Welcome back to our sophomore effort to bring you the highlights of last week in DIY.

DIY Featured Recurring Thread: Cloning

Every month, we get more and more people who find out sub because their specific flavor they have been vaping is no longer continued, harder to find, can't be mailed to them and/or they are just ready to move on from the uncertainty of where will I get my juice from? Undeniable legislative prohibition vs vaping aside, folks land in our midst with a burning desire to clone their beloved mixes, the ones that got them off the analogs, hopefully forever. What a shame it would be for all of us who have found freedom from smoking just to return to it due to lack of access.

And, yet, there it is, the monthly Clone Request Thread in all its glory. Just a head's up: Clone Requests outside this thread are against the rules. Clone requests on the front page of the sub will be moderated. If you do seek a clone, here's a few tips/reminders:

• Many of us haven't had commercial liquid in years and don't know the flavor you are super intimate with. Do everyone a favor and provide a description from the vendor. Also, those descriptions are a joke.

• Make sure you also tell us what you taste, what you like about it, what (if anything) you would change/want improved if at all. This gives someone an opportunity to make a 'Remix' version of that same profile using flavors and percents we have come to know today.

• The recipe you are vaping in a commercial liquid was probably developed before the latest generation of devices were built making them likely strange recipes by "Today's" standards in mixing.

Dear potential cloners, I invite you to take the plunge into DIY and ask around here or in discord for recommendations on recipes that seem similar and leave that commercial liquid behind.

Last Week's Highlights

• My week begins on Tuesday with the seemingly endless puns of u/ID10-T and the Flavor of the Week thread featuring Maple. Keep your eyes peeled for some 'smooth' lines later today.
• Kicking off our week of oddly worded, burning questions was a wondering on how some liquids get their 'color' in How do companies like 7daze get their apple juice colored juice by u/Striking_Tomato8689. Just in case it needs to be said: Please do not dye your juice, people.
• followed later by how do you guys avoid strawberry mutting? [sic] , how can I thicken my ejuice?, did everyone stock up on nic? and the non-question question flavor review question. To answer your questions: Alpine Strawberry/SB Trinity, jizz (Dad's pee is for thinning), yes, and DIY. I got you, fam.
• Oh hell, let's add to that the semi-complete mixing makeover in a bunch of random questions. Chime in and bring this poor soul into 2022.
• Let's not forget the cries for help LoAnn's [sic] Strawberry/Banana HELP! Gentle reminder to not vape oil soluble flavors, buy from trusted vendors, and to check the Flavor Safety page compiled from information known to us at this time.
• HALP!: the cleverly worded Centerfold Jinx clone post, the poor soul who almost vaped 20% CAP Sweet Mango, the person who is transitioning from NETs to synthetics, the confusion on New CAP flavors, and how to recreate a cocktail from the other night.
• u/Effective-Meet6867 debuted the first few pages of their recipe book project ejuice Alchemy Let me be one to say, I'm a paper and pencil guy as much as I'm an ATF guy. But, yeah, ATF.

I dont know... I guess I'm done making sense of this past week. If that hurt your head as much as mine, consider writing up a post that shares a recipe (with notes), sparks a discussion, write a flavor review, or just simply write something that breaks the monotony.

Unsung Hero

Let's take a moment to acknowledge the contributions of u/Mother_Punker for being this week's Unsung Hero. I want to personally thank you for your contributions to the threads.

Ok, that's enough outta me. Keep an eye out for upcoming Recipe of the Year threads. Now's a good time to dig through those pesky monthly recipe threads and mix those recipes you've been putting off.

until next week,
i