OK new mixers, this is your thread to ask any questions you want of the DIY eJuice community. All posts are allowed, but we still encourage you to use the sidebar and search features before asking any questions.
- Placing your first DIY order and want to make sure you have all you need?
- Not sure about how to mix your first bottle?
- Want to get started but aren't sure how?
- Any other questions? ... then this is the thread for you. FWIW, the answers to the first three questions will eventually be found in the wiki (still in development); link at the top of the page.
Ask away!
Where is a good place to get bottles? Right now I'm thinking about going with Heartland Vapes, since they have the best prices that I've seen without having to order 1,000 bottles. Any other recommendations?
I'm happy with Heartland bottles
Do you wash your bottles out before using? I'm already doing this with soap and hot water, just wondering if it's necessary.
No. Personally I’d be even more worried about contamination from failure to 100% wash every single molecule of soap away, not to mention what’s in the tap water that I won’t even drink without filtering first, than contamination from dust or whatever might have gotten in there between the bottle factory and my mixing station.
Just throwing my 2cents in, Nicotine River has beautiful 30 ml plastic bottles. Thick, shiny, keeps smells from leaking out. Best 30 ml bottles I've found so far and great price too. If you can qualify for free shipping that is so wait for your order to be over $50.
Hello all. I'm thinking of getting into DIY juices for personal use. Any online shop advice? I'd love to get organic bases/flavoring if possible...
I would read everything in the sidebar, espically Verified Vendors for a list of places.
I don't know why you want organic but that isn't really possible with this hobby nor is preferred. The main thing to look out for is Kosher/USP grade materials, mainly for VG/PG % Nic. Which refers to the purity of the bases. There are a few "natural" flavorings but very few options for the most part.
I just got 500ml of 80/20 4nic off pink mule. I also got some black currant and a menthol concentrate. I want to make 100ml bottles of black currant menthol. Is it as simple as putting 2.5ml of each concentrate in and filling it up with the solution? Then letting it steep for a while?
I would suggest trying a smaller sample first so you know you like the strength and balance of the flavors, but yes it's just that simple. Shake the liquids before and after mixing though. No need to steep that really, maybe a day or two if you want.
Weird question (another one) but is it possible to reverse the steeping process? Say one of your flavorings becomes muted after two weeks, is there any way to bring it back?
> is it possible to reverse the steeping process?
No. It's better to figure out why the flavor was muted to begin with but you could add just a little bit of the muted flavor to bring it back. The amount would depend on what the flavor was. Starting out low is best if you're going to go this route.
Last question, can you add more sweetener to a juice after it has steeped or is it too late?
How would I go about imitating bitters in a cocktail recipe?
You don't. Not everything is possible to translate to vaping. If you can't smell it, you can't vape it is a good rule of thumb. You can smell the orange in bitters, but you can't taste the bitter rindy-ness that is makes the flavor of bitters.
Quick poll:
Do you use VG or PG nicotine.
Feel free to give any reasoning you may have.
Bonus question:
People who keep your nic in the freezer, does it freeze solid?
Thanks guys!
Most people I see who talk about it use PG nicotine as it's easier to work with.
Common household freezers don't get cold enough to freeze PG as it's point of freezing is -74.2°F.
I currently use VG. PG irritates my throat so I was mixing either max VG or 80/20. However, now that I have been mixing a while the viscosity of VG nic is really starting to annoy me. It is a real pita to work with.
Now that I have gotten away from over-flavored and over-sweetened commercial juices, I tend to choose recipes that use less overall flavoring and I feel am missing out on more subtle flavors using higher VG. Plus it takes longer to steep. I mixed my last bunch of bottles at 75/25 and if it doesn't mess with my throat I may try and drop to 70/30. Next time I order nic I am definitely NOT going to order 100% VG. I will either go 50/50 or 70/30 depending on what ratio I land on in my mixes.
There are definitely advantages and disadvantages to each. I would suggest new mixers avoid buying a huge bottle of it until they figure out their personal preference. Just choose what you think you MIGHT like and buy the smallest amount possible lest you end up with a freezer full of nic you can't wait to finish off!
I use premixed ejuice base because I've been doing this for a long time and I'm fucking tired of having to mix, after I already mixed. I add my flavors and squeeze a bottle of 80/20 3mg into the mix until it looks about full.
