How to collect kief
The best way to collect kief is to use a 4 piece grinder with kief catcher. All of the best grinders have a special compartment at the very bottom for collecting kief. You simply place your buds in the uppermost chamber where the teeth are and turn the grinder repeatedly. As it breaks up the buds they fall onto a middle layer with a screen and any loose pollen crystals, or kief, fall through the screen and into the kief catcher. Over time the kief builds up and you can collect it.
The photo above shows the bottom compartment with kief in it. Some people choose to store a couple buds in the compartment so that the kief will stick to them, which can also be seen in the photo above. How you use yours is up to you, but thats how to get kief!
A couple more tips.
If kief is what you want, there’s a couple of ways to maximize your yield. This is handy when making pressed hash, or for THC budgeting/party smoking.
Ground – When grinding your herbs, keep the grinder upside down for the first few turns. This is to ensure your herbs are ground completely (NOTE: this does not produce optimal smoking consistency, it creates a powdery herb that dries quickly and compresses easily, very bad to roll, very good for kief). Make sure you keep a good grip on the lid from the bottom. If you slip your grinder will open and your herbs will scatter. Magnetic grinders are very helpful in this spot.
Coinage – Take a (lucky) coin and drop it in your herb collection chamber (middle tray). After you’ve ground your herbs, shake the grinder in a circular motion, sliding the coin around the bottom. It will easily roll around the inside of the grinder, sliding across your kief screen. This technique pushes more kief crystals through the screen, and agitates the ground herbs to release more ‘pollen’. Larger heavier, non-serrated coins are preferred. Dollar coins work well.
Clean your coin with a dot of dishsoap. Oils on the coin will bind with the kief and make it useless and more keif will stick to the coin itself. These are both bad things.
Tap – After all’s said and done, the last trick is to tap your grinder flat against a table or your leg or palm. the blunt impact loses kief caught in the screen and collects your kief neatly in the tray. This also helps avoid forming grommets of sticky press-hash around the lip of your grinder over time, which make it harder to open and close.
Just one more.
Freeze – Freezing your herb for a half an hour before grinding will also help kief detach. Freezing the THC does not affect it’s effect, however it will change the way the herb smokes.
these are all great ideas, except, why dont you just use the grinder like normal and wait until you have a good amount of keif. the more THC you take out of the herb in the initial grind, the less potent it is.
Tim, down here in Texas its good enough we dont have to worry about it bein a little less potent….DANK
Yeah right. Our west coast weed is where it’s at. You’re smokin that texas shwag. 503!
Ha! You think that “Hydro” your getting in TX is dank?? Move to CA, or any other state where you can get a medical card….ha
South Dakota Shag, what we call “shwastika” is where its at.
The shit we get in NC is awesome if you get it from the right people. That’s the only thing you have to worry about here (who to get if from).
why are you all fighting, chronic is chronic…….. Minnesota dank!
Yall should come on up to toronto and we’ll blaze up some BC bud :)
lol minnesota dank? i’ve seen bricks that look better than that crap out there. 408
“OG Kush Silver Haze” in the “Nasty Naw” Sagnasty – Saginaw, MI.
don’t fight about herb. goes against everything it stands for.
Where ever you get it from. It’s AllLllll goOooOood. I get too excited to wait for the kief to collect.
Funny how a simple keef question turned into a “best weed” pissing contest…
nah yall r trippin down here in naples fl its all abt the manor mulch lol jk. we get dank shit frm miami. i baught frm this rasta guy at marly fest and holly shit, me and him put this in my 5 tree 3 perculator PURE bong with a PURE ash catcher and diffuser. i died. lmfao
Jesus. Its not where its grown but whose growing it guys, unless you buy outdoor weed, which even then is more dependent upon grower experience than anything. You want good weed, find a better grower instead of assuming all weed in your state is like that. I’ve smoked in 30 of the states, and none of you have shit on what I could get in a coffeeshop here for ten euro or so.
Miami and california have one of the best areas for cappin bud.
yes there is better bud in the west coast but texas bud isnt AS bad as people think. if u no the right people u can actually get some pretty dank shit but i do believe that the west coast tops it off with the best bud ever…even though ive never tried any from there id love to someday
Weed is a weed you can grow danks in any part of the world almost. you just have to know what your doing
cali bud tops it all im from illinois went to cali smoked some chronic…WOW all i can come up with
best buds I’ve smoked, Med G13 and Med Grape Ape, straight from Cali… Thanks from the 617
Alaska….. Nuff said
here in California we have the best weed. from grand daddy to ATF. you cant really beat what we grow. from clubs or homegrown the climate is way better than anywhere else in the country. 916 bitches
Just moved from San Fran. to Ottawa. The pot here is about $40 a quarter oz and it blows the $120 a quarter in Cali med shops out of the water. No weed like Canadian Weed anywhere period. Not Colorado, Not New York, Not California, Not Amsterdam and certainly not Texas.
