This might also be very helpful I know it helped me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/4hioh5/modest_monday_single_flavor_testing_setup/

And nothing against liquid barn but don't be disappointed if the flavors are not amazing I personally have not found anything from them I like.

The best way to get insight into how others keep notes is reading the notes made by those who've been generous enough to share theirs with us: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/wiki/index/flavor_reviews

Gonna need more info than this. Keeping them longer as in storage of concentrates? Are you talking about fruit flavors dying out in a recipe?

People here love to help newbies, but for the love of god, please help us help you by not giving us such a vague question!

You won't be able to make something very close to that without INW, but here is a simple two-ingredient recipe that might satisfy your desire to mix lemon with pastry, /u/EdibleMalfunction's Lemon Cookie: 6% CAP Sugar Cookie, 4% CAP Italian Lemon Sicily.

You can definitely sub it but it won't be the original recipe that the creator intended it to be.

Something like these for your PG and VG will make your life much easier.

No need for a funnel really unless you can tell me you have a specific reason for one that I may not be thinking of.

Generally, I wouldn't suggest starting out making 100mL of any recipe because if you don't like it, that's a lot of waste for a beginner. 30mL is the way to go. These are great bottles and pretty cheap at 30 cents a pop for 100.

What recipe will you be making?

It will definitely calm down by tomorrow night. Strawberry and many other fruit flavors contain very tiny volatiles that tend to give a sharp taste or harsh throat hit. Steeping helps to alleviate that, while also giving the larger volatiles in your creams time to develop.

Also, heating your juice is not really recommended here and may ruin/taint your mix. Aging/steeping in the back of your cupboard, out of light, and in a relatively cool place after a good shaking is best.

I would say if you want to vape some of it sooner, shake the mix and pour some into another container and leave the cap loose overnight. This should help some of the volatiles contributing to the sharpness to escape through the top. I wouldn't do it to the whole bottle though, you might end up losing the strawberry flavor completely after a week.

Vanilla Custard @6% Brown sugar @.25% Caramel @.25% Nice quick and easy when you want something like a dessert but don't want to put up with all the fuss.

As far as the PG question goes you can use an e-juice calculator like: e-liquidrecipes.com or alltheflavors.com and you put in your nicotine strength and 100% PG and then you put in your desired Finishing strength and PG/VG ratio with the flavors and it will calculate that for you. Easiest way to go about that.

As far as which ratio is best it honestly depends on your flavor preferences and what flavor you are mixing. It is just something you will mess around with and find what you like. Personally I mix max VG and don't have a flavor problem, but find what works for you.

Good luck on your journey, mate!

If you like banana nut bread, I would do this:

TFA Banana Nut Bread 7%

TFA vanilla swirl 2%

TFA caramel original 1.5%

TFA brown sugar 0.5%

I've experienced under 3 day turnaround from payment to shipping

Yes you are doing it correctly. Flavors suspended in PG count towards your PG percentage. If you're aiming for 80vg/20pg and your flavors add up to 10% then you will add an additional 10% PG to hit your desired ratio of 80/20. 10% is quite a lot for any single flavor, though. At least for me it's a bit high

This is the thread you're looking for.

I don't think you should worry about wicking with the griffin 25.

Not really especially with the Griffin 25. When you're vaping you're creating heat and that heat spreads to the liquid and will make it less viscous.

I've never had an issue with that. I'd be more concerned with letting the batteries get too cold.

Heat, light and oxygen are your enemies. Glass is the best container and storing it properly sealed in a closed cupboard will be enough to keep things in good condition. As for nicotine, it's usually advised to use a small bottle for mixing and putting the rest in the freezer.

Keep in mind that only 1.5% is not exactly going to highlight the cheesecake. Cap NY Cheesecake is more of the filling than the crust though, and TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust is more crust than filling.

