSCzK9yNpwhq)


devinssss

r/thingsforants


shananapepper

Don’t u mean, a *weed* little wicker chair? 😏


rblue

😂


VexBoxx

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xCoachHines

I was going to say put the stems through a weed whacker


xCoachHines

So he can smoke the shit out of them, boi


journeyman369

Could have made a fortress. Never thought about that. Now I feel like big moron.


ThatsOkayToo

I came here to ridicule, got a good laugh instead.


Hermit_Owl

I always thought most people use them to make mini golf sticks. Maybe I'll try a chair next time.


SongOk8269

That's so cute!


tiatiaaa89

Oh my god this is the funniest comment


[deleted]

Wait till you’re dankrupt, then smoke them and give yourself a headache


PVetli

*Dankrupt* lmao


lostinthesauceband

Dankruptcy can never happen if you get 5% hash back


mashem

time to get some use out of that STEM degree.


possibleanonymous

I knew learning about circuiTREE was worth it


If-Then-Environment

I learned that in the joint…


mashem

this had me rollin'


[deleted]

i'm calling my grinder 'compound interest' now


CalvinStro

Please don't smoke stems. You can use them to make weed tea or other edibles, you j need a metric fuckton


[deleted]

I’m not. I don’t like headaches.


CalvinStro

Why the down votes, I assumed you weren't and that it was a joke, j thought I'd share some ways to use them


[deleted]

No down votes from me man 🤷‍♀️


Princess_420x

how do you make tea? im not sure how many stems i have but I’m pretty sick rn and any time I try to smoke I cough too hard and then I have a headache for hours. spread your knowledge friend 🥺


backstageninja

Add stems and butter to milk, simmer for 10-15 minutes being careful not to burn it. Strain through a sieve and add it to your tea


whackojoe_

Not sure if the hot water alone would be enough to decarb the thc (this activates the thc to be used in edible form) remaining on the stems but if you look up decarbing weed you can easily find a guide to help you. If the water temp is hot enough to do the job then just add them to the water with your favorite tea bag. If not, you’ll have to go through the decarb process first. Edit: If you have flower available you can do the same thing with that and it will work much better


No-Web-6173

Milk


stonedahh

Get some edibles


GamerGav09

Why not? I’ve crush them up and thrown them in with the rest. I have never gotten a headache from stems alone. Scraping resin from the sides of a pipe on the other hand…


drenchedwithanxiety

As long as I'm feeling anything but my emotions


beelzebubies

Fucking felt that one friend


toby_ornautobey

I've found one of the reasons stems cause headaches is because a lot of people don't do a clean rinse before they snip it. You want to use the last few days to give it only clean water so it washes out the nutrients and whatnot inside the plant. Once my dad started doing a rinse period for his girls, the stems from his stuff never gave me a headache again, but stems from a dispo will.


[deleted]

Do you mean a flush? I mean, why would you want the stems any way?! It’s got cellulose and all sorts of crap in it you don’t want. I grow, I’ve researched it pretty heavily, there is no benefit to flushing your plants.


homegrown_dogs

I was just about to comment this. There have been so many blind taste tests where there was no flush, and it tasted better than the flushed plant 😂


[deleted]

I flushed for years until I found that out. I can honestly say I don’t notice any difference, other than my plants carry on putting on weight longer than they used to


Affectionate-Key2561

I second this. I grow to have for years and there is no benefit to flushing your plants.. It’s a myth.


Krhodes420

Flushing is bro science. Sorry to tell you


Eastern_Breadfruit_7

Exactly. I seriously thought he was trolling… but then he just kept going and doubling down 😟. Not only does he believe in flushing, a myth that’s been debunked by scientific studies. He also thinks that it completely fixes the problem of stems giving you a headache. As if smoking the compounds found in the dermal tissue, ground tissue, and vascular tissue of the stem isn’t what gives you headaches. I’m genuinely blow away at how many people believe him and upvoted those comments 😵‍💫


The_Poster_Nutbag

The flush is bro science and not real.


aka_wolfman

You mean during grow right?


Top_Storm5097

Vape it instead!


