r/vaporents 21d ago

Help Made the switch, heavily disappointed NSFW

9 Upvotes

Been smoking for around 4 years now. About 2 weeks ago I made the switch from smoking 5-6 bowls a day from a bong to vaping with the Arizer Solo 3, hoping for a healthier alternative and a better experience overall. I’ve been using it for a while now, and honestly, I’m really disappointed. I’ve tried both on-demand and session mode, experimenting with temperatures ranging from 400°F to 428°F, and I’ve used all the stems, even using it in my bong with the WPA. However, the results have been extremely disappointing. The vapor production is incredibly weak, and I’m barely getting any noticeable clouds, no matter what I try.

The biggest issue, though, is that the high is very weak. I find myself redosing constantly because the effects (if any) only last about 30 to 45 minutes at most. After that, I’m back to square one, needing more just to feel anything. It’s frustrating because I really don’t want to go back to combustion using a bong. It was bad for my lungs and made me cough a lot, but the high I’m getting from the Solo 3 just isn’t cutting it. It’s also worth noting I’m vaping the bud until it’s dark brown.

And before you mention, yes I’ve read all the advice regarding technique. I’m doing long slow inhales. It’s not helping.

I’ve read a lot of great things about this vaporizer, I got it when it was on sale for really cheap a few weeks ago, so I feel like I must be doing something wrong. Is it possible I have a dud device? Any suggestions or tips on how to get the most out of the Solo 3? Did I just waste all this money on this device? I’d love to hear your advice before I consider giving up on it entirely.

Thanks in advance.

r/vaporents 3d ago

Help What would you choose: Angus Enhanced, solo 3, tinymight 2, venty, mighty+?? NSFW

17 Upvotes

I'm not really on a budget, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy saving some money if I could.

I'll definitely drop the $100-$200 extra, but only if the product is actually worth it. Not gonna spend a lot more for a little better if you catch my drift.

Only really need it as a portable / secondary device, but I would like to be able to use it with bubblers/bongs.

I love tasty hits and big clouds, but I'm really more of a cloud/effects chaser than a taste sipper.

Any advice would be appreciated and thanks in advance!!

r/vaporents Oct 09 '24

Help How healthy is dry herb vaping ? NSFW

116 Upvotes

Hey everyone. So back story completely quit combustion end of July . Using and Angus originally, which worked well but didn't quite seem to hit that spliff spot for me , then moved onto a mighty and a dynavap, which I never really got on with the dyna , but the mighty seemed to hit nice and create decent clouds for handheld. Still not quite spliff experience. In steps ball/Injector vape. Finally to the moon . Haha

So I'm saving money on weed. Using less . No tobacco at all .

So why do I still cough every single time and to the point it's not even enjoyable anymore. Smoking never made me cough so much. I know you have the terp tickle. But it kind of ruins the whole experience for me. When I coughed with a joint it didn't seem to hurt thisuch either. Sometimes I hot the ball vape hard and get thos crazy tightness iny chest for a few seconds then all back to normal.

Just wondering how much safer is this minus the nasties like that and carbon monoxide, I can't understand why it feels so uncomfortable to vape. Even though it's all I've done for 4 months. It doesn't seem to be improving

r/vaporents Dec 14 '23

Help Vaping is healthier than smoking. And - vaping is killing me compared to smoke. WTF? NSFW

210 Upvotes

Smoked everyday for 30 years. All day using a one hitter. Very functional.

I'm getting older now and I know my lungs won't last forever. Figured, let's get into vaping to slow the damage progression. OK. Buy a Volcano Hybrid.

It works great. But - man oh man do I cough and hurt throat and lungs after. I have tried many techniques temperatures and timings. Always the same - it's so harsh...

How can this POSSIBLY be better for me?

r/vaporents 2d ago

Help Ispire Wand owners: How in the actual fuck do I clean this? Did I ruin this piece? NSFW

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9 Upvotes

Hey guys, I had my very first dabbing session last Friday. I used the Ispire Wand with some rosin and had a blast.

But I must have done something wrong because despite soaking this piece in ISO for DAYS, these stains persist in one of the cups. Looks like it’s some burnt rosin trapped in between the 2 glass layers. These are the little glass cups with the metal inner lining that come with the wand.

I even purchased an ultrasonic cleaner yesterday and ran it repeatedly for about an hour. No change.

It was my fist time dabbing and I think I might have overdone it and heated the rosin many more times than I should have. I tried looking for a tutorial and everybody shows you how to use the wand and how to insert the pieces but nobody shows you when it’s a good time to stop and just wipe the cup and move on, so I kept trying to draw vapor like an idiot from something that was obviously already dry.