Fuck it. I'm lazy and it's not that much more expensive(considering I've never finished a bottle of 100mg before having to throw out red, shitty nic.)
You, sir, may be my new hero. I'm always looking for ways to take my lazy vaping to the next level of laziness. This is brilliant.
Lnw blue strawberry cotton candy; anyone tried this? To me it has a mold/mildew taste. Is there any use at lower %s? (I mixed at %3.5-6)
Is that Inawera? If so that is crazy high for INW.
It's supposedly Liquid Nicotine Wholesalers own line of flavoring.
Ah, I see, haven't tried it. Both blueberry and strawberry can have a slight moldy taste though but you can usually cover it up by adding something else, such as a cream, a bright fruit or EM. Or just enhance the main flavors with some other brand of strawberry/blueberry. Mint or menthol just seems to make bad tastes stronger though. But it could be worth some testing, if you enjoy the flavor apart from the off notes.
This should have EM in it. Are you tasting any kind of sweetness or cotton candy to it? Even just in the background? Might need to go higher as I'm not seeing a recommended percentage.
At almost a week that taste seems to go away I tried knuckle test with one I made 3.5 hopefully the others at higher % will level out
What is the best recipe calculator to use?
I personally like Juice Calculator. It's kind of advanced but it's what I started with. Once you get past the learning curve it's fantastic. I use it when I am developing a recipe and when I am ready to share it I put it on All the Flavors. One of the best features is, if you take the time to enter all the details about your ingredients, it actually calculates the cost of each bottle for you. Lots and lots of extra features that make mixing easier. You can set "alarm values" so you know when to reorder and lots of other little things like that. If you want just a basic calculator go with one of the two u/EdibleMalfunction mentioned; if you want a comprehensive mixing software give Juice Calculator a try. It's free from DIYJuiceCalculator.com
Mixing by weight. How do you differentiate. 05ml from .1ml? I see how it can be easier but do you just go more by making large batches? Cause in a 15ml mix that can be a big difference.
If your scale won't pick up on the change, try having a bit of weight on it without taring. It's still within the margin of error of most scales though, knowing roughly the size of one drop from your particular bottle helps, but it's still just an estimate. If you feel the need to be super accurate you only really have two options - make larger batches or make a dilution of the concentrate. If you make a 10% dilution and want to add .05 ml, you'll use .5 ml of the dilution, a lot easier to measure accurately. Needless to say you can't do this for every concentrate you own, but some really do need to be diluted, such as FLV Rich Cinnamon and Clove.
Are there any other options to decrease vapor production besides reducing VG?
Is it normal for a freshly mixed bottle of juice to smell a little like play dough? There's some Vanilla Custard v1 in there. This is the same type of smell I get from Cap glazed donut but I didn't use that particular flavoring in this recipe. Will the smell go away after steeping for about a month?
What else is in the recipe?
TFA Marshmallow, Caramel (original), Hazelnut, Nougat, a few drops of INW Cappuccino and a little EM and sweetener. I just noticed that it's slightly less playdoughy after 24 hours so hopefully it will go away. This is the first bottle I've ever mixed (will probably be unvapable but it was fun to make).
That is probably going to be bad. I would honestly just dump that bottle now.
Caramel (Original) contains corn syrup and caramel coloring. TFA Hazelnut is a god awful flavoring. I don’t think TFA makes a Nougat flavor? Do you mean FA Torrone?
Try looking up some highly rated recipes and buying flavors based on those. Choosing flavors at random because they sound good is not something you want to be doing.
Before spending money on the flavors. I want a cactus cooler type flavor with orage and pineapple. I don't care much for a carbonated affect. Who has quick notes on
FW ecto cooler
OSDIY cacti cooler
CAP golden pineapple
CAP juicy orange
CAP Golden Pineapple tastes like canned pineapple tidbits. CAP Juicy Orange tastes like orange juice essence or orange juice perfume with the orange juice body taken out and replaced with vicious throat hit. I don't know anything about the other two. You might want to look into TFA Orange Cream, INW Cactus, and INW Pineapple for this.
Awesome thanks for the help! I kind of stopped mixing for a few months after a couple years of doing it and lost inspiration but after coming across your recipes on ATF i decided to get back into it and try some of your recipes. I can't wait to try Mother of dragons milk and mother of gods milk. Your notes and descriptions are helpful and make me want to dive deeper into DIY.
