New to vaping here. What, if any, difference is there between “live rosin” and “distillate” cartridges? Do they hit the same?
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Live rosin can be more flavorful as it preserves more natural oils and terps from the plant. And must be smoked to active the thc.
Distillate is basically pure isolated thc and is active those it could simply be eaten.
Distillate tends to have a higher thc content and live rosin tends to be more flavorful.
Though Distillate can have terps added back to them and most cart makers do add them back for flavor…
There’s more to it all but to answer the question “do they smoke the same?”
I would say they absolutely can but unless you make them yourself alot of times you cant trust whats printed on them.
Both can be made good and bad but in a perfect world distillate would be higher thc and is more versatile as its fully decarboxylated and if the cart stopped working you could literally eat it and live rosin would be more flavorful and contain a wider range of cannabinoids …
Distillate is an isolation and rosin is full spectrum is a way to think of it.
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Thanks! Can’t smoke the flower much anymore and sometimes edibles take too long to start working. Vaping seems to be, for me anyway, somewhere in the middle.
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You can also vaporize flower if you have a dry herb vaporizer. I haven’t smoked since purchasing my Roffu a couple of months ago. I get a good high with good weed at only 320° F with an aromatic mild vapor.
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I love the dry herb vaporizers. I’m not absolutely sure I would trust buying carts from anywhere for the liquid vapes…I’d be ok if I made them myself but the weed ones really are a purist smoke…
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Dry flower vaporizers are the way to go I use an Arizer desk top type vaporizer. We’ve ran lbs throught it over the last 2 years. When Im out and about I use cartridges that I’ve made myself. Ive bought live rosin cartridges and love the flavor but prefer my own.
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I’m an engineer. I wouldn’t touch vaping with a 10 foot pole (filtered even). Unless I personally inspected the design to make sure that there was absolutely nothing harmful in the apparatus that gets vaporized in use but a CLEAN THC product. And probably not even then. This from an article on the web:
" There are metals in ESD aerosol, including chromium, nickel, and tin nanoparticles .
ESD is an electronic smoking device
Dry flower vaporizers heat the weed up to below the burning point so no plant material is burned. Ours is set at 230 degrees. Thats hot enough to vaporize the oils and terpenes.
I have a dry herb vape. They seem kind of inefficient. I just tried some of the used bud and got a decent buzz.Tasted like crap tho. Thinking about saving the stuff for edibles. Not sure about what the herb to oil would ratio would be.
Is your dry herb vape a portable or a desk top
I have a portable and a desk top. It is a different experience. My portable is a lot more efficient. The desk top is an easier draw.
Also just using the portable at different temps makes a big difference. I have two Roffus. One is set up with the glass oven chamber and set to 320° F (130° C) and the other with the stainless steel oven chamber and set to 340° F (171° C). The Roffus are convection but the stainles steel oven chamber adds a little conduction.
I placed my best weed from the same grind in each. The vapor with the lower temperature and the glass chamber was pleasant, mild and aromatic. The vapor from the stainless steel oven chamber at the higher temp was potent, unpleasant and harsh with a heavy vapor fog.