Shake is the small broken pieces of bud, sugar leaf and loose trichomes that fall off flower when it is handled, packed and moved. It gathers at the bottom of containers and is often sold cheaply.
In practice
Shake from good flower is good flower in small pieces, but it degrades faster: more surface is exposed to air, so terpenes evaporate and cannabinoids oxidise sooner. Commercial "shake" can also include trim and leftovers from many batches, which is a different product. Shake is commonly used for rolling, edibles or infusions. Store shake as you would buds: airtight, cool and dark, and use it sooner.
Don't confuse with
- Trim: leaf cut off during trimming, before or after drying.
- Kief: loose trichome heads that fall through a screen.
A small leaf growing from within the flower cluster, often coated in trichomes, which is trimmed off and commonly kept for processing.A hair-like outgrowth of the plant's skin; in cannabis the glandular types make and store the resin holding cannabinoids and terpenes.Terpenes are volatile hydrocarbon compounds built from five-carbon isoprene units; in cannabis they are made in the trichome heads and are a major part of aroma and flavour.A cannabinoid is any compound that binds the body's cannabinoid receptors or shares the typical cannabis terpenophenolic structure; the plant-made ones are phytocannabinoids such as THCA and CBDA.Kief is the loose, powdery collection of trichome heads that falls or is sifted off dried cannabis through fine screens; it is the simplest solventless concentrate.Trichome heads are the bulbous resin-filled tops of capitate glandular trichomes, where cannabis makes and stores nearly all its cannabinoids and terpenes; they are the raw material of hash.Nugs is slang for whole, trimmed buds of dried cannabis flower, as opposed to shake or trim.Trim is the leaf material cut away from buds after harvest, especially the small resin-coated sugar leaves, often saved for making kief, hash or other concentrates.Popcorn buds are small, separate buds, usually from lower branches, often sold cheaper as "smalls" though they can be the same quality as the tops.
