The Herbalizer

Slightly Medicated

(SliM) Iron Lungs
I have been really busy recently. Glad to see everyone is enjoying the Herbalizer still. Nice to know Sticks has one now! Things keep chugging along here. Looks like I might be a few weeks without my go-to strain so it is nice to have the herbalizer around. Allows me to get a more acceptable result from a wider variety of strains.
 

Crohnie

Crohn's Warrior
Finally got some herb deserving of Herbie. Been vaping some pretty mediocre mids for the past 2 months. I've become increasingly reclusive over the years, so my connections aren't what they used to be, to say the least. C'mon Illinois Medical MJ! Anyhoo, I digress...

Long story short: Holy crap! I can barely type right now and I've got a pretty high tolerance. Life is too short for crappy ganja. Treat Herbie right and fill his bowl with the quality he deserves. And now, I have a date with some lactose free chocolate pudding. :mmmm:
 

stickstones

Vapor concierge
I typically load 1.5 to 2 scoops from my tobacco spoon in any vape (LSV, Cloud, Herbie), but I want to get down to one or less per session. Yesterday I did one scoop on 390 and left it in the bowl. I came back later for another scoop but I just added it to the earlier bowl. I then came back later and did it again. So basically by this time the bowl was full of spent at 390 herb. I hit that up at 440 for a nightcap and was out in about a half hour. I normally need more than that to get to sleep, as it only had one hit left in it. (btw, I am finding that if I spend a load at one temp, a higher temp will get me one more hit before moving up for one more again. this tells me the extraction at a specific temp is pretty complete!) My next move was going to be hitting a whole nugget, but I fell asleep first.

Things on my Herbie bucket list I still haven't done:
-- the micro load at high temp for one full hit -- Check...Loved It!!
-- Vitolo's thing where he hit it once on high and then backed it down to low for the rest of the session
-- vape a whole nugget
-- find the temp at which shit starts to taste bad

That last one just came to me. I notice the degraded taste on high, but not 390. Somewhere between 390 and 440 it starts to taste spent. I wanna know where that is so I can avoid it. Based on my Herbie usage, it seems most of my vaping with other devices fell somewhere between 390 and 430, but I didn't know it at the time.
 
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Crohnie

Crohn's Warrior
Ever since I was a teenager, I've been scared of clams. My friends were all talking about how pretty clams were, but for some reason, I found them squishy and unappealing. People asked me "How do you know you don't like clams if you've never tried one?" My response was usually "I don't have to try a clam to know I won't like them." The Herbie came along...

At first I was afraid to open the clam. I had never seen the inside of one before and had no idea what to expect. It wasn't squishy and unappealing at all. Matter of fact, when I opened up my clam, Herbie's whip popped out as if happy to see me. Long story short: I pushed Herbie's buttons, sucked on his whip and ended up with a big smile on my face. Such a pretty clam...
 
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Been Vapin

Fringe Class
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This guy is smoking shit and is happy as a clam. Too bad he is not a FC member.

What other accessories do you folks reccomend getting off the bat when ordering a Herbie?
 

stickstones

Vapor concierge
I like to use a screen on top, to keep the installed screen clean.

I thought that thing was easily removed and replaced...didn't Vitolo post a video of it? I also like the post about switching the screens to clean the top one when it is in the bottom position. But I get you on the dirty screen. I've had mine for a week now and it is getting a little sticky. I just did the microhit on high (awesome! I couldn't believe I got effects from that little load) and when I opened the bowl almost all of it was stuck to the top screen.

I also just grabbed a bag of abv I found laying around and got a decent hit off a half bowl at 445. I think I just found my nightcap material!

Dang...I just figured out that one of my spoons is close enough to be called one PD stem. That means I am still using a little! I am doing one to two PD stems worth at a time in the Herbie, so I can imagine that you guys packing a 3/4 to full bowl are milking it up.

I just did what only an Herbie owner can. I usually hit it at 390, or the beginning of the intense spectrum. Today i decided to shake it up and go with balanced by setting it to 389 instead. Hardeharhar!

