Product Name: bloomer Wildflower Blooming Filter Tips
Brand: bloomer
Category: Smokable
Star rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Summary: A wax-based filter tip filled with noninvasive wildflower seeds
What does it mean as a stoner to leave no trace?
The world is littered with cigarette butts. Parks, highways, campsites, even the greenery dividers in parking lots are filled with butts. Stoner need to and can do better than that.
When you’re smoking a joint rolled with hemp or rice paper, it’s biodegradable. But that doesn’t mean you should just drop it on the ground, confident that it will break down. You still have to take the right steps to ensure the roach will decompose and not become another piece of parking lot litter.
In short, you have to bury your roaches to leave no trace. So when I found bloomer, a company that makes exclusively biodegradable wax tips and cones, I was intrigued.
About bloomer Wax Tips
bloomer is on a mission to save pollinators.
Their filter tips are made from a vegan wax blend and filled with “sustainably-sourced, noninvasive/native high-pollinating wildflower seeds.” The tips are organic, vegan, and completely decompostable. The paper and leaf cones they sell come with these filter tips.
I’ve tried the tips and the 1-1/4 cones. The tips are about an inch long, which is quite large for the average joint. They’re thick and have a heart-shaped hole in the middle. Each tip has around a dozen seeds in it, give or take a few. The size of the tips limits their use in regular-size papers: if you’re trying to roll anything over a 5. gram, you need a bigger paper or a smaller tip. The cones smoke well, slowly and smoothly. The tips fit well with king-size papers, giving you a comfortable and protective thumb rest.
I like these cones and the tips. I’m a big fan of tips in my joints – I usually use cardboard from the container of the rolling papers or the included tips in a combo pack. These tips are quite large so I don’t use them every day, but if I’m smoking a king-size joint, these are perfect.
On their website, bloomer has instructions for how to plant these tips, which are: in a hole at least 1/2 deep that is exposed to the elements. If you bury these in your yard, bloomer reports that you should see blooms within 9 – 12 months, depending on time of planting.
I have planted a few of these during my travels, always digging a small hole, burying the joint at the bottom, and covering it completely.
bloomer is based in Miami, where the tips are made. The cones are made offshore in Central America and Asia and then shipped to the US.
Why I Give bloomer Four Stars
I don’t want to be misconstrued – I like this product a lot and I appreciate their creative approach to a common problem of littering. But I have a few reservations.
Firstly, bloomer doesn’t share which wildflower seeds are included in the tips, instead calling it a “proprietary seed mix” and calling out red poppies specifically. These tips are for sale across the US and while I love the mission, I would be remiss not to include the fact that the US is a highly geographically diverse area and very few plants are found naturally occuring from coast to coast. I don’t know which region these wildflower seeds are native to or geared for.
Another reservation I have (a small one) is that bees are not the only pollinators important to our ecosystem. They are important, without contest, but they are not singular. So I was pleasantly surprised to see this called out on bloomer’s website: “these seeds are pollinator-friendly and help to combat depopulation in honeybees, butterflies and other pollinators”
Additionally, these tips are large. If you’re rolling with a typical-size rolling paper, this tip will take up 1/3 – 1/2 of your paper, so your joints will be small.
Overall, I like bloomer’s tips and their cones. They have a mission I can get behind, reasonable prices, and a commendable focus on sustainability.
Buy this product: https://www.bloomer.store/collections/products
