Advice - Mixing pre made juice with pre made, or Premade with Concentrated flavouring

[M3NF]

Since joining the vapering world two weeks ago, I gone though rather a lot of juice bottles in the process of testing to find what works for me. I really have only found just one juice thats close to what i need, and to get it the way is to mix it with a hint of Vanilla and Banana which are also pre made juice's.

I have ended up with a RY4 brand (and tested now close to 10 different ry4 brands) and it this one brand so far thats doing the job of making me stay off the real ones.

What i like to know or get advice on, is..... what is a better way to mix my own more, Either

1) Continue the way i have with just mixing different pre made juice to get the taste.
2) Mixing my current base pre made juice with concentrated flavouring.
3) Learning to mix like the pro's from scratch.

Being new and still needing the taste of my tobacco to help me stay of the analogs, I am looking more towards making a good stash, so it will continue to help me with my former addiction while I enjoy the other flavours around.

As always thanks to all that help.

Mathew

 

[Soldier Blue]

Mixing your own from scratch is without doubt the cheapest way and you can get your mix exactly how you want it - sometimes straight away and sometimes with a lot of trial and error. There are many on here that do just that but personally I take the easy route and stick to just a small selection of juices and vape 'as is' but every now and again they accumulate and I might mix a few together just for fun. The only real time I mix is when I've got a juice too high / low in nic and I need to cut it to get the right nic level. Like I say though, mixing from scratch is like Marmite - love it / hate it but if you do give it a go you'd better get plenty of storage space as mixing is even more addictive than getting shinyitus. Give it a go - nothing to lose and if nothing else it's VERY satisfying when you get it right.

 

[Fleabag]

There's nothing wrong with doing what you're doing, though it's a more expensive option. If you add concentrates to your juice, it will result in a slightly stronger flavour, but will also slightly reduce your nic content and add a little more pg to the balance (assuming you get the more common pg based flavours). Mixing your own is by far the cheapest option, and most flexible on pg/vg ratios & nic strength.
The only thing I would say is that stockpiling one blend might not be the wisest thing to do. When I started mixing a week after getting my ego set, I started on 18mg of 70/30 blends. After testing, I dropped pg levels until I settled on 50/50. Later I reduced nic to 16mg, and will probably drop it further in future. You may want to adjust levels in your juice at some point, and you might go off one juice/find a new favourite, so having bottles of one type pre-mixed might be a waste.
I make up unflavoured base to add flavours later in 30ml bottles at a time & add 20% flavour when I make up 10ml quantities. Even that may now need to be adjusted, as I have just bought super strength food concentrates that will probably be better at 10% or less

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[Soldier Blue]

A quote from Fleabag - ''The only thing I would say is that stockpiling one blend might not be the wisest thing to do.''

Now that is good advice @M3NF - I've made the mistake of buying literally litres of stuff that I loved, only to find I'd gone off it after a few weeks.

 

[M3NF]

Thanks you two, i can see you point on that one, i guess my idea of stock up would be 100ml of it, so i know i would have enough of the right blend.

So far i kind of blended in my evod lol, I tried to then attempt to them copy the mix into a 10ml bottle, measuring it via a syringe to start to get a perfect mix and then i can copy this every time, but its not going to well lol. So hence wanting to blend a 100ml bottle more.

Thanks again thou.

 

[Fleabag]

100ml isn't too bad. Though you might be best perfecting it at 5 or 10ml before you plunge in with 100. I keep tally as I go along on how many drops of each flavour I'm adding. If that blend seems right, then I can replicate it. If it seems a bit heavy or weak on a flavour, I can adjust on the next bottle.
Mind you, when I'm testing something new, I do the same as you and do a little trial blend straight into the tank & top up with unflavoured base I blend up in larger quantities in advance

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[M3NF]

Yes can see the point, i have ordered my supplies now Some 5 and 10ml empty bottles, my fav pre made juice and also some concentrated ones, so i can have a bash at my first 2 ways to see if its any easier lol. Also got my 1 and 5 ml syringes on order

Again thanks everyone for the advice, you been such a great help.

Next thread, building my own coils lol. But then again i think i have already read loads on that, its now more of a case of ordering the wire and wick, more research on what ones thou needed for my evod and pro tanks.

 

[vaporhead]

Learn to mix pal. Simple enough really. POTV have an excellent ejuice calculator. Thus will give you your basic guidelines and no doubt after following those you'll be able to tweak it as u like to find your right mix. Allways take notes of what your doing for future reference. Take it easy on sweeteners there extremely sweet and you can ruin whole batches with one to many drops. And maybe try a RY4 double concentrate I find them far better tasting than standard RY4

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