Stalks?

[dctune]

What do y’all do with your stalks?

I usually either break them into smaller pieces or just throw them out. But I’m thinking about using this for a walking stick.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

That is not a stalk, ha ha. Stalks are about an inch around. That is merely a vein in the leaf. It isn't even a rib. I would just smoke it. It has flavor and adds nicotine to the smoke.

 

[bullet08]

I usually pick them out. Anything I think won't burn evenly gets dumped.

 

[leonardbill1]

If it breaks up easily when rubbing out the tobacco I smoke it, otherwise it gets picked out and thrown away.

 

[monty55]

When I come across a large vein, I cut it up in small pieces with a small pair of scissors and add it to the bowl.

 

[Searock Fan]

I'll be damned if I'll throw them away! When I'm filling a bowl and find one or two I take them out, break them up and pack them in the bowl about half way down. Why half way? At the top they can make the bowl hard to light and at the bottom they can create to much air space. At the half way point the tobacco is burning well enough to get them lit and there is enough smoldering ash to keep them going till they're smoked up. As to how they smoke.... just fine.

 

[reloader]

I also just break them up and pack them. No sense wasting something you paid for if it will break up and burn fine.

 

[mso489]

I break them up and smoke them. It's the same plant. I just don't want to pack them whole because they can spike you if you tamp with your finger.

 

[kcghost]

Break or cut them up and smoke them. Really easy.

 

[condorlover1]

Nothing beats a tobacco 'Twiglet' for flavor!!

 

[FLDRD]

Initially in my naivete I had the audacity to grumble about their presence.

Following that fortunately brief period of my journey, I decided that they were perfectly useful and will now either plop one in the oral cavity for the flavor, or mostly just pinch them into pieces with my thumbnail and into the bowl they go!

 

[dctune]

Initially in my naivete I had the audacity to grumble about their presence.

Following that fortunately brief period of my journey, I decided that they were perfectly useful and will now either plop one in the oral cavity for the flavor, or mostly just pinch them into pieces with my thumbnail and into the bowl they go!

Yesterday I was actually thinking about just lightly chewing on one. But thought I might be crazy. I am crazy, of course. My wife can verify.

 

[Searock Fan]

Yesterday I was actually thinking about just lightly chewing on one. But thought I might be crazy. I am crazy, of course. My wife can verify.

Seems you're not too crazy to learn.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Yesterday I was actually thinking about just lightly chewing on one. But thought I might be crazy. I am crazy, of course. My wife can verify.

maybe 20-30 years ago, someone had marketed these little round things that you could chew or just hold in your mouth like dip, and get a nice nic hit. They were actually just little sections of stems or ribs. They were cool, not very tasty, but the stems and ribs are where the majority of the nicotine is. When I am ribbing my homegrown leaves down for making my own twists or blends, I have no hesitation in chewing on the ribs.

 

[hawky454]

When I first started smoking, the “pipe manager” at Heroes & Legacies (a local tobacconist rip) held up a stem and told me that the stems are the tastiest part. I don’t know if he was just fucking with me or what but to this day I never toss them, I just break them up and load em with the rest of the tobacco. Not sure they are “tastier”, I just don’t notice them and they’ve never bothered me, just a fact of pipe smoking. GH Dark Birdseye leaves them in on purpose from my understanding.