A littel mixing advice please

[pava]

Thanks to this forum I will start mixing my own juice (this Saturday hopefully). All my liquids, syringes, needles, bottles etc. have been delivered, just waiting on the PG & VG. I have been vaping juices with a 60/40 pg/vg mix (no nicotine), which I find gives me enough "throat hit" and not too much vape. My goal is to make juice that satisfies my throat hit, with not too much vape (I need to be very discrete at work) and ultimately delivers great taste.

My questions are:
1. Do I mix my own juice at the 60/40 pg/vg ratio that I'm used to?
2. Which mixes require the longest steeping/maturing and which can I vape straight away? I have strawberry, cherry, caramel, sweet cream, graham cracker, chocolate, peanut butter, crispy bacon, cream soda, vanilla custard, tobacco, coconut and vanilla.

I'm going to mix in 10ml quantities to start with and use the minimum % recommended by the concentrate manufacturer and adjust the mix, should it need it. I've also been checking out recipes which include multiple flavour concentrates, hence some of my choices.

Well thanks for reading this and I look forward to receiving your advice and insight.

ATB
Pava

 

[seej]

1. Fruits you can Vape pretty much straight away, things like custard need a good steep though
2.I'd mix the ratio of PG/VG in what you're used to
3. Write everything down otherwise I guarantee you'll forget your favourite recipe

 

[Mr Numpty]

Yes, if you like your bought juices at 60/40 PG/VG, you'll get the same results mixing your own at that ratio in terms of vapour production and throat hit.

Fruits are often shake and vape while custards might need a month or more of steeping and tobaccos benefit from 2 weeks steeping ime. Good luck!

 

[billy_idle]

I put a label on each bottle and write what is in it, for example:

The flavour
50/50 (vg/pg)
3% (or whatever flavour % is)
6mg (nicotine strength)
Date

for mixes with more than one flavour just keep notes on excel as it's handy. I lose bits of paper.

 

[pava]

Thanks for the advice guys. I have a notebook ready to record everything I do and I've remembered the cellotape to cover the numerals on my syringes too. As for Excel, I keep meaning to get someone to show me how to use that, but I'm afraid it's a bit like trying to explain nuclear physics to a dinosaur.

I will let you know how it all goes.

 

[Mr Numpty]

If you download eJuice Me Up and watch this video, you can save all your recipes in the app and it has a place for keeping notes too. Easy peasy WHAT A SLEAZY!

 

[Shirker]

winner winner chicken dinner

 

[Enoch]

Thanks to this forum I will start mixing my own juice (this Saturday hopefully). All my liquids, syringes, needles, bottles etc. have been delivered, just waiting on the PG & VG. I have been vaping juices with a 60/40 pg/vg mix (no nicotine), which I find gives me enough "throat hit" and not too much vape. My goal is to make juice that satisfies my throat hit, with not too much vape (I need to be very discrete at work) and ultimately delivers great taste.

My questions are:
1. Do I mix my own juice at the 60/40 pg/vg ratio that I'm used to?
2. Which mixes require the longest steeping/maturing and which can I vape straight away? I have strawberry, cherry, caramel, sweet cream, graham cracker, chocolate, peanut butter, crispy bacon, cream soda, vanilla custard, tobacco, coconut and vanilla.

I'm going to mix in 10ml quantities to start with and use the minimum % recommended by the concentrate manufacturer and adjust the mix, should it need it. I've also been checking out recipes which include multiple flavour concentrates, hence some of my choices.

Well thanks for reading this and I look forward to receiving your advice and insight.

ATB
Pava

From a fellow novice......

Mix the liquids well. I mean really well! My first attempt w2as a shake mix and i have had nothing but trouble with them since, as well as them being a bit crap, My beard number 5 after 3 days is better than them, and it didnt have any taste!

Next, sums are important. Work out the exact mils of everything you need to make, i recently made 900 mils of liquid up and i had to get down to the exact numbers of mils to make sure the ratios were right.

Finally willpower. the more desserty or custardy the vape, the longer it will take to be ready. I have 3 now that are minimum of 3 week steep, and cracking open a 2 flavour deal it had no taste at all after 3 days! So yeah, will power is key, if it says leave it, then leave it.

 

[technoman]

The POTV mixing calculator app is great as it saves your recipes. You add the ingredients by percentage and put an end quantity so if you make 10ml and like it, to make 30ml you would just load the recipe and change the end quantity to 30ml, calculate and it does it all for you.

Life saver!