Cannabis Hardware FlowerPot Vrod (TED-0038)
Technical Specifications
| Property | Specification |
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| Manufacturer | Cannabis Hardware, LLC |
| Family | FlowerPot (wired heater head) — pre-ball flagship, sold under the manufacturer’s earlier NewVape brand and continuing into the early Cannabis Hardware rebrand 123 |
| Component Role (TREF-0004) | Heater head — pre-ball; a machined titanium body with an 18-hole diffuser plate and an included concentrate dish. It is the direct predecessor of the ball-holding FlowerPot Ball Vape, which the manufacturer created by hollowing out this exact diffuser to hold quartz balls 14 |
| Part Number | 7003 (Vrod Head Assembly, complete kit); Vrod Head Top sold separately as SKU 3129 12 |
| Release Period | Not manufacturer-published. Archived listings confirmed continuously from 2019-08-22 (newvape.com, Magento) through at least 2021-10-26 (cannabishardware.com, Shopify); the full “Vrod Head Assembly” listing 404s by 2025-08-24. The separately-sold “Vrod Head Top (3129)” replacement part remained listed on cannabishardware.com through at least 2024-02-22 24 |
| Heating Method | Convection through an 18-hole diffuser plate fed by one large air inlet (“One Large Air Hole Feeds 18 Smaller Holes”), plus a conduction concentrate dish for dabbing — manufacturer markets it as vaping “Flower and Concentrates separate or together,” i.e. a genuinely mixed (hybrid) mechanism 2 |
| Heat Source | External 20 mm enail coil, manufacturer-specified “5 wraps in Clockwise direction” 2 |
| Temperature Control | External PID (era-appropriate NewVape/Auber-style controller); no head-specific set points found in the archive |
| Temperature Range | Not manufacturer-published for this model. Unverified — not inferred from later FlowerPot FAQ pages, which postdate this listing and do not name it |
| Chamber / Bowl | No ball-holding chamber (pre-ball). Kit includes a 28 mm SiC concentrate dish (SKU 9264), the Vrod Head Top (SKU 3129), the 18-Hole Diffuser (SKU 3142), and a FlowerPot Dish Nut (SKU 3010); a 28 mm sapphire dish was also sold as an accessory (SKU 9265) 25 |
| Head Material | Grade 2 titanium; “Made In The USA” (manufacturer claim). Manufacturer notes fit is not guaranteed for every 20 mm coil and directs buyers to check dimensions against their coil 2 |
| Thermal Media | None — the Vrod is a diffuser-plate design, not a ball-holding head 12 |
| Compatible Media | Dry botanical flower (via the diffuser) and concentrates (via the included SiC/sapphire dish), usable separately or together per manufacturer wording 2 |
| Power | AC mains via coil + external PID |
| Warranty | Not separately published for this discontinued listing; general Cannabis Hardware warranty terms (1-year metal, 30-day coil) postdate parts of this product’s lifetime and are not confirmed to have applied throughout it 6 |
Family Context
- Manufacturer description (Vrod Head Assembly product page, both the 2020-08-13 NewVape-branded and 2021-04-18 Cannabis Hardware–branded snapshots use identical wording): “Vape Flower and Concentrates separate or together. One Large Air Hole Feeds 18 Smaller Holes. Grade 2 Titanium. Made In The USA. Requires 20mm Coil with 5 wraps in Clockwise direction (refer to photos). Includes: 28mm SiC Dish (9264), Vrod Head Top (3129), 18 Hole Diffuser (3142), Flowerpot Dish Nut (3010).” 12
- Price history (same SKU 7003, same description, same kit contents): $115.00 on the 2020-08-13 newvape.com snapshot; $140.00 on the 2021-04-18 cannabishardware.com snapshot — a manufacturer-side price increase that coincides with the NewVape → Cannabis Hardware brand transition 12.
- Sibling head: the Showerhead was sold in the same NewVape-era catalog. This archive found no manufacturer statement establishing ordering between the two (see the Showerhead record for the evidence and reasoning) 7.
- Sibling head not modeled as an entity: NewVape’s own blog (“Vrod or WeedEater?”, dated October 6, 2020) describes the “Weedeater” as “pretty much a Vrod with a dish-less top” — a flower-only, budget-tier variant of the Vrod. No archived standalone product page for a Weedeater head was located during this search pass (see the report’s search-coverage section); it is not modeled as an entity here and is noted only as manufacturer-described context for the Vrod 8.