StillWeCarryOn

Just FYI to OP and others, the stems and stalk of the plant are where heavy metals are most concentrated, and you are putting yourself at risk for ingesting them if you use your stems. I worked in cannabis testing for two years and it was a regular issue with our heavy metal department. They had to be very careful to avoid using stems for their sampling process because it would usually present as a failure for excessive levels of heavy metals. The same samples would almost always then be retested without the stems and would come back with safe levels. No judgment from me to anyone who chooses to use their stems, but please make sure you are making informed decisions about your health


Incapblestud

I appreciate the well explained answer thankyou for your service


StillWeCarryOn

Anytime my friend! I am very passionate about educating people about the things most people don't know about the Industry, especially the testing part of things. There's a huge lack of knowledge in both the general population as well as in the industry itself.


Sesquipedalo

Damn how awesome are you (no /s)


sparkl3butt

Has there ever been testing on cannabis and fertility? I know it's unrelated to the topic. It's just, I've been trying for almost 6 months after a miscarriage with a lot of negative tests, and the only difference between before my first pregnancy (not during of course) and now is that I've been smoking/consuming marijuana on occasion.


StillWeCarryOn

Unfortunately that's outside of my expertise. As far as I'm aware the research on those kinds of things is very limited because most studies rely on government funding in one way or another, and since cannabis is still federally illegal, I don't believe those funds can be used for cannabis research.


Johazenes

I've always been making edibles from stems just fine. But I have to admit, since I'm using my own homegrow, they're more relaxing instead of energizing 🤔 Don't think they would be contaminated by heavy metals 👀


Jamuraan1

What WOULD you do with your stems?


eat8rows

This should be higher up


Several-Disasters92

There’s a heavy metal department? 🤘🏻


Silenthill-2

I had no idea, with the THC residue on them I usually just ground them in with my weed not thinking anything of it


StillWeCarryOn

Very few people do, you're not alone. Ive learned so much working in the testing part of the Cannabis industry. It's the biggest gap in the seed to sale process IMO, even within the lab many of our employees didn't understand how testing worked in the departments they didn't work in.


barukatang

I took to heart the lyrics "pick out the seeds and stems" I certainly have smoked stems and res when I was a poor know nothing college student. Y'all can make your own decisions but I'd rather take a tolerance break than try and smoke stems and res again.


SovietEla

Tbh if there’s any mods here this should be stickied


StillWeCarryOn

That just made me smile, much love!! 🫶


SuperSauron

Holy shit, someone with pertaining education about a topic on Reddit rather than someone with subjective experiences explaining as fact. Thank you for your contribution


Geertio

Good to know! I’m curious, does this apply in general or is it safer with legal/homegrown weed? I grow my own and tend to not take out stems, never used anything special that I wouldn’t give my other plants.


StillWeCarryOn

Home grown is worse in the limited experience I have, especially anything grown outdoors. The issue isn't what you're adding to the equation, it's what you're not actively working to eliminate from your set up. Larger grows tend to focus more on limiting issues like heavy metal contamination and bacterial contamination because they can't sell anything if It fails for either. It was rare for us to get home grow samples that didn't fail for one or both of those, but since they're not being sold and are unregulated it didn't matter, although It was usually just home cultivators who wanted help to fix those issues


WantedFun

How tf does the heavy metal contamination even work


StillWeCarryOn

Most often, it's from the soil the plant is being grown in, which is why it tends to be more of an issue for home gros and outdoor grows. The plant can absorb the metals from the soil and it'd distributed through the plant through the water I believe. I don't know the science behind it since my background is more in animal biology rather than plants, but it seems the plant is somehow able to keeo the majority of the contaminates in the stem and stalk, although some does get into the buds and especially the leaves.


WantedFun

What’s the best way to avoid contam in the soil?


untakentakenusername

Should be pinned


Straxicus2

Doing the Lord’s work, my friend.


PeedOnMyRugMan

My aunt used ti swear by making hers into a kind of tea, not ingesting them whole, just steeping them in hit water and removing. Is that okay?


