In this review of the MIGHTY, you’re going to learn why the Flowerpot is one of the best desktop vaporizers you can get.
But the Flowerpot isn’t for everyone. You’re going to learn what the Flowerpot excels on, but also when it would be a good idea to look for a different desktop vaporizer.
The best part? You’re getting simple but effective tips to optimize the performance of this powerful vape.
Review Procedure
We have rated the Flowerpot on the following metrics:
- Extraction-speed and clouds;
- Vapor quality;
- Safety
- Reputation and reliability.
- Ease of use;
- Efficiency
- Temperature Control
- Value
The minimum score for every metric is one (1) and the maximum score is five (5).
The final rating is a weighted average and a reflection of the metrics that WE find most important when rating a vaporizer.
The following metrics carry the most weight in our reviews:
- Extraction-speed and clouds;
- Vapor quality;
- Safety, and;
- Reliability.
The Flowerpot scores very high on these four metrics. That’s also why the Flowerpot holds a spot on our list of best desktop vaporizers.
Flowerpot Vaporizer Review Summary
Pros and Cons
- Hits extremely hard, one of the best desktop vaporizers for high-tolerance soldiers or ex-smokers
- Amazing vapor quality
- Works both with small amounts of herb and fully packed bowls of 0.4 grams
- Currently best vaporizer for bong-vaping
- There’s a learning curve, you need to find the right balance between draw speed and coil temperature
- Pricey (high quality materials though)
- Not for sippers or slow-vapers
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Various Stats vs the Average
Extraction-speed and Clouds (5)
When it comes to hard-hitting vaporizers…
It doesn’t get better than the Flowerpot.
I call this vaporizer a ‘bong ripper’.
If you want you can rip bong-style hits out of this vaporizer like nobody’s business.
And these rips will hit you as hard as regular smoked bong rips.
This vaporizer isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s very difficult to create small hits with this vaporizer.
It can extract a full bowl of 0.5 grams in 4-5 powerful hits. There are only a few other vaporizers that extract at this speed.
If you have a high tolerance, you’re a daily medical user, or are a heavy smoker looking to replace your smoking habit…
You’ll truly appreciate the power of this vaporizer.
But if you’re a humble beginner to cannabis and vaping, the power of this vaporizer may be overkill.
What’s the mechanism responsible for this vaporizer’s power?
Well, this vaporizer doesn’t work with a standard heating element.
It works with a powerful enail coil that you place over the bowl, which then heats up the herb inside the bowl:
Because the Flowerpot is such a modular vaporizer and the heating element (the coil) is separate from everything else, it can be more powerful.
If you design a vaporizer with the heating element inside, you have to be careful with such powerful heating elements. Because they can degrade all the other materials over time.
Because of its modular design, the Flowerpot doesn’t have this issue.
Vapor Quality (5)
Vapor quality of some hard-hitting vaporizers can be subpar.
Why?
Because hard-hitting vaporizers produce hot vapor.
Hot vapor means harsh vapor. And harsh vapor is the last thing you want if you’re looking for a vaporizer with amazing vapor quality.
Well, if it wasn’t for the bong, the Flowerpot would have harsh vapor as well. But the included bong is extremely effective in cooling down the vapor.
With the bong, vapor from the Flowerpot is smooth at any temperature, even at the highest temperatures.
Like most desktop vaporizers, it’s a 100% convection vaporizer.
Convection vaporizers generally keep better vapor quality all throughout the session compared to conduction vaporizers. And the Flowerpot isn’t any different in that regard.
Convection vaporizers ‘bake’ your herb, while conduction vaporizers ‘fry’ your herb.
Baked herb tastes purer than fried herb. Terpenes are the compounds that give cannabis its taste. Terpenes are highly volatile. When you fry volatile compounds like terpenes with any vaporizer that has some conduction or radiant heating going on, they evaporate very quickly, giving you good taste the first few draws, but not-so-great taste after that.
When you bake terpenes with hot air, they release much more gradually and don’t boil as quickly.
And while there are portable vaporizers that claim to be 100% convection, most portable vaporizers have at least some conduction and radiant heating going on.
And that’s exactly the reason why desktop vaporizers almost always have better vapor quality than desktop vaporizers.
