Guide

How to Smoke Blue Lotus: Joints, Pipes and Blends

How to smoke blue lotus the easy way: picking the right grade, prepping flower, rolling, pipes, blends, how much to use and mistakes to skip.

What Do You Do With Leftover Kava Root? Second Wash Explained

How we get a second and third wash out of medium grind kava at the bar, what to expect from each, and when the makas is finished. For adults 21 and over.

Is Blue Lotus Like Weed? Blue Lotus vs THC and THCA Compared

Is blue lotus like weed? Not really. We compare blue lotus vs THC and THCA flower: compounds, how each feels, smoking, and drug test basics.

What Do You Mix With Mullein and Damiana for a Smoke Blend?

Base, body and accent for a rolling blend, with weights, moisture targets and the grind that actually stays lit. Inhaling anything carries risk. For adults 21 and over.

How Do You Store a Bulk Extract Order? Portioning Into 1 Gram Jars

How we break a bulk extract order down into labeled 1 gram jars without losing powder or losing track of which batch is which. For adults 21 and over.

Saffron vs Safflower: Identity, Plant Parts & Testing

Distinguish Crocus sativus stigmas from safflower and petals. Learn why home water tests cannot authenticate every saffron product.

Saffron Tincture: What Is Liquid Saffron and How Is It Used?

A saffron tincture, also called liquid saffron or saffron drops, is saffron steeped in alcohol or glycerin so its crocin and safranal move into a liquid you take by the dropper.

How Do You Make Your Own Herbal Tea Blend? Ratios That Work

Base, accent and top note: how we build a loose leaf herbal blend by weight, with ratios, grind sizes and a steep schedule. For adults 21 and over.

Saffron Threads vs Extract: Percentages, Carriers & Labels

Compare saffron threads, extract powder and resin. Learn why named markers, carriers and batch evidence matter when reading percentages.

Saffron Petals vs Threads: Flower Parts & Evidence

Distinguish saffron petals, stigmas and stamens. Read the evidence behind flower-part differences and why serving conversions need product-specific details.

What Can You Mix Instant Kava With? 3 Kava Mocktail Recipes

How we mix instant kava at Roots Kava Bar, with the ratios, water temperatures and three mocktail builds we pour most often. For adults 21 and over.

How to Make a Sour Citric Acid Coating and Flavor Your Gummies

The 2 to 1 sugar and citric acid ratio we use for a sour coating that stays dry, why gummies need to dry for a day before coating, and how to flavor the batch at the pour.

How to Make Your Own Vape Liquid and Fill a 510 Cart

How our vape liquids are built from vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol and botanical extract, the blend ratios that actually wick, and how to fill an empty 510 cartridge without a mess.

How to Refill a 510 Cart with Blue Lotus Vape Juice

A step by step refill of a 0.5 ml 510 cartridge with thick blue lotus vape juice, including the soak time that saves the coil and fixes for gurgling, leaks and burnt taste.

Blue Lotus Extract 100:1 vs High Aporphine vs High Nuciferine

How a 100:1 blue lotus extract is made, how the refined high aporphine and high nuciferine versions differ, how to weigh tiny amounts, and why a jar can arrive soft.

Blue Lotus Grades: Whole Flower, Petals and Stamens, Stems

What each dried blue lotus grade is, what a head weighs, and which one to pick for tea, wine, rolling or display.

How to Prepare Blue Lotus Tea and Wine the Traditional Way

Step-by-step blue lotus tea, cold brew and wine infusion with exact gram amounts, steep times and the mistakes that ruin a batch.

Blue Lotus Price Guide: What Flower, Tincture and Vape Cost

What a gram of blue lotus flower, a 2 oz tincture, a 100:1 extract and a vape cart should cost, and why premium flower is priced on genetics, size and scarcity rather than potency.

Gas Station Blue Lotus Pre Rolls vs Whole Flower Pre Rolls

What is actually inside a convenience store blue lotus pre roll compared with a whole flower pre roll, and six ways to tell them apart in thirty seconds.

Sprayed or Synthetic? How to Spot Real Blue Lotus Flower

How to tell natural dried blue lotus flower from product that has been sprayed with flavoring or synthetic additives, with five checks you can run at home.

How to Roll Your Own Herbal Blends (Papers, Cones and a Grinder)

How to grind, blend and roll loose leaf botanicals at home: which herbs make a smooth base, how to build a blend, and the difference between rolling papers and pre-rolled cones.

How to Fill Your Own Capsules with a Size 00 Capsule Machine

A step-by-step walkthrough of filling 100 size 0 capsules on a home capsule machine, with per-capsule weights for common botanical powders and the two mistakes that waste the most powder.

How to Make an Alcohol-Free Tincture (Glycerite) at Home

The glycerite method for an alcohol-free herbal tincture: the glycerin to water ratio, how long to macerate, how to strain it clean, and how to bottle it in a dropper bottle so it keeps.

How to Store Botanicals and Extracts (Jars, Desiccant, Humidity Packs, Light and Heat)

How we store whole flowers, ground kava root, extract powders, resins and tinctures at the bar: the temperature and humidity numbers we watch, which packs go in which jar, and how to label everything.

How to Measure Extract Powders: Micro Scoops, Milligram Scales and Why Density Matters

Why a 10mg scoop is not always 10mg, how to calibrate your scoop against a milligram scale for each extract, and how to store extract powders so they stay measurable.

True Egyptian Blue Lotus vs What's Sold Online: What the UC Berkeley Study Found

What true Egyptian blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) is, what the 2025 UC Berkeley study found about nuciferine in verified vs online flowers, and how to tell the real genetic apart.

How to Use Large Fill-Your-Own Tea Filter Bags for Loose Leaf and Cold Brew

Grams, temperatures and steep times for hot tea and overnight cold brew in our 4 by 6 inch drawstring filter bags, plus a weekly batching habit that keeps loose leaf fresher.

How to Make Kava the Traditional Way (Strainer Bag Method)

The traditional strainer bag method for medium grind kava, step by step: how much root, what water temperature, how long to knead, and how to get a second wash out of the same batch.