I'm thinking of buying a weed vape to take on holiday & don't want something that looks like its a weed vape for obvious reasons.
Any recommendations for a decent vape?

not something I've ever used before, I use a Venty dry herb vape at home.

Thanks

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Full Time Vaper

I've become a full time vaper. I didn't really mean to but it's happened and for the time being I'm staying with it.

I'd been looking for a new dry herb vape that ticked all my personal boxes for a while and I finally took the plunge.

My Previous Vape

I've had the X Max V3 Pro for a while. As I used to smoke joints it was only used occasionally. When I moved onto vaping full time I bought the glass mouthpiece for it and a pack of the overpriced metal dosing capsules. Honestly as a starter vape it's been brilliant. It lacks a bit of oomph and the battery drains quite quick on a longer session. I don't know how well other vapes at the same price perform but I'd happily recommend it as a starter and I think it'd be fine for a light user. Happy to hear people's opinions on that.

The biggest annoyance is battery life. I could blitz through the battery in no time which meant I was faffing with charging it all the time. I bought a spare battery but then you have to charge two batteries for a session and swap them about which is logistically more complicated than I can cope with while blazing.

My Criteria For a New Vape Purchase

- I wanted something portable / hand held. It won't go on many voyages but it needed to be more discreet than a desktop thing with a long tube that looks like it could be used for colonic irrigation or a balloon filling station like Krusty the Clown would have.

- I wanted something where the battery would last me a whole evening so no faffing with repeat charging.

- It needed to be flavour focused with a glass mouthpiece. The glass mouth tubes on the X-Max improved both flavour and feel so I wanted to stick with that.

- I prefer a session mode vape too. I'll never sip on demand. If it goes in the vape, it's getting ripped now. I don't do micro doses.

Cannabis Video Reviews Online

These are always slightly hilarious but ultimately worthwhile to check out and helped me with my choosing process. The thing I especially like is that the reviewer is committed to getting stoned while filming themselves and attempting to sound intelligent all at the same time. In some small way I guess I know how they feel - but at least I can hide my red eyes and giggles when I'm doing a write-up.

What Did I Choose?

* Drumroll *

I chose the Arizer Solo 2 Max.

This one seemed to tick all my boxes. There's an upgraded and more expensive version - the Solo 3 - which I didn't choose as I think the solo 2 is probably powerful enough for my needs and it saved me £100 over the version 3. Maybe I'll change my mind and upgrade in the future.

Slow Chugger

I like to slowly chug through my bud and change flavours quite frequently so I felt that I didn't really need either the extra load capacity of the solo 3 nor the extra power to blitz my buds more speedily.

However if you smoke in a group or you still like to cain it like a teenager then I can see how the upgraded version might be better for you. It also looks like the interface and display is significantly better on version 3 - more on that below.

About The Solo 2 Max

I've been living with the Solo 2 Max for a while now and I really love using it. It feels like the spliff smoking days are behind me. I look forward to my vape sessions just as much as I used to look forward to smoking a few joints. It took a little while to adapt but I genuinely do enjoy it now.

The Solo 2 comprises two main parts - the battery / oven base unit and a separate glass mouthpiece which also holds the bud. I bought three extra 90mm mouthpieces with the caps and tubes to hold them in so I can line a few up ready to use. I'll probably buy some more of these too as it's handy having some pre-filled. It came with a 110mm stem but the shorter 90mm stems seem better to me - not least as they're easier to clean.

In Use

You load bud into the tail end of the special glass mouth tubes, then put this end into the battery oven. It holds in place pretty well with the small seal in the round oven opening and the glass tubes are exceptional at not transmitting the heat from the oven to your mouth. This creates a glass only vapour path so it doesn't taint the flavour.

When you remove the stems while still hot from the oven, one end is full uncle-Bernie and the other end is still pretty cold to the touch. It's easier to empty bud from the tubes when they're warm as the vaped oils get gluey when cold but are still slidey when warm.

Sometimes when you remove the tubes you spill a little bit of used bud into the oven chamber. Obviously this never happened with capsules on the X-Max which are very easy to use. It's easy to clean but it's another thing to be aware of as you don't want to scum up your oven.

It takes about 30 - 40 seconds for the device to heat up so it's ready to turn your buds into vapour. If you leave it a bit longer you get thicker clouds. If you attack it early you get a bit more flavour. I tend to run it between 180c - 196c. It's rare that I venture over 200c and doing so will start to blacken the bottom of the buds as they get slightly combusted by the oven heat. It really kicks out some significant heat.

No Timer

One thing I don't like is the lack of a countdown timer. The X-Max used to show a countdown so you knew how much time you had left. I guess a spliff burning down naturally shows a visual display of your smoking time eroding and I'd liked this time replication display more than I'd realised.

The Solo 2 can have a session time set from 5 - 15 minutes but it keeps the countdown timer a secret. It's a small thing but it does irk me a little. There's certainly enough screen space for a timer display. I'm probably going to buy a silent timer like a sand timer or something.

Clunky Start Up

The other small thing is the start up sequence. To turn it on you need to fat finger the up and middle buttons at the same time for two seconds (you can set this to a longer time but I've no idea why you would). When it turns on you then need to set a temperature before it starts heating up. This second bit I often forget. I guess it's a habit and I'll change. The X-Max starts up on a long press and then leaps straight into action using the same settings from when it was turned off. This is a much nicer user experience especially later into a session when you're baked and anything that simplifies your life feels like a bonus.

Serious Power

The battery life on the Solo 2 is unreal and I've not managed to drop it lower than 20% from a full charge even when using it all day. The glass tubes make cleaning very easy - even easier than with the dosing capsules of the X-Max.

Lovely Flavours

The flavour is lovely and consistent. This was the thing I was most concerned about but it delivers more flavour more reliably than the X-Max. Ultimately this was the most important aspect for me as the little X-Max does deliver a decent flavour initially.

Other than the timer display limitations noted earlier and a clunkier start up sequence, the Arizer Solo 2 Max is an upgrade to the X-Max in every other way. It produces bigger clouds of flavour filled vapour for longer. It's easier to clean and feels really nice to use and handle. It's constructed from aluminium and glass so it feels a very solidly built unit in your hand.

Vaping Weed

So that's me vaping for the foreseeable future. It took me a little while to fully convert but I'm really enjoying vaping my buds now. I probably wouldn't have stopped smoking if it was not for some health issues as I'd always enjoyed smoking joints but the vaping feels like a new chapter to continue my stoner life.

Thanks For Reading

As always thanks for reading my topic. I hope it was informative and if not I hope it was entertaining in some way. I'm interested in what devices everyone else is using so please aim yourself at the comments section to start the discussion.

Thanks LB.

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So with this digital ID coming in, I think it’s time for me to find another way to medicate. Unfortunately medical has already turned me down.

Is stealth growing possible? I have space for a shed at the bottom of my garden but the slightest smell out the shed, my neighbour will grass me up. She doesn’t say anything about me smoking it cause I smoke away from home but if she knew I grew, she’d be straight on the phone.

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