OK so i mix for a few different people and I'm tired of mixing individual 120ml bottles especially when some need to age.. as you probably know it gets tedious.
I only ever mix 0mg / 3mg / 6mg
I ordered a bunch of 16 oz bottles and I'm thinking that I can just use one or two for each recipe and leave out the nicotine and PG in the beginning.
plug everything into the calculator at 30/70 pg/vg
(my NIC is 100mg in pg)
Fill up the 16 oz bottles by plugging in 480ml into the calculator and leaving out the PG and NIC. I'll call this my "base mix".
For each recipe figure out the weight of the "base mix" for a 120ml bottle (I'll write this on the 16oz bottle) and since flavors are generally suspended in PG and recipes differ in flavor percentages it will be different for each mix.
For mixing individual bottles just weigh out the base mix into the 120ml bottle and then refer to my calculator for the weight of the PG and NIC to add depending on desired strength (sometimes ill add VG here too because I prefer max VG)
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PROBLEMS:
I have everything inventoried and have been subtracting from inventory after every mix.
This will mess up my inventory for PG VG and NIC a bit.
flavors will still be accurate
I can live with this.
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QUESTIONS
Will not adding the PG and NIC in the beginning have a negative effect on the aging process?
I'm under the impression that flavors age easier with more PG in the mix and take longer for VG so I'm thinking the difficult part of the aging process should be finished and each bottle may just take a few extra days to get right after the final mixing into the 120ml bottles.
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has anyone figured out an easier way to do this?
The only alternative I can think of is making 16oz bottles of each strength and being done with it but my budget doesn't quite allow this yet and also some strengths go faster than others and I would need to get a better feel for how fast they're going to run out before I make giant bottles of each one.
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Thank You for your time + energy ^_^
Too much overthinking. You want to make flavor bases. People coming from vendor juices know this term as "one-shots". It's the recipe, in bulk amount, of just flavors. ELR will let you make the base with your preferred amount, and tell you what percentage to use it at when actually mixing (it's the sum of the flavor percentages in the original recipe).
Thank you (=
That sounds a lot easier
I'll study that for a while to get more comfortable with the concept.
Honestly I think shortfills is a better option for you since you need to steep one shots so you cant mix and let them vape on the same day. Lets say you want to make 5 bottle of 120ml of the same recipe. So 5x120ml would be 600ml but instead of making 600ml you make 550ml and you fill only 110ml in each bottle (in the calculator you would still plug in 600ml from which you substract 50ml while mixing). Then you can just make 3 different concentrations of nic such that when you add 10ml to a single bottle of 110ml you get 120ml of juice of either 0mg 3mg or 6mg.
Thank You for this suggestion!
This is just what I was looking for and much simpler than I was making it.
This way I can mix up 32 oz batches of recipes and have them steeping. plus I feel like they will last a long time if they need to as the NIC isn't added yet.
Sorry I took a long time to say anything, I've been busy >_>