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CptnGarden
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KB's Smoking Blend

#7301465 - 08/16/07 05:26 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

This is how KidBotany, aka CptnGarden makes his Sacred Smoke.

I like fresh ingredients first of all, and everyone likes their blend a bit different so theres no "right" amount of anything to add, its all whatever you feel comfortable with. The ingredients are all up to you when it comes to designing your own mix, and theres a lot of herbs out there to help smooth and add flavor to the mix. Curing is also very important for a few additives.

One of my favorite smokes happends to be lavender.
Heres a fresh harvest drying on printer paper:

after they dry I throw them into a jar

Theres many varieties of lavender, I like to mix them as they all generally smell quite pleasant, and burn about the same.

I then open the jar every day to fan out excess moisture.
When you enclose the plant material that has been dry to the feel, into the jars, moisture comes out from the center of the plant to even out the moisture content of the jar. Then everyday you fan out a little bit of moisture, and over time slowly leach the material of its last bits of moisture. This is the process of curing!
I only do this with very harsh smokes, like lavender is if you dont cure it. Thing that seem to clump and "bud" like lavender does, makes a great curing herb.

heres some arctostaphylos uva-ursi, dried on the left, and a nice fresh harvest on the right. this herb is commonly used because it crumbles easily into small pieces when dry, and its a very smooth and pleasant smoke.

I also like to use its cousin Arctostaphylos manzanita aka "little apple" of the same habitat as another herb I use; Eriodictyon Californicum aka "Yerba Santa".

on to the smoke!

From left to right;

Top row: Sacred Tobacco (Rustica) cured leaf, Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon), White Lily (Nymphaea)

Second Row: Wild Dagga leaf (Leonuri), Uva-ursi leaf, Manzanita leaf

Bottom: Marihuanilla flowers and leaf (Sibericus)

now lemme explain some of these ingredients, first of all

Uva-ursi and Manzanita, these two make great smokes cause they crush up finely with ease and are very smooth and pleasant to smoke. they both also have lots of medicinal qualities to them. These should be a "buffer" for your other herbs, smoothing the smoke. If your smoke is too harsh or bitter, add more of these!

Tobaccos are nothing new to most people, just cure them how you like them, and the amount you add is based on personal preference. if your new to tobacco, this isnt the time or way to experiment with it. Depending on the strength, these can provide quite a backbone for most brujo blends.

Yerba Santa is highly medicinal and adds character, spice, flavor, and relaxation to the experience. The key to Yerba Santa is to use very little amounts. This is a very aromatic and strong herb, and it can easily overpower a smoking blend with its force. Start low, you can always add more after u blend. I like to mix it until I can smell it lightly among the mix. Feel free to test taste your mix before you finish blending it too, this can help you decide what to do next if your a beginner.

Lavenders are wonderful to add for their flavor, but can be replaced by any smokeable aromatic plant. Feel free to add spices to your mix, including cloves, cinnamon, vanilla, dried citrus peels, etc.

White Lily is very relaxing, provides subtle euphoria, and gives you fluid thoughts.

Leonuri and Marihuanilla are very bitter, and very harsh, but add an extremely peaceful relaxation, and clears the mind and seems to slow it down to a degree. Flowers are preferred by most people over the leaf, but I dont see any problem with leaf if used in a blend, and its of more abundance. Marihuanilla flowers when smoked plain, aren't very pleasant, however Leonuri flowers smoked plain actually are quite pleasant.

Mixed up and pounded:

I also decided to throw in some cured lavender this time, so I held the plant buds by their growing tips, and pulled the little chunks in the opoosite direction, they came right off the stem. I added both white and blue lavenders.

here it is ready to try, it smells very good, like bubblegum-cinnamon-pine, its very soft and fluffy to the fingers, a little bit sticky but dry as a bone

smoke test came back pleasant, mild euphoria and a very pleasant taste similar to the scent.

I threw it into a jar for curing, hopefully it will bring out some hidden flavors in there, and really bring life to the smoke.

Edited by CptnGarden (09/05/07 04:09 PM)

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