Thank you I'll give it a try. I'm very grateful of all the help here..
Good morning and thank you for your message. I have learned a lot the last couple of days since finding this site and even more since reading your message. Yes I've always used 10-15% concentrate on 100ml of mix so now I'm going to try a 30% on my next mix. I wondered a while ago about my taste buds as like you I was a GV smoker for many years. I've also learned that shaking the mix does make a big difference. I am a DTL vaper and been vaping for nearly 3 years now and know the one thing I'll never do again is light another ciggie.. I'll leave my nicotine as it is for now but should I wish to up it in time what would you suggest in a 100ml mix. I use a 10ml bottle of 18mg at the moment. Many thanks for your help. Happy vaping..Hi @tinnietel, pleased to "meet" you. An almost-old-timer here (half a century).
The ratios I see recommended (in various places, 5-15%) never seem to cut the mustard for me. I seem to need 20-30% of concentrate in a mix before they taste similar to commercial premixed juices. Maybe 35 years of smoking golden virginia has damaged my tastebuds.
Your current nicotine level is quite low IMO. Of course, if you're happy with it, that is fantastic! But if you're feeling that you're missing a bit of throat hit, or satisfaction, it might be worth trying a bit more. I saw somebody saying that yours worked out as 1.8%, and I would say that average strengths would be 3-6mg for DTL (big clouds) vaping, and 6-12mg for MTL (cig like) vaping.
I started vaping with no nicotine at all, and stayed like that for almost a year. Then one day I tried a vape from my friends device, that had 12mg in it. Oh my god, the difference was night and day. It felt so much more like a proper smoke, and I was converted. Sadly, because it's be great to be on 0 nic.
Edit to add: I agree with the others, small batches are king when trying out new mixes. It's so much easier, cheaper, and less wasteful, I feel happier to experiment more. For totally new flavour mixes I go even further and wick up an RBA and taste the mixes as I go along.
Yes I have 3 or 4 going. Vanilla cupcake. Strawberry and banana. Iced banana and Strawberry raspberry and cherry. I will up my nicotine when I get this totally right. Thank you for your help..
Good morning and thank you for your message. I have learned a lot the last couple of days since finding this site and even more since reading your message. Yes I've always used 10-15% concentrate on 100ml of mix so now I'm going to try a 30% on my next mix. I wondered a while ago about my taste buds as like you I was a GV smoker for many years. I've also learned that shaking the mix does make a big difference. I am a DTL vaper and been vaping for nearly 3 years now and know the one thing I'll never do again is light another ciggie.. I'll leave my nicotine as it is for now but should I wish to up it in time what would you suggest in a 100ml mix. I use a 10ml bottle of 18mg at the moment. Many thanks for your help. Happy vaping..
