How to Roll a Backwoods Blunt (8 Steps) How To Roll A Backwoods Blunt Like A Total Pro | Herb

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Unroll Your Cigar

The most important thing about a Backwoods cigar when it comes to rolling a blunt is that it’s made from a single tobacco leaf, so you want to preserve this for your blunt. This means you have to unroll very carefully.

Take out one of the cigars. You should notice that one end is more tightly wrapped than the other: this is the side you start unrolling from.

Find the edge of the leaf and slowly begin to unroll it, keeping a steady hand as you go.

The challenge is doing this without ripping or damaging the leaf. Unfortunately there is an unavoidable element of practice here – you might mess up the first time, but you should have more than one cigar on your first try just in case.

Tip

The alternative is to cut up the length of the cigar in the same way you would with an ordinary blunt, using a razorblade or small knife. This isn’t the ideal solution, though because you will ruin the leaf and part of the whole appeal of a Backwood

2. Dump Out the Tobacco

When you have your blunt wrap open, you can dump out the tobacco inside.

If you want to make a Backwoods spliff (i.e. a blunt except with tobacco too) you can keep this to one side, or just use it another time. But if you’re not interested in the additional tobacco you can throw it out. This is one stage where having a rolling tray is really useful.

3. Grind Up Your Weed

Prepare your cannabis. Generally, grinding it is the best approach, but some people suggest that just breaking it up by hand gives you a smoother smoke, even if it’s a little harder to roll.

Whichever approach you decide to use, generally it’s recommended to prepare about 2.5 to 4 grams or more for a good Backwoods.

4. Prepare Your Backwoods Wrap

It’s usually helpful to moisten the inside of the Backwoods wrap before you start rolling. This helps loosen the wrap up and make it easier to work with.

When you’re done, lay it out flat in front of you, putting the sharper edge away from your dominant hand.

5. Fill it With Your Weed

Now you’re ready to fill the blunt wrap with weed.

You can curve the blunt wrap slightly with one hand, to help the weed stay in the center. You should aim to spread the weed quite evenly, although the pointed end will become the mouthpiece, so it doesn’t need to be as full as the rest of it.

Since the original Backwoods are slightly cone-shaped, you can also fill it a little more towards the rounded end, but this is more a matter of appearances than anything.

6. Start to Roll

Now you’re ready to roll the weed inside your blunt into a cylindrical tube.

This is pretty easy to do, but a crucial stage: grab the front and back sections of the paper (with the weed between them) and move them up and down, basically backwoods uk shop working the weed on the inside into a consistent shape.

If it’s your first time rolling a Backwood, there may be a bit of a learning curve, but you’ll pick it up as you get used to the process. You can literally feel the weed tube taking shape as you roll.

7. Tuck and Roll

The most challenging part of the process is getting the blunt wrap to go around the cannabis.

You need to tuck the front edge behind the tube of cannabis in the middle. It helps to use your thumbnails to get this to work properly, since it helps push the edge right in between the back of the wrap and the weed.

When this is done properly, you can roll it up into a tube. Again, a cone-shape is ideal, so you can try to produce this shape as you go.

Tip

Most sources recommend starting at the rounded end with your dominant hand, and getting this tucked in first, before continuing along the rest of the blunt. If you have some experience rolling, you might be able to keep the whole thing tight without doing this first, but it’s a good tip if you’re a new roller in particular. Stop just before the wrap is completely enclosing the weed – you need to leave a little strip for the next stage.

8. Seal it Up

When you’re almost rolled up aside from a little strip of the blunt wrap, you can lick the inside of the remaining strip to seal it up.

You need to use a fair amount of saliva for this, more than you would on an ordinary joint or even an ordinary blunt. Once it’s good and wet, finish rolling up and press firmly along the seam.

You can poke the weed down with a chopstick, pen or anything similarly small if you think it’s too loosely packed, but don’t make it too tight otherwise it will be difficult to smoke.

Get a lighter and finish up by running the flame lightly over the seal line. This dries the tobacco leaf out and sets your seal in place. There may be a little bit of blunt wrap left over at the end, and you can twist this to close off the blunt and prevent anything falling out.

Light it Up

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! There’s only one thing to do now: grab your lighter and enjoy.