O.k. people lets look at this with some rational eyes.
If I were to take a (insert strain here) seed and grew it indoor at (insert location) with the same nutrients same lights same humidity same photo-period same ppm same medium same whatever.guess what will happen. It turns out…THE SAME!
Are we forgetting the fact that the cannabis plant is slowly but surely becoming legalized. Lets focus on that instead, and let this issue be a null one.
lets all put our dicks away now, i’m pretty sure i will smoke whatever weed i can find from anywhere i am, and love it. nobody gives a shit where you’re from or if you think you have the best weed. ganja is ganja, and no matter where you are, you are going to have some higher grade shit and some lower grade shit. its weed. shut up, smoke up, team up. lets think about who the real competition is. its not our fellow tokers, but the ones that try to regulate our god-given freedoms.
I may not know where this weed is from but…I’m smoking it anyway and after a couple of tokes I’m sure I could give a rat’s ass where it was grown. Only onw way to win this argument…SMOKE MORE WEED.
We all obviously love the green…here in SoDak, there isnt just shwag cuz we happen to live near interstate 90, but the good shit we do get usually comes from the coast or colorado. either way amsterdam is where we all need to be…
I would have to say chronic is chronic, dro is dro, and swag is swag… yes they all have seperate taste but weed is weed… so quit braggin that ur state has the best weed and determine if its in ur hands atm
Hell come to Vancouver ill smoke u up with real BC bud mothafucka lolour shit is the best where do u think the stares good stuff comes from lol soure as hell doesnt come from the states lol
Albertan kush is where its at.
Blue Dream from CA, getting it in VA!!!
ya fer reel. i get great weed in south dak. Always headies around. and its always from colorado but im not saying its better there then it is anywere else. we get diesel strains, kush strains ive seen it all, right here in a little town in SD. fer reel tho we need to team up, it almost legalization time. Medi laws are everywere. Stop being cannabis snobs and just smoke some heads and forget about it.
cincis got shitty weed… i have to search like an fbi agent just to get some dro… all you cali residents bring some dank to the nati and spread the love
Houston got the dank, we don’t need med card’s for $50 dollar 1/8′s of nycd.
Fuck that shit NJ finest 908 DANK!!!
flyin w/ some lovely west coast chem dog right now, but here in MICHIGAN there are some very knowledgable caregivers producing some amazing strains. We have one of the top agricultural universities in the country here.
smoke shit from the middle east… you’ll be toasssted c:
sorry, come f**k with that NOLA green… New Orleans is where its at
Middle East has good shit. I agree. Its different.
Just harvested some Royale Haze, White Rhino, and Mongolian Indica… In Iowa. No matter the region of the world it comes from, no state or country has any better weed than anywhere else with the massive amount of availability. If it’s not grown where it’s smoked, you have no claim to saying your state’s weed is better, and if it is grown where it’s smoked, the strain’s country of origin takes it’s bragging rights, but only for the creation of the strain or hybrid’s base strains. It all boils down too the grower’s abilities. Where, it came from, where it’s smoked, and what you think about it compared too others means about as much as goose shit on a pinecone.
Man this shit in ATL is tha bomb
I gotta say this argument is totally on the right path
Smoke Weed everyday and never settle for anything but the dankness
We are united in our Crispiness
1 up 4 New York City
You can all say you have the beat herb and although I’m a full American Vancouver bc bud is better than any shit you’ve smoked
my indoor will beat all your shitty as buds. Buckeye for life
alaska bud is AHMAZING. You won’t find anything better. It tastes so pure.
im from hawaii… hawaii has the cripest weed in the us, its proven.. 808 is the chronic state!
haha why are you all trying to prove your state has the chronic anyway? we all love buds.. weed is a peace drug, stop with the competition.
A grow room properly set up will produce the same quality of product regardless of physical location be it Kansas or the moon.
Obviously none yall ever been to hawaii except maya and me hahah shit is the dopest. Hawaiian haze
What’s with the dick waving contest? Everybody can get dank.
