I was blown away by how beautiful this flower is. Thereās no other way to describe the smell on these other than pure sweet tarts. Like, it genuinely smells like a bag of the actual candy, its incredible. Just the right amount of sour, I canāt stop smelling it!
Hits fast and hard out the ball vape. Tastes just like sweet tarts, as well. I was honestly hoping for more sativa effects, considering the lineage of Purple Thai x ATF x Afghani. However, the afghani really shines through, because this feels like a very balanced hybrid. Very euphoric and hard hitting, but super relaxing, absolutely no anxiety, just locked in and chilling hard, feeling great. The cure is perfect, the nugs feel perfectly sticky and vape fantastically out of my ruby twist. Super satisfied with this one!
Strawberry Horchata– Strawberry Horchata is a potent hybrid strain, blending Strawberry Cough with Horchata (Jet Fuel Gelato x Mochi Gelato.) The scent is strong strawberry cream, and the flavor really brings out the gelato again, with a creamy vanilla taste. Absolutely delicious strain.
Nugs are beautifully cured, perfectly sticky and moist, and break up great. Effects are very potent, it really brings out the uplifting effects from the strawberry cough, as well as the relaxing effects of a gelato strain. Just a perfect hybrid for just about any occasion or time of day.
Looking for an explanation on the different tiers at LIT Farms? Look no further! Example pictures included.
Essential – Lowest Tier
Grown in either outdoor, greenhouse, or light-dep environments. Occasionally, but more rarely sourced from large commercial indoor farms.
This tier will usually have the least bag appeal & scent.
Great for beginners, budget hunters & old heads looking for that old school sun grown flower. Also great for homemade edibles, oils, etc.
Essential tier flower – GMO
Preferred – Middle Tier
Grown indoor, by various farms.
Expect a more noticeable scent, more pleasing flavor, and better bag appeal. This flower will have noticeably more trichome coverage.
Great for experienced users, looking for a high quality indoor flower to enjoy on a daily basis.
Preferred tier flower – White Truffle
Supreme – Highest Tier
Grown indoor by LIT themselves, or grown in limited batches by smaller craft farms.
Top shelf flower; Very high bag appeal, powerful scent & flavor, and very potent effects. These releases rival any of the highest tier flower from any dispensary or brand.
Great for users with high tolerance, users looking for a luxury craft experience, & connoisseurs.
Supreme tier flower – Black Runtz
It’s explained! Whatever flower you may be looking for, LIT’s got you covered, at unbeatable prices.
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Whenever I get a new strain, one of my favorite things to do is take a whole photoshoot of it. I love using a macro lens for this, as it lets me see the flower in great detail. I really enjoy looking at the trichomes, and making sure there’s no visible mold or anything else that I don’t want to smoke. Here are a few examples of photos that have made people say “How are you taking these pictures?!”
I’ll break down my process for taking these pictures in a few simple steps:
Use a Macro Lens attachment for your phone. I got This Cheap Macro Lens, and I love it. It’s super simple, just snaps right on to your phone camera, and suddenly you can take amazingly close, detailed pictures of almost anything.
Make sure your environment is well-lit. It will be basically impossible to take decent pictures if the lighting in your area isn’t great. I make sure to have my ceiling light on, and I also use This Hand-Held, Rechargable Light to make sure there’s a close light source as well. The sun is also a great option, if available.
Clean your camera and lens attachment. These can easily get smudged, ruining the quality of all your pictures.
Get close to the flower. You want the lens to be about 1-2 millimeters away from your subject. You’ll definitely see when it’s close enough.
Focus, and take a lot of pictures. Always remember to tap your screen to get the object completely in-focus on your camera. In addition, I’ll take a bunch of pictures back to back, while moving the camera ever so slightly, just to make sure I get a bunch of good options to choose from.
Enjoy your new macro photography hobby! Congrats, you’ve officially begun macro photography in the easiest, cheapest way I’ve found. If you’re anything like me, it will spawn an addiction!
First off, I feel that itās important to explain just a little bit about my background and experience with both cannabis and vaporizers, just so you have an idea of who this review is coming from, and gauge how it may or may not relate to your personal situation.
Vaporizer Experience:
This is my first and only āballā vape. I have previously owned a portable dry herb vape, the Arizer Solo II. I was not a huge fan of how much time that device took for one session, and how little vapor I got with each hit.Ā
Cannabis Experience:
Iāve been smoking, dabbing and eating weed all day, every day for the past 15 years, with just a few breaks in between. High quality flower and concentrates from California, Michigan, Colorado and everywhere in between. My daily routine can easily involve smoking 3 grams of flower, taking several rosin dabs, and eating 200-500mg of edibles, all before noon. Iām genuinely not saying this to brag, I donāt even think that it is one. Why Iām getting into this will become apparent a little bit later.Ā
My Preconceptions:
When doing my research on what ball vape should be my first, I kept seeing the same phrase mentioned over and over: āIt makes your flower hit like a dab!ā I was pretty hesitant to believe that one. I figured āthey must just have low tolerances, surely it wonāt hit me like that, right?ā
Wrong!
I was also hesitant to believe that it would be easy to set up. I mean, ball vapes sound complicated as a complete beginner. The concept of going from a lighter, to a heated coil and ruby balls, sounded pretty intimidating.Ā
Also wrong!
First Impressions:
Right out of the box, I could tell it would be easier to get setup than I had thought. I bought mine from VgoodieZ as a kit, so it came entirely assembled, just had to plug it in, let it āheat soakā for 5 minutes according to the instructions, then it was good to go! The bowl it came with fit right into the bong I had already owned, and was ready to pack and go. (After I cleaned it and my bong with isopropyl alcohol, just to be clean.)
It was very simple, and I hardly even needed the instructions to figure out how to work it. Itās pretty intuitive to just pack the bowl, put the metal coil on it, and rip some clouds!Ā
And let me tell you, this thing RIPS! It gives me just as much cloud-action as this same bong did with combustion, except the bowls actually last longer! I get several huge hits out of the same amount of flower as one combusted bong hit. And the best part is, it truly feels like a dabbing experience. The people who had said that were so exactly right! Each hit is a super flavorful, potent burst of terpenes and flavors, that hit you immediately right between the eyes, just like a dab would. Due to my tolerance, I thought that I would disagree with this, but I was very wrong, it really is just like dabbing.Ā
In the first few days, I was under the impression that lower temps would be best for smooth vapor, so I was hitting it at about 500f, and found a lot of my strains to be relatively harsh at that temperature. I brushed it off, figuring I just needed to get used to the new device.Ā
Thoughts After One Month:
A month in, and Iām still loving this device. I havenāt even wanted to try combusting my green again, it just feels like that would be a waste, and taste terrible as well.Ā I’ve adjusted to using the device at 550, the higher temperature actually makes for a smoother hit.
After running this daily for a month, probably thousands of bowls in by this point, I can tell you that it STILL hits me like a dab. Tolerance buildup hasnāt been much of a thing at all, Iām still getting absolutely ripped off this thing, despite being pretty used to it at this point. I consistently feel like I used to as a beginner stoner, getting as high as I did years and years ago. Itās been amazing!
Another benefit is in my lungs. As a daily smoker for so long, my lungs were really feeling it, I had a smokers cough and everything. Since getting used to the switch, I havenāt had any cough at all.
I also smell better, in addition to all my clothes and my whole house as well. When using the Ruby Twist, the room will still smell, but it seems to go away entirely in about 15 minutes. When I used to smoke out my window, Iād be able to smell it hours later.Ā
Since making the switch, I no longer need ash trays at all. Instead, I fill a jar with my already-vaped-bud, and just mix it in to ice cream later on. Since itās been ādecarbedā by the vape process already, itās ready to eat and be absorbed in the body! No need to cook it in to edibles, like with traditional flower. It takes longer to kick in than a regular edible, but it lasts a long time and hits pretty hard.Ā
Overall Thoughts:
Iām absolutely considering this the best purchase Iāve made in years.Ā
1. Itās definitely healthier. The older I get, the more important that is to me.
2. Itās just fun! After smoking for years, itās great to have an option thatās not only hard hitting, but just fresh and new.
3. It saves weed. Weed is very possibly one of my biggest expenses. Donāt get me wrong, I can afford it, but itās always nice to cut costs down on something you go through a lot of!
In conclusion, the only thing that I regret is taking so long to pull the trigger on this. Iād been reading about ball vapes, and how great they are, for well over a year before making this leap. Thatās a whole year that I couldāve been enjoying weed more, while harming my body less.Ā
Donāt be like me! Grab your Ruby Twist Kit here at VgoodieZ, I donāt see how anyone could regret it. I used code āBuddy5ā at checkout, to bring the whole kit down to just $190 in total, shipped to my door and everything.Ā
Addition: Later on, I bought the āCellā water pipe thatās made to be used with these devices. Itās a very nice addition to my collection, and the Ruby Twist sits perfectly on top of it, letting me use it hands free, a little bit. I love it, and the showerhead percolator inside of it. However, if I could go back in time, I would buy the bigger āCell Mega’ for a little bit more money, just so it would sit with more stability on my counter. Itās not unstable, but Iāve almost knocked it over a couple times. I donāt think the big guy would have budged! If youāre just buying a water pipe attachment, you can use code āBuddy10ā at checkout for 10% off.
Differen’t options you could buy, and the attached discount codes that I used. You could just buy the ruby twist bundle and use it with any bong you have at home, or you could buy the bundle with the glass included, or just the glass itself if you need. You DO NOT need all of these items to use the Ruby Twist.
So, you’ve been smoking for a while now. You’re getting pretty used to the effects you’ve been feeling. Maybe even.. too used to them? Or maybe you just can’t partake right now for any number of other reasons.
If you’ve found this page, I’m assuming you’ve already realized what point you’re at, and what you need to do about it. You may need a tolerance break!
Luckily, taking a tolerance break doesn’t have to be as hard as it seems! Just about every seasoned stoner has been there. It’s all in your mindset and perspective, my friend. Let’s dive into this a bit;
How do I know I might need a tolerance break?
Weed isn’t getting you as high as you want to be
You’re feeling brain fog
You’re anxious, sad or irritable every time you smoke
You’re spending too much money on weed
You’re spending too much time on weed
If I take a tolerance break, what effects will I experience?
That depends pretty heavily on how long you’ve been smoking, how good your product is, how often you smoke, and probably many more factors. But generally, most people will experience a few or all of these symptoms:
Decreased sleep quality
Decreased appetite
Mood Swings
Boredom
Intense dreams
Cold sweats at night
How can I make my tolerance break easier?
Essentially, a lot of self care.
Exercise – Hit the gym, go for a run, get on the floor and do some pushups if you need to. The more physically tired you get yourself, the better. For one thing, you’ll sleep much better if your body is tired out. You might not even notice the insomnia! Another benefit is the natural release of endorphins when you exercise. The runners high is no joke! When all your body wants is that elevated feeling, exercise can certainly duplicate it.
Hobbies – One of the hardest parts of a tolerance break can be the extreme boredom. The goal here is to keep your mind off of your tolerance break. If you’re sitting there fantasizing about smoking again, you’re just going to feel worse and worse. Instead, fill your time with just about anything. Read or write a book, draw some doodles, craft something, play an instrument, do a puzzle, play some video games, get lost in a movie, or even discover a brand new hobby. The world is still your oyster, even without the green.
Replace your Rituals – Personally, I love the ritual of smoking or vaping about as much as the act itself, so I replace it as well. Rather than grind up flower and pack a bowl, I’ll boil some water and steep a tea bag. I find it to be a great way to achieve a similar level of relaxation in my day. I get the process of physically preparing something, and then I can sit down and have a nice sip sesh as well.
CBD Flower – If you have access to it, CBD flower can be helpful in achieving a very similar ritual, as well as providing your body with all the benefits of your green, without any of the high. This method could be useful for helping you get back to sleep if you’re struggling with that. Personally, I find that this method can be a slippery slope, and usually just makes me want the real thing even more. Many people do have success with this, though!
How long will these tolerance break side effects last?
I find that the worst of it is over in about one week, though everyone is different. It could take you a couple of weeks. Generally speaking, after one week your appetite, sleep pattern and mood regulation should be much closer to normal again. Boredom can still be in full force, if you’re not actively fighting it!
How long should my tolerance break be?
This one is personal preference. If you’re a heavy smoker, even one day off will make a big difference in the effects you feel when you smoke again. I like to take occasional 7 day breaks to help my tolerance, and then a 30 day break when my body lets me know it needs one. This ensures my tolerance stays lower for longer once I come back to smoking.
How should I come back to smoking?
When you smoke again, start small! It won’t take much at all. After a few days off, I make sure to start with one puff to see how it’ll hit. Jumping right back in to the heavy hitters is a surefire way to raise your tolerance right back to where it was before.
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