Fart_Goblin
Well-Known Member
WOW!
So I finally cleaned everything up with some soapy water, put it all back together, watched a quick start guide on youtube, chopped up some good herb and loaded up the stem...
And was hugely disappointed.
I started at a 5, and got nothing... so then I went up to a 6 and 7, same problem.
Eventually out of frustration, I turned it up to 9, and this time I got a little steam but that was it... I started to curse my luck, I was convinced one of those horror stories had come true and I had ended up with a dud straight out of the box.
Then an old memory bubbled up from the thick smoke of my hazy subconscious... With herb vapes, you need to apply a little pressure and have to pull for a few seconds...
I had been pulling on it like a dab cartridge, expecting to be able to feel vapour filling my lungs within a second or two of a light pressure.
So, still set to 9, I fired it up again, this time pulling with more pressure for about 10 seconds...
And I immediately coughed like I haven't since the last time I'd rolled a joint several months ago.
To my surprise, I exhaled a cloud a bong would be proud of, but better tasting than any combustion hit I'd ever taken...
The flavour was delicious! Without the hot smoke to adulterate it, it tasted exactly like that delicious aroma I got when I pulled the ground bud out of my grinder... I've never really been one to dwell too long on the flavour of cannabis only really caring about the effect, but I get it now when people say that this or that strain is delicious!
And of course I think it goes without saying, that I was high as all hell.
I was worried that, as a joint smoker, the TM would at best be able give me an anemic version of good rip from a phat joint, and I would just have to learn to settle and adjust my expectations...
Nope!
After turning it down to an 8 and taking another good rip, I found myself almost immediately settling into a very heavy, solid, energized yet relaxed high... None of that jittery almost nervousness that has always hit me after combustion, or the roughness and heaviness in my lung; I just felt really good, and really high! It's more of a 'lighter' high, but much more intense. Exactly the sort of high I am always hoping for whenever I got a new strain of cannabis and applied my lighter to it! I could get used to this!!
I threw it into session mode, but realized I was way past where I wanted to be as far as effect and put it back to on demand (As a long time heavy smoker I honestly thought I was past the point in my life where I could overshoot how high I wanted to get, you learn something new every day).
I woke up this morning having eaten half the food in my kitchen including 50 gingerbread cookies, realizing I binge watched the new season of one of my favourite TV shows last night, not really remembering any episode specifically but left with the strong impression I really enjoyed it and had had a phenomenal time, and best of all no ash and no smell anywhere at all!!!
One thing you don't hear much about vape life is how much cleaner it is than combustion. No roaches, bong ash etc lying around, not lingering smokey smell clinging to the carpet or the drapes... Just a neat little pile of AVB on one of those funky little TM coasters, and the TM itself sitting there still with a half vaped stem loaded up starting at me like a challenge.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I really really love this thing! After waiting for it to ship, arrive, paying the $70 duties and taxes, I was really wondering how this thing, however good it is, could justify all of that... well it does, and then some.
Thanks FuckCombustion I probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger on a TM without you and otherwise might be sitting here with a Solo 2.
FC rocks!
So I finally cleaned everything up with some soapy water, put it all back together, watched a quick start guide on youtube, chopped up some good herb and loaded up the stem...
And was hugely disappointed.
I started at a 5, and got nothing... so then I went up to a 6 and 7, same problem.
Eventually out of frustration, I turned it up to 9, and this time I got a little steam but that was it... I started to curse my luck, I was convinced one of those horror stories had come true and I had ended up with a dud straight out of the box.
Then an old memory bubbled up from the thick smoke of my hazy subconscious... With herb vapes, you need to apply a little pressure and have to pull for a few seconds...
I had been pulling on it like a dab cartridge, expecting to be able to feel vapour filling my lungs within a second or two of a light pressure.
So, still set to 9, I fired it up again, this time pulling with more pressure for about 10 seconds...
And I immediately coughed like I haven't since the last time I'd rolled a joint several months ago.
To my surprise, I exhaled a cloud a bong would be proud of, but better tasting than any combustion hit I'd ever taken...
The flavour was delicious! Without the hot smoke to adulterate it, it tasted exactly like that delicious aroma I got when I pulled the ground bud out of my grinder... I've never really been one to dwell too long on the flavour of cannabis only really caring about the effect, but I get it now when people say that this or that strain is delicious!
And of course I think it goes without saying, that I was high as all hell.
I was worried that, as a joint smoker, the TM would at best be able give me an anemic version of good rip from a phat joint, and I would just have to learn to settle and adjust my expectations...
Nope!
After turning it down to an 8 and taking another good rip, I found myself almost immediately settling into a very heavy, solid, energized yet relaxed high... None of that jittery almost nervousness that has always hit me after combustion, or the roughness and heaviness in my lung; I just felt really good, and really high! It's more of a 'lighter' high, but much more intense. Exactly the sort of high I am always hoping for whenever I got a new strain of cannabis and applied my lighter to it! I could get used to this!!
I threw it into session mode, but realized I was way past where I wanted to be as far as effect and put it back to on demand (As a long time heavy smoker I honestly thought I was past the point in my life where I could overshoot how high I wanted to get, you learn something new every day).
I woke up this morning having eaten half the food in my kitchen including 50 gingerbread cookies, realizing I binge watched the new season of one of my favourite TV shows last night, not really remembering any episode specifically but left with the strong impression I really enjoyed it and had had a phenomenal time, and best of all no ash and no smell anywhere at all!!!
One thing you don't hear much about vape life is how much cleaner it is than combustion. No roaches, bong ash etc lying around, not lingering smokey smell clinging to the carpet or the drapes... Just a neat little pile of AVB on one of those funky little TM coasters, and the TM itself sitting there still with a half vaped stem loaded up starting at me like a challenge.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I really really love this thing! After waiting for it to ship, arrive, paying the $70 duties and taxes, I was really wondering how this thing, however good it is, could justify all of that... well it does, and then some.
Thanks FuckCombustion I probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger on a TM without you and otherwise might be sitting here with a Solo 2.
FC rocks!
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