Help! Mixing fruit flavours

[Hoadster]

fruits require less concentrate than desserts custards. what percentage flavour are you using?

also you can soften fruits as well with a little something depending on the fruit type.

i would normally start around 5% with fruits and work up a bit.

though some fruits like pineapple which is very very strong and overpowering only need around 2%.

you can also try this ( one of my own recipes ) .. fruit with a fizzy tang )
water melon 9%
blueberry 7%
raspberry 4%
lemon lime 1.7%
EM 1.2%
koolada 2 %
menthol 6%

the above was a 12mg nic at a 50/50 pg/vg

lovely jubbly

also of note i always found Lorann to be very overpowering and rather unpleasant. i stick to Capella and TPA now.

I've tried using EM to see if that helps but he says it seems to mute the flavours. I think it's blueberry as everything I've made him has had blueberry in it even a blueberry cheesecake I've just mixed is still harsh for him.

I'll try reducing the % and see if that helps.

 

[travolski]

I've tried using EM to see if that helps but he says it seems to mute the flavours. I think it's blueberry as everything I've made him has had blueberry in it even a blueberry cheesecake I've just mixed is still harsh for him.

I'll try reducing the % and see if that helps.

With fruites its easy to over or under shoot concentrates ive found. I use 20% total flavour but that doesnt work with stronger fruites say lemon or lime as they will over power stuff. Best advice is put you base flavour in then add slowly bit by bit your second layer untill that tastes right and then same again for the 3rd layer. Em can ruin fruit flavours, i got some em and put 1% in thinking it wasnt a large amount and it totally muted the liquid, try putting 0.3%-0.5% in first and work your way up. Alot of folk say fruits are good to go off the bat but ive found it takes a week for fruits to fully develop and 2 weeks for more complex blends. Changes from every flavour at ones to a complex blend of diffrent flavour notes. Also nicotine lvl if he is deipping use alot lower lvl of nicotine than a tank. Also ive found some concentrates are just harsh frought hitters compared to other brands. Still a newb myself but just found that to be the case from mixing

Regards
Trav

 

[druss1]

The other thing might be wattage/voltage too high if using variable device.

 

[bob]

I've tried using EM to see if that helps but he says it seems to mute the flavours. I think it's blueberry as everything I've made him has had blueberry in it even a blueberry cheesecake I've just mixed is still harsh for him.

I'll try reducing the % and see if that helps.

this made a lot of sense to me.
when i started vaping solid i vaped blueberry 24/7 for about 2-3 months. now when i have it all i can taste is chemicals. ive tried just about every blueberry going and when i started mixing made it in allsorts of %s but nothing only a heartburn sensation to the back of my throat.
soooo could be the blueberry as you suspect. try him with something else at same %s if you can and see how this works out.

 

[Hoadster]

I'm going to try mixing him something tomorrow without blueberry to see if it may solve the mystery. He's just a fussy bugger when it comes to flavours lol.

 

[cheersm8]

Adding a small quantity of Dragon Fruit, to any diy fruit mixes will smooth them out and add sweetness without masking your target flavour.
Fruit flavoured juices can be a bit of a catch 22 thing, too much concentrate, and they get a bit harsh, but most do need a good old dose to get the flavour to blast out when u vape 'em.
For me, a touch of Dragon Fruit allows me to pump up the volume with my target fruit.

 

[Hoadster]

Adding a small quantity of Dragon Fruit, to any diy fruit mixes will smooth them out and add sweetness without masking your target flavour.
Fruit flavoured juices can be a bit of a catch 22 thing, too much concentrate, and they get a bit harsh, but most do need a good old dose to get the flavour to blast out when u vape 'em.
For me, a touch of Dragon Fruit allows me to pump up the volume with my target fruit.

I've tried mixing him stuff today. Without blueberry, without nicotine. Even just done a 1ml 6mg sample with no flavour and he said that was harsh. Not sure if flavours tend to tone down the the harshness.

I'll look into giving dragon fruit a try. In the mean time I've mixed myself 6 x 10mls of custards and cheesecakes [emoji4]

 

[travolski]

I've tried mixing him stuff today. Without blueberry, without nicotine. Even just done a 1ml 6mg sample with no flavour and he said that was harsh. Not sure if flavours tend to tone down the the harshness.

I'll look into giving dragon fruit a try. In the mean time I've mixed myself 6 x 10mls of custards and cheesecakes [emoji4]

Up the vg ratio as vg is a throught soother and itll tone down the throught hit

 

[monstermash]

So I need some help. I've started mixing some flavours. Now I've been mixing custard/desert flavours for myself and they're going fine.

So here's where the problem is. My OH only vapes fruit flavours. Everything I've made him he says has a harsh throat hit. Even when I make a 1ml sample with no nicotine. I've even tried higher vg level to the point of 70/30 vg/pg.

Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this or how to reduce the throat hit?

Thanks
Em

Hi Hoadster, I've learned lots of good tips on this thread! I'm wondering what your OH is comparing your hand crafted homebrew to? What's he vaping that's so smooth? Also, what supplier's ingredients you are mixing to give him?

I have no wisdom to offer you but fascinated to know the answers!

Best,
MM