- Community modification — the “B-rod Mod” — is documented here as prose only, per this archive’s rule that a customer modification is never a product entity. Cannabis Hardware’s own blog post introducing the ball-vape head (dated August 31, 2021) states: “If you have been following Troy @ 420 VapeZone then you have probably seen the ‘B-Rod modification’ which is basically the Vrod head filled with tons of little spherical rubies… Filling the head helps the Vrod retain heat and thus allows for vapor production at a lower temperature on the controller… Additionally, customers have been filling their personal vaporizers with balls and modifying them by themselves for years.” The manufacturer’s later evolution blog (2021-10-20) confirms the same origin: “It all started with the initial b-rod mod featured on 420vapezone and the Cannabis Hardware discord. Customers began modifying their own vrods by filling them with rubies… then used a screen to block off the top near the nut.” Cannabis Hardware th
Safety Notes
- No Vrod-specific safety warnings were found in the archived listings. General FlowerPot guidance applies by manufacturer practice at the family level: the heated head (including the SiC/sapphire dish) is a burn hazard and should not be left unattended while hot. This is carried over from later FlowerPot pages, not confirmed on a Vrod-specific page — labelled here as community/family-level guidance, not a Vrod-specific manufacturer statement.
Related Devices
- Manufactured by Cannabis Hardware, LLC (sold under its earlier NewVape brand for most of this product’s documented lifetime) 3.
- Sibling pre-ball FlowerPot head: Showerhead.
- Superseded by the FlowerPot Ball Vape (Baller Head Assembly), which reuses this head’s diffuser design hollowed out for balls 4.
Sources
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NewVape (Cannabis Hardware’s former brand), “Vrod Head Assembly (7003)” product page (SKU 7003, $115.00; kit contents; description). Archived snapshot, 2020-08-13: https://web.archive.org/web/20200813133058/https://www.newvape.com/products/flowerpot-vrod-head-assembly ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Cannabis Hardware, “Vrod Head Assembly (7003)” product page (SKU 7003, $140.00; identical kit contents and description to the NewVape-branded listing). Archived snapshot, 2021-04-18: https://web.archive.org/web/20210418230144/https://www.cannabishardware.com/products/flowerpot-vrod-head-assembly ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11
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Cannabis Hardware, corporate history (“Former Brand: NewVape (early FlowerPot / Vrod era, per company history)”). https://www.cannabishardware.com/ (see manufacturer record). ↩ ↩2
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Cannabis Hardware, “Baller Head Assembly” blog post (dated August 31, 2021; introduces the ball-vape head and attributes the “B-Rod modification” origin to Troy of 420 VapeZone and the community). Archived snapshot, 2023-09-28: https://web.archive.org/web/20230928101659/https://www.cannabishardware.com/blogs/ch/baller-head-assembly — and Cannabis Hardware, “The Evolution of the Flowerpot Baller” (2021-10-20; same B-rod Mod origin, “hollowed out” wording). https://www.cannabishardware.com/blogs/desktop-vaporizer/the-evolution-of-the-flowerpot-ball-vapes ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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NewVape, “28mm Vrod SiC Dish” and “28mm Vrod Sapphire Dish (9265)” accessory product pages (confirms the dish is also sold as a standalone spare/upgrade part). Archived snapshots, 2020-08-13 and 2021-06-15: https://web.archive.org/web/20200813151116/https://www.newvape.com/products/28mm-vrod-sic-dish , https://web.archive.org/web/20210615002905/https://www.cannabishardware.com/products/28mm-vrod-sapphire-dish-9265 ↩
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Cannabis Hardware warranty page (current terms; not confirmed to apply retroactively to this discontinued listing’s full lifetime). https://www.cannabishardware.com/pages/warranty ↩
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See Showerhead record (TED-0037), Family Context, for the Wayback-coverage evidence and reasoning on why no ordering is asserted between the Showerhead and the Vrod. ↩
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NewVape Blog, “NewVape FlowerPot - Vrod or WeedEater?” (dated October 6, 2020; community-facing manufacturer blog comparing the Vrod to the flower-only Weedeater head). Archived snapshot, 2021-04-13: https://web.archive.org/web/20210413202136/https://www.cannabishardware.com/blogs/newvape-blog/flowerpot-vrod-or-weedeater ↩
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