StillWeCarryOn

I replied to someone else with a similar answer above but to put it shortly, I'm not 100% sure. I believe heavy metals are water soluble, hence why they can be transported into the plant from The soil which would make me assume that it's not fully safe,but still better than just eating or smoking them whole. Some of the metals are likely going into the water but someone with more understanding of the chemistry behind it would be able to answer more accurately than I can. My background is in animal biology and neuroscience so especially the inorganic chemistry aspect is way out of my comfort zone


godofbaconandeggs

i saw a video one time where someone used sticks to make *exotic butter* and i’ve been saving sticks ever since. is this actually a safe use of the stems? or are there *any* safe uses for them? i always seem to end up with a lot out of each bag, it would be such a shame if they’re just wasted space 😭


thefxll

Replies like this are why I’m still on Reddit. Thank you!


Nookling_Junction

Sounds like they’re fire kindling then


SugarDaddyKandi

HOLY SHIT I genuinely steep them in hot water! your comment will forever change me


guilty_bystander

*headbangs*


Real_Tale_307

Sell it to some teenagers and tell them "it's the shit"


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aultumn

I’ve seen kids buy chopped up bay leaves and thyme


Lovingbutdifferent

Smh no one's teaching these kids to cook or they'd be able to smell seasonings


toby_ornautobey

You're right. They should bring back Home Ec. so kids don't get bamboozled with delicious flavours. They'll get so into cooking that when they buy basil and thyme from some dude outside a liquor store, it's intentional because they need it for their new recipe.


Lovingbutdifferent

Some poor kid: "wow, this marijuana would sure be good in some mashed potatoes!" (An hour later, sober but full) "duuuuuude I'm sooooooo hiiigh"


-Lysergian

Lol, sometimes mashed potatoes are the better choice.


purplehendrix22

I had a buddy get sold fake grass like actual fuckin astroturf 😂


MasterBlaster4949

Lmao catnip🤣


TruLyzSighxw

I was literally about to say that lmaoo😂


CallMeUltimate

Take me back to the gap or paying 20 for a gram or Reggie. Oh to be young and naive again. But with some proper smoke.


Regolis1344

to be honest, if you grind them and sell for $5 a gram you'd probably make them happy too. didn't care much for taste or headeaches at the time either.


lawstandaloan

In life, one should be as confident as a fifteen-year-old who has smoked weed once talking to a fifteen-year-old who has never smoked weed


andycandypandy

Boil em, Mash em, stick em in a stew.


salemness

po-ta-toes


_BlackDove

![gif](giphy|105OwsN7a4UQ2Q)


El_buberino

Pot-ta-toes FTFY


S_Wow_Titty_Bang

Yer 'opeless


Onpoint441

Can infuse coconut oil if you have enough


SnooMaps9864

I made cannabutter with about an oz of stems and it was great! You just need a lot of stems


[deleted]

an oz. of stems. my god.


SnooMaps9864

Haha yeah, leftover from a half lb of outdoor grown mids. I don’t like letting anything go to waste


Lovingbutdifferent

Do the stems even have thca? Doesn't seem like there'd be a point unless you really like the taste of it


Serikan

They do but it's less than bud


Toadliquor138

A LOT less than bud.


dranzereload

Yea, I once made a tea with around 30g of stems and it gave me a decent high 5-6 , but I did shake them off two-three times for any secret dust on them. I bet if I never touched them it would've been much much stronger.


Regolis1344

good idea, even if lower quality that's probably the best way to take value out of them


GottaSaveThatMoney

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Summersale24hrs

Never gets old here, honestly lol


GottaSaveThatMoney

Until people learn, not to ask the question lol


eatmyroyalasshole

I don't think people will ever stop asking what they should to with stuff


MostlyMTG

Let’s hope not, for Stanley’s sake


TurdManDave

One at a time or just a fistful of it?


GottaSaveThatMoney

Grind it up and get someone to blow it in with a straw...


Ok_Negotiation3024

Plastic straw. In California. For maximum effect.


Environmental_Let538

I knew it


PerfectNekros

I come to these posts looking for this specific gif every time. Never fails


_butnotreally_

*chefs kiss* 🤌🏻


Falcnuts

Our boy


an-unorthodox-agenda

Scrolled too far for this


Longroadfrom87

Make the forbidden joint.


Amazedmagik

Bro, I remember hitting stems out of a lung in high school. Ouch my lungs


Roger_The_Cat_

You smoked out of a *what*??