CAP NY Cheesecake is what you're after. If you'd like to add it to that recipe for more of a strawberry shortcheesecake, I'd probably go with 2-3%

The recipe you linked isn't a cheesecake. If you want a rich cheesecake try this:

6% CAP NY cheesecake

2% CAP sweet cream

2% CAP French vanilla

2% TFA/CAP Graham cracker clear

obviously needs to steep because it's cheesecake

As a starting point:

6% Strawberry Ripe

3% Apple

2% Watermelon

TFA Watermelon can be quite strong and that Apple is kind of weak. Strawberry Ripe is about moderate strength. So that should give you mostly strawberry and some watermelon upfront with a bit of apple in the background. Mix up 10-15mL and see how you like it and adjust from there.

In the future you may want to pick up regular TFA Strawberry, it's a brighter and more synthetic/candy-like and IMO, works better in these types of recipes.

I recommend FA Fuji Apple, Red Touch (strawberry), and Red Summer (watermelon) for this. But with the flavors you have, try the percents that /u/BuryMeInSmoke suggested.

Mix by weight, grab a few of the condiment-style bottles with the Yorker caps, place yorker cap on top of the stock VG bottle. Then squeeze. The day I found out that those caps fit those bottles was a miracle day

Just keep you vg at room temp. If you need to warm it up a bit to decrease viscosity, stick the bottle of vg between your legs while you're getting everything else ready to mix.

I wouldn't put water in your mixes. that is more for old cartomizers that needed a thinner viscosity.

I'm glad you brought that up. I've found that a 10% distilled water helps to carry the flavor quite well. It's something I've been experimenting with lately and I have to say I'm a fan so far. Especially if you are mixing with a ratio of VG at 60 or higher. Happy Mixing, hope that helps.

If you are coming from vaping exclusively sucralose laden commercial eliquid, lack of flavor when you start vaping diy liquid is common. Give your taste buds a rest from being ass fucked by all that shitty commercial juice

Don't forget many mixes aren't necessarily shake and vapes. Like a good wine they take time. I'd highly recommend looking up some recipes on E-liquid.com and getting to understand how some simple mixes are put together. You'll get it, keep mixing, then mix some more.

Do you have any other strawberry?

I started diy this week and that was the first recipe I made. As a shake and vape the VBIC was absent and I only got strawberry. Tried it again this morning after a 3 day steep in the cupboard and the VBIC is coming through nicely now, so it's obviously one that needs a few days to come together.

Heavy sucralose, any sort of natural sugars(fructose, sucrose, sugar syrup), diketones, busy intersections, exposed wires, downed telephone poles, busy places in France, bear hunting during mating season, and some others.

Wear gloves when handling nicotine.

TFA Sweet Raspberry at 4% is a good main note, then INW Cactus under 2% to back it, and maybe .5% CAP cucumber to fight how floral cactus can get.

I would do this:

CAP Raspberry 3.5%

TFA strawberry ripe 4%

INW Kaktus 1%

TFA pineapple 1%

Thought MBV didn't sell their flavors anymore? I know they use FW flavors but its hearsay that they dilute it.

After reading your other post with you having this issue with another flavoring company, what kind of tank are you using? Also what brand of pg/vg are you using and if its possible try using another companies VG/PG to see if that is the culprit. I'd also suggest maybe mixing 2 different mixes and alternating between the two to see if that helps.

If you like almond, get FA almond.

If you like hazelnut, get FW hazelnut.

Caramel? Get FW caramel candy/FW salted caramel

Butterscotch? Get FW butterscotch natural and FW butterscotch ripple

Creams? Get FA Vienna cream, FA meringue, CAP custard, TFA vanilla swirl

Want to impart juiciness to fruits? Get INW cactus.

Like a light and tasty tobacco? Get RY4 double and FA soho.

Also I noticed you didn't get TFA strawberry ripe, if you like strawberries, get ripe too.

Uh, wait. Unless you're using VG based flavoring, it's impossible to achieve 100VG. Also, PG carries flavour so yea, adding PG would help in the taste department. As for clouds, you will definitely notice less clouds. Go with 70/30 or 80/20.

