Calm Your Mind and Soul with Our Birthday Cake CBD Flower

CBD flower strains

One of the many CBD flower strains we’re excited about is called Birthday Cake CBD. The Birthday Cake strain is a perfect example of the ingenuity of cross-breeding and pollinating cannabis plants. Now that hemp and cannabis growing and dispensing is decriminalized federally and legal in most states, growers have the leverage and resources to harvest specific strains of CBD flower.

As we have discussed extensively in previous blog posts, the popularity of CBD flowers and other CBD products has skyrocketed in recent years. New medical studies continue to confirm that this powerful cannabinoid has the potential to relieve the pain of various physiological ailments including chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and dozens of others.

Millions of hemp users have experienced this power firsthand. It’s not like dispensary store customers are sitting at home reading clinical studies about the effects of CBD and then deciding to go out and purchase. They’re trying it out for themselves and operating off of that visceral experience.

And for the vast majority of frequent users, the evidence is strong and the conclusion is undeniable: CBD flower strains like Birthday Cake CBD and others have a pronounced effect on their bodies and minds that is substantially different and qualitatively better than high-THC strains.

CBD and other cannabinoids are already a part of the vanguard of a new natural healthcare movement that is slowly sweeping across the country. The idea is simple: you can treat and sometimes cure pain without painkillers; and you can treat and sometimes cure anxiety without drugs and alcohol. While some may argue that CBD is still a drug despite its non-intoxicating effects, its likely safer and healthier for intermediate pain than the vast majority of prescriptions and recreational substances.

But how do cannabis growers cultivate such rich ratios of high-CBD flower?

The Strange Art/Magic/Science of Crossbreeding For CBD Flower

If you’ve spent any significant amount of time consuming marijuana, you know that different strains of cannabis can have dramatically different effects on the user. This includes psychological effects, as some strains might make you incredibly energetic, conversational or happy while other strains make you tired, withdrawn, and sometimes even anxious.

You’re probably familiar with the indica versus sativa debate but the truth is that individual strains within those categories have distinctive characteristics, such as different tastes and smells.

Cannabis breeders are the mad scientists that experiment with crossbreeding different plants to achieve specific trait profiles. In a process that can take years, breeders choose “parent” strains to cross-breed and then sometimes back-cross them to stabilize a new phenotype. The goal is to end up with a strain that has certain desirable traits and no bad traits.

This is even more complicated with marijuana plants than with your average garden food crops. These food crops are usually “monoecious,” signifying the individual plants have male and female organs.

Conversely, cannabis plants are considered “dioecious” and do not each contain male and female parts. Rather, each plant is either male or female. The female plant grows the cannabinoid buds and is pollinated by the male plant to produce seeds. This kind of cross-pollination produces a much greater and more diverse genetic pool from which growers can cross-breed.

While beneficial to the aim of breeding for specific traits – such as high-CBD content – this form of harvesting is also more time-consuming and difficult. But ultimately, it allows for breeders to carefully select and pursue the kinds of buds they want, such as the inverted THC:CBD ratio in Birthday Cake CBD. The typical Birthday Cake strain is about 20%+ THC and less than 1% CBD. After scrupulous cross-breeding, however, those percentages are effectively flip-flopped and a reliably medicinal CBD flower is born.

Growers like the Crawford brothers in Oregon demonstrate the devotion and discipline that comes with breeding for high-CBD flower buds.

“Good breeding is no secret, it’s just a lot of hard work and it takes years of research and development to accomplish,” Seth Crawfood stated in a recent interview about the recent surge in CBD popularity.

His brother added: “Good breeders are not people who just take two plants they like and cross them to get some ‘good stuff.’ Good breeders are people who take the time and make a plan, they create specific inbred lines to reach a target. But overall, it’s not rocket science.”

While it may not be rocket science, the methodology behind breeding is certainly not simple. Breeders must have a knack for registering and analyzing multiple types of traits all at once. Factors include:

Shape of the leaves
Calyx size
The morphology and growing conditions
Color
Cannabinoid amount
Cannabinoid profile
Flavor and aroma
Aroma and cannabinoid stability
Trichome typology
Resin quantity and quality
Resin persistence
Drying and curing times

Breeders must, of course, also prioritize the development of productive strains that can continually perform on the market. Additionally, potency is a major factor and here growers have seen a sea change when it comes to the demand of CBD-rich strains over THC-rich strains.

Birthday Cake CBD is thus an illustrative case study in the art/magic/science of cross-breeding cannabis plants, as well as a marker of how the cannabis growing market now favors CBD flower.

Birthday Cake CBD taste profile and effects

Our Birthday Cake CBD flower packs a powerful punch. Taste-wise, the hybrid strain carries a vanilla and nut flavor due to its unusual balance of terpenes and cannabinoids. This dynamic results from the cross-breeding of GSC and Cherry Pie strains, whose colorful genes and trichomes give Birthday Cake CBD a festive and ceremonial appearance. It’s been described as a strain that looks like a birthday present, which is presumably how the name arose.

