i'm a bit late for the solo party i know... but just want to add to this thread that i LOVE the solo!
i was a joint-smoker when i still combusted and while clean water filtered vapor is great, the whole bong-ritual is different to a joint and a lot less relaxing for me personally...
with the solo i don't need water filtration, and i can get nice clouds with very short joint-like pulls... i usually start on 2 and get about 5-8 good, tasty hits of thick but still blue vapor, then go on 3 and "finish" the stem with another 3-5 hits that still have some taste left (not popcorn or generic weed taste, the taste of the strain), 2-3 stems is the amount i would put in a joint and i can vape about as long with this amount as it would take to smoke the joint, in the same style...
the taste of the unit itself is pretty neutral, but the first few days there was a noticable hot-electronics smell to it... i would rate it as 8,5/10 tastewise (with herborizer being 9/10 and vhw and gnome 10/10)... i am what most would call a pot-snob, taste is the most important part of the experience for me (besides effect of course, but effect depends on the terpenes/flavonoids too) and i'm perfectly happy with the taste of the solo
the direct draw makes it so much tastier than water filtered vapor - i am amazed at how much taste is lost by water filtration (even with little diffusion)...
when i have enjoyed a few stems in a row with direct draw my throat can get a little irritated, that's when i reach for my waterpipes now... with the pipes i start on 3 and get 4-5 nice milky hits and then finish it off with one last hit on 5 which can hit really hard (more like combusting through a bong)
the solo is very versatile and just overall a great unit, and it's smaller than it looks in the pics, for me it is a portable and in a lot of situation it's stealthier than the iolite (no noise, and possible to vape a load quickly) - but i'm not one for vaping on the go
the great thing about the portability of the solo for me is i can now spend a whole day in nature without missing the tasty haze... thank you arizer!
Hey guys, i have question..
Im living in northern Europe and cant get weed all the time, so i have question about vaping good quality maroc hash with solo. Is that possible?I dont wanna brake my brand new Solo with hash !
Thanks for the answers guys
yeah it works very well, though it depends a bit on quality - best is some lightly pressed blonde polm, with the melty stuff the screen gets clogged up or it drips down in the heating chamber - but a few crums of herb or additional screens and this problem is solved too, you won't break your solo with a bit of hash - in the worst case it gets dirty and you'll have to clean it - it's a very solid product!
if you want to use it with a waterpipe you can get gong-adapters at verdampftnochmal.de, so you won't have to order them from canada and can avoid customs and long shipping time (they also carry other modified stems)...
happy vaping!