Looking for help. Just bought a bunch of flavors, but don't know what to mix. I figured I'd try most of the flavors out by themselves, just to have a baseline, like others here have suggested. "Y", or "N" under "Testing 15ml" is whether I plan to test it, by making 15ml of solution(7.5ml to test in a week, and 7.5ml to test in 2 weeks, for steeping purposes).
But, my main question is that I don't know how much % I should be using. Some have wide ranges. Some have none at all. And some I don't trust what nicotineriver, or ecigexpress website told me. Just looking for some first hand advice on these flavors, and what I should be mixing them solo at, for testing purposes. As People give me confirmation, or recommendations on a flavor, I'll change them to strikethrough font, so people can know which ones I still need help with.
Thanks for anyone who takes the time to help! Also looking for recipes that I can make with my flavors(I really only like tobacco based mixes though). Only one I have so far is Duke Clone by ChemicalBurnVictim.
Flavor Name|Testing 15ml?|Reccomended %|less maybe?| :--|:--|--:|:--| 10ml Flavor 1.: FlavourArt Black Fire|N|2-3|| 10ml Flavor 2.: FlavourArt UP|Y|2-3|| 10ml Flavor 3.: Hangsen Black Label|Y|5|| 10ml Flavor 4.: Hangsen Indian Tobacco|Y|5|| 10ml Flavor 5.: Hangsen Turkish Blended|Y|5|| 10ml Flavor 6.: Hangsen Elder Captain|Y|5|| 10ml Flavor 7.: Hangsen Arabic Tobacco|Y|5|| 10ml Flavor 8.: Hangsen Australian Choc|Y|5|Y| 10ml Flavor 9.: FlavourArt Tiramisu|Y|2-3|| 10ml Flavor 10.: Hangsen RY4|NOT IN STOCK(Y)|5|| 10ml Flavor 11.: FlavourArt Dark Vapure|Y|1-2|Y| 10ml Flavor 12.: FlavourArt Soho|Y|20|Y| 10ml Flavor 13.: FlavourArt Glory|Y|2-3|| 10ml Flavor 14.: Hangsen French Vanilla Ice Cream|NOT IN STOCK(Y)|5|| 10ml Flavor 15.: Hangsen Arabic Tobacco|Y|5|| Flavor Apprentice Acetyl Pyrazine 5%10ml|N|5|| Flavor West Graham Cracker|Y|15-20|| Flavor Apprentice Bavarian Cream|Y|5|Y| Flavorah Chocolate Deutsch|Y|2-5|| Flavorah Milk Chocolate|NOT IN STOCK(Y)|2-5|| Hongtashan (Black Fire) Flavor by Flavors Express Size 20ml|Y|??????|| Hazelnut by Flavor West Size10ml|Y|??????|Y| Black Mile Plus by Flavors Express Size30ml|Y|1|| Captain Flavor by Flavors Express Size30ml|Y|1|| Dirty Neutral Base by Inawera Size10ml|N|??????|| Peanut Tobacco by Inawera 10ml|Y|0.25-0.5|Y| Caramel by FlavourArtSize 30ml|Y|??????|| Tobacco Absolute 50% Liquid ConcentrateSize10ml|N|??????|| Dark Bean (Coffee Espresso) by FlavourArt 10ml|Y|??????|| Shisha Vanilla by InaweraSize10ml|Y|??????|Y| Express DIY Concentrate Fire Cured VirginiaSize30ml|Y|1.5||
EDIT: "NOT IN STOCK" means that it's backordered from NicRiver, so I don't actually have it yet. Still plan on solo mixing them, when they arrive, but who knows how long that will be.
Also, I'm looking for a shake and vape mix , because I currently have nothing to vape.
The easiest way to figure this out is to look each one of these up on Alltheflavors and that will give you what the average mixing percentage is. Never listen to the average percentage the manufacturer gives as they are almost always wrong. You can do the same thing on Eliquid recipes but I find that more often than not they are too high. You can also select which flavor concentrates you have on both sites and hit the "What Can I Make" option for recipe Ideas.
I'm making these few juices, can anyone help me improve them?