Coconut Cream Custard

TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 2%

TFA Vanilla Swirl 1%

TFA Coconut Extra 0.75%

TFA Bavarian Cream 1%

Strawmelon

TFA Strawberry Ripe 5%

TFA Watermelon 3%

FW Pineapple 3%

Menthol 2 drops per 10ml

Strawberry and cream

TFA Strawberry Ripe 6%

TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 3%

TFA Bavarian Cream 1%

TFA Orange Cream 2 drops per 10ml

1:1 meaning exact replica, it may be close but not indistinguishable from the original

A good place to start is to see what percentage other people use in their recipes. Here is CAP NY Cheesecake on two different sites:

Alltheflavors.com

E-liquid-recipes.com

This will give a good indication. What flavors you combine will of course have an impact on this. And what flavors you want to dominate or linger in the background. Keep in mind that increasing a flavor doesn't necessarily make it stronger, it can even have quite the opposite effect.

You don't want to pigeon hole yourself in going for a specific total percentage. It's just about what percentage the flavors your using are best at for you. Single flavor testing is a good way to see for yourself what amounts are good for your taste, but elr and atf are a good resource to see what percentage other people are using this flavor at.

Banana Ripe, Banana Cream, plain banana?

I would start with 4% banana, 3% belgian waffle, and 2% dairy milk. Then you can start adjusting to taste. If you go to e-liquid-recipes.com you can go under resources and flavor list and search different flavors and see an average percentage. I lowered waffle and dairy milk a bit here because you want them to be an accent.

FA watermelon isn't a catch-all watermelon flavor. It's more of a dry, rindy watermelon. I suggest using a different flavor such as CAP Sweet Watermelon or Double Watermelon

Personally I think you are using flavoring at way too high of a percentage. It seems counterintuitive, but what can happen is if you use too much flavor it will mute itself, and you will barely taste anything.

What I would do for those flavors is try mixing a sample at say 5%, and then consider decreasing it or raising it from there. But each flavor is different, so just because it's a TFA flavor doesn't mean you use all of them at the same %. Some are crazy potent, some are best at 3%, some 5% etc. Same thing for CAP.

Also, use the sidebar to search for those flavors and see what others are using them at. And you can check here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/wiki/index/flavor_reviews for more detailed flavor reviews. (Here is an example of one I found from sidebar searching. http://juic.org/flavors/tfa/tfa-mango/)

edit: I read this again and saw that you said you are hot water steeping them and "oxidizing" daily? I'm assuming that means you are opening the bottle to let air in. Here's my suggestion for that. Do neither of those. Hot water definitely isn't necessary or recommended, especially for single flavor fruit mixes. Opening the bottle while steeping just lets out the flavor volatiles from the bottle, resulting in less overall flavor and more muting. Fruits shouldn't really need a steep either.

Try a flavoring at 5%, shake it up and vape it right away. You should be able to taste that fine.

Good initial shake is all that's needed.

Shake it well before vaping but you don't need to take it everyday.

Let it sit, just search google for labels, and a drill is fine for mixing.

Not much experience with DIY eliquid but used to homebrew beer and a gallon is straying into that volume size. So maybe check some homebrew sites and see what they have there.

EDIT: If I remember correctly they even have washable attachments that fit to a drill.

There's a possibility that you can't taste strawberry. It's a common affliction that people don't notice until they start DIY because sweetener is great at covering up the lack of flavor.

Speaking of, you may also just be used to highly sweetened juices, especially if you were getting the strong flavor on your tongue. You could try sweetening your juice if it's not just strawberry that you've tried.

If you are used to commercial juice, you are used to a metric fuck-ton of sweetener. I would recommend trying to add Dragonfruit at 1% and it might help define it a bit. If that doesn't work I might try adding Ethyl Maltol or TFA Cotton Candy at around 1-1.5%. I would try to avoid using Sucralose as it will not make it any easier to be able to taste your fruits. If you must, I would try it and try to use less and less every batch you make.

