Working on a Dragon Fruit flavour...

[BD1]

Got home and after a couple ales i decided it was time to do some mixing!

I had a sniff at my flavours and the usual Capella vanilla custard grabbed me as usual, (seems to be becoming a staple of my mixes) and not a lot left so thought i'd use it up (really needs to get me a 100ml bottle) I got some Inawera flavours too and gave them all a sniff, Caramel and Dragon Fruit caught my attention in those

So i plugged my usual 10ml shennanigans into the POTV mixing calc and looked at the results, i tend to go for 20% flavouring to start out with, didn't quite work out at 20% but bear with me...

To make 10ml of this concoction i used the following...

2.5ml 72mg PG
5.5ml VG
1.0ml Capella Vanilla Custard
0.4ml Inawera Caramel
0.3ml Inawera Dragon Fruit

And for the eagle eyed amongst you yes you''re right, that's not quite 10ml or 20% flavouring

I wimped out somewhat with the dragonfruit, smelled really strong and i thought 0.6ml was going to be too much so decided to halve it, caramel smelt like a strong bonfire toffee so decided i didn't really want to up that either, and i was out of the vanilla custard and didn't want to complicate things by adding something else.

Initial vape is really strong Dragonfruit, could perhaps have gotten away with 1.5ml, and the Caramel isn't as strong as i'd anticipated, Vanilla custard i can't even pick out, but maybe it's rounding out the taste somewhat.

With hindsight i'd have used more Caramel and less Dragon Fruit, maybe up the caramel to 8.5ml and drop the Dragon Fruit to the previously mentioned 1.5ml.

This is a pretty nice vape but needs those tweaks really, maybe steeping will mellow it out, but i was too impatient to wait.

This is a very promising mixture indeed

 

[South Coast Vaper]

Sounds interesting. Update when it's steeped as maybe that custard will be more pronounced.


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[chiefkaiser]

Dragon Fruit

Got home and after a couple ales i decided it was time to do some mixing!

I had a sniff at my flavours and the usual Capella vanilla custard grabbed me as usual, (seems to be becoming a staple of my mixes) and not a lot left so thought i'd use it up (really needs to get me a 100ml bottle) I got some Inawera flavours too and gave them all a sniff, Caramel and Dragon Fruit caught my attention in those

So i plugged my usual 10ml shennanigans into the POTV mixing calc and looked at the results, i tend to go for 20% flavouring to start out with, didn't quite work out at 20% but bear with me...

To make 10ml of this concoction i used the following...

2.5ml 72mg PG
5.5ml VG
1.0ml Capella Vanilla Custard
0.4ml Inawera Caramel
0.3ml Inawera Dragon Fruit

And for the eagle eyed amongst you yes you''re right, that's not quite 10ml or 20% flavouring

I wimped out somewhat with the dragonfruit, smelled really strong and i thought 0.6ml was going to be too much so decided to halve it, caramel smelt like a strong bonfire toffee so decided i didn't really want to up that either, and i was out of the vanilla custard and didn't want to complicate things by adding something else.

Initial vape is really strong Dragonfruit, could perhaps have gotten away with 1.5ml, and the Caramel isn't as strong as i'd anticipated, Vanilla custard i can't even pick out, but maybe it's rounding out the taste somewhat.

With hindsight i'd have used more Caramel and less Dragon Fruit, maybe up the caramel to 8.5ml and drop the Dragon Fruit to the previously mentioned 1.5ml.

This is a pretty nice vape but needs those tweaks really, maybe steeping will mellow it out, but i was too impatient to wait.