The bottom line:
The Flowerpot is among the hardest-hitting vaporizers and hard-hitting vaporizers usually produce harsh vapor. But the Flowerpot holds a spot among the vaporizers with best vapor quality.
How?
Because of the bong that cools and smooths the vapor. And the fact that it’s a 100% convection vaporizer (convection vaporizers are much gentler on the volatile compounds that give cannabis strains their specific taste: terpenes).
Safety (4.5)
Although the Flowerpot doesn’t have any official medical certifications, it’s one of the safest vaporizers you can get.
Here’s why:
It’s one of the only vaporizers of which the materials are claimed to be 100% U.S. based. While most base materials are sourced elsewhere, the Flowerpot’s base materials are U.S.-certified.
U.S.-certified base materials aren’t by definition higher quality than foreign base materials. But U.S.-certification means that the chance for contamination or counterfeit materials is significantly smaller.
So what’s the Flowerpot made of?
The bowl’s material is grade 2 titanium. Grade 2 titanium is highly resistant to corrosion.
The vapor path is mostly glass. The vapor path mostly consists of the bong.
Glass is the safest material that can be in your vapor or air-path.
Why?
Because glass is the most inert material there is. It doesn’t leak anything or reacts with any substance. On top of that, it can handle high temperatures very easily.
So the only thing that’s left is the heater.
The Flowerpot’s heater is an enail coil.
According to Cannabis Hardware (the manufacturer of the Flowerpot), the Flowerpot uses a traditional 20mm enail coil.
It’s made from the same grade 2 titanium.
Grade 2 titanium can comfortable handle temperatures up to 800°F/426°C. This is also the maximum recommended temperature for the Flowerpot.
In fact, if you’re only vaping dry herb, there’s no reason to ever go above 700°F/371°C.
So the complete vapor path, including the heating element is made from two materials:
- grade 2 titanium, and,
- glass.
If you keep the temperature of the coil below 800°F/426°C, you will be using one of the safest vaporizers around.
To learn more about material safety in vaporizers, click here.
Reputation & Reliability (4)
Cannabis Hardware (formerly NewVape) is a U.S. company that was mainly manufacturing vaporizer attachments and accessories like grinders before they released the Flowerpot.
They already had a good reputation because of the quality of their products.
The Flowerpot has been around since 2017.
With evaluating reliability of a vaporizer, my experience is less important than the total aggregate of experiences among Flowerpot users.
So to evaluate reliability, I have evaluated hundreds of reviews and forum posts to see if there was anything out of the ordinary with the Flowerpot.
My evaluation:
There’s nothing out of the ordinary with the Flowerpot.
In fact, the amount of complaints about defects and subpar build quality are less than with an average vaporizer.
And because it’s such a modular vaporizer, it’s easy to replace defective parts.
The part that has the biggest chance of showing malfunctions as you keep using the Flowerpot extensively is the electronic part: the PID controller.
But even the Flowerpot PID controller seems to reliable for long-term use.
So while the Flowerpot still hasn’t reached the reliability status of a vaporizer like the Volcano, it’s a highly reliable vaporizer for long-term, and heavy use.
Ease of Use (3)
Learning curve
While the Flowerpot is generally easy to use…
In the beginning, using it is a bit more complex than simply pressing a button.
You have to find your right temperature and you also have to find the correct drawing speed. But once you dial down on these two factors, it’s a very consistent and reliable vaporizer.
There’s one piece of the Flowerpot you have to be careful with:
- the enail coil.
Because the coil gets very hot, you have to be aware of what it’s touching. If you accidentally leave your coil touching your wooden table, you risk setting your table on fire.
Also be careful that it doesn’t accidentally touch any parts of your skin.
Always leave the coil in its proper place: on the coil stand.
And don’t EVER leave it on when you leave the house. In fact, just turn it off if you don’t plan on using your Flowerpot for the next hour or so.
Even though the coil gets very hot, you don’t have to worry about accidentally combusting. Why? Because the coil isn’t touching your herb. It’s heating the air that bakes your herb.
Draw resistance
The Flowerpot has no draw-resistance whatsoever. It’s one of the most free-flowing vaporizers you’ll ever use.
You can take huge face-slapping rips with this vaporizer.
There’s only a downside if you’re a modest vaper that likes to sip. To get the vapor flowing, you need to take proper draws. They don’t have to be face-slapping rips, but you can’t sip the Flowerpot.