However, as mentioned above, unlike many varieties of the Birthday Cake strain, ours is primarily a CBD flower that has been carefully bred to have a full-spectrum array of compounds without a predominance of THC. Full-spectrum means that while Birthday Cake CBD has higher amounts of CBD, especially when compared to its THC content, it also contains smaller but significant amounts of other cannabinoids and still more trace amounts of other compounds.

There are 113 known cannabinoids – of which THC, CBD, and CBN rank as the most popular – but only one cannabinoid is considered the “stem cell,” the progenitor of them all. That would be CBG, or cannabigerol, which for years lay largely unrecognized for its significant role in early development of cannabis plants. Now scientists and breeders know that not only is CBG critical to marijuana flowers in the early growing phase, it eventually morphs into other cannabinoids during the mature phase.

Like CBD and CBN, CBG is non-psychoactive but many growers and users say that it brings a powerful feeling of psychological wellness and may help with physical ailments like chronic pain, appetite loss, inflammation, and headaches. Studies done on CBG also demonstrate the potential for slowing the growth of cancer cells, decreasing the discomfort of glaucoma, and treating inflammatory bowel conditions and Crohn’s disease, although more research is still needed to make any conclusive claims.

The aforementioned Crawford brothers have built an entire business model around CBD but believe that CBG will be the next big craze in cannabis. Full-spectrum blends like Birthday Cake CBD allow one to experience the collective effort of CBD, CBG, and other cannabinoids.

For more info about the potential of CBG, click here to read our blog post.

CBD Flower and Indoor Hemp Flower for sale

Higher Hemp has a variety of CBD flower recommendations for your pandemic bug-out bag, including the staff favorite, Grand Daddy Purple CBD flower, which has 22.8% CBD content. Our indoor hemp flower for sale on our website comes to us from the most responsible, scientifically advanced growers in the industry, who take pride in cross-breeding hybrid CBD flower strains that help people manage pain and anxiety.

Birthday Cake CBD is a great example of our organically grown, top-shelf, indoor CBD flower selection, which contains up to 25% CBD by weight and less than 0.3% THC.

In addition to the myriad strains of lab-tested and certified CBD flower, we also offer CBD oil, CBD joints and blunts, CBD cartridges, CBD concentrates, CBD topicals, and even CBD for pets. Click here to read our post about the benefits of CBD for pets.

As always, remember that all our products are packaged with eco-friendly and sustainable hemp material and biodegradable bioplastic.

Also remember that we offer free same-day delivery in San Diego County and 2-day priority shipping nationwide.

CBD Blunts For Pandemic Peace and Pleasure

Blunts have been a pop culture icon for decades. Packing several times the amount of weed with a slower burn time, they are a favorite among veteran marijuana smokers. Traditionally, these blunts contained mostly high-THC, low-CBD strains of cannabis rolled in tobacco paper. But the times have changed.

In the last decade or so, CBD blunts have emerged as the new torch-bearer for this tradition, representing the social transition to more enlightened, informed attitudes about cannabis, hemp, and the cannabinoid compounds that humans have used medicinally and industrially for thousands of years.

As legalization and decriminalization efforts spread across the nation’s courts, we’ve seen a remarkable, almost unbelievable revolution in the way our society thinks about and uses cannabis. What was once a taboo, illegal activity is now abundantly casual, which has allowed for a new generation of clinical studies to be conducted on the benefits of cannabinoids like CBD, CBN, and CBG.

The explosion of CBD sales is the natural outgrowth of this revolution. With it, we’ve seen the rise of the CBD blunts over THC-heavy rolling and a preference for the CBD hemp blunt as a healthier alternative to traditional tobacco blunts.

While CBD oils and extracts are very popular these days, there are still many people who prefer smoking their cannabis. Smoking remains a powerful social tradition, a ritual dating back to time immemorial in cultures around the world. For a plurality of cannabis users, the smoke itself adds an irreplaceable visual and aromatic aesthetic. There’s something almost mystical about inhaling smoke and watching it exit your body in elegant wisps.

Fortunately, CBD blunts offer a way to enjoy smoking without polluting your lungs with carcinogens and polluting your mind with unnecessary toxins. When combined with the health benefits we will discuss below, CBD blunts quickly emerge as a favorite vessel for Mother Nature’s sacred cannabinoids.

CBD blunts for physical health and relationship health

We’ve written extensively on this blog about the health benefits of CBD, which have been corroborated by many studies and will likely be fully canonized in medical literature within the next decade. It’s important to note that the FDA prohibits us from making health claims. The following potential health benefits of CBD have not been approved by the FDA and further research is needed to do so. CBD is believed by advocates to relieve symptoms of conditions ranging from mental illness to chronic pain, including the following:

~Sciatic nerve pain and inflammation
~Multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis
~Muscle spasms
~Mood disorders, anxiety, depression, insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
~Cancer related symptoms, including nausea and vomiting
~Acne
~Neurological disorders like epilepsy and related convulsions, fever, and fatigue
~High blood pressure, heart disease, and circulatory system health
~Psychotic symptoms, including those associated with schizophrenia and severe mental illness
~Diabetes
~Substance abuse and addiction
~Abatement of tumor growth

