The cherry and the bowl packing

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As in, the most perfect furnace-red ember that seems to consume mostly zero weed and emit near zero smoke when you’re just holding it and not smoking, but nevertheless remains always ready to deliver another toke.

And then it kind of goes back to sleep, right? Just burning and waiting for another round.

How do you make those? What are they? What makes them form? Or should I say, form and stay?

I probably only achieve them 5-7 percent of the time. Maybe I’m doing something wrong , but I would expect it to be more than that after 40 years of smoking.

With joints, I’ve noticed that it tends to happen most often when there is a very slight breeze and I’m holding the joint parallel with wind direction. Which makes sense to me. I do better with joints than I do with bowls. Might also be because I used to smoke cigarettes.

Bowl cherries are rare around here but I would like to achieve them more often and more reliably. Is that just a pipe dream?

I’ve tried literally dropping a small amount of weed cut up into the bowl with no packing at all.

I’ve tried lightly packing and densely packing, and everything in between. I’ve tried first layer tamped down, second layer loose, and first layer loose with only minor tamping on the top.

Or is it about how one lights it? I’ve tried around the edge and everything else, but usually the cherry seems to result when I’ve not been paying attention at all, so who knows?

I can appreciate it’s mysterious elusiveness, and I certainly welcome the way the world feels perfectly right when I look down and see one of those in my bowl. At that point invariably I feel like it’s going to be a disappointment to finish that bowl at all.

You see? This is what happens when I smoke weed in the middle of the afternoon when the internet is out.

Thanks for listening my weed-fueled curiosity.

Also I am not a bot.

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Hm, historically I wanted the exact opposite in a bowl, in my younger days my opinion was always that it was just burning away and wasting my weed! These days I don’t care as much about the waste, and mostly use the dry herb vape, but when I do occasionally pull the bong out, it’s generally little snappers/one hits worth in the bowl so never enough to consider getting one ripping like that.

Now joints I know have a few contributing factors to the way that cherry goes, a lot of it has to do with the humidity/moisture of the weed itself, as well as the tightness of the roll.

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I call that kief from a well cured and potent strain.

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what else would a bot say?

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I think its when you achieve that perfect squish-ratio on the bud (in bowl or paper) where theres enough air between the herb to let the cherry breath enough without going out.

The first toke or two vaporizes most of the resin an moisture off part of the plant matter, leaving a mostly carbon framework to continue burning like a little bbq briquette. Justa nice hot cherry in standby mode waiting for ya.
I pack small bong bowls and rip em one lung at a time. The wife likes the glass dry bowl packed decently, and sometimes i gotta go put it out cuz that cherry is still goin lol

Also I aint no got-dang RO-BIT

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aren’t there any proud bots? :wink:

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here’s a guy who knows just where i was at yesterday afternoon. :slight_smile: thanks. i think you are right: it comes down squish-ratio. (i’m serious, not poking fun.) I like your science-oriented thinking on it though. :slight_smile:

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