Really trying to make the honeydew shine through in the first one. The 2nd recipe seems simple but I was wondering if someone could help me with flavor percentages and what I should aim for? Especially when it's only 1-3 flavors in a recipe. I'm making most of these PG based for a 70/30 VG/PG mix. Will be using a subohm tank until I can upgrade to an RDA/RDTA
Drop the sweetener from the first recipe.
Lemon-Lime is way too high. Only use 2-4% for that flavor. It’s not going to be sour though, if that’s what you were going for with using TFA Sour.
If you already have LA Lemonade, don’t use the RF SC Strawberry Lemonade. Look up Vurve’s Pink Lemonade recipe and mix that instead.
Thanks, should I replace another flavor in lieu of the sweetener?
Also what percentages should I go with for the lemon lime recipe? I do want that sour tart to hit alongside the lemon lime flavor.
And I actually am making a pink lemonade, too: http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/2032546/Pink%20Lemonada
I just wanted a strawberry version
No. Sweetener is an additive not a flavor. It’s not necessary in 95% of recipes you make. If you are used to sweetener-excessive juices from “premium” companies, you’ll want to leave that alone anyways in order to get to know your flavors.
Sour is really hard to do in juice-making. It’s not really something that can be achieved in DIY. Just drop the TFA Sour and use the percentages I gave you for the Lemon-Lime.
That’s fine for the strawberry lemonade, but if you already have LA Lemonade and TFA Strawberry, use that instead of the recipe you linked. Do you have any other Strawberry flavors.
IMO, any good honeydew flavor includes INW Wild Melon. Honeydew is definitely the prominent flavor in it.
I'm going to have to pick it up. I just made 15ml of my recipe and it seems to be missing something since I nixxed the papaya from the original recipe.
I have seen people talking about adding saline to mixes. What does this achieve in terms of flavour/mouthfeel/chemical reaction?
People that have added saline, are you just making it from regular table salt, or buying medical saline? If you're making it, what's your ratio?
Thanks!
The idea is to add a salty note to the mix. I personally think it's placebo and just gunks coils. You can't really taste salt in a aerosol form; just like sour. You would need your atomizer to spit back in order to achieve the sensation.
If you want to try it google how to make your own saline solution. I used Sea Salt and distilled water.
I bought a bunch of flavors. I'm completely new to this, so I made a chart, so that I can easily just pump out all the concontions I want to try. For now, I'm being conservative, and making small amounts(15ml) of each flavor that I think is worth trying solo(as well as a few mixes at 30ml). I used that website (I think it was all the vapors), where you can see on average what % people use flavors at, to make these recipes. I'm just looking for input before I start cranking these out. Do these numbers look right? Any look too high or low? Do the mixes seem okay?(some were recommended, some I just completely made up).
I'd rather not make 500ml of juice, and find out i'm using way too much or too little flavor on most of them. I figure if any are bad, of the single flavor, I can just mix them together with other stuff down the road, to make them usable.
Any help much appreciated! (I'm using syringes, not scales to do this. I'm aware that most people recommend scales, but I am committed to syringes. Telling me to use scales is not appreciated, or necessary at this pointt).
RECIPES NAME|Nicotine (48mg/ml)|PG/VG|Flavor(first, second, third, etc)|Total(ml)| :--|--:|--:|:--|--:| UP|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Black Label|0.9|13.6|0.5|15| Indian Tobacco|0.9|13.8|0.3|15| Turkish Blended|0.9|13.8|0.3|15| Elder Captain|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Arabic Tobacco|0.9|13.8|0.3|15| Australian Chocolate|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Tiramisu|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Dark Vapture|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Soho|0.9|13.5|0.6|15| Glory|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Graham Cracker|0.9|13.7|0.4|15| Bavarian Cream|0.9|13.7|0.4|15| Chocolate Deutsch|0.9|13.8|0.3|15| Hongtashan|0.9|13.8|0.3|15| Black Mile Plus|0.9|13.5|0.6|15| Captain Flavor|0.9|13.6|0.5|15| Peanut Tobacco|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Caramel|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Dark Bean|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Shisha Vanilla|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Fire Cured Virginia|0.9|13.9|0.2|15| Black Mile Plus + Vanilla|1.9|26.8|1.3(1.1 and 0.3)|30| Captain, Hazel, Caramel|1.9|26.6|1.5(0.9 and 0.3 and 0.3)|30| Pyrazine, Caramel, Hongtashan|1.9|27|1.1(0.2 and 0.3 and 0.6)|30| Dark Vapt, Australian Choc, Arabic, D Bean, Bavarian|1.9|26|2.1(0.4 and 0.3 and 0.5 and 0.2 and 0.7)|30| Chocolate Deutsch, Fire Cured Virginia, Bavarian|1.9|26.6|1.5(0.4 and 0.4 and 0.7 )|30| Peanut, Caramel, Australian, Dark Bean, Indian|1.9|26.6|1.5 (0.3 and 0.2 and 0.3 and 0.2 and 0.5 )|30|
If you pulled the average percentage from ATF then you should be good to go. My only recommendation is to not make 500mls of anything you've never tried before. You ideally would want to stick to 10-15ml with anything you've never tried before. Even highly revered recipes as you may not like a certain flavor that many people do.
