solar vaping is the baddest ass vaping technique

[RobPA]

looks cool, but must smokers i know dont wake up or leave the couch til after the sun goes down.

Off topic, but this comment made me LOL..... So true so true. Although my best stoner friend owns his own construction company, so hes up at like 5am everyday and partying till 11am everynight! I dont know how he does it. I will try this method when I can get to a private location outside to try it!

[solar dan]

TheMetal1: "Also, I agree... kids DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME... or anywhere."

important point - don't want kids to hurt themselves or start a fire!

to make a magnifier safe for kids, all one has to instruct them that they can play with the magnifier ONLY/STRICTLY IN THE SHADE ("don't let the sun see you...."), where it is basically harmless and safe.

i've had good experiences demonstrating the power of a magnifying glass in the sun. i obviously don't teach kids about solar vaping. instead they get a lesson in energy, physics, optics, geometry and FIRE SAFETY, and they'll learn all the fun kids' stuff that one can do with a magnifying glass, they get look at objects far and near through the magnifier.

under close grown-up supervision, kids may/can be allowed to do solar engraving on wood (never plastic). for kids i recommend small magnifying glasses - about 1inch. smaller magnifying glasses burn less hot and significantly slower.

imho, giving kids as much knowledge as they can handle is far better than just saying "no!" to them. it only results in arousing the kids' curiosity, but deprives them of knowledge and understanding.

this may be somewhat off topic - but it is an important point.

[illnillinois]

looks cool, but must smokers i know dont wake up or leave the couch til after the sun goes down.

speak for yourself... my first bowl is at 7:30 am... then about 10k bike ride with my dog...

would be nice... but I got shit to do, son...:thumbsup:

Off topic, but this comment made me LOL..... So true so true. Although my best stoner friend owns his own construction company, so hes up at like 5am everyday and partying till 11am everynight! I dont know how he does it. I will try this method when I can get to a private location outside to try it!

My reply was just to make some people smile while pointing out some bit of truth.
I awake every morning at 6:30am(and not by choice, 3 toddlers *3year olds* that are like clockwork) I work 8-10 a day and return home to be a father to 4 kids to the best of my ability.
I know 90% of smokers are responsible and the comment doesn't apply. I am glad we have a lot of great people on the board and can smoke for treatment or for fun, and not be a burden on society..

[illnillinois]

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would be nice... but I got shit to do, son...:thumbsup:

who you call'n son. I'm older then you boy!

not by much but i got a few months on you

[solar dan]

transfusion5 asked: "I was wondering if this would really be considered vaping cuz everytime ive done it the bud always burns to ash and i blow out smoke not vape. I had to ask."

it depends on how you control your solar energy and how you look at vaping...

you're vaping when you heat your herb to about 170-185 degrees. the herb will not emit smoke at that temperature, and you'll get the sweetest, least irritating inhalation. i do solar vaping by keeping the magnifier out of focus - i.e. make the bright spot about the size of about 1/4inch diameter and i throttle the heat by moving the magnifier ever-so-slightly towards and away from the sun.

when you see visible smoke - what you see is the cellulose plant material combusting. it starts burning around 240 degrees.

since the hot-zone (that part of the light-cone near the tip/hotspot) is small to begin with, it is difficult, but not impossible, to do smokeless vaping. if smokeless vaping is important - then you should take a long and SLOW DRAG and keep the solar heat to the minimum.

vaping avoids the destruction of the thc crystals from being overheated/scorched - as with butane (which burns at around 280 degrees). even the glowing ember in a spliff is too hot for the thc (about 200-240 degrees, depending on how much/little you stoke the ember) - and that is the reason why the full thc potency is experienced through solar vaping.

if you're not an absolute purist, then, imho, you should not be too concerned about seeing some smoke. most vaporizers emit some amount of smoke. the smoke you get from solar vaporizing (if done properly) is extremely potent and relatively mild on the throat. (but i smoke nicotine too, so you're sensitivity may be much higher...)

the point abot solar vaping is that its cheap, free and fire is clean and easily controllable. after a little practice, you should find a level of carbing the herb that suits your preferences.

the key to vaping is that the herb gets heated from within (kinda like in a microwave), as opposed to being overheated from the outside (as with butane). so, by the time the herb really smokes, you will have gone through the optimal thc combustion temperature - and gotten your full potency out of the herb.

solar vaping (forgive the comparrison) is like having a carburator that delivers 300miles/gallon and you're throttling it as you go.

one lungfull of proper solar vaping usually results in a headrush. so you want to inhale as little or as much as you need/want and can handle. properly vaped, you should only make a small burnspot in your bowl, and the rest of the herb will/should stay green and fresh.

for myself - i mix it up from ultra-light to full-bore firing (with a hooka usually). solar vaping is perfectly for smoking on the go - because its quick, relatively inconspicuous and it delivers a near-instant high - without waste.

[trancefusion5]

Thanks Solar Dan! I never thought about doing it like that. Ive always tried to get the spot as small as possible to get it fired up as soon as possible I guess with this method patience may go a long way. Thanks again!

[vapefiend]

Solar vaping is definitely cool. Unlike the BC Vaporizer, which is not worth the money, the BC Solarizer is an inexpensive path to solar vaping if you don't want to DIY.

I do take exception to Dan's statement- "the key to vaping is that the herb gets heated from within (kinda like in a microwave)". Nothing heated from an external source cooks from the inside first. The microwave myth got started because microwaves heat by exciting/vibrating water molecules. Since most of the moisture in food is inside, and there's no browning (the chemical reactions involved in browning occur at higher temps than those produced by microwave ovens), many foods end up hotter on the inside than on the outside.

[solar dan]

vapefiend said: "Nothing heated from an external source cooks from the inside first."

super-technically, you're probably correct, although some forms of radiation can penetrate and heat from within (but those are lasers). i'm not sure whether solar energy does that too (but it doesn't really matter, imo). those water molecules you mentioned, in the case of microwave cooking, are inside the food that is being cooked, and in meant 'heated from the inside' in that sense.

in the case of solar vaping, what i believe is happening is that those thc crystals get very hot under the concentrated sun (inside the bud), and when they 'overheat,' they quickly go out in a full puff of vapor - mixed with as much smoke as your fire-control allows it.

anyway (to stretch an imperfect analogy a bit further...) - just as there is 'food cooked to perfection,' - solar vaping is like smoking ganja to perfection (for all the good reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

[schighguy]

is this taking a solar rip or actually vaporizing the weed?

From what it sounds like, it seems that you are just taking solar rips? The vaporizing aspect jkust depends on how manipulate the magnifying glass.

[solar dan]

is this taking a solar rip or actually vaporizing the weed?

From what it sounds like, it seems that you are just taking solar rips? The vaporizing aspect jkust depends on how manipulate the magnifying glass.

thanks schighuy! that's a good way of putting it. permission 2 use?