Maintenance/cleaning downtime
Cleaning the Flowerpot is easy as long you do a quick maintenance session after every use.
This maintenance session is simple and consists of brushing out the bowl so you keep the screen clean.
For deeper cleaning sessions, you can soak the titanium parts in ISO alcohol.
If you find the screen is clogging up easily, it may be that your grind is too fine. Experiment with different grind consistencies. Personally I like a coarse grind. I prefer coarse grinds for all vaporizers except conduction vaporizers.
Efficiency (5)
Session-efficiency and convection / conduction ratio
Session-efficiency refers to how much herb and vapor gets waisted while you aren’t drawing.
Convection vaporizers generally waste less herb than conduction vaporizer during a session.
Why?
Because convection vaporizers only heat your bowl while you’re drawing hot air into the bowl. No herb or vapor gets wasted while you aren’t drawing.
Conduction vaporizers on the other hand, continuously cook your bowl, whether you’re drawing or not.
The Flowerpot is a 100% convection vaporizer.
This is the most efficient way to vaporize dry herb.
Bowl size and threshold efficiency
Threshold-efficiency refers to the minimum amount of herb that’s needed to produce proper vapor.
The Flowerpot’s bowl is quite large. It can hold 0.4 grams of dry herb.
But it works very well with even small amounts of herb.
To produce proper vapor, you need to put enough herb in it to cover the screen. In practice, this can be anywhere between 0.05 and 0.1 grams of dry herb.
So even with the stock bowl, the Flowerpot is a versatile vaporizer in terms of dosing regimens.
Both heavy users and small-dose users will be happy with its performance.
Temperature Control (4)
The Flowerpot’s temperature control system is a bit unusual.
Here’s why:
With most vaporizers you choose the temperature you vape at. But with the Flowerpot, you choose the temperature of the coil.
Now:
The the coil has a precise temperature control system.
But temperature of the Flowerpot’s coil is much higher than the temperature you vape at.
Based on the temperature of the coil, you can’t exactly know the temperature of the bowl. But you can know it approximately.
According to Cannabis Hardware, if you set the PID controller to 650°F you can expect to vape between 375°F-400°F (190°C-204°C).
The included PID controller has a temperature range of 550°F and 800°F.
Since it isn’t possible to combust with the Flowerpot, even the max temperature of the PID controller (800°F) shouldn’t amount to more than 446°F(230°C) in the bowl.
Based on this information, you can set the approximate temperature of the Flowerpot.
It won’t be as exact as with some other vaporizers. But the temperature range is wide enough to experience flavor-packed light hits, and hard-hitting rips.
The heat-up time is around 5 minutes. This is around the average for desktop vaporizers (which is 4 minutes).
To learn more about vaping temperatures click here.
Value (3)
The Flowerpot is quite pricey.
For me, the performance of this vaporizer is one of a kind and it’s totally worth the money.
But a basic Flowerpot will set you back approximately $500.
If you’re new to vaping, this may seem like a hefty price. And depending on how often you plan to vape it might be.
The Flowerpot is mainly suited for heavy users. If you’re on occasional user, the Flowerpot may be overkill, both in terms of performance and in terms of price.
But if you’re a smoker and a heavy/medical user, this investment will pay itself back within a year maximum.
How?
Because the Flowerpot will use less cannabis than smoking joints. By year two, you will have saved more money in buying cannabis than you have invested in the Flowerpot.
Still, $500 is a lot of money.
And if you’re looking for something cheaper, take a look at some other options on this list of best desktop vaporizers.
Conclusion
The Flowerpot is one of the best desktop vaporizers you can get you if:
- You’re a heavy or medical user,
- You enjoy hard-hitting vaporizers,
- You want a U.S.-made vaporizer with U.S.-certified materials.
If you’re a modest vaper who occasionally uses a vaporizer, the Flowerpot may be overkill and a cheaper option would suit you better.
Also if you like top take small sip-like hits, the Flowerpot isn’t well-suited for that.
The Flowerpot is hits hard and creates proper clouds of vapor. So it’s more of a ripper than a sipper.
Where to buy the Flowerpot Vaporizer:
- 5% off Coupon Code: HERBONAUT > you can apply the coupon code on the checkout page
US (they ship internationally) – Cannabis Hardware Official Website
