This is an old topic, but if anybody still interested in this, maybe I could help with my response.
I have an Arizer Extreme Q vaporizer and definitely yes, vaporizing works, but as rOm said it's very tricky.
- I tried with different temperatures, and I think that the ratio of succesful vaporizing is placed between 235-245ºC (for plain leaves, never tried with extracts).
- If you set more temperature, the leaves will burn and it let your parafernalia really nasty, and it's unpleasent to clean it. If you set less temperature, it won't work.
- The dose should be between 0.1g and 0.4g. The best results with 0.3-0.25g. If you add more (we tried with a full gram), the leaves will saturate the tube and you will lose your time. Besides, it could happen that due to the more strong suction you need to do, the leaves will start burning. You need to inhale it smoothly. This is the most hard and trickiest thing, the way you inhale, the ammount of g, and how you let the hot air flow through the salvia.
- The more you grind the salvia, better results (but don't make powder or it will go down through the gauze!)
- When I used the bag, I only got stupid laugh and nothing more. I only reach the salvia's world using the tube of the Arizer (which resembles like smoking in a shisha).
- If you put a bubbler or a small bong at the end of the tube, it will works, but the strenght of the trip will be reduced a little bit. Hydrating the steam is really pleasant and gives you less harsh. It really worths the lose of power. Once again, this is really difficult to make it works all the time. In some sessions I did it properly and without problems, but some times I needed to remove the bubbler and inhale like a shisha because it didn't worked. All is essay and error.
- The most interesting thing, is that you can recycle the salvia. I mean, when you vaporize it, you don't need to change the salvia and put new one. You can re-use it 3 times more (I reached 4-6 without loosing power, then you notice that it looses it's strength)
In my opinion, I think that with this you almost reach the vaporize temperature, but you really don't vaporize at all, just a little bit. It's like when you are heating water to boil. Before it starts boiling, you are able to see some steam (I hope that you understand what I'm trying to say). That means, that the salvia is really powerful, and the real (not almost) vaporizing very risky due to the possible overdose.
Cheers!