FA Strawberry is weak to me too, even at 4% it is just a background flavour. Try INW Shisha Strawberry, it is strong and delicious, have not looked back since trying it. A bit of TFA Dragonfruit with it helps make it more juicy too (0.5% personal preference), similar to cloudstatevapor's suggestion. I believe that Dragonfruit contains EM, at least it tastes like that to me, can taste the slightly burnt sugar at high percentages.

I know vapable.com ship to Europe. Chefsflavours.co.uk are also a well stocked site but not sure about Europe delivery, you might have to contact them.

Most uk shop ship to the mainland and i find them to be cheaper than the local options. Check this link out and join the site aswell http://e-liquid-recipes.com/resources

The ecigshop is my favorite so far. I'm from belgium

Try them together around 3-4% each. Chances are, the mango flavor will be more rounded that way. You can fine tune percentages of each flavoring in future batches based on your preference for each. Also, aging it a day or a week is going to help develop a little depth so give it some time if it isn't great right away. Most flavors tend to mute themselves if you use too much, so keep that in mind before using over 5% of a flavor, especially fruity ones.

I agree with Wh1skey, and I would also add maybe 1% dragonfruit as it will make that mango more rounded and "POP"

You should be getting plenty of flavor from CAP Sweet Mango at 5%. What's your setup like? Are you having trouble tasting any of your other flavors?

DIYorDIE is worth signing up for if you havew an idea of what you are doing as a mixer, and judging by your question about 'Nana Cream, you'd be better off watching all of his videos on youtube and checking out all of the free content on his channel as well as the sidebar here and wiki before you sign up for that or most of it will be over your head, in my opinion. As far as the recipe goes, that is one of my favorite banana recipes. Mix it up and it is great as a shake and vape and it gets better with age! If you have any other questions feel free to message me.

If you know the process of mixing, and want to know more about recipe development and some more advanced mixing techniques, then I think you'll really enjoy the subscription. If you're a complete new mixer and aren't sure how to mix, then I'd take advantage of the free info first to learn the ropes.

Can't imagine that would be an issue considering what minute amounts we're talking about. Take TFA Lemon Lime for example, containing 5% lemon oil and using it at 5%, that would amount to 0.025 ml lemon oil in a 10 ml bottle, literally one drop, which you then might take all day to vape.

Idk if sum spit onto ur teeth with the heat it might have a siginificant impact on the rate of decay

Not many people here mixing up a gallon at a time. And I'd bet decent money than the few who do, aren't trying to shake it up with a blender ball.

Probably this one is exactly what you want. I've read it's pretty strong, so I would make some 10ml samples starting at 1%, and work up until I found my sweet spot before scaling up the volume.

And I would also give some consideration to adding at least some PG, you know, for wicking. 98-99% VG will be pretty thick.

6 months is about the max I would hold on to a juice with nicotine mixed in, I have had juices last this long without the nicotine mixed in and very little loss of flavor.

There is a peek when sleeping really depends on the recipe for me between four and six weeks is where the juice is the best.

Juice doesn't really go bad. Keep it a reasonable and fairly stable temperature. In a couple months you may lose some of the top notes or "pop" in your fruits. The juice will darken a bit over time, especially if you've got a decent amount of nicotine in there. I wouldn't mix more than 2 months at a time if you have fruit heavy recipes.

That's a whole lot of koolada, and a probably a bit too much mint mix. I'd try dropping the koolada to .25% or .5% and the mix mint to like .5% to 1%. That bitter note will hopefully go away.

As for the strawberry, dialing the mint and the koolada back should let the strawberry come through a bit more. I'd try a batch with the shisha strawberry at 2% and see if that helps, as shisha strawberry is pretty strong and you may be muting the flavor by adding too much. Alternatively, you may just not be tasting the strawberry. I have the same issue. I don't get much out of strawberry. Nothing short of some sweetener or maybe switching to a different strawberry is going to help. It's a pretty common problem.