Chill out, smoke more fellas!
hahaha well apprently none of you have been to bc every 14 year old kid and there grandma sells dank
@bone this is true but alot of states have very harsh laws making alot less people grow weed and when you have a place like bc or anywhere in canada with very loose drug laws you end up with WAY MORE PEOPLE growing bud.. and the more people growing the bud… the more good bud you will find everywhere.. every place has killer weed.. just easier to find it in different places
Cali may have medical grade, but H-town’s got gangs. Not to condone gangs, but they can grow some damn weed. Some DaAaAnkk. 832/281/713 niggas
weed grown indoors= DOESNT MATTER WHERE IT COMES FROM
stop being stupid, think about it
@SlightlyAcidic ….and cali doesnt have gangs…?
Yeah man, doesn’t matter as much where it’s from in most cases, though normally Canada and New Zealand are always competing for #1 hydro world-wide. “Bubblegum” is my fav…
and yeah…some of you need to chill out. Have a bang, get retarded. Peace
Oops; “bong”, not “bang”. Though a bang doesn’t seem like such a bad idea…. Hmmm Anybody wanna order some food?
:o)
California has the best bud no doubt
But you can have good weed ANYWHERE it depends on whos growing it =]
I cant find any in houston, I just moved here and it seems dry… Am I missing something??? Someone throw me a freakin BONE!
White Widow, Cincinnati, Oh, mother fuckers!!!!!
.C4N i get kief in a 2pc grinder? Norte C4L1F4z got the be$t tree::
Smokin the white widow over here in Seattle, WA!! Still lookin for some OG Kush tho.
Chicago is where its at last friday i bought $50 worth of the best purp ever for $25 and on the way home i found a sawbuck of souwer diesel on the ground!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve lived all over the states, and Cali has some amazing buds!! But there is somewhere with better bud…… COLORADO BABY!!! If you want the DANKEST the states have to offer, look no further than CO!!
whys nobody repping Boston we got the dankest bud around fuck everyone else
Man none of you guy know the facts cali might be the center of legaliztion and medical weed but florida now leads the country in indoor grown weed. Which if you guys ddnt know indoor grown weed keeps becomimg more and more potent every year because of the new ways that geniuses discover to make crazy dank ass strands all the time. There is fire everywhere its all the same but there is infinate amounts of that shit down here in the south boy. Florida 863
And I really reccomment that you guys look for some sour deisel! Belive me I’ve smoked all crazy kinds of shit and I’ve never had anything like the deez. I but 3 grams of that shit and kept it in a baggy and it stunk my dorm hall up I almost got caught and shit. Its ridiculous
Everyone fighting about certain areas weed being better are rediculous. What city ur in makes no difference at all, Its all about the strain/grower, im in a tiny town noone has heard of and theres a few ppl here who grow weed just as good if not better than all the “super stains” everyone always brags about. Pot is pot is pot, its all about the grower/grow op and how good everything is done.
this is america. 2 lights and a water pump and you can have hydro anywhere. its all good,
but mines the best. i run on diesel only ha
All u need to stop arguing, and just admit NYC,Brooklyn has the best weed. All u other redneck states have rags. Except Cali
Appalachian rednecks grow the best shit. Weve been perfecting it through generations for 300+ years, longer than anyone in the U.S of A. FRESH AIR AND CLEAN WATER! We also make the best whisky on the plannet.Even the best cali. strains taste better grown here. And half the state of cali can suck my dick for voting dope down in 2010! that was supposed to be the gateway to legalization of pot nationwide.Nuke cali!
BTW! Indoor pot? And you think it may be the best? WTF? N all u city slickers say rednecks aint got no education! No wonder that shit gets up to 100 bucks a quarter! what do u get a few ounces per plant? No offense to anyone but out of the city, your “hydro” is called nigger weed. And for good reason. FU
I bought a 3″ grinder for $20. Offbrand. Works fuckin great.4 piece. Havnt seen a grinder yet that could do some good sticky icky without just smashing it and fuckin it up. But works real good on the mexi and nigger weed.
y’all niggas ain’t got shit on mardi gras kush. 504 motherfuckers!
MMRC in Sherman Oaks CA is the best pot shop! The best 91′S and 05 W Hollywood Wicked PK is the real DANK!
My way to collect THC..
2 Handheld electric grinders with pollinators..
First grinder is a standard aluminum handheld with plastic pollenator casing and removable screen.. This 1 is hard to call it a screen or a pollinator.. Alot of plant material gets through as the screen has lots of “bigger holes”.
Second grinder has metal pollenator casing and proper screen.. Its pure and it takes the second pass..