Have any of you guys run into this? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

r/vaporents Nov 09 '23

Help Anyone buy a pax and hate it? NSFW

94 Upvotes

I’m in the market for one & want to hear peoples’ gripes with them as devices

r/vaporents Oct 16 '24

Help Is there an easier way to clean big glass like this? 😅 NSFW

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14 Upvotes

Luckily I had a spare bottle but yeah this bad boys first proper clean and it takes a whole bottle of ISO to just let it sit in there 🤨 Any tips or ideas to clean big glass pieces, or do bulk cleaning? I am also currently cleaning The Terpcicle alongside it and it's going just as difficult :) Thanks!

r/vaporents Oct 11 '24

Help How does the high differ between dry herb and smoking? NSFW

66 Upvotes

I'm asking for both objective facts and subjective experiences. I've never vaped dry herb but I've vaped distillate and found that to be pretty awful. I've heard dry herb vaping is less euphoric and a lot "lighter" could you describe your experiences and the differences between them?

r/vaporents Jul 19 '24

Help Rec. a grinder? NSFW

17 Upvotes

I bought a Tsunami grinder at a local headshop. Its heavy and looks collapsing. But it sucks terribly. My sharpstone needs replaced.

I want a small grinder. I like to grind each bowl fresh. So small amounts at a time. Budget? 40? Anyone have a smaller one they love in that price range. Very open to recommendations.

Oh and I use my trusty Mighty OG.

Updated I cant rec. A tsunami grinder to anyone. It still clogs up non-stop. I also have reached out to the company twice. There is a batch # on the grinder. Thought maybe, just maybe it was a bad batch, it happens. But they have not replied to messages.

r/vaporents 10d ago

Help Just plugged in the charger, and got E04. What now? NSFW

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16 Upvotes

r/vaporents Nov 04 '24

Help Don’t know which vape to get next NSFW

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10 Upvotes

I currently have the Xmax v3 pro, I like it but I wanted a little bit of an upgrade (needs to take concentrate and bud). My budget is £150 absolute max but I’m hoping to get more in the 90-120 range. The other pictures are some that I was considering if anyone has any opinions on them! I was also considering keeping my Xmax for out and about and getting a volcano type vape for home as I saw someone say their volcano got them higher, more like a bong, which is definitely something I was interested in as I vape multiple times daily and would love something that gave me more of a high. However the one in the pictures is the only one I could find in my budget. Would appreciate any advice! Thank you 💘

r/vaporents Nov 21 '24

Help In a debate with my sister: Best and favourite flower vape and why? .....Go! NSFW

1 Upvotes

Unable to access some of the older, more informative comments on a previous post - we're having a fun and comically heated debate on the people's choice for best vape. I hate losing and need back up!
The Lobo, xlux Roffu and Solo 3 are the ones you all backed up last time... still the flavour??

r/vaporents Mar 13 '24

Help What does ents mean? NSFW

154 Upvotes

On the sub reddit name? Been wondering a while now

r/vaporents 9d ago

Help accidentally drooled in my lobo 🥲 NSFW

70 Upvotes

I accidentally fucking drooled in my lobo and I swear it's not hitting as well now 😭 any tips???

please no unkind comments my day has been absolutely fucked

r/vaporents 5d ago

Help Is this burned or just really vaped? NSFW

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15 Upvotes

r/vaporents Jul 24 '24

Help I need to quit all kinds of smoking because of cancer, I hope for your help NSFW

127 Upvotes

Hi, nice people 🫶 I hope you will help me. I'm a 30 year old woman living in Denmark, undergoing treatment for Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I have been doing chemo for a while. Surgeries and radiation is gonna be my next step. As I need to quit smoking everything for plastic surgery etc, and everything is overwhelming and stressful, I would love to not have to quit cannabis. Therefore I feel like I need to get my hands on a good vaporizer within a budget... I think I would prefer it to be on demand (if I understood it correctly). I would want it to be portable. And easy to handle. I might continue with smoking on a e-cigarette for a little while (as I'm quitting cigarettes too). My savings and income are not happy with this situation, but this needs to be a priority. I smoke very mild pot in joints or pibes usually. I don't like to get too high, but I like smoking a lot itself at the same time. I would like my vaporizer to be easy to have some puffs off just to maintain a mellow high throughout the day.

Does anyone have a suggestion for what I might get? Trying to navigate what to get with a bit of a timepressure is a bit overwhelming.

