Mixing newbie, some questions

[chopper]

I'm sorry, FIVE LITRES?!? Blimey! You're like Breaking Bad but for e-liquid [emoji23] and here's me impressed with my 40ml hahaha
I left it for about... four or five hours if I remember correctly. Yes, it was about 5pm I finished them. Although I realised I need to add 1.6ml VG to one because it dawned on me with that one I got confused. I need to mix one at a time I think! For now, anyway. However, I think I will make a 100ml of the strawberry milkshake since it seems to have turned out so well! Sorry, I'm rambling on. The others are going to be left alone for at least the next few days.



What does the RY stand for? Sorry, really dim question! I don't like the tobacco taste but for some reason to me it does sound appealing when mixed with other, sweet things. Are you mixing any more that you can try out sooner?

Yup, 5 litres a week. It's not all for me mind, I work with a lot of vapers and they buy juice off me, and then for their friends and family too. I'm not ripping anyone off, they're my 2 recipes that I research and developed myself and I sell at just under 41% profit so it means that all of my vaping is absolutely free. It is starting to get a bit too time consuming, considering I'm a single dad so I'm gonna start scaling back somewhat or limiting the order days to just a Sunday rather than any day of the week

 

[blueberrycupcake]

Yup, 5 litres a week. It's not all for me mind, I work with a lot of vapers and they buy juice off me, and then for their friends and family too. I'm not ripping anyone off, they're my 2 recipes that I research and developed myself and I sell at just under 41% profit so it means that all of my vaping is absolutely free. It is starting to get a bit too time consuming, considering I'm a single dad so I'm gonna start scaling back somewhat or limiting the order days to just a Sunday rather than any day of the week

That must be very time consuming! Being a single dad too, I don't blame you for wanting to cut back a little. I think that's really nice you do that though.
How long have you been doing this for?
Thanks for your previous post, I haven't ordered anything but will keep that in mind [emoji4]

 

[mick brown]

Hi blueberrycupcake.
RY4 Has become the well known abbreviation for the original recipe of RuYan . Contains mild sweet tobacco , caramel and vanilla although some now add other ingredients such as nuts and chocolate.

 

[learnincurve]

Did you check out FA yet? http://www.flavourart.co.uk/super-six-6-x-10ml-flavourings.html 6 for £16 and they have all their tobacco flavourings in the deal.

 

[chopper]

That must be very time consuming! Being a single dad too, I don't blame you for wanting to cut back a little. I think that's really nice you do that though.
How long have you been doing this for?
Thanks for your previous post, I haven't ordered anything but will keep that in mind [emoji4]

From start to finish it can take me 30-45 mins to mix, depending how demanding any of my kids are on that day (11 yr old and twins 7 yr old can be a handful), 2 and a half week steep for each batch, then 3 days steep with whichever nic strength I then add.

The most time consuming bit is making sure I have plenty empty bottles clean and ready to go. I try and get empty bottles back and clean them myself if I can, that keeps my costs down as much as possible but I'd say out of 50 bottles a week I give out, I see about half of them again.

I've been doing it for 12 months now, just started out as a recipe I mixed for myself then kinda snowballed from there. I can't say my juice is 'premium' as at the end of the day I don't have the kit or the manpower so that's why I don't ask for a premium price. Works out at £3.52 (or £2.68 for the second flavour I mix)per 100ml for me to produce, and sell at £6 for 100ml

When TPD completely comes into effect then I'm definitely scaling back just to be greedy with my own nic stash I have

 

[blueberrycupcake]

From start to finish it can take me 30-45 mins to mix, depending how demanding any of my kids are on that day (11 yr old and twins 7 yr old can be a handful), 2 and a half week steep for each batch, then 3 days steep with whichever nic strength I then add.

The most time consuming bit is making sure I have plenty empty bottles clean and ready to go. I try and get empty bottles back and clean them myself if I can, that keeps my costs down as much as possible but I'd say out of 50 bottles a week I give out, I see about half of them again.

I've been doing it for 12 months now, just started out as a recipe I mixed for myself then kinda snowballed from there. I can't say my juice is 'premium' as at the end of the day I don't have the kit or the manpower so that's why I don't ask for a premium price. Works out at £3.52 (or £2.68 for the second flavour I mix)per 100ml for me to produce, and sell at £6 for 100ml

When TPD completely comes into effect then I'm definitely scaling back just to be greedy with my own nic stash I have

Blimey, yes you do have your hands full there! We have kids too, two of which are homeschooled, so we don't have lots of time.
I can see how washing all those bottles would take forever, the part I'm not looking forward to [emoji23]
Have you stuck to those particular flavours or tried making more? Do you think you would start a business one day?

 

[jamesh1990]

Without adding a completely new batch, I made 4 flavours the other evening, all at about 80/20 and 6mg of Nic.

I forgot to let them breath afterwards and last night gave them the water bath method.

They all seem too clear still, 2 days I would have thought that at least the VG might start to look mixed in, or maybe some colour change.

Maybe me being impatient?

 

[chopper]

Without adding a completely new batch, I made 4 flavours the other evening, all at about 80/20 and 6mg of Nic.

I forgot to let them breath afterwards and last night gave them the water bath method.

They all seem too clear still, 2 days I would have thought that at least the VG might start to look mixed in, or maybe some colour change.

Maybe me being impatient?

Yes, impatient haha. Colour I find can take a while to start changing but when it does it's a fast change. 80/20 is a thick liquid, colour change will be a bit longer till it starts than 1 say a 60/40 due to that

 

[blueberrycupcake]

Some of mine have changed quite dramatically in colour, but not necessarily right away. One hasn't changed hugely. One changed quicker than I thought it would

 

[chopper]

Things that affect the colour change rate is flavour, flavour company, % of flavour used, VG level and nic level.

It'll come dude, but everything with DIY is all about patience