I just got TFA cheesecake graham crust and I feel like after any mix with this flavor touches my coil I can't vape anything else on it afterwards without getting a graham crust taste. Does anyone else feel like this? I have it in some fruit mixes at a small percent (1-3) and i alway have to change my wick afterwards.
I want to create a light vanilla tobacco and I am thinking of using:
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TPA RY4 DOUBLE
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TPA DX HAZELNUT
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TPA MADAGASCAR BOURBON VANILLA
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TPA VANILLIN 10%
I would like the profile to be mostly vanilla and the other 2 in the background. I also have TPA bavarian cream and vanilla swirl and CAP custard v1 as notes that could be added but I am a newbie.
Can someone propose some percentages to start at and work my way to a personalized profile? Or a flavor that I don't own but would help me get to my goal?
5% RY and 1% Bourbon Vanilla. This how I would start. See whether they get along first, then after a week's steep I would tweak if needed. IMO that vanillin will be lost anyway.
At the same time you could also mix a bottle with hazelnut, but idk that one. Maybe try 1% and adjust from there.
You're not going to get any tobacco out of that using RY4 Double in the back of vanilla. It'll be vanilla with a hint of dirty caramel. Or caramel tobacco with some vanilla. But never a vanilla with light tobacco.
Also, DX Hazelnut is DISGUSTING.
But without ordering more flavors, try 4% Vanilla Swirl, 3% RY4 Double, 1.5% Bourbon Vanilla. See if that gets you anywhere close to what you're after, after it steeps for a week. If you find that it's not enough tobacco, you're going to need to order and add a small amount of a tobacco flavor. I recommend FLV Cured, FLV Red Burley, or FLV Kentucky. If it's too much caramel and not enough vanilla, you can try using less RY4 Dub and/or adding a little Vanillin.
Well, if our DIY Overlord says so I need to enrich my stash with some tobacco flavorings. I will however mix what you proposed and go from there.
Also I have not found DX Hazelnut to be disgusting but rather just harsh in more than 2%, then again I have not tried any other hazelnuts to compare to.
I am more interested in the vanilla aspect of this really, that's why I want to use that vanillin. I was thinking of starting like:
- 3%RY4D - 2%HAZELNUT - 4%MBV - 1%VANILLIN
Do you think would work or it would be too overpowering or muted?
Nicotine river sells nic salt for 5 dollars more than freebase nic at the 100mg option. Is there any benefit over freebase nic if sub ohming it at 3-6mg?
I'm trying to mix a bottle of juice. The nicotine pg/vg is down but I'm confused on how to do the flavor. I've read the sidebar and am still confused.. I have CAP sweet mango, CAP juicy peach, CAP juicy lemon, CAP sweet strawberry, TFA blueberry extra, and FA lemon cicily. I'm doing the mix by weight method. I tried a batch with the mango and it is terrible. Someone help ;_; I also don't know the gravity of my premixed base fluid
For the CAP Sweet Mango (etc) 5% in 10ml would be 0.5g. Does that help? If not could you give more specifics for what you're trying to do?
So having a weird problem not a new mixer but seemed appropriate to post here. I’ve been mixing in bulk a bunch of recipes and recently I noticed that everything new I’ve been mixing is straight destroying coils. As I previously said I’m not a new mixer I use very little sweetener or any additive that would cause this. I highly doubt my flavorings have anything to do with this recent change. I recently got new nic (vaporstek) and new pg/vg (nicrover) I’m making test batches to try to figure out what the culprit is, I’m pretty sure it’s the vg which seems weird as fuck. Was wondering if anyone has experienced the same problem or has any insight.