You're tasting soap because your INW is way too high. I personally use INW below 2%. TFA Strawberry Ripe at 4%, INW Strawberry at 2 or 1%, you might even want to add TFA Strawberry at 1 or 2% and TFA Dragon fruit at 1% (helps to blend the strawberries together). This gives a multi-faceted strawberry. As for koolada, you're using wayyy too much. I do about 2 - 3 drops per 10ml. Try INW Mix Mint at 0.5% and Koolada at 0.3%.

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, Custard, Marshmallow, and the FA Creams. Should be able to cover a good spectrum with those.

Here's a good cream base:

TFA Bavarian cream 2% FA Fresh Cream 1% CAP vanilla custard 2% TFA Sweet cream 1% FA Marshmallow 1%

Here's a good base by [Ckemist] (http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/646266/E-Juice%20Makers:%20The%20Stone%20Series%20%7C%20Cream%20Base) that is a great place to start. Hope this helps.

FWIW, here is a link to this month's clone request thread. Not a lot of people here are analyzing a bunch of commercial juices and hacking juice genetics so to speak, but you might get a comment or two.

Comb through the thread a bit too. Really, it seems like success comes when 2 or 3 people looking for the same clone collaborate and share notes on different parts of the mix based on what they have in their stash, maybe buy some more flavors, rinse, and repeat until you're close enough to satisfaction or need a break from it. Heck, you might end up with something better than what you're trying to clone.

Best of luck with sicboy your mom.

What you're looking for is something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/magnetic-stir-plate

I have no personal experience with them though.

You don't want to hear this, but /u/-lokes was right. If you look at really the only successful model of a DIY-centric business, /u/enyawreklaw's DIYorDIE, he presents all of his information for free, then allows payment for subscription to receive email updates and very in-depth DIY material. He didn't really have a brand until he presented entirely free content like videos, our podcast, and flavor notes and recipes. If you make content with the intent to make money, people will be able to notice, and that's not a good thing. A passionate mind is far better than a professional one.

edit in addition to my edit: he also had a very well recognized and highly regarded name in the DIY scene, and, I mean no disrespect by saying this, but I really don't even know who you are. I've seen one or two of your videos, but there needs to be a lot more footwork put in before you get into charging for content, ya know?

Called it from the start, this guy is only interested in making money. So much for "helping the community" hahahah I'll ask you the same question I asked you in the thread. Who are you? What credibilities do you have? Why should we pay $5 to someone who isn't an accomplished mixer? No thanks, I rather give my money to someone like DIYORDIE.

Do it for the love of it, because you want to and if it sells it sells. No one is getting rich on DIY and we may never. But if it gives you a reason to get up in the morning and you enjoy it then do it. No one minds paying for good content in my experience. If you liked this response please comment on my recipe's [-Lokes Recipes] (http://e-liquid-recipes.com/list?q=lokes) cause I'm trying to at least get that accomplished.
Thanx in Advance

Tldr: create value, find a niche that makes your clients NEED you over anyone else, and be patient during your grind.

Same thing as everyone has already said, but from a slightly different perspective. Creating a lucrative business takes YEARS to accomplish. I've been running my own business as an artist for roughly five years now and it's only now become lucrative. When you run a "creative" business like art or even in the DIY world, you need to create value before you can even think about making money.

You need to make it so your client base NEEDS you. What you're suggesting is exactly what Wayne, New Amsterdam, and even myself with the Beginner Blending podcast already put out for free. Not to say you still cannot make a buck off of DIY, but you need to create a niche that people want or need. Find something about DIY that you do that no one else does. Which is obviously difficult, but it is possible. Practice, build a name for yourself within the community, and just be helpful, and the rest will fall into place.

Hope this helps.

Probably not

Fuck off out of here