Should I use a medium between the two then or start at the beginning percent?
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It depends on recipe and your preference. Letās say we want to make a vanilla milkshake, first ask yourself what that means too you.
How much vanilla you want to taste, or should it be settle etc. Letās say your window is 2% (tasting it mildly) - 5% (vanilla overload, nearly overwhelming) then pick the higher middle for example 3.5-4 for in your face vanilla. If you wanted it settle, start at the beginning of your window or even below.
This is just for the starting recipe tho, adjust after you mixed and vaped it, as well as steeped it.
If you wanted it fully precise, you would have to mix multiple bottles of that single flavor at different percentage, starting at 0.5% and up lol.
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i copied and pasted the title from a pm
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No idea - Looks like it was inputted like that?
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IMO and experiance there is No way commercial juice taste better than a good DIY recipe so give me 5 commercial juices you like and a couple weeks ( not including steep time ) and ill make you some juice similar. to the ones you like , Just to show you the potential of DIY
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yes it was ur right
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This place is not as cheap as DIYā¦
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If youāre looking for commercial juice, Iāve really liked what Iāve gotten from TBD Liquids. Before I started making my own, they were my go-to(The other shop I used has closed down in the wake of the looming FDA regs) While TBD isnāt the most expensive juice on the market, itās not budget-priced like VapeWild. It is, however, some of the tastiest juice Iāve ever vaped in the four years that Iāve been off of tobacco.
If TBD Liquids is too expensive for your needs, Iāve enjoyed the juices Iāve gotten from Blue Dot Vapors. Oasis Vapor is another in the āBudget-Friendlyā price range and Iāve heard both positive and negative about their juice but I havenāt tried them. If my memory serves they do a deep discount on Tuesdays(Canāt recall the code) but if you order on Tuesday expect your package to take a little while as they do get slammed.
On a final note, if you havenāt checked /r/ecrās inexpensive vendor list, give that a look. Someone over on redditās e-cigarette sub put this list together a while back. I think it gets updated on a semi-regular basis, and it should also contain any and all discount codes for the specific vendors. Check it out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronic_cigarette/wiki/inexpensive_juice
If you find something on that list that tempts your wallet and your taste buds, donāt forget to check out the juice makers and the specific juices on www.juicedb.com If youāve never been there before, itās a user-driven review site for e-liquids. The builders/moderators over at juicedb really make an effort to ensure that reviews are posted BY users and not hapless fuckwits shilling juices for freebies.
Sorry for the wall Oā text, but hopefully something in there will help you out. Donāt toss all your DIY gear yet! Maybe get some juices to tide you over while you figure out what is going awry with your attempts? Hereās to happier taste buds-Cheers!
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Because they send you old juice and you may only like 50% of what they send you. Imo itās not a good deal when half isnāt what you want. Just my thought.
But thatās me. I have very high standards and part of why I jumped into diy. I mix for me and I am very picky.
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Have they dropped the ball that much then? Iāve only heard good things about them so farā¦
Obviously youāre not going to love every single juice they send, but you can dial down on flavor profiles so you should get something vapable most of the time.
Iāve seen interviews with the owner who says they have to reject a lot of ejuice from suppliers because they donāt meet their high standards and what they sell is what they have tested and approved themselves.
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Does zamplebox have good juice? With powerful good flavors? Every online vape shop Iāve tried (which is only Vapewild and Mt Baker) have no flavor whatsoever.
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Yea I canāt see spending over $50 on juice you have no clue what itās going to be with zamplebox.
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They send premium e-liquids as āsamplesā for a fraction of the regular retail price. So every time you get a different set of e-juices. You can set up your preferences so that they e.g. only send you bakery/desert juices and exclude menthol and tobacco, so the chances that you really donāt like something is greatly reduced.
There are several options for size of your order that you can select.
Multiple youtube channels do reviews about them so check them out.
You could argue that you ānever know what youāre going to getāā¦ but if you order other e-liquid online that you havenāt tried, is that so much different? Iāve bought for about Ā£200 of commercial e-liquid when I started vaping. There were maybe 2 30ml bottles that I really likedā¦ and thatās what pushed me to DIY. Sure you can have bad experienced with DIY but itās no different with commercial e-liquid.
The difference is that with commercical e-liquid, when a juice is badā¦ you throw it out. With DIY if a recipe is bad, you might still make another good recipe with the remaining of the same flavor concentrates.
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Ah you guys are pushing me to DIY! I love how hardcore you DIYers are!! Iām looking at zamplebox but they say you can choose 1/3 of your flavors but Iām not seeing how to do that. They also arenāt showing me if I can choose my PG/VG ratio.
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You set your flavor preferences. Candy fruit custard tobacco etc.
Matt from smm and ruby roo and Sophie vapes all on YouTube do semi regular sample box videos on YouTube. Check them out. Do your research.
On the side note. Yes. Diy can be tough at the startā¦but just like above research and reading is key. Your going to mix some bad mixes. Your going to screw up by skippping a step like not shaking your concentrate prior to dispensing. Mixing some random ā5 starā recipe hoping itās the best and finding that it doesnāt float your boat. But the more you read, the more testing you do the better.
Hell I mixed up three cornbreading pudding mixes and 2 of the 3 has promise. Right now I am vaping through the 3rd thatās not super great to get the nuances of what went right and wrong. But this third mix isnāt great and would rather dump itā¦but vaping through 15mls isnāt that much and I will learn sooo much.
Here is my mix session today. All planned, all researched and two mixed on the fly while mixingā¦but I did that with 2 years of practice.
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Well I still need a vendor with good flavorful juices even if I do try to DIY, which I donāt know if I will.
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Youāre probably going to have more luck going in a shop and asking / trying different juices.
Every shop has good and bad juices (taste is subjective) and juices that have strong, mild or weak flavor. A lot depends on your equipment as well.
Yesterday Iāve vaped a kind of regular juice on 3 different atomizers and I got 3 very different strengths in flavor (and different notes from flavors too).
Sounds to me that you have to look for decent equipment that is satisfying to you, a good vendor who will let you try a couple juices before buying, buy a juice that youāre happy with (maybe find an online source where you could purchase it cheaper) and lastly, donāt give up on DIY 
But if youāre really having so many issues with flavors that are too weak, it sounds like you donāt have great equipment.
What are you vaping on anyways?
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Sirius vape with tobacco super mini. But i had another vape I donāt remember what it was but I had the same issue with flavor. Problem with vape stores are they are so expensive. I tried one out and got 60ml of a juice I tested, I told the lady it tasted weak and she said āoh no thatās the tester, it wonāt be like that in the ejuiceā. Well, spent $25 and the juice sucked.
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