Our local go-to vape shop sells all their juice made-to-order as 100% vegetable glycerine (plus flavoring and nic of course) and no PG, unless requested (50vg/50pg $1 upcharge)...but all these juices i see online for the most part are primarily PG. i am very familiar with the properties of each.
pg = water thin, stronger TH, allows more of the added flavor to show...vg = syrup thick, more vapor, naturally sweet on its own...etc etc
now, practically all of the hundreds of ml ive puffed in my early but rapid vaping career, with the exeption of one 30ml of 50/50 has been all VG. ive vaped it in pretty much all available heating elements i know to exist, i.e. filler-based and wick-based cartos, top coils, bottom coiled kanger t3's...etc etc all at different wattage's. i mean... yeah the juice into cartos indeed fill uncomfortably slow and the juice doesnt climb the wicks in CE4's and nova-type clearos fast enough, but a horizontal handling while taking a whack cures what ails it (i hate those things anyway)
...but aside from that, ive had virtually no random dry hits, or ever a lack of OOMPH when I need to "hit the spot"...yet ive noticed practically all online vendors, excluding Alien Visions with their Gorilla Juice and their notorious, enigmatic, "favorite or hate it" Bobas Bounty (both PG-free), use greater majority PG in their blends. I read people talking about their preferred VG/PG ratios, and practically never is the VG more than PG. even the arguably most well known Youtube reviewer said that the only practical realistic way to vape all VG is to drip it on an atty, due to its supposed inability to wick.
Of the one bottle i did have with 50%/50%, it of course was quite thin in comparison to what i was used to, but it had a faint chemical taste, of course to be expected, but after 3 days of open air aging, became very prominent and made the consistently incredible flavor very difficult to enjoy.
So my question to you all: Why is the general notion that PG-free juice seems to be non-ideal? Its all i vape, and its working phenomenal for me. The taste is all there, its gives milky clