Vape Buyers Guide

Let’s take a deep, deep dive into the different types and kinds of vapes on the market. This guide will cover what you need to know about buying a THCa vape online from a legit vendor.

If you just want the quick recommendations for the best thca vape vendors online, here they are:

• Piur Select – Hash rosin vapes for the gold standard in small batch high quality. Rarely in stock because they sell out quickly despite their cost. Use code ‘freshselect’ and you can peek behind the curtain (and order).
• Fire Hemp Farms – good selection and good prices from hash rosin bars to diamond disposables.
• Dr. Ganja – many use Dr Ganja’s diamond disty to make their own vapes. Go direct to the source but expect delayed shipping/order processing (2 weeks to ship after order is standard)
• The Hemp Barn – the live resin cart / disposable are strong smelling (not discreet if that is what you are looking for), strong in taste and effect.
• Well Fed Wolf – this family company is well regarded in the community as a high quality vape provider. Live resin and rosin available
• Well Crafted Canna – the diamond distillate disposables and carts are generally well liked.
• Canna Haus Farms – hash rosin bars and 510 carts for their rosin vape offerings.
• Arete – offers resin and rosin pens.

Types of THCa Vapes Available To Purchase

Hash Rosin Vapes – these are mostly considered the gold standard when it comes to vaping. Rosin is the solventless extract that comes from live cannabis when washed in ice water and water and put through the process to press the extract out in it’s natural concentrated format. These vapes are loud in smell, not discreet at all.

Live Resin Vapes – these vapes are created with live resin, which comes from live cannabis plants but do use solvents to extract the full spectrum of cannabinoids. These are considered the top tier of the non rosin vapes in terms of quality of vape. These are not discreet but they are more discreet than the hash rosin vapes.

Diamond Distillate Vapes – these vapes combine THCa diamonds (most concentrated form of THCa) and distillate and terpenes. You can add CDT, cannabis derived terpenes which are generally more favored than floral or HTE’s (Hydrocarbon Terpene Extracts). These are the most discreet, but make sure you test this yourself because some diamond vapes can put out strong smells on the exhale. It usually dissipates quickly.

Vendor Vape Recommendations

Piur Select Hash Rosin Vapes – Small batch, boutique style products for consumers who are willing to spend money on the best quality. Let’s take a look at the hash rosin vapes from Piur and what makes them lead the pack.

The vapes themselves come in two types. A disposable and in cartridge “cart” format. The disposables come with a small, rechargeable battery and a glass atomizer that leads to a nice smooth pull. The glass mouthpiece has a nice feel and the entire setup feels high quality.

What’s inside the vape is what’s important, and in this case it is .5g of Piur’s solvent-less live hash rosin. They take freshly harvested and frozen buds and wash them with ice and water in stainless steel, food grade vessels and press them through their micron bags. Then they are freeze dried and continue the process of making rosin through pressing and low heat. Finally the finished product is allowed to cure at exacting temps, time and humidity.

The resulting product is then used to fill the vapes and provide a ‘dab like’ hit through a portable vaporizer. When I have shared the vape with some of my connoisseur friends, they held the pen up to the light to look at the oil and mentioned how beautiful it looked. And it does look clean, consistent coloration and pure thick and gooey until heated up nicely.

The ideal hit the vape is ‘low and slow’ with your toke and you’ll get a cloud of vapor on the exhale. It tastes like a dab, hits like a dab and smells like a dab. These are not discreet. I personally do not vape that often, but when I do, these are the vapes I like to use.

Fire Hemp Farms – hash rosin bars, 510 vape carts with distillate, live resin disposables, vape pods and diamond disposables. There are a number of vape options at Fire Hemp Farms. In mid 2024 they began making hash rosin disposables that have received positive feedback in the community. Reviews by the Vape Ape coming soon, StrawGuava hash rosin vape review now published.

Canna Haus Farms – offering live hash rosin bars and disposables. These are solventless extracts using water, ice, agitation, freezing, heating and pressure to create the rosin used in these disposables. They use no additives, no reintroductions, zero solvents and have 100% full spectrum live rosin made from the whole plant fresh frozen. That’s a whole lot of words to say that these vapes offer a high quality vaping experience with about 20 different strains listed to choose from. I like that you can read a detailed description of each of the strains and take a look at the COA’s and lab reports available.

The Hemp Barn – Their vapes are known for really good effects with their live resin vapes and diamond carts. The carts are 1 gram glass AVD No-Burn. The good stuff. They offer two types of vapes. The live resin vapes are the higher priced option and the THCA diamond cart / disposable. As soon as our vape expert completes his review of one of their vapes we will publish it and link it here.

Well Crafted Canna – these guys specialize in concentrates. They offer distillate, live resins, live hash rosins, moonrocks badder, crumble and other concentrated forms of cannabis (no flower). For the vape lovers out there, they are really pushing the market forward with the quality of their solvent-less rosin pens. They are similar in price to our crowd favorites at Piur select, at least at the initial time of this publication. We have one on order for our vape experts review. These are available in disposable and cart formats.

Well Fed Wolf – while the product availability is seeming often limited, the reputation of the company is top tier. They offer a variety of THCA concentrates in vape form. Live resin distillate, live rosin disposables and vape pods. The live hash rosin hemp disposables are one of their more popular products. They come in .3g to .5g disposables and are often sold out soon after announced. Reviews coming the next time our vape expert completes his review of the WFW live hash rosin vapes.

Arete – while they are often out of stock, the big A offers both hash rosin vapes as well as live resin vapes. They also offer hardware, the O2 flip ultra vape pen. If you want to purchase a quality battery that fits the 510 carts from them as well as any other vendor then this one has served me well.

Rosin Vapes

These are called live rosin, solventless, hash rosin and live hash rosin.

For a quick explanation, rosin is what is extracted from cannabis plants through a process that does not involve any solvents or chemical agents.

Live Rosin is created by freezing freshly harvested cannabis plants and then agitating them in ice water, and eventually pressing them down through smaller and smaller filtered bags, leaving only the resinous rosin left behind.

There is nothing added, nothing re-introduced or used to create the concentrate other than water, ice, heat and pressure. This makes 100% true live rosin with a complete trichome profile. Live rosin is the gold standard for concentrates for most individuals (admittedly some prefer resin).

You can consume rosin via vapes or in it’s waxy form that you can dab or add to a bowl.

Here are the vendors with hash rosin vapes:

• Piur Select
• Canna Haus Farms
• Well Fed Wolf
• Fire Hemp Farms
• Well Crafted Canna
• Arete

Resin Vapes

Often called live resin, this concentrate is made from freshly frozen plants that are reduced using solvents. Fresh frozen plants are blasted with things like butane, propane or butane hash oil (BHO) and then pressed to squish out the remaining concentrate. This allows the curing and drying steps to be skipped and it allows for the plants natural terpene profile to stay as close as possible, usually making it richer in smell and taste generally speaking.

I have heard a few experienced people argue that live resin vapes are actually better, cleaner and stronger than live rosin. The claim is that the solvents also remove any fertilizers, pesticides and heavy metals. If your flower is free of these things then there is nothing to worry about regardless but this is the claim.

Live resin can be very powerful in effect, loud in smell and strong in taste, all three which come from the underlying plant material used.

Here are the vendors with resin vapes:

• Dr. Ganja
• The Hemp Barn
• Well Fed Wolf
• Fire Hemp Farms
• Arete

THCa Diamonds Vape Pen

Generally hard hitting, fast acting with strong effects the thca diamond pens take THCa diamonds and mix them with various vape juices to create their vapes. These are usually on the lower end of the spectrum when it comes to pricing but they pack quite a punch.

Here are vendors you can find diamond vapes:

• Dr Ganja
• The Hemp Barn
• Well Crafted Canna
• Fire Hemp Farms

How To Make Your Own Vape

1. Buy your hardware – usually a rechargeable battery and 510 cartridge.
2. Get your vape juice – You can do rosin like the video above explains or you can ‘build’ your e-juice how ever you like. Usually you can use some Dr G’s Distillate, throw in some terps to your taste from their terp bar and you are good to go.
3. Open your vape cart – usually twisting the parts will open them up and allow you access to the vessel to receive the juice.
4. Using a syringe or if you have a steady hand, medicine dropper and fill the cart to the max fill line. Do not over fill
5. Put your hardware back together / your mouthpiece back on.
6. Allow it to ‘set’ – let your wick saturate fully giving you a quality vape which can take 24 hours or so.

Dr Ganja Diamond Distillate – if you are into making your own vapes or if you are looking to save money by refilling your own vape cartridges then Dr. Ganja is the place to go.

As a matter of fact, many of the vendors and distributors you come across use the distillate from the good doctor as the base for their vape juice.

This stuff is lab tested so you know you are getting a legit, quality and trustable product. The distillate is decarbed already and is ready to go.

You can also purchase disposable vapes and vape carts at Dr. Ganja from a variety of brands. I have not personally used the Dr. G disty or their vape pens, but when our vape expert, the Vape Ape, does his review we will provide full, transparent and honest reviews of whatever we try out.

Vape Tips

• Store your vapes vertically
• Store your vapes in cool, dark places
• Store your vapes in well ventilated areas
• Keep them out of heavy sunlight areas or high moisture areas
• When drawing on a hash rosin vape, “Low and slow” seems to work best to getting vaporful hits. “Don’t pull blinkers.” You shouldn’t hit it so hard that your vape pen starts blinking at you.