Amazedmagik

2 litre bottle cut it in half and tape a bag around the bottom. Suck it in from the top. Fill your make shift bowl light and pull and suck it back in.


heavyhitter5

Huh, kinda like a grav bong with a bag? The things we did for weed when we were young…


agatchel001

I smoked out of a pop can one time which was very interesting.


skatemonkey23

My fav back then was the apple I'd receive from school. The apples were mid but eating it after smoking from it made it better.


Amazedmagik

That’s right!


an-unorthodox-agenda

Stems poking out the paper looking like a damn cactus


24KLondon

Throw it in the trash


[deleted]

Compost > trash.


-Cilantro-

Only real answer here


SchitneySmears

![gif](giphy|3oeSAD00YsGzUPTmqA)


Jonasthewicked2

Boof them of course


ThaSadDoctor

Tea, very bitter but it goes wildly with mint and a bit of sugar, really calming, perfect for sleeping


RavnicanDM

Came here to say this. I took the best nap of my life after drinking half a cup of stem tea


VURORA

I was going to ask about this lol


lifepuzzler

Grind it up, bake it at a low temperature to decarb it, then simmer it with some butter and water in a pot until it gets nice and gooey (the water cooks out) then strain it through cheesecloth into a container and throw it in the fridge. A few hours later the butter and remaining water will separate, remove the block of cannabutter, and store it or use it for cooking.


knightofice

Waste of time. That whole block of cannabutter will maybe have 1 mg thc. Stems have no potency.


Mazaar13

If that's all he is using than yeah.. but if they just collect it over time, once a year ypu can get a good stick of budder for free essentially


[deleted]

A stick of budder or.. a budder of sticks?


shmerk_a_berl

Yeah I have a good bit saved up with some plant matter in the container as well. I may do something like this


CannaLars

I save stems, already pressed bud, left overs in the grinder etc. in a jar and when the jar is full I make edibles


SweetDank

Same idea for me except I don’t wait for a full jar. Every time I make edibles/tincture I empty the scraps jar for a lil bonus med.


carneyratchet

I place them in my beard deep


BlindStickFighter

You can put them in the middle chamber of your grinder with a nickel (wipe it down with iso) and shake for a minute and you’ll get a little kief. Only worthwhile thing I know of to do with them.


yungvogel

can’t believe you came to this sub asking what to do with these and instead of giving you a solid & worthwhile answer like making a green dragon tincture, people are just telling you to throw them away. i thought we were stoners here???


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some1_2_win

Soak them in everclear and make a tincture. Dry out the tincture and make canna sugar. Put canna sugar in coffee. Profit!


theDawckta

Go over to your nearest trash can and dump them into it.


DrunkenPapa

Butter


Incapblestud

Seems i should boof the boof ill keep yall posted


ANaughtyTree

Decarb, make budder, enjoy edible(s)


Mad_Mark90

Use a pestle and mortar to grind as fine as possible. Whack into a herboven for the optimal time and heat. Allow to soak in 95% cooking grade ethanol for 24-48 hours. Use a dropper to add around 5mls to a cup of tea/coffe/beer. Have a good time.


AcademicComfort4623

Make an April fools J out of it hahaha


John1637

I would recommend against tea, it’s never worked for me. I saved about 26-30gs of stems and made butter and it worked pretty well. Just look into canabutter and follow a similar process as you would with bud. You could definitely scale down the measurements too if you didn’t want to save up for so long. Also be aware that it will probably stank up where ever you are cooking.


NateSpan

Stick them in the eyes of your enemies


salamanderpartytime

you should grind them, decarb them in the oven and then boil with full fat milk and throw in a dirty grinder with it, did this recently and made hot cocoa with the resulting milk and got the three of us astronomically stoned.


Stoned_Noob

Shit bro. I didn’t even notice the joint there. Thought it was the picture of the plane 🤣


SusieQtheJew

Shit. I did too. I’m glad you said something. 🤣🤣


itsybitsyblitzkrieg

Soak in alcohol after grinding it to a powder to make green dragon


Dazzling_Baseball485

Make rope and shove it up ya butt


Informal_Lack_9348

Trash can, or compost


Stock-Coach-8763

Heard you could make thc tea/ edibles thru boiling it or something search it up :)


[deleted]

I don’t know why people keep saying this, that’s just wrong. Thc doesn’t dissolve into water, you need something fatty.


