I've heard about a fiber called ramie that some people like as much as cotton for flavor and lasts much.longer. Anybody using it?
Have found Ramie Love!! I started with cotton then after going through 5 balls, went to degummed hemp fiber. Been loving Hemp, then stumbled on Ramie in the Just Hemp thread. Took some time to attain Ramie understanding, but now in the process of changing all my rba's over when re-wicking is needed.
Ramie has no noticeable taste with vape and provides a very clean rich vape from the first vape on. Ramie also has superior flow potential and is much more heat tolerant. (RAMIE TOP: Sometimes called "china grass" or "china linen"; it is white, very lustrous, and looks much like white silk. Good for blending with wool. Ramie is rot resistant and heat proof and is thus excellent for table runners, placemats, etc.) That was from the
Woolery where I purchased mine.
The "rot resistant and heat proof" description is what really caught my eye, sounds like good thing to have for a wick. Ramie is a joy to work and wick with. Once saturated with juice, it compresses nice and tightly, and when the fibers are kept tight, neat and uniform, ramie flows like a fire hose. Rba's with juice control are greatly enhanced when using Ramie Fiber. Vape a bit dry, crack open jc a tad, instant response, starting to flood or bring the watts down and need less juice, turn jc down a tad and are rewarded with optimal flow. Takes a tank or to for the fiber cell walls to become fully saturated, but once there, works like a well plumbed faucet.
Yep, Ramie love here. Main trick is dripping juice onto the fiber section that one will use to wick the coil, compressing it down and keeping the fibers straight and neat, trim away all the fly away fibers, and you have a wick that's easy to thread wrap and wick your coil.
Before Saturation:
Below is the section of ramie that I am working with to build a flash-e-vapor V2 rba/rda tank system. I have pre-treated about 2-3 feet of my fiber by gently boiling in a water & VG bath for 30 minutes or so. This is just a small section that I have cut and separated from the main strand.
After Saturation:
I gently ran a thin line of juice down the length of the fiber, then gently working the juice into ramie from the middle out, taking special care to keep the fiber nice, straight and uniform. Once compressed neat and trimmed, this is what it looks like. Notice the thin strand that I had to peel off to get my wick just right. Very easy to peel off a section or add on some more if needed, always working from the middle out. One of the things I love about this fiber.
All mounted, tails tucked, trimmed, saturated, and ready to vape. Vaped it first in dripping mode, love that feature of the flashi, before I tanked it. This build came out to 0.61 ohms and Vapes Quite Excellent!!
I'm a Believer, a Ramie Believer that is. lmao.
Vape long and Prosper!!!
P.S.: the cat bites!
