Some say it helps keep the vapor smoother and your unit cleaner. Others seem to say it makes the vapor more dry and can irritate the throat.
Do you guys use the hemp fiber in your vapcaps as a filter and what would be a use case for that?
I am a life long chronic asthmatic. Smoking a joint has always been hard on my lungs as has vaping to a lesser extent.
I use degummed hemp fiber filters between two CCD screens in all my tips. The side benefit is a very clean condenser but I use them primarily to filter out tiny particulates in the air path. You know, the tiny bits that cling to the inside of the condenser? Well, those tiny particulates also continue down the airpath into your lungs. With a hemp filter the condenser stays smooth and clean and your lungs don't get irritated by bits of plant matter.
I don't go crazy with heat when I vape. I don't char my load. So, I'm wondering if those who find the filters irritating may either be vaping to very high temps or are not using degummed hemp fiber.
Degummed hemp fiber filters were a total game changer for me. I no longer experience lung and throat irritation and I rarely cough. Granted the mouthpull technique also helped me a lot in this regard.
I don't use degummed hemp fiber with concentrates. I load concentrates on a reformed concentrate pad.