Making juice for sub-ohm I mix 20% flavor and high VG (80/20 final). Moving into nic salts it looks like you mix to 50/50 PG/VG, keep the flavor profile simple, and everyone seems to say MORE FLAVOR. I'm already @ 20% flavor, should I still up it?
After searching around on the sub, it looks like it's just as easy to mix salts (If I, say, start with a 250mg HIT nic base from NicRiver) as it is to mix regular. Just use a juice calculator program, add PG/VG and flavor to get it to 50% VG/PG and down to say 35MG nic strength.
Is it really as easy as regular mixing, or is there something big I haven't yet seen? I'm new to salts, and I don't want to continue to buy salt juice. I want to make it like I make all my other juices.
EDIT: I guess I should have mentioned that I am going to be mixing salts for use in a pod system. A Breeze 2. I hadn't yet even considered mixing nic salts for my sub ohm setup.
Mix the exact same as freebase. I mix salts at 3mg just like I did freebase. 100mg/ml freebase is the same as 100mg/ml salts (or whatever mg you have). You don't have to change the pg/vg ratio at all.
I am actually interested in this; is there an advantage to using nic salt in a "low" nic juice like the 3/6 mg range? Does it still offer better hit and whatever other properties over freebase at that level?
> I'm already @ 20% flavor
Do you only mix one recipe? Your flavor percentage shouldn't be static.
I mix with a bunch of different flavors, but over time have learned what I like and what to stay away from, which flavors are super strong, which are weaker, etc. I'll mix 20% flavor but adjust my percentages of each individual flavor (as part of the mixture) based on experience. But, yes, overall I keep it at 20%.
Not trying to criticize your method; if it works for you, that's great. But out of curiosity are you saying that, for example, if you're mixing 3 flavors that all work at 5% you increase all three to hit 20% or find another flavor to add that brings the total to 20%?
I’m mixing salt nic for my Breeze 2. Just started really, but it seems going a couple percentage points is the way to go for better flavor.
If you’re going from 80/20 vg/pg to 50/50 you need to wind those flavour percentages down! Way down! The more PG in the mix the better it carries flavour. 20% plus flavour depending on the flavour probably will be way over kill. I mix at around 6% with 50/50!
So to make nic salts it's generally the same as freebase and you don't need to add anything like benzoic acid or whatever? Thought it was more complicated.
I just started DIY, and I’m using flavor ratios as noted, and I am very disappointed. I heard Wayne Walker talking about needing to up the flavor percentages for salt nic. So, my next batches are going to be increased in flavors. I’m vaping a strawberry cheesecake with only three flavors and it is near insipid.
That sounds like a fault of the device and/or recipe, are you mixing for a Juul? It’s not known for its ability to handle complex flavor profiles. Salt nic is not the problem. I tried a number of strawberry cheesecake recipes before I found one I liked, and the secret was not adding more quantity or variety of flavor or changing the nic type.
Breeze 2.
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I just made of some juice for a pod system (only 10ml), Breeze 2. I make my own salt juice and have for awhile now. To format the juice for a pod system I doubled the flavor concentrates the receipe calls for and upped the concentration of salt nic to 30mg. I usually vape 6mg salt nic. This was my 1st go around and the juice was really nice. May up the flavors more like 2.5 ratio but the salt nic concentrate at 30 was perfect,.......for me.