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My juice turned blue?
submitted about 9 years ago by DJDomTomWTF is a "Terpene?"

https://imgur.com/a/lNti6

So I made the recipe here

https://m.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/4x9uhy/whats_your_current_favorite_simple_recipe/d6enn1b

from /u/botboy141 & /u/ID10T last night. When I put it in my pocket this morning I'm pretty sure it was clear. I pulled it out of my pocket just now and it's turned a vibrant shade of blue. I assume this is ok? Anyone have any info on this haha?

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31 points
 
by abdadaabout 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

It isn't blue. It's sunlight/UV that's affected by some volatiles to look blueish when that particular sunlight is going through the eliquid.

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by Apexifiedabout 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

How many times were you paged while in retirement mode??

8 points
 
by wh1skeyk1ngabout 9 years agoThanks for reading this flair

Holy shit he's back. Or he just forgot to switch to his alt account.

5 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

I will look at it in a spot with no UV light and report back

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by abdadaabout 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

Most likely it's ethyl isovalerate used commonly in apple, pineapple and tropical fruit flavors. Maybe INW Lemon Mix has a pineapple or tropical note?

I'm on a beach in Gdansk with 2G internet so I can't look it up easily.

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by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

https://imgur.com/a/Nl8IN here is the juice in my windowless bathroom. Still very blue. Are you saying that UV could permanently effect the specific volatiles or only when it is in the sun?

It did get some pretty strong sun exposure, I was hanging out on my porch enjoying the beautiful boulder weather, and the buffs absolutely destroying Idaho state.

3 points
 
by sliabout 9 years agoFrugivore

This is it, I've noticed it with a few of my flavorings.

3 points
 
by leapinglabratsabout 9 years ago

Holy crap. Welcome back! We've missed you!

3 points
 
by kirktabout 9 years agoBring on the Diacetyl, baby

##IT LIVES!

Welcome back my man. Hope you are around for a while this time.

2 points
 
by abdadaabout 9 years agoI will rip you a new one if you don't use the sidebar & search.

Thanks! Looks like my retirement plans in 3 years decided to arrive early so it's tough to know what ill be up to after this last season.

1 points
 
by kirktabout 9 years agoBring on the Diacetyl, baby

From a man destined to work until the day he dies, you have earned my envy. Congrats.

Still doing the shirt biz? I want to place an order in the next couple of weeks for my Indian Princess tribe. Would need some sweatshirts too.

-1 points
 
by skiddlzninjaabout 9 years agoThat one moderator. You know, the honey guy.

... Are you...

Are you the real one?

23 points
 
by somethingblendabout 9 years ago

Everyone else who has commented here is wrong. It's blue because of the methylamine.

(Breaking Bad joke please don't downvote me to the depths)

8 points
 
by RuntDastardlyabout 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

WAT?!

Okay, for what it's worth, I've made that recipe twice, first time steeped about 3 weeks, second about 5 days. At no point did it explore it's Blue Period. It was crystal clear, though admittedly cloudy when first mixed. How odd.

I wonder if it has something to do with a plastic bottle? Some flavors have been known to react with plastics, so, at the risk of sounding overly-cautious, maybe don't vape that just yet.

I use clear glass Boston Rounds pretty exclusively (with the exception of a few long-steeping custards in amber Boston rounds).

Can anyone else weigh in? I'm obviously out of my depth.

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by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

It tastes fine even though that probably means nothing.

Also it is LDPE from heartland vapes.

8 points
 
by CheebaSteebaabout 9 years agoFrugivore

What color pants were you wearing at the time?

3 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

They were blue pajama pants actually haha, but I've had them for quite a long time, and they've never transferred their color onto anything let alone that strongly.

3 points
 
by Ezemityabout 9 years agoExtractor

Can you link the ingredients for INW lemon; I am currently at work and this flags as "shopping" so I can not view on this computer.

LDPE does resist acid corrosion; but I am wondering if the flavor itself contains Limonene or some other terpene; which is a hydrocarbon and will decay this bottle into a base component which is a violet color.

I have about a 80% feeling that is is due to the decay of hydrocarbons.

1 points
 
by RuntDastardlyabout 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

From the Wizard Labs website listing

INW Lemon Ingredients: Nat. & Art. Flavors, Citral, d-limonene, α-pinen

INW Lemon Mix Ingredients: Nat. & Art. Flavors, Lemons, Benzyl Alcohol, Acetaldehyde. May cause an allergic reaction.

2 points
 
by Binsky89about 9 years ago

Some flavors just do this. I have a TFA monster melon clone that does it, and I think it's the Papaya. (It's my only recipe that does this, and it's the only one I use papaya in). I've had store bought liquid do it too.

1 points
 
by ID10-Tabout 9 years ago

Did you ever make the unholy alliance biscuit we started talking about in the thread OP linked?

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by RuntDastardlyabout 9 years agoOne of "The Damned"

OH! I have actually, but I've not yet tasted it. It's still in my steeping cabinet, and today I cracked the Pyrex tube in one of my tanks and had to pry the fragments out with pliers and reorder a 5-pack of Pyrex tubes from FastTech. Not my day today. :-/

1 points
 
by ID10-Tabout 9 years ago

Get it out and taste it, maybe it will make your bad day a little better.