Try leaving out the sweetener and see if you notice a difference in coil longevity.
Not sure what your recipes are since you didn't include any, but some flavors are harder on coils than others. It's hard to give you a proper answer without proper recipes. I would start by skipping the sweetener though.
Haven't experienced anything or heard of anything like that. I'm assuming same coils and wattage? You mentioned some test batches. Are you/have you tested the vg by itself?
So I figured it out and feel like a moron. On my last order from nic river I somehow selected there Polyethylene Glycol 400 instead of the normal pg dunno how I did that, but I eliminated everything except the pg and was going to order more when I got the idea I might of ordered the wrong one so checked the label and sure enough. Now I gotta flush 1000 ml down the toilet
When I alternate betwen different fruit juice flavors such as grape to mango to orange and back to grape, it helps keep the flavor fresh.
If I do this with different RY4's is this the same type of thing? Can I keep different RY4 flavors more fresh by alternating them like this? Or is that more akin to vaping one single fruit flavor but alternating vendors, like FA Strawberry to Cap Sweet Strawberry to TFA Straw Ripe?
I bought FA RY4 and TFA RY4D and they seemed very similar, with RY4D being stronger (I honestly didn't get much flavor from FA RY4 at all, even high percentages) and so I kept TFA RY4D and gave the FA RY4 to a friend, thinking it was pretty much the same flavor but just a different vendor.
Initially I bought about dozen aromatic tobaccos to try and find an ADV as satisfying as FA Soho, but after coming to understand Soho is, or pretty much is an Ry4, I'm wondering if I should be buying a dozen RY4/RY4D to try instead? (I already enjoy TFA RY4D very much tho)
You could alternate between different dessert tobaccos that are similar, but it’s been my experience that you can go mute on a specific flavor even if it’s used in different recipes. So if you start to go a little mute on Soho, maybe try something with a different tobacco, cream, nuts, and butterscotch. Then go to something that maybe has some cocoa notes, hint of coffee, and vanilla. Then maybe back to Soho.
Depends if they have shared components or use different volatiles to achieve the same flavor, which would require you to know the ingredients. Switching between similar flavors can be interesting though, as you'll start to pick up on their differences, but if you numb your senses to some shared property, you won't get the full flavor from either one.
Isn't RY4 just a combination of tobacco and caramel and some other flavors though? Personally I would rather pick a few FLV or INW tobaccos and add different things to them than to explore a dozen interpretations of RY4, but to each his own.
Yeah this is what I think I should do too. I was suggested FLV red burley and FLV cured to blend as a base and then add some stuff to them. What would your go to additives be that you really like?
That would be my choice too, or just Burley, it's so good. I haven't meddled enough with tobacco to give advice on additives, but AP, spices, nuts, vanilla, caramel, creams, FA Oakwood, FA Black Fire, those are all good matches. Check out the tobacco additive FOTW though, it'll have much more in depth information.
Should I stay away from buying flavors with Acetoin in them?
I did when I first started, but some of those v2 and DX flavors are straight nasty. CAP Vanilla Cupcake v2 is actually very good though... It kind of depends on your preferences. I tend to shy away from some of the FW flavors containing sugar syrup more than D/A/AP.
I kind of look at it all being relatively safer than cigarettes, but as apex stated, the choice is entirely yours.
Does anyone know where to get a patchouli flavoring? u/wh1skeyk1ng?
https://www.nudenicotine.com/product/patchouli-vanilla-2/
That seems to be the only one I could find as well. Unfortunately they do not provided as a flavoring anymore the only provided as an eLiquid. I've noticed in the past by mixing spice notes like like those found and Capella's eggnog and other spice notes get you into the Woody spicy area but I know of a flavor on the market that is Rose lavender and patchouli I got 2 find a way of getting that Patchouli profile in some my mixes
What are your methods for test-tasting your large new batch?
Do you dry your cotton between every flavor, do you change it?
Seems kind of a long road if I need to do that every time I want to try a newly made recipe; how do you guys proceed?
