Regardless of what many say you can in fact smoke your fan leaves....This is of course depending on the potency of your plant itself and the stress it endures. You may be thinking whats he mean by stress? well as we all know wild cannabis does not grow its buds just for looks or just the convience of some stoners to smoke, Its a defense mechanism to fight against bugs and such. So when a plant is introduced to stress it then produces a thin layer of THC on its stems and even ITS LEAVES!!!!. Yes of course fan leaves to not contain the amount of THC to get you high off your ass but with the right proccess you would be surprised of the results.
During my grows ive always smoked the fan leaves and ive also tested the various ways to smoke them. Weather the leaves contain the most THC or is it the Stems? If you look on the underside of a fan leave you can see a shiny layer which is in fact a small layer of THC, Ether way if you properly dryed fan leaves making sure you of course cut off the stem so it doesent have a supply of water you can smoke it. One of the best methods ive found is this.
1. Dry them out until they are crspy, and i mean so that when you bend them the stem and all snaps. You dont want any moisture.
2. Put them in a grinder and grind them up then throw a good old dime or quarter in the grinder.
3. Get the "leaf Keef"
Ive found that this leaf keef is actually much more potent then just smoking the leaves(of course) This is by far your best way to get anything out of your leaves. I dont suggest male leaves although if you make the keef with them im sure they would still do a little something.
Anyways I hope you guys learn to love fan leaves and get the most out of your plants! Happy Smoking!!!
-Jswett
Oh to be a teenager again!
Reminds me of this friends new "girl friend" he brought over once. Sitting on the deck and burning a rather fat joint.
She looked at it and began this long winded "lecture" on how I was "wasting" my weed.
She stated that I should be using a bong or at least a pipe as a joint is simply wasting weed. (She droned on, and on.)
She then brings up that I would be best served by vaping my weed in a vaporizer. Those are the most efficient ways..
"So why do you smoke joints?" She asked...
I look over at her and put my hand out to pass her the big ass, "weed wasting" joint joint and say, "I grow, therefor I can."
My friend just falls into a fit of laughter.....