I had a friend who use to love making weed cigars. She use to come over my house and use my stickiest bud to make the cigars… lol much to my protest.
The first step she would take is decide on the diameter of the center of the cigar. She would use kabob sticks for this process. Then take the bud and compress it onto the sicks.
Once this process is completed and she had formed the cigar into the correct shape. She would wrap the cigar very tightly with string. She would then leave the cigars to dry for 1 to 3 days.
Upon return she would remove the string from the cigar. the bud would be compressed and could be easily handled without fear of falling apart. She would then coat the cigar with any type of sticky the abstract she could get her hands on and kief.
The last step of the process which I’m sure your the most interested in. Was that she used green leaves fresh off the plant to stick to the cigar. Once the entire cigar was wrapped in leaves she would cover the leave with plastic wrap and then wrap the cigar with string and leave it for a few days until all the thc “glue” has dried. I can tell you that they where the most beautiful cigars that you would see. And no one ever complained about the harshness of the green leaves.
In case you where wondering these cigars ranged for 7grams to a ounce depending upon how inspired she was.