For an accurate representation, a clean set of wicks is going to be your best bet, and yes it's a bit tedious. Sometimes you can get away with firing it dry and just dropping the next flavor in, eventually it may take over. Some flavors tend to linger in your coils if you don't re-wick and clean everything out though. It is entirely dependent on what flavors/percentages you're testing at.
If you are using clapton coils, or any build with adequate surface area, you can run wickless and just drip right on the coils. The surface tension will hold enough juice on your coils for 1 puff at a time, which is a fairly common technique for those who are testing lots of flavors at once.
Not familiar with the clapton coils. When I got introduced to vaping my friend gave me his old kit which consists of a X Cube mini and Kanthal A1 28ga wire; Never questionned it. I might make the switch and buy clapton, I heard it has a lot of advantages too, like more flavor etc. I would go DIY but don't have the tools required, I'll try to find premade stuff.
Another question: Does single-coil / dual-coil etc. influence the taste of the recipes? What else does? Lots of informations on the internet but lots of people telling the exact opposite too.
You only need the wire and cotton to make your own coils, no particular tools needed. Some are useful, but none required.
You get more flavor from dual coil, simply because you're getting twice as much vapor, and that really does make a difference.
Many things affect flavor, such as number of coils, type of wick and wire, wattage. But most importantly the airflow, ideally hitting the coils directly and travelling around them and up the chimney unimpeded. Flavor percentage and PG ratio matters too.
Not sure if this is the place to ask. I'm a complete, absolute, know-nothing. I pretty much only ever vape single fruit flavors, primarily grape. The only grape flavor I ever found that scratched the itch was Mt. Baker's grape with a ton of flavor shots added. Since they can't/won't do that anymore, I am looking at maybe adding juice concentrate myself to commercial flavors, as opposed to mixing my own from scratch. Is this a bad idea?
Not necessarily a bad idea, but you may find more success mixing your own from scratch. Through trial and error or just by sheer luck, you may come up with something 10x better and 10x cheaper. There are tons of recipes and if youre strictly interested in grape, that may make it easier for you. Try INW grape for an authentic grape or TFA grape juice for a welchs/popsicle type grape. Check around the sub and All the Flavors and you will find more information!
If anything it would be pretty much the same process of trial and error trying to enhance or improve whatever juice you were adding flavors to.
If you wanted to make it super easy to start you could just get a premixed base and some Flavor West Grape, then start experimenting with it at different percentages.
Or look up grape recipes on ATF & ELR and add the flavors you need to a kit like this.
as a first time DIYer, I'm sick of colored juices with sugar that ruin my coils in 2 fucking days. I have candy king, strawberry watermelon bubble gum and the sugar is legit burning and clogging spots that the ejuice goes threw and it's high vg so it's thick too. Every time I want to vape I have to close the wholes and inhale with out firing. As some one who has ADHD and the meds make me crave nicotine I can't be going threw coils that fast. So I decided to look for menthol ejuice, but most of the stuff I found still has artificial sugar in it. then I stumbled on DIY material and found stuff that has no sugar and is like 40 for a fucking liter of ejuice *including start up materials like bottles, syringes. I was like WHAT why didn't any one tell me about this when I first started. Couple of quick questions though, if I wanted vanilla could I use extract found at the grocery store along with other extracts? Also how hard is it to get ejuice out of beakers into bottles? Also storing large amount of ejuice should I freeze it? Any one have success selling ejuice that they DIYed? Any one know of clear flavors that are sugarless in case I ever get sick of menthol?
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No extracts found in stores. They are not safe to vape.
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Get a scale and mix by weight directly into your bottles. No messy cleanup needed.
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I wouldn’t mix so large an amount of juice at one time that you need to freeze some of it. It will need to steep anyways, depending on the flavors used.
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Selling juice to people you know is easy. A few people also sell in the DIY Classifieds sub.
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Most flavors don’t contain sugar. There are a few FW flavors that contain sugar syrup. You won’t be using them anyways.
I'm trying to buy Carolina Extract nicotine, but I'm not sure exactly which product I should be buying. I assume this one: http://www.carolinaxtract.com/_p/prd12/3738396951/product/120ml-sample-100mg-ml-nic-covg
Is that right?
Choose the PG based version unless you have a very good reason to avoid it.
Will do. Thanks! I just figured since I intend to mix 30/70 PG/VG that I would be better off with nic in VG.