With good stuff you can acquire as much as a handheld can in a
the smartest way to collect is if you have a 4 chambered grinder use a small razor and run it across the herb and screen which removes almost 75% of the keif,and trust me this method works but do it lightly and dont press down hard it also helps with breaking up the herb better as well =]
What if I don’t want “pollen”? Should I look for a grinder without a screen? I don’t want to have to sprinkle it or anything.
good keif lesson tho i just put a clean nickel in my grinder
I have a small stiff bristle brush that came with an electric razor. I use this on my grinder from time to time to sweep the upper and middle chambers clean.
use a coin in grinder i get half a gram of kief after grinding only a gram of bud :D and the buds that potent it still gets you baked
The grinders work great at what they do and they don’t discriminate against the green they mulch or the pollen they collect. My personal tip for the pollen is to use one or two copper coins in the screen. Copper isn’t going to have a problem getting stuck to the magnet. Light enough that a gentle shake will make it bounce against the screen and maximize pollen collection.
Its not where the green is grown, it is WHO grows it. You can get seeds from all over the world, and if you’re growing skills suck, your green sucks!
Kief is what I’m making
I have a little shitty grinder. It only has a top and bottom chamber. There are a few wholes in the grinding part with a screen on it. I need to smoke more so I can hurry up and get this kief! :-)
Everyone knows Cali and Colorado bud are by far the best and for one simple reason…..THEY HAVE DISPENSARIES!!!! Lets face it the only way to get the best bud is to either have a swag hook up in your hometown or move to one the two states. The bud here in MS ain’t bad at all but I’ve experienced medicinal brands and there is absolutely not comparison between the two.
Kentucky everybody does it weed is weed
Okay it is a fact that growing bud outdoor makes it more potent so all the people saying their shit is the best that is indoor you’ve been told a myth. Canada has the best climate for growing bud in BC, I don’t give a shit what people from cali say… It has been tested and BC Bud is the most potent bud on earth that has been tested.
so how do u clean the coin properly??…
It’s all about that NM bud that shits loud best place to grow sativa
Houston has alot pretty dank growers. 832 bitches
Theres good herb everywhere Youngins
I can’t Believe I read this whole page lol
If all you claim have to dankest bud, prove it and take it to the Cannabis Cup. Then come back and post about how bad you feel about your bud compared to THE REST OF THE WORLD.
Watergirl: I can’t believe i just did the same. lol
Man, kids these days. Funny, would read again, A++.
You are all sleeping on Minnesota buds-its cold up here 4 months of the year. There is a large indoor growing culture here, we are talking about 10 or 11th generation… I know Cali’s got a lot more of the fire- we may not have as much as you in the warmer states but the herb that is grown up here, I would put our MN indoor against any thing you can grow or buy w/a medical card. Dont sleep on something you have no idea about. Come toke with the big kids and I you’ll be like smokey and end up all f*cked up half naked in a cage… LOL But seriously we grow da fire shit!
SOUTH GEORGIA WEED!!!
….. I thought this was a Kief post…. Not a where ure from post. Smh
I kno this thred is old but their crap n theirs the super dank there as well.all about who u kno or if u can grow that’s it end of story NJ, 732 n 908 all over blow that good goodness in the air
Im from the 302 and i can get my hands on some of the best strands.
lol fuck the states u all got shwag come to canada where danks damn near the same price as reggs
Ya Mon, Mi smoke ‘em all.
I hate when potheads argue bout miss Jane :’( I’m glad that you guys have dankest dank..all I got is Milwaukee “dank” blech!
Atl has tbe dopest dope you ever smoked…. we only have 1 term for bad wbudd and thats middddd…. but we hVe 100 termz for loudddddddd dank erkle purple skunk etc
COLORADO BUDZ! FUCK CALI EVERYTHING!
shit, just cause we in texas doesnt mean we aint got dank. i got a special* way of getting cali weed. and no “hydro” like these guys saying.
all you ppl need to come to canton and get the real shit. theres alot of brick weed and mids. but we got all the shit. g13 ak47 grandaddy purp neptune trainwreck merlins dream afghan anything you want grown or import
Chicago bud bitch!!
good bud is good bud. period. anywhere u go. funny how i didnt read: Afghani Durban Poison, Northern Lights, HOLLAND, lol
Shit I know all the right people, otherwise known as “dispensaries” hahaha
cali bitch
Props Clarke K haha trollin
Props Clarke K haha trollin dope ass fight
420mojo chi-bud is fame as fuck
ILLINOIS HAS SOME FIRE NUG
WHO GIVES A FUCK WHO HAS THE BETTER WEED!? Just smoke it and shut the fuck up!
“Good weed will see you through times of NO MONEY, better than Good Money seeing you through times of NO WEED”