I agree regarding the vape critics video. What will be helpful is anyone who has achieved full clouds with flowers please let us know these things.
1. Product wet dry or in the middle
2. Hand broken up in chunks or broken by hand fine, coarse grind or finer grind.
3. Packed loose, packed tight (like Pax pack) or somewhere in between.
4. Long slow draw quick sips or some other technique.
I feel like once we get several people using same system getting nice clouds it will help the rest of us. As always thanks community!
While my technique for dry herb is slowly evolving, and everyone's technique is going to be a bit different since we are all customizing our draws to get the vapor we individually like/want here is what I am currently doing:
First I have found that I prefer a medium to coarse grind, the Santa Cruz Shredder has been working best for me overall. I have also been getting the best luck with mostly dry herbs. Bone dry and moist herbs won't work as well, but they do still work.
I like to fill the bowl all the way full, but I just loosely push the herb into the bowl so its a very lose but fully packed bowl.
When I go to take the first draw on a cold unit, I preheat for 5 full seconds, and then without letting off the heater I begin my draw. When I begin my first draw I pull REALLLY slowly, like 1/10th the speed you feel like you should draw, and i just keep this incredibly slow draw going while the vapor heats up and gets more dense, once I feel the vapor is coming on thicker/tastier then I begin to draw as fast as I please. I have found the initial crawl speed draw really helps me get the vapor production I am looking for.
On following draws I do not preheat, and I do start the draws a bit slower, but no where near as slow as I start the very first draw on a cold unit.
I have found that hitting/tapping the Firefly against my hand seems to help mix up the bowl slightly, but doesn't remove the need to stir if you want full/even extraction, so I generally stir 1 or 2 times per bowl