First, pack a bowl with great airflow. Then use a bamboo or titanium toothpick to grab a glob of extract from your jar of joy. In the photo above I used BHO extract from two different strains.

You want to drop the globs near the middle of the bowl so it doesn’t melt too much along the edges. With less-sticky forms of extract like shatter, sugar or crumble this is usually pretty easy, but with some gooier badder or diamonds and sauce it can be more difficult. I wouldn’t recommend putting RSO or FECO on top of your flower but I have had some people tell me they do it.

If you’re having trouble getting your hash glob to drop properly, use a second toothpick with your other hand to scrape the goopy clump downwards. You can also flatten the hash chunks into pancakes or break them into smaller bits if need be.

Try to avoid getting pieces of weed mixed in with the hash clumps. In the above photo you can see how some bits of weed got mixed in with the bottom left and bottom right chunks of cheer. When you go to melt the hash, these bits of weed will set ablaze and interfere with the cleanliness of your melt.

If you don’t have any hemp wick handy, try to gather two lighters. It’s possible to melt the hash with only one lighter but the device can get hot in your hand after some time. Switching off between lighters when needed will help keep your thumbs from getting burnt.

Hover the flame just over the extract clumps. Don’t touch the flame to the hash. Take your time. There is no need to inhale through the mouthpiece during the melting process.

The oil will eventually become viscous and start to bubble. It will begin to pool up and melt down into the flower. If need be, use your non-lighter hand to move the pipe around so the hash doesn’t drip out of the bowl head. Switch lighters as needed, or if using a hemp wick, put out the flame and relight when necessary.

If the extract catches fire, gently fan it out with your hand, or use a subtle puff of lung air to extinguish the flame. Move forward with the melting process when the flame has floundered.

The hash pictured above is in a state of half melt. I wouldn’t go to smoke it quite yet. There is more melt work to muddle with before you can blaze this bowl.

Keep the bubbles brewin’ until the glob distinctly dissolves into the flower as seen above.

The pipe is now properly prepared for human consumption. In the picture you can see how some areas of the flower are black and charred because I held my lighter a bit too close at times.

I also accidently let small pieces of weed intermingle with the hash globs by not plopping them properly or precisely with the first drop. This led to additional unnecessary charring during the melt. If you have to relocate your hash globs after first drop, you may get weed chunks stuck within the BHO bits that will catch fire during the melting process. Fan them out with your hand as needed.

While smoking the pipe, you’ll notice after each hit that the bowl keeps burning slowly but surely. To put out the ember between each toke, cup your hand over the bowl head. You can also use a glass carb cap like the one pictured above to quickly and safely cut off oxygen to the burning hash ball.

Globbing extract atop your bowls is a fun and fruitful activity. Use this heady technique to pack bonkers bongs that last for long lengths of time. Melting wax atop flower is also great when using hand bubblers or for any other situation in which your bud burns fast.