Decarboxylation, dry herb vaping

So, I stumbled across an article that explained that cannabis doesn’t have THC, it has THCA which is converted to THC when heated to a high enough temperature. This happens through a chemical reaction called Decarboxylation. Burning it in a doobie or bong or pipe certainly heats it up enough but it destroys a large percentage of the TCH. To avoid that loss you need to heat it up in some type of controlled oven. This converts all the THCA in the herb, you lose none and inhale more. The article detailed several methods.

This led me to the discovery of dry herb vaping, and I will never go back to pipes. It’s not harsh, improves the flavor by a lot, I get a bit higher and the high is a bit more mellow. Plus I’m not inhaling any ash or toxins.

There’s an older thread about two years ago where a few folks did not get the same results, so YMMV should you try it. I’m curious to know of your experience, if you’ve tried it.

Actually purchased a dry vape couple months ago and I do agree with it being cleaner for you and getting more of the thc compared to using flame but for me I’ve been smoking for 31 years now and I think I’m just as addicted to the sermon of breaking down some good herb and rolling a beautiful looking joint lol so I still mainly smoke joints but I do use the dry vape to get a better profile taste of what I’ve grown or may purchase from a dispo so I can’t hate on them at all

Yeah. I bought the lobo from plant of the vapes(potv). Its a dry herb vaporizer. Works decently. But, my go to is still a joint. I just felt like I could taste the metal from the oven/ heat chamber. I Was kind of put off by it. The first hit was fine, but then it just taste funny/ old. If I were to buy another I’d try and find something that was all glass if possible. But, with the cost its not likely. This was my experience.

I’m with Smokey on this one, I’m old school like that. I find the process of crushing and rolling quite therapeutic as well. However I do want to get the dry vape​:fire:

I’ve been smoking for 49 years, before sensimilla was a thing. We used the unfolded cover of a double LP and a drivers license or credit card to separate the seeds from the smokable bits, then rolled the doob using a dollar bill. The process does have a zen quality.

Interesting, I haven’t seen any glass dry herb vapes. I bought the Tronian Milatron, it works fairly well.

I have a couple of different ones but like the others I still mostly roll joints or sit down with the bong. One thing I do really like the vape for is balls of hash, a little ball seems to go forever and rocks my shit nicely.

Lol I don’t miss the old days of separating seeds and stems lol but glad I had the experience lol

Lol we used what we call Yellow pages (Telephone Directory) to rolll

I just purchased a plant of the vapes xmax pro or something. It gets here today, can’t wait. I used to have a volcano and loved it. It helps stretch your weed out also and then I make edibles from the abv weed.

I’m mostly ignorant of the various vaporizers so pardon the dumb question. Are you saying the volcano will also decarboxylize weed into a form you can use for edibles, or that after vaping you use the vaped weed into edibles?

It’s the left over bud that can be used for edibles after vaping it. I’ve never done this myself but have read a lot of people saying that’s what they do as well

Bloody hell, I’ve been throwing it away. Thanks for the tip, I’m going to try it.

Unless you are vaping at very high temps there’s always going to be a little bit left behind in the buds after its done so it can definitely be used still for cooking.

decarbing occurs at 124 celcius. Not very hot.

I mean, I had a volcano in Hawaii, & a glass vaporizor in Cali. But BUT I would throw in 20-40 grams per sesh

Id add a little whiskey too, they had a knob to control de heat, but BUT it’s one of those things where if you cant bake bread it may be to complicated. Same with making an omlet, cant make one try not to roll a spliffy.

I take shake and pop it on a pan with a small tin can on top. Once de tin can ges to hot to touch I kill de flame let it sit 20 second & flip it.

By adding some tabacco, de tabcco gets infused properly, and both de pan and tin have a heavy layer of hashish resin. After 3 years, in a pinch I can scrap de resin off, its actually quiet amazing.

Decarbing happens at any temperature 93C (200F) and above, but it takes longer at lower temps. It’ll take 30 minutes at 110C (230F), 9 minutes at 130C (265F). Go over 150C (300F) and it starts burning off cannabinoids and terpenes. The lowest setting on my vaper is 160C (320F) so I’m sacrificing some THC for a quicker heating time.

just throw in more bud to absorb de burn.off. think of it as a smog filter.

than you gotta remember that we need everything from terepenes to cannabiniods to linolemons to omega 8 s for de perfect high.

Heres some scientific mumbo jimbo on de matter at hand

oh, honestly de best decarb is 2-3 years in a cold room in a jar.

Just like rum or wine.