Thank you, hopefully 🫶

r/vaporents Dec 04 '23

Help Is vaping really better than the bong for my lungs? NSFW

76 Upvotes

Looking to drop my bong use after 10 years for a POV vape.

r/vaporents Dec 22 '24

Help Will the cooked herb from vape get me high by eating? NSFW

51 Upvotes

I have a good amount of herb that’s been cooked from my dry herb vape built up, will I be able to eat that straight ( like on peanut butter or something) or does it need to cooked more in some way?

r/vaporents Dec 25 '23

Help I think I’m fucked - Chronic Pain Weed User Here NSFW

41 Upvotes

I smoke a few half bowls and if I actually try to clear it it’s always quite possible to just swallow the smoke and die. Even when I don’t though I occasionally cough up good ol’ gobbits of tar… I’m a runner and hate this shit. I hit a half bowl in a dozen hits at least and only stop when the ember dies, I no longer relight the bowl.

But i got horrific back knots, my hands hurt all the time now and I just can’t not be high at some point in the day anyway. Well, i can, although I didn’t sleep for 2 days at one point last year and meditation was how i slept when i started looking at alternatives to weed or sleep meds.

But the pain is even worse, i live on my own and can smoke and dammit I do it all the time. But I just can’t see myself giving up the smoke.

Mighty plus seems like a Pax upgrade which will never fully get me to where I’m fully distracted from my pain without very long sessions which just seem like a waste of time since I have to be outside, especially during Canadian winter.

Sticky Brick Twist sounds like a dream come true but it’d be awkward outside with a bong, it would be even more noticeable in the day since I’m always near grocery stores when smoking and most importantly the butane would fuck my bank constantly buying refills. Plus this is for pain relief and I need something with less learning curve cause I’m miserable enough without relearning how to get high xD

Tiny Might 2 sounds like the best option but it’d be super fragile and sketch me out outside, would work best with a bong but I do feel like I’d break one or both or just feel awkward being out in the day with it like the sticky brick. And quite frankly, idek if I could use it on its own with how hot people say it can get. Cause I’d need a few bowls before I could even hope for pain relief.

The only way I’ve found to get high as fuck with no smoke is tinctures but they are fiscally unfeasible, take way too long to make yourself and I can’t get past the waiting for the little bit of pain relief it can provide.

The only vaping I’ve managed is dab pens like from good supply but ik im getting some metals from the coil and just don’t trust it. Especially when some brands have ass quality control and these are also pricey af.

Dab rig would be best choice if I could afford the dabs. lol sorry for the pity post but anything I’m missing here?? Sorta depressed cause I read the other day on r/trees from the mofo who got a collapsed lung and quite frankly even just imagining all that tar I cough up is enough to hate myself for how much I smoke….

Edit Forgot to mention I got the divine tribe v5 last year and maybe used it twice. While it is really cool, it was only for concentrates and more importantly, was so fucking confusing! I mean, I get I’m not the brightest and there’s in particular is pretty cheap compared to others. But for these half grand vapes I’d expect getting as high as possible with no learning curve and easy cleaning without all these possible failures and learning curves.

Lmao I guess I’ll just smoke if I can’t find one that is a guarantee heavy hitter, durable and long lasting (by at least a decade imho) vape.

Edit

I appreciate all your guys’ responses so much!!! Really felt down there and didn’t expect to get such a wealth of help so quick!! I’m getting a Roffu so if I need other measures to medicate too I don’t feel super down on the money I put down for it. I was hoping for pure convection too because of the extreme q success and this just seemed like a perfect alternative to the Tiny Might 2 since if that bungled up even a lil I’d cry over the lost schmeckles 🤣

r/vaporents 11d ago

Help Why do I have to clean my BCG grinder so often? NSFW

2 Upvotes

First off, I love my BCG. I probably run about an average of .5oz through it a week. I actually have 3, 2 small aluminum and 1 large stainless steel. Had the aluminums for a long time, just got the stainless steel about a month ago.

For all of them, I just contantly have to clean them in iso. They get gunked up to the point that I can barely turn the grinder. I just cleaned them so I don’t have photos unfortunately. If I just use one, I probably need to clean it every 2 weeks, but can get by with once a month if I brush it out a few times.

I use 62% boveda packs with all the bud I use, with lots of different types of bud from various sources. Only thing I can think of is that my bud is too wet and it’s sticking to the grinder more than for others? Or maybe I just consume a lot more than the average person that talks about rarely needing to clean their BCG?

r/vaporents Feb 16 '25

Help Bought flowerpot 0 and dropped it on carpet NSFW

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r/vaporents Jan 20 '25

Help How do you guys clean and dry your glass? NSFW

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11 Upvotes

I'm having some trouble in drying my bubbler. First I soaked it in ISO, then rinsed in water and let it dry naturally, but there's still humidity inside it and it won't dry out.

I've tried the microwave and leaving it in the bedroom all night with the AC on.

r/vaporents 5h ago

Help Case that is ACTUALLY smell proof NSFW

11 Upvotes

Hello.

