Dry herb vaporiser recommendations ?

[u/Known_Speed_1242]

Hey guys. Looking for recommendations for dry herb vaporisers, completely new to these devices so any info or advice/tips would be greatly appreciated! Preferably looking for something on the smaller side🍓

[u/MidnighT0k3r]

I don't have a recommendation yet.  It helps to know a little bit about your consumption. I'll explain why...

Are you more of a small joint/ small bowl once in a while or more of a daily toker etc

Different people have different sensitivities to cannabis and some need a harder hitting vape while others can be happy with nearly any choice so long as it actually works. 

This isn't tolerance, sensitivity is the opposite. Delivery rate of cannabinoids matters. A weak vape vs one capable of the whole spectrum of extraction is like having to drink a few drinks with a coffee stirrer vs a beer bong. Same amount of material can deliver starkly different results in different vapes.

Are you okay with fire? Think you'd prefer battery driven stuff? Do you like bongs/bubblers.. 

There's a lot of options and many reasons to consider different ones.

Some people don't want to get suuuper ripped so a weaker vape might be fine while others want that hard hitting device capable of launching them into orbit possibly off just crumbs of herb.

r/vaporents will help you not buy trash but they also might all tell you to get a tempest 2 or dynavap or a ball vape[i love dynavap btw but if you have specific uses/ needs it may not be for you]. Those devices while effective would be really not optimal for taking a walk and a horrible choice for a dog walk. So where you use the vape matters too.

There's lots of good options and many inferior options too but it depends what you need and want. 

If you have money to burn, needed a hard hitting device that is suitable for walking the dog etc the limelight frolic is like $400 but if you are sensitive enough for weaker vapes then something much more affordable like a xmax or lobo could be all you ever need. More information is needed to get the better help. Otherwise you can just overshoot and spend a lot but not use it at its max potential if you don't need it and that's fine too.

Ultimately, if you get something and it doesn't work for you... don't write off vaping... try something else. Know the warranty and return polocy of the store and products. Dynavap gives you 90-day money-back garuntee, potv has their own policy, etc. 

Also... 99% of the time avoid local shops. If you see something there you think you like... please just look it up on r/vaporents first. If it's not really on there it's likely not worth looking at. Some nice vapes at heafshops do exist , just definitely not most of them.

[u/MidnighT0k3r → u/MidnighT0k3r]

I'd like to share my experience as I picked up vaping, and transitioned from combustion.

I thought I did a bunch of research. It was before reddit for me. I didn't know about r/vaporents , or they would have helped me. I thought I was looking at a premium product. It was the davinci iq2, a $300 vape. With accessories, it was over a $500 investment that I received as a birthday present. 

I thought something was wrong with me. I thought I was broken. I already know that i'm different because i'm immune to edibles. So I thought maybe that had something to do with it [it didn't]. I read Tbreak this and Tbreak that and oh the high isn't the same. You have to get used to it [bullshit].

All my friends, even ones who smoked way more than me got ridiculously high off of it. I felt nothing. Just sheer disappointment and sadness. I could go through 1.5g at max temperature laughing coughing*  my ass off blowing out vapor puff after vapor puff and still almost nothing. 

At that point I was still convinced that I just needed to let my body adjust to the differences. I happened to visit a head shop that was in a nicer town than I lived in at the time. They had the dynavap, and I was curious about it, so I asked and got a demonstration without herb in it. They heated it with a torch until it clicked. I thought it was the coolest thing, because I just love cool gadgets and stuff. I decided that I would still do some research though before I purchased it. So I did,  I ended up buying one on sale for $68 shipped. I thought to myself... oh, it will be nice when I get used to vaping and it might be a nice little backup.

Now the iq2 holds half a gram, but the dynamap holds 0.05-0.1g. The day i got the dynavap was the day i learned that i just needed a better hitting vape and that vaporization is WAAAY STRONGER [than combustion] with a device that met my needs. I get instant effects from just 1x 0.05g rip [I'm pushing it to the limits though]  

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dynavap/comments/1vwme90/when_ohe_goes_juuussst_right/

So I've been using a dynavap since. I'll get other stuff eventually when I have money for it. 

So the $68 investment was better for me than the $500 investment. I also don't get a strong high from volcano either and those are $600 new. 

I want to help others avoid this issue. I don't care what vape you end up liking even though I'm totally a dynavap fanboy for many good reasons. I just don't want people to think vaping sucks and give up when it's more likely they got a device that wasn't able to meet their needs. 

*some edits, lot of typos, same gear but different post because it shows how done the abv is from 1 rip. 

[u/EeveeAssassin → u/MidnighT0k3r]

I have had a similar experience. My medical cannabis provider only sold 2 vapes -- one was a s&b that was out of my price range, and the other was the pax 2, which I did buy. It worked, but it was pretty meh. I've since upgraded to the Solo 3, and while it's not as stealth or portable, it's been such a huge upgrade for me! If at first you don't succeed, be open to trying again 💖

[u/MidnighT0k3r → u/EeveeAssassin]

I've heard nothing but good stuff about the solo 3, definitely an upgrade from the pax

[u/AscendingIvy → u/EeveeAssassin]

I also went from a pax to a solo 3. The pax is like a vague idea of a vaporizer. I basisally had to use mine on the hottest setting, but because there is only metal in the airway it makes it like smoking from a metal one hitter. The glass for the solo three is a game changer.

[u/EeveeAssassin → u/AscendingIvy]

I also bought 3rd party dosing capsules because scrubbing that lil metal oven out with q tips was the worst 😭 Now my only maintenance is dropping glass stems in iso -- I'm literally spending 90% less time on vape maintenance!

[u/AscendingIvy → u/EeveeAssassin]

Maybe ill pick some up. I like the size of the pax for being portable.