I’ve been mixing flavors at the mfg’s recommenced %'s. Bought a bottle of 1 shot, 12% Nic. Added Malted milk, Milk chocolate and sweetener.
Taste is there on flavor, but still harsh as hell! And I mean taste is GREAT, I mean it’s right where I want it.
I mean I’m still hacking up a lung! Could 12% NIC really be too much a apposed to 3%?
Next question: I’ve been running 65/35 PG/VG, or 60/30 PG/VG. Could the ration pf PG/VG have an effect on the throat hit?
That’s too much PG to VG, you shouldnt go beyond 40pg / 60vg in sub ohm. So, no 50/50 either. I take that back, I just realized I made a 50/50 tobacco flavor and it’s really nice, not harsh. I use very low nic though. I’ve heard that high PG is really harsh. It’s much more thin, meant for pods and other MTL devices.
Yes @PaulyWalnuts, it could be. How are you vaping that. Direct to lung, or MTL ??
I personally vape 12mg for MTL only, and my DTL is always 3mg.
12 percent nicotine would be ok if you were vaping on a lower powered pod but your not if I remember right. You can cut the nicotine in half to 6 percent and your mix to 70 percent VG 30 percent PG . Remember that you can always vape more if you feel you need more nicotine. It will allow you to not cough a lung up and still fulfill your nicotine need. It’s like smoking multiple cigars in a day rather than smoking multiple cigars at one time.
Find your own PG/VG ratio. After 9 years of vaping I’ve learned that one needs to trust one’s judgement and use other’s opinions judicially.
65/35 PG/VG
Got that backwards. 65/35 or 60/30 VG/PG.
Tried MTL first as a precaution 
Didn’t dare go DTL!
Bought that nic fill a while back when I knew even less than I do now. And after I filled the tank, the nipple on the bottle didn’t want to come out. Whataya gonna do, uh? Pull harder, what else? 'Nuff said?
I do have 3 bottles at 3 mg nic with recommended %'s per the flavor database, getting happy.
@PaulyWalnuts where did you get the NIC from, and can you take a pic of the bottle ? How are you storing it ?
I got if from a local shop, before you explained I need 100mg nic to mix my recipes. I had asked for nic so that I could make my own at 12 mg. I didn’t know what I was talking about, so she didn’t know what I was talking about. Nor do I think she knew exactly what she was doing. I feel like there should have been more questions.
IF I recall, the box said I needed to only add 30 ml of flavor. Sorry, RAM’s failing me on this one. I often forget to make notes, so I don’t forget things.
I added 8 ml each of milk chocolate, malted milk and Nougat and 6 ml sweetener. That’s IF I remember correctly. Actually, from what little I could taste, it wasn’t bad.That was JUST before you taught me about getting avg. flavor %'s from the flavor database.
I don’t recall the PG/VG ratio, and I tossed the bottle so, no pics.
I have a cheap Sauders cabinet in my garage. One of those 6’ tall, by 30" wide jobs, with doors on the front. Garage stays around 72 degrees in the winter, and 75 in the summer. I keep the doors closed. But it was there for only 2 weeks.
Here’s an example of one I have getting happy now. The calculator says I don’t have the milk chocolate in my stash, but it IS TFA, but it’s DX. Whatever the foxtrot that is.
And won’t somebody ask me what the “Coglione” is about? You seem to forget: I think I’m funny.
What’s coglione? Lol
Well, you know I love all things Sopranos, right? As a matter of fact, that was the impetus of us going to Italy for 3 weeks, many years ago.
It’s Italian slang for testicles. Means, idiot, fucker, ass hole, dumb shit, dick head… Kinda insulting, I think.
Hah! That’s funny. I’m part Italian, never been exposed to any Italian culture though, aside from some cooking. My grandmother on my dad’s side moved to USA as a child, and she stopped speaking Italian. Never met my Italian great grandparents, great grandfather died in his 50s. Only really ever saw grandma when I was a kid, never would have guessed she was Italian by the way she spoke. I wish I could have spent more time with them.