This is a very promising mixture indeed

Hey there, I'm new to mixing and vaping, can I ask what fruits are in the dragon flavour? I saw it on the Capella website and was going to purchase some. Can you give me any mixing tips such as what ratios are best with PG/VG. I have my 2nd batch steeping, my 1st batch had little to no flavour but loads of cloud and just a nice throat hit. I changed to 70pg/30vg for 2nd batch cos I read that the pg carries the flavour better, the rest is 12mg nic and 20% flavour from capella, cheers

H

 

[BD1]

Hey there, I'm new to mixing and vaping, can I ask what fruits are in the dragon flavour? I saw it on the Capella website and was going to purchase some. Can you give me any mixing tips such as what ratios are best with PG/VG. I have my 2nd batch steeping, my 1st batch had little to no flavour but loads of cloud and just a nice throat hit. I changed to 70pg/30vg for 2nd batch cos I read that the pg carries the flavour better, the rest is 12mg nic and 20% flavour from capella, cheers

H

Dragon Fruit is an actual fruit, and the flavouring is a concentrate of that. It's often referred to as 'Pitaya'

I find that 50/50 VG/PG gives a good balance of flavour and throat hit. More PG = more flavour and more throat hit.

I'm not sure how much Capella Dragon Fruit you should use as the one i use is Inawera, and capella are typically weaker than this.

I'd suggest mixing up 10ml batches of your dragon fruit and increase the flavour % each time until you get the required taste.


After that it's a case or working out if you like it or not, could it be enhanced with another flavour? In my mixture i found the Dragonfruit to be overpowering at the amount i used, i haven't been back to this mixture since and tweaked it further, but i'd perhaps reduce the amount of dragon fruit i used and possibly look to compliment it with a citrus or maybe apple would be a better fit (apple works well with caramel, apple also works well with custard (apple pie and custard?) So adding apple i'm thinking that the dragon fruit component won't be as fatiguing/in my face, it'll be akin to adding a little bit of rhubarb to an apple crumble, you can still taste the apples but the rhubarb makes it a little different.

It's good to think of your mixes like perhaps a perfume maker would. Base notes, Middle notes and Top notes.

In this case Vanilla Custard + Caramel would be the base note, Dragon Fruit would be the top note, and to round it out i think Apple could be the missing middle note.

Apple can also be a top note in some mixes. Depends on how sharp/prominent the apple is.

Top notes should be used sparingly.

 

[chiefkaiser]

Cheers for that reply mate, very very helpful, I think I know what I did wrong with the 1st batch, the calculator said 20 drops = 1ml so I just went by that and dropped in 20 drops of flavour, did bit research yesterday and a lot of people saying 1ml could range from 25 to 40 drops and I downloaded a diff calculator and that 1 said 40 drops to 1ml, I'm just doing 5ml batches till I have a success, I added more flavour on Fri evening to bring them up to 40 drops and going to leave them steep away till Tuesday, hopefully will get good flavour coming through then, sound again for tips, cheers, Keith

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[BD1]

Cheers for that reply mate, very very helpful, I think I know what I did wrong with the 1st batch, the calculator said 20 drops = 1ml so I just went by that and dropped in 20 drops of flavour, did bit research yesterday and a lot of people saying 1ml could range from 25 to 40 drops and I downloaded a diff calculator and that 1 said 40 drops to 1ml, I'm just doing 5ml batches till I have a success, I added more flavour on Fri evening to bring them up to 40 drops and going to leave them steep away till Tuesday, hopefully will get good flavour coming through then, sound again for tips, cheers, Keith

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I'd get yourself a good set of syringes and measure concentrates in ml.

With drops, no 2 drops are the same, depends on nozzle size, juice viscosity / surface tension can vary from juice to juice, even batch to batch.

ml are near enough exact, every single time.

Annoys me when i google a concentrate to find out what percentage people are using and they're all talking in drops.

 

[Loco]

I mixed up some capella dragonfruit yesterday with a hint of banana.

Agree 100% with the OP regarding its strength, it seems it can easily dominate to flavour of a mix.

Dragonfruit packs a punch.

 

[Chegs]

I have some cactus concentrate as when I went researching Dragonfruits,they said it was Pitaya which is the fruit from a cactus.I mixed some cactus with kiwi & the result was nice,but I found it gives me a stonking headache so I'll just use it in any bottles I'm asked to make for a couple of mates.