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Since Germany's legalisation, I started rolling joints myself instead of making my SO do all the work lol

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Nice work. Good use of the roach. When I roll it takes me about 10-20 minutes and while that's a long time for some, I just prefer my joints to have a more packed feeling. My advice is to get a set of "tools" or just one, which will act as a poker and a tamper to pack your leaves down in the tube before you seal it. Helps avoid the bit of a gap you have at the bottom. You'll notice a better pull on the smoke when you inhale and your joints will burn more evenly/waste less weed. Happy smoking from California.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is the way. I'm a little bit spoiled and just use preolled cones. But you can still fuck it up. I have real good luck with a 10-12" poking stick, sitting it inside the cone, and then pouring my bud into the funnel. This way the poking stick is preventing the bud from falling until I pull up on it and twist letting only a little bit of bud at a time to fall to the very bottom, tamp down on the bud that fell, and repeat 4-5 times depending on the size of the joint.

Packs it evenly and you don't get that weak spot right after the filter where it never gets packed down.

[–] v4ld1z 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We have a makeshift tray out of carton that has a crease where I can put the paper with the filter, and we use a little cocktail-umbrella-thingy to push the weed a little further down the joint. Though I didn't feel like I needed it necessarily - I was mostly fine just lightly tapping the bottom of the joint on the table to get a somewhat even distribution.

Which gap do you mean exactly? Don't quite know what you mean

Thanks for the tips. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On the bottom right of the joint in your picture, it looks like there's space where you can see through the paper. Get something like a lolli pop stick, and before you tie off the end, tamp the weed down so it's all a tighter pack. The more even the pack, the better the burn.

[–] v4ld1z 3 points 4 months ago

Oh, yea, I see it now. I think I just squished the paper at that spot so it didn't distribute equally. I'll make sure to try this next time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If your packing and rolling game is good enough, you can just pinch the tip and shake the joint to have it tamp down itself.