New studies also suggest additional health and wellness benefits of CBD blunts for women, as researchers begin to rediscover natural treatments and remedies known for centuries. While healers have known about CBD infusions for thousands of years, as recently as the 1800s, there were medical texts prescribing CBD for a variety of gynecological problems, including:

PMS
pain during sex
menopause
nausea during pregnancy
postpartum hemorrhage
difficult childbirth
painful urination
gynecological discomfort
prostate balance

Additionally, a growing body of research and literature suggests that CBD enhances sexual pleasure. Because our bodies contain countless endocannabinoid receptors, the cannabinol compounds and hemp molecules of CBD blunts, oils, extracts, etc. relax our inner systems, including our sexual organs, while stimulating blood flow, triggering neurotransmitters like nitric oxide, and soothing anxiety in the mind, which can affect sexual performance.

For these reasons and more, the stay-at-home mandates and quarantining of the pandemic seem to mark a perfect time to stock up on CBD blunts with your partner and conduct some of your own case studies.

Another benefit of the CBD blunts sold by Higher Hemp is the fact that a CBD hemp blunt is healthier both for you and the environment because they’re tobacco-free. One of the all-too-often overlooked realities of hemp is its widespread industrial use across the world for thousands of years.

In fact, many historians believe hemp is one of the most important crops in our civilization’s development. Harvested as early as 8,000 BC in China, hemp has been used for rope, fishnets, fiber, oil, medicine, paper, textiles (canvas), sails, bridges, shoes, caulking, clothes, food, butter, seed for grain (such as barley), lighting oil, paints, varnishes, birdseed, and plastic. The overall uses are virtually countless and the possibilities in the future are near endless.

When the Farm Bill of 2018 officially legalized hemp, it opened up a pathway to return to the age of hemp in a powerful way. Of course, the use of hemp as a superior rolling paper for blunts must also be noted.

The Advantages of the CBD Hemp Blunt

There are many kinds of CBD blunts but when you opt for a CBD hemp blunt you’re choosing to smoke something that is comprehensively healthier than a traditional tobacco blunt. First of all, a CBD hemp blunt is made from natural, plant-based hemp ingredients that do not contain nicotine or carcinogens.

Additionally, there are a variety of reasons why hemp paper is a superior alternative when smoking CBD blunts:

~CBD hemp blunt=functionally better. Hemp has an optimal thickness that is ideal for rolling and controlling the speed and intensity of the burn.

~CBD hemp blunt=smells better and tastes better. Because of the harsh chemicals inside traditional tobacco rolling papers, the ensuing smoke is acrid on both the nose, throat, and taste buds. Why counteract the positive effects of CBD blunts by using cruddy paper?

~CBD hemp blunt=chemical-free. Because of the way hemp is harvested – free of pesticides, herbicides, and other toxins – they are objectively healthier for you. Traditional rolling paper is made of tree pulp which is usually filled with harmful chemicals like chlorine, calcium carbonate, and potassium nitrate. Do you really want to be inhaling that stuff into your lungs every day?

~CBD hemp blunt=environmentally-friendly. Hemp plants grow much faster than the trees used for traditional rolling papers, which can take up to 40 years to reach full height. So hemp is naturally more sustainable. Additionally, it requires less water and fewer resources to grow and doesn’t bleed toxins and pesticides into the surrounding wildlife. The packaging is also made from biodegradable hemp plastic.

Higher Hemp CBD blunts

Higher Hemp CBD blunts follow the aforementioned philosophy of sustainable eco-friendly practices by using all-natural hemp pre-roll blunt wrap paper sourced from responsible vendors. We also take our belief in the power of hemp to the next level by using only hemp plastic and plant-derived bioplastic packaging for all our products, including CBD flower, CBD joints, CBD blunts, and CBD vape cartridges. We even use recycled glass and recovered ocean plastic for our Gummies and Capsules jars.

Our CBD blunts themselves are made with seedless, unkeefed, premium CBD hemp flower. They weigh approximately 1.25 grams each and contain up to 25% CBD, or 312mg total CBD per blunt. Each of our products, including our CBD blunts, is shipped with certified lab tests showing the exact breakdown of compounds contained inside.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to throttle our minds, bodies, and resources, it’s important to take care of yourself and your family. See if our CBD blunts and other products help take the edge off any anxiety or physical pain you may be experiencing. Higher Hemp offers pre-rolled blunts of strains such as Wife CBD hemp flower, which is a mellow tangy flower with dense green buds containing 19% CBD. The Wife CBD hemp flower is a hybrid plant, which means it has been backcrossed over many generations to carry forth specific desired traits. In this case, the flower tastes and smells of cherry and is often used to relieve the symptoms of nausea, chronic pain, and migraines.

Generally speaking, CBD holds the promise of ameliorating a large variety of physical ailments and even helping with mental health and sexual relationships.

You don’t even have to leave the house to get our CBD blunts. Order through our easy online portal and get free same-day delivery on orders local to San Diego County and Orange County. Receive 2-day delivery on any order within the United States. First-time customers may use discount code HH20 for 20% off their first order!

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