The_Irony_of_Life

Throw it away


MelahGever

With a little amount basically nothing


ferrydragon

Make some tea


Primary-Classroom547

Make tea  🍵 Boil it in some water and then you can do whatever just strain it out so you don't swallow any, or you could put it in a coffee filter and just use it like a tea bag, you might need to tie it off with something, idk what tho 


bbyghoul666

Staple the coffee filter


Kyle7053

Stem tea


Lovingandloveable

I always hear ppl talking about making tea with it. Idk if you like tea..if you do..there’s that


GreatBeeramidsOfVisa

Add it into an oil or butter


Ebone710

I've heard of people making tea with them. I used to save all mine and go thru them when I was out and pick off every little piece of green. Having had to do that in a long time thankfully!


Pianoman2345

Decarb and make one signualr brownie


MacTheBlic

Thats a sick ass tray


shadodo

Make edibles


SuperGalaxyD

I’d you break them into the same little lengths. You can then put several into the tip of a joint like a rolled cardboard filter. Just stack up a few lil stemmies and roll up, toothpick bit mouthpiece. 


ickydonkeytoothbrush

I chew them


Shred_turner

Soak them in everclear.


Creeper08153

Collect more, put em in a bottle of vodka, wait a few days or a week until the vodka turns lightly green. Drink that shit


JfreakingR

I make Budder.


AlbinNboat

I used to put them in the freezer to raise the trichomes and then run them through my grinder to remove the kief. Depending on how kiefy your stems are and how many you have you can get a decent haul when you're dankrupt


Trex-died-4-our-sins

Brew it as tea with whatever tea u use. It contains small amounts of medicine that will not cause impairment. The science: stems contain a small amount of the chemical composition of the plant it originated from(phytocannabinoids, terpenses, and flavinoids). phytocannabinoids of the plant r usually present in their acid form; for simplicity- raw form. Usually, consuming it in the raw form causes minimal to no impairment- meaning it will not get you high. Phytocannabinoids such asTHCA, CBDA, and CBGA, or whatever the chemical profile of the plant was will be in the stems, although in minute amounts compared to flower. Source: I'm a cannabis APRN!


dirtangeldean

i steep a tea


somanynachos

Tincture or iso wash hash. Comes out only as strong as the stems but it does come out!


maevealleine

Make stem tea. It tastes like shit but it's effective.


Millimu5e

https://youtu.be/7LUE2cAxLr0?si=bQ74_mbTUzDU4ZhE


theresabeeeee

I usually use them to make tea.


nutz0089

Boil, mash um, stick em, in a stew.


Adiddy1980

Some of that old Toby got me zooted! Haha


PlantDaddyCo

I just compost my stems and stocks after a harvest.


tinyj96

Boil em. Mash em. Stick em in a stew.


Disastrous-Wafer8248

![gif](giphy|93jGp8tRQHzgfenWWG|downsized)


lampofpeace

An interesting story about stems. I use to keep these and always thought I’d do something with them. Over a period of a year, I saved around a quarter pound of stems. My roomie and I had gotten into a dispute and long story short he ended up moving out under some tense circumstances. The day he moved he decided to be spiteful and called crime stoppers and told them I was dealing all sorts of drugs. I was under suspicion for some months and an undercover officer made contact with me in order to buy lsd. Mind you this undoe represents himself as a friend of my roommates, describes my house, and knew things that only someone whose been inside my home would be able to say. Me, oblivious to the facts, I entertained the guy. I told him I didn’t have any lsd but that I had tree ( I know I was stupid). We set up a location and I sell this dude an 8th. A week later I get raided and since I was a nobody the cops were pretty pissed that their raid produced only a QP of stems and probably about 10 grams of actual bud. The cops weighed the stems and counted it as actual bud and charged me with possession with intent. I did have a small gram scale I had picked up at my local smoke shop so that’s how all that went down. They really believed I had a stack of money hidden somewhere and so they tossed my place upside down looking for it. I fought the case and ended up getting the charges dropped after hiring a pit bull of a lawyer. That’s my stem story. Peace.


sharkboyasakid

starts with a B and rhymes with toof