wrapping Thai sticks

I'm going to start working on making Thai sticks using various bcbuddepot strains grown outdoor in central California with regular sewing thread as a rasta hair and bamboo chopsticks for stems. I will list any updates as I go and try to add detailed instructions and tips for making these man-made colas.
So far my only stick is 3" and 4g but as soon as I get more supplies I'll try to do an entire chopstick.
If anyone has made Thai sticks please feel free to contribute tips and photos. If you have any questions about the process post them and I'll try to answer timely.

I dont get it, people are gonna smoke thread?
.. or are they supposed to peel that stuff off first?

I have always thought "Thai Stick" was a strain of cannabis from Thailand.
I have never encountered ... (as Cheech joked in Cheech & Chong's Next Movie)
"weed tied to a stick"

You take the thread off before you break the bud off and smoke it, but there is always a little left at the top where you tie it to the stick, its called a rasta hair. This is why I used red string, so that none accidentally makes it to the pipe. I'll post pics of it unwrapped tomorrow

Thai stick is also a strain sourced from Thailand from several breeders that is supposed to be like the stuff that the Vietnamese made into Thai sticks back in the 70s.

They tied sticks to make it easier to store and transport the buds to soldiers, compress the fluffy outdoor nugs into rock hard nugs like indoor, and to sometimes dip the sticks in hash oil or very rarely opium tar.

I have seen them in some medical dispensaries here in California but most of them do it to sell cheaper outdoor fluff as solid mids.

I want to make high quality sticks with enough resin and compression to make a hash like rock haha... then maybe dip it in some hash oil or yopo extract to see what happens

the Thai stick I smoked in the 70's was bud wrapped on a stick with hemp fibres from the plant, not manmade thread...just how I remember things....hth



mojo

I applaud your efforts...and mojogangaman is right.

As someone who was alive and well in the 70's (not to mention the 60's & 50's), Thai(either on or off the stick) weed has a VERY unique taste & a KILLER effect.

I regularly drive through central CA on my way south & would happily serve as technical adviser on this project.

I definitely need to try and get a good sized meristem from one of my friends plants for the stick and maybe all natural hemp fibre because I'm not sure how to weave fibers out of stems. I would imagine its like hemp where you make strips, heat them up in the sun to dry, tenderize it, then twist it into string but I just don't know.

Yeah aside from southeast Asian strains changing the taste the weather and volcanic soil there makes a huge difference in the buds so I'm not sure I can match the original Thai stick flavor, ever.

But even if I can't get Thai thai stick I can at least make a Canadian thai stick, i will call it a hockey stick

JohnnyVapor PM me before you travel through central cal and we can smoke some. I would like an older smokers opinion without having to drive 300mi to my cousin. I am too young to have ever taste authentic thai stick.

CaliCannaissuer said:

I definitely need to try and get a good sized meristem from one of my friends plants for the stick and maybe all natural hemp fibre because I'm not sure how to weave fibers out of stems. I would imagine its like hemp where you make strips, heat them up in the sun to dry, tenderize it, then twist it into string but I just don't know.

Yeah aside from southeast Asian strains changing the taste the weather and volcanic soil there makes a huge difference in the buds so I'm not sure I can match the original Thai stick flavor, ever.

But even if I can't get Thai thai stick I can at least make a Canadian thai stick, i will call it a hockey stick

JohnnyVapor PM me before you travel through central cal and we can smoke some. I would like an older smokers opinion without having to drive 300mi to my cousin. I am too young to have ever taste authentic thai stick.View attachment 3277441

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Nice picture, that bears more of a resemblance to Thai stick than your first pix. Next trip south is probably mid-Jan., I'll PM you when I have an idea of the time.

Interesting.
If thai stick was so popular, how come it isn't anymore?
With the recent marijuana laws headlining these days, you would think these would be better known, and used by a bigger population.
You could be a pioneer, with the newest weed craze!
Whats old is new again.

ProHuman said:

Interesting.
If thai stick was so popular, how come it isn't anymore?
With the recent marijuana laws headlining these days, you would think these would be better known, and used by a bigger population.
You could be a pioneer, with the newest weed craze!
Whats old is new again.

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it has something to do with a no question ask death penilty that the thai government came out with, maybe. that is why there is no real thai anymore it was all lost.

like everyone said i agree with the thread be plant based, the stick was also from the plant. i think that was the way they cured it.

I heard back in the day a few differnt colors of string wrap was used and that if the threading was red it means that it was dipped in opium or something like that.

Between the public death penalty for drug traffickers there and all the "rich" american soldiers going home there was no way to get it. We couldn't buy it after the war and they couldn't sell it haha horrific stalemate.

It started to gain ground in central cal but everyone making sticks were trying to push such low quality ones that nobody cared.

I think the colored strings are to decorate and distinguish the sticks. Depending on the colors used you knew who made it and what they made it with, kinda like a label or brand.

Either way I smoked the stick and it did get me a bit higher than usual. I think I was able to smoke more bud faster because it was so dense and I could pack so much in a bowl it milked like a champ haha now I need to make a bigger one and dip it in something. I'm still waiting on my friend to pull down his stuff so I can get a stem and leaves, I might try to make a cigar.

ProHuman said:

Interesting.
If thai stick was so popular, how come it isn't anymore?
With the recent marijuana laws headlining these days, you would think these would be better known, and used by a bigger population.
You could be a pioneer, with the newest weed craze!
Whats old is new again.

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Flowering time and yield. The demand was so high they ended up hybridizing with indicas to lower the flowering time and things started to change. And because it was illegal to grow it wasn't like you could grow the numbers necessary to satisfy demand. The laws in Thailand are also quite harsh.

This brings back memories, that stuff was sooo potent, it would get you to the " I want to give some back" stage if you took one to many hits.
I remember my cousin slipping a hit in a bong and giving it to me, I thought my lungs were going to explode, cant remember much of the rest of that afternoon.

No one has smuggled out seeds of the original strain that made it so good?
What was it?

Some land race. I don't think there actually was a thai strain.

ProHuman said:

No one has smuggled out seeds of the original strain that made it so good?
What was it?

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I am so curious as to why the fuck your putting cannabis on a stick ? Unless your dipping this shit into something amazing....

I am confused.

You should dip it in honey oil and then dust it with kief!!

Thecouchlock said:

I am so curious as to why the fuck your putting cannabis on a stick ? Unless your dipping this shit into something amazing....

I am confused.

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sounds like a lot of effort for.......?

mmm.... opium soaked thai-sticks... a real blast from the past