5 points
 
by CosmoVerdeabout 9 years ago

Well this is certainly a new one for me

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by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

/u/botboy141 /u/ID10T /u/RuntDastardly

3 points
 
by Tamachickenabout 9 years agoMixologist

Well dang, that's a new colour. I thought LB's strawberry cheesecake going dark pink was odd.

Are you blue, da be dee?

3 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

Blue his house, with a blue little window.

3 points
 
by Mrderman007about 9 years ago

And a blue Corvette

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by kendallvapesabout 9 years ago

And everything was blue for him

3 points
 
by newbi3likeabout 9 years ago

I'd take a guess and say it's the plastic bottle. What kind of plastic is it?

2 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

LDPE from heartland vapes.

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by Binsky89about 9 years ago

It's just one of the flavors.

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by altneuroseabout 9 years ago

There was a batch of nicotine going around at some point that turned blue after a while. No idea whose nicotine and no idea why it turned blue. In Finland it was called "smurf-nicotine". Try mixing without nic and compare if it's not the UV or the plastic.

1 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

Been using this nic for months, it is 100mg VG from MFS.

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by YaGottadoWhatYaGottaabout 9 years ago

I had a grape flavor that looked like that in the sun, clear in normal light.

2 points
 
by Chriswheelaabout 9 years ago

Yep same, TPA Grape Juice does this! Pretty cool I thought

2 points
 
by BuryMeInSmokeabout 9 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/2jhfr5/is_tfa_apple_candy_supposed_to_turn_blue/ - Ignore the stupid high percentage I used.

Similar/same compound in each maybe? I dunno. IIRC, that juice eventually went back to normal-ish colour after a few weeks.

2 points
 
by FunkMast3rabout 9 years agoMixologist

Is that a high volume of fa fuji? At work we have fuji come in that blue and also light purple

2 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

Nah bro if you clicked the link you'd see it was 1% INW lemon mix and 3% INW lemon

3 points
 
by FunkMast3rabout 9 years agoMixologist

You caught me!

Strange!

2 points
 
by inclination64609about 9 years ago

Its most likely just reacting to being in sunlight. If you wanted to narrow it down, I would recommend bottling it in some amber bottles, or just keeping a bottle out of the sunlight completely for a bit and see if it's color changes.

2 points
 
by aaroncoolguyabout 9 years agoMixologist

Could it have been something that was in your pocket that got into the juice by chance? The only thing I can think of.

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by ID10-Tabout 9 years ago

I've had some juices turn some really interesting colors, but I've made that recipe several times and it's always gone from a cloudy shake-and-vape to being quite clear after a short steep and even after a long steep. I also use LDPE from Heartland. Don't know what to tell ya. How new were your pants? Maybe the dye from your pants discolored the outside of the bottle.

1 points
 
by Helfrd0771about 9 years agoValued Community Coordinator

TPA musk candy is the only one I've seen to that. Good luck. How clean was the bottle?

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by Evildanishabout 9 years ago

TFA gummy candy does that too.

1 points
 
by Helfrd0771about 9 years agoValued Community Coordinator

I just got that flavor and haven't uses it yet. Thanks for the heads up.

2 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

Brand new from heartland vapes.

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by Helfrd0771about 9 years agoValued Community Coordinator

I've never ordered from them, but remember to clean your new stuff too.

2 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

How should I be cleaning brand new bottles?

2 points
 
by Binsky89about 9 years ago

I'm pretty sure TPA Papaya does it too.

1 points
 
by Ezemityabout 9 years agoExtractor

SCIENCE

Can you link the ingredients for INW lemon; I am currently at work and this flags as "shopping" when i click on links for it; so I can not view on this computer.

LDPE does resist acid corrosion; but I am wondering if the flavor itself contains Limonene or some other terpene; which is a hydrocarbon and will decay this bottle into a base component which is a violet/blue color.

I have about a 80% feeling that is is due to the decay of hydrocarbons.

1 points
 
by DJDomTomabout 9 years agoWTF is a "Terpene?"

I would tend to agree with you especially after the guy posted the ingredients that says it has limonene in it, except that no one else, even the creators of the recipe and other people who've tried making it say this has happened to them before.

Hell even /u/ID10T who is one of the creators of the recipe says he uses the same bottles as me! And that didn't happen to him. Idk man its a mystery.

Also I've mixed two more batches of this and kept them out of the sun and they seem clear. Gonna let them steep a few more days then put in the sun to see if anything happens.

1 points
 
by Ezemityabout 9 years agoExtractor

It could be that the bottle itself had imperfections in it or that it was creating a degradation barrier (osmosis effect) between the bottle and whatever surface it was touching i.e. if you were wearing blue jeans that were not acid washed it could have leeched color from that.

More over if this has not happened with 2 new batches I would not use the blue colored one. :)

1 points
 
by frycek767almost 3 years ago

I got here because this just happened to me, about 40 hours ago i added a nic shot to 5ml of a premix. I have 4 driffrent flavors from the same brand also used the same nic shot(i have a 100ml bottle of it). And only one has a blueish/pinkish tint. The flavor is Aloe vera so its not a "blue flavor". The funny thing is that i have a Black currant menthol flavor and its perfectly clear. I have no idea why this happened and its also my 1st time seeing a blue ejuice

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