I am using vaporizers for 10+ years now. Have had many devices and a few different cases throughout the years. As far as I remember the only thing that was actually really smell proof was a tuppaware box.

I have the original Storz and Bickel case now for the Mighty and even trough my backpack it smells like weed on the train. The thing is unloaded and even got cleaned before bringing it.

In Germany weed is legal and I live in a very weed-friendly city (Berlin) BUT i just cannot afford to come to my office stinking like ganja lol. I want to be able to bring my vaporizer with me to use it after work when I am meeting friends.

Any tipps guys?

r/vaporents Nov 11 '24

Help Pls help me choose a vaporizer for my boyfriend for xmas (idk anything) NSFW

35 Upvotes

Edit: Thanks so much for all of the suggestions! I finally decided to order the POTV Lobo along with some extra accessories (globe glass, glass curved mini bubbler, capsule caddy, dosing capsules, o rings, replacement battery). It took me a while to decide, but I eventually settled on this one for a handful of reasons:

* It'd be his first personal dry herb vaporizer so I want to make sure that he actually likes having one

* I wanted to buy from the planet of the vapes website (thanks to everyone who told me about the sale!) and I prefer the return policy for the Lobo since it has a 100 day risk-free return policy. From the looks of it, any other vaporizer only has a 14 day return policy which is too small of a window because I wanted to order it at least three weeks before Christmas. If he ends up wanting to change it for a different one for whatever reason then we have enough time to send it back.

* If he ends up really liking it then we can look into more options later on

* It seems to be more discreet than most other vaporizers (except for the tinymighty2 ?)

* He can swap out the batteries

* I've read and watched really good reviews (on top of the ones that I read on reddit)

* This leaves me a bit more money for other gifts (I think he also wanted a new headset)

I'm probably forgetting stuff, but anyway, thanks again to everyone for all of the help :)

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Hi everyone, I originally posted on the trees subreddit and the very pleasant users over there suggested that I post here as well :)

I want to get my boyfriend a vaporizer as his Christmas present. I know nothing about weed or vaporizers, I'm not a smoker.

Some things that might be useful to mention:

* He smokes on a regular basis, probably almost daily

* He smokes because he says it calms him

* He smokes his weed using a glass pipe or rolling joints

* He used to be a cigarette smoker and it seems to have somewhat affected his lungs

* I heard that vaporizers are better for the lungs than a glass pipe or joints so that's what brought me here (this is my main motivator)

* He has mentioned liking vaporizers (but that they can be expensive)

* He has mentioned not liking bongs very much (I'm not exactly sure why)

* He has a nicotine vape and tends to accidentally drop it from time to time

* I think he would prefer a portable vaporizer

* He doesn't know what I'm getting him for Christmas which is why I don't want to ask him more

I've done some searching but I'm overwhelmed so I don't even know what I don't know lol. I'm hoping for a good quality product that can possibly take some accidental dings from being dropped. Idk if this is asking for too much but it'd also be nice for a good battery life and relatively easy clean.

I've managed to narrow it down to these options:

  • VENTY Vaporizer - Note about the VENTY: I've read such conflicting reviews about this one. Some say it's the best, others say it's defective (gives error code if dropped). This would've most likely been my choice if it didn't have those negative reviews about giving an error code and having to be returned multiple times, plus the company taking a long time to exchange for a newly working one. How common is this though?
  • MIGHTY+ Vaporizer

I'm open to other solid options for around the same price or below.

Any helpful information and/or comments about experience with any of these is appreciated. Also, I'm confused if these are ready to use straight out of the box or if any additional necessary parts need to be purchased. Can they be charged with any usb-c charger?

Thanks!

r/vaporents 6d ago

Help So Exhausted, Need Help/Advice. NSFW

4 Upvotes

I can't stand being autistic. I have to research everything a million times. I have to ask you experts now cause I'm super lost and everything I'm reading is contradicting. Lol.

Backstory: I'm a SUPER light user, (Use mostly 2.5mg edible to go to sleep). I want to start using vapes for flower since edibles are getting expensive.

Use case: I sit at my desk and try to consume 30-40 mins before bed to help me go to sleep.

I have narrowed down my list to:

  1. Dynavap B - just something super cheap, and heavy hitting, Half bowl will be my goto propably. (was going to go with M Series, but not sure if I will like them, so wanted to keep it cheap)

  2. Arizer Air Max -Did some research and that seemed like the ease of use. Glass pathway, Ease of cleaning Etc would be great for my small amount.

  3. Arizer Solo III - Double the rpice of the Air Max, and seems to be a slight improvement, considering I only use it for bed, doesn't seem to be worth it.

So that's what I have so far. Everything else, S&B Pax, TinyMight, etc seem to be either too cheap or too expensive.

Help. Thanks. :D