Weird discovery that I can’t explain. I get higher from two half caps back to back than one full cap start to finish.
That has to be a fluke, right?
Any science for why that would be a thing? Dose of fresh temps halfway through instead of all at the beginning?
I think it’s true, and there are probably a lot of things that go into it. Here are a few I think are affecting it.
1. Uneven heating. If you heat at the bottom of the cap you should get more conduction going on and it should vaporize more evenly, but the convection aspect and heat radiation from the cap affect the top of the load much more. I don’t think most people consistently heat the bottom of the cap either.
This effect should be even more noticeable with an induction heater that’s heating from the top of the cap.
I’m pretty confident in this one because when using a full tip I’ve started removing flower a bit at a time, and it’s clear as I move down that there is more and more left in the AVB. If I heat it again in the middle of emptying it I get more good vapor that either wasn’t coming or wasn’t pleasant with the over-cooked flower still on top of it.
For reference, I heat in the middle of the cap most of the time, usually with a triangular triple-flame torch.
2. I don’t have studies or anything to back this up (they may exist, I just don’t have them), but since there is a limited amount of vapor your lungs can actually absorb at once, I think if you’re going over half of what your lungs can absorb at once, taking in that same amount of vapor in 2 draws instead of 1 should be more effective.
Yes you can get some different effects from a super-dense hit that gets as close as possible to saturating your lungs, and for whatever reason I do feel more of a medicinal effect from a bit larger of a load even if I can’t see any extra vapor, but apart from that I think it’s possible to get to a certain level with less material in more draws than with more material in a few huge clouds.
3. Related to #2 I think the terps, etc. that are in some cases mostly pulled from the whole load in the first draw may play a role here. If you get almost all of them in the first draw, my guess is that’s not going to work as well as getting a second dose of them in the middle of the session when you reload.
I’m sure there are other factors I’m not thinking of right now, but while the effects for me are different with 0.01g or 0.075g, even that smallest dose has real effects for someone without a high tolerance. I don’t feel anywhere near 7.5x the effects between the two.
I love this thread - it's so much fun to see full-on VapCats enthuse about new configurations, heating sources etc. ... Is it
@stark1 discovered IH &
@Dynavaper the reduced Ti chamber?
I don’t know who reported it first, but the fact that it’s been independently noticed by several different people here is more reason to take it seriously.
In case you don’t love the look of the mouthpieces next to each other, remember you can turn the M over so its mouthpiece is at the tip!