You know a vape is good when a decent percentage of the posts is ramblings from a high as shit satisfied customer! Makes for a fun, good vibe of a thread like the Lotus thread and the HI thread back when @ilovebOObs was posting vids there all the time. It's like Herbie Lounge...nothing but good times and no problems (I guess I'm now that high as shit satisfied customer).
 
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@stickstones micro loads FTW! I love them and keep pushing the limits of how little Herbie can handle. Today I loaded what was probably no more than .02g, not even enough to cover the bottom screen. The result was a pleasant, mild buzz that started my morning off right.

I don't know if you'll find the point where your flowers start to taste bad. The "bad taste" produced by the Herbalizer once you've pretty much spent the bowl at high temps is nothing like the taste I get from other vapes once a bowl is done. It's a lot more palatable to me. Not sure how the unit retains flavor so well, but it's a wonderful thing.
 

lazylathe

Almost there...
We need @ilovebOObs to get a Herbie!!!
This place will turn into video central in a week!!!

@stickstones Switching a dirty top screen to the bottom and bottom to top gives you clean screens everytime! As a bonus you get the extra boost from the resin stuck in the screen! This was posted quite a few pages back by a member.

@letter never sent I have never found a point where it starts to "Taste Bad" yet either. Has anyone ever had that popcorn taste we used to talk about so often in other vape threads? Even at high temps i do not get a bad taste, it just seems that the vapor stops and then you get nothing more.

As an example my Nano gives me that popcorn taste if i hit it too hard or it is too hot and the herb is too close to the heater.
 
lazylathe,

CG420

Over the horizon u can see the edges of the Earth
We need @ilovebOObs to get a Herbie!!!
This place will turn into video central in a week!!!

@stickstones Switching a dirty top screen to the bottom and bottom to top gives you clean screens everytime! As a bonus you get the extra boost from the resin stuck in the screen! This was posted quite a few pages back by a member.

@letter never sent I have never found a point where it starts to "Taste Bad" yet either. Has anyone ever had that popcorn taste we used to talk about so often in other vape threads? Even at high temps i do not get a bad taste, it just seems that the vapor stops and then you get nothing more.

As an example my Nano gives me that popcorn taste if i hit it too hard or it is too hot and the herb is too close to the heater.

Are you serious? No popcorn taste at max temp? I would expect that since the temperature is constant and stays where it is at. Can others confirm this? So once the bowl is spent there is no more vapor drawn?
 
CG420,

Crohnie

Crohn's Warrior
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Are you serious? No popcorn taste at max temp? I would expect that since the temperature is constant and stays where it is at. Can others confirm this? So once the bowl is spent there is no more vapor drawn?
No popcorn taste confirmed even at max temp. When there's no more vapor, you know Herbie's extracted ALL the goodness. I've never seen such even ABV.
 
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stickstones

Vapor concierge
I taste the difference at 445. Lazy might not since he is using water. It still tastes better than other vapes due to it's low conduction level. But I absolutely taste the difference throughout the entire spectrum.
 

lazylathe

Almost there...
I taste the difference at 445. Lazy might not since he is using water. It still tastes better than other vapes due to it's low conduction level. But I absolutely taste the difference throughout the entire spectrum.

But do you get that popcorn taste?
 
lazylathe,

didolgi

Well-Known Member
But do you get that popcorn taste?

My only other vape is a PAX so I know the burnt popcorn taste well. With herbie, I don't ever get burnt popcorn. In a weird way I kinda miss that - it was the clear indication to me that my bowl was done. Now I'm never quite sure if there is more to extract.

For me a typical evening is from 3-4 sessions with between .03&.07 each(depending on strain), with most of those at 370-390 range. I've setup herbie next to my favorite arm chair and just draw on the whip for 5-7 minutes without fan. After that the ABV is a medium to dark tan. I either run that bowl up to 450 and run a single fan cycle with the whip, or set it aside to reload later in the evening. After the 450 the ABV has a dark brown color.

So if ABV heated at 450 for the duration of a full fan cycle doesn't give popcorn taste I don't know what would. I tend to use water at the higher temps, but I never get the popcorn taste with or without water.
 
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