FatFreddy
Well-Known Member
Hi there folks,
A little bit of background first. Have been enjoying the benefits of our favourite herb for over 40 years now.
Gave up tobacco 25 years ago and used an old fashioned wooden pipe to smoke my stash neat from then on.
I always used to use resin just because my wife doesn’t partake, and finds the smell of herb unpleasant (weird I know, but I love her anyway
).
Then, three years ago, I switched to dry vaping. Once I’d got used to it, it was a revelation and I can’t ever really imagine returning to combustion as a method.
Over time, it became harder and harder to locate decent quality resin until about a year ago my most reliable supplier retired (he’s in his 70’s so fair enough) and all I could get hold of was herbal product or VERY low quality hash.
This was fine, except the smell gets into everything over time and it was becoming a source of domestic unrest.
In the course of researching other options like shatter and wax I came across a supplier of distillate vape carts. (Not sure whether to name drop him on here or not?)
They were a bit pricey but... Cue another revelation.... dry vaping hash takes aaaages (with my cheap portable vape) but the carts achieve the same effect in seconds AND (a massive plus for the Mrs) are virtually aroma free.
So that’s been me for the last year and a half. The guy who made them did a postal service, and if I got a few at a time, the price went down. All very civilised and when out and about, super discrete!
Until, disaster, my supplier has just dropped off the scene.
So, I have been looking for another supplier but a) people are naturally cagey, so even finding a supplier is hard, b)hard to find a supplier whose product I trust (I was offered a cart the other day and the “distillate “ was a bright pink colour “because it’s raspberry flavour”....erm, no thanks.
So that has led me to look into the idea of purchasing distillate and/or extracts and filling my own carts. Trouble is, I have NO idea what I’m doing.
I think I have a supplier for distillate but the minimum order is £800 and I have no idea of the quality or strength of the product, OR whether you can just fill a cart with it direct and vape away or do you need to dilute/mix it with something first.
It crosses my mind that maybe there is a go to “brand” (bearing in mind I’m in the UK so every bloody thing is black market) that is recognised for quality and reliability?
Anybody else on here fill their own carts? And what kind of carts are best to use? I understand that some of the cheapo ones have potential health issues due to what they are made from?
Apologies if all this information is available on here, I did try to look but kept going down dead end threads so resorted to asking you all directly.
Thanks in advance for your help.
A little bit of background first. Have been enjoying the benefits of our favourite herb for over 40 years now.
Gave up tobacco 25 years ago and used an old fashioned wooden pipe to smoke my stash neat from then on.
I always used to use resin just because my wife doesn’t partake, and finds the smell of herb unpleasant (weird I know, but I love her anyway
).Then, three years ago, I switched to dry vaping. Once I’d got used to it, it was a revelation and I can’t ever really imagine returning to combustion as a method.
Over time, it became harder and harder to locate decent quality resin until about a year ago my most reliable supplier retired (he’s in his 70’s so fair enough) and all I could get hold of was herbal product or VERY low quality hash.
This was fine, except the smell gets into everything over time and it was becoming a source of domestic unrest.
In the course of researching other options like shatter and wax I came across a supplier of distillate vape carts. (Not sure whether to name drop him on here or not?)
They were a bit pricey but... Cue another revelation.... dry vaping hash takes aaaages (with my cheap portable vape) but the carts achieve the same effect in seconds AND (a massive plus for the Mrs) are virtually aroma free.
So that’s been me for the last year and a half. The guy who made them did a postal service, and if I got a few at a time, the price went down. All very civilised and when out and about, super discrete!
Until, disaster, my supplier has just dropped off the scene.
So, I have been looking for another supplier but a) people are naturally cagey, so even finding a supplier is hard, b)hard to find a supplier whose product I trust (I was offered a cart the other day and the “distillate “ was a bright pink colour “because it’s raspberry flavour”....erm, no thanks.
So that has led me to look into the idea of purchasing distillate and/or extracts and filling my own carts. Trouble is, I have NO idea what I’m doing.
I think I have a supplier for distillate but the minimum order is £800 and I have no idea of the quality or strength of the product, OR whether you can just fill a cart with it direct and vape away or do you need to dilute/mix it with something first.
It crosses my mind that maybe there is a go to “brand” (bearing in mind I’m in the UK so every bloody thing is black market) that is recognised for quality and reliability?
Anybody else on here fill their own carts? And what kind of carts are best to use? I understand that some of the cheapo ones have potential health issues due to what they are made from?
Apologies if all this information is available on here, I did try to look but kept going down dead end threads so resorted to asking you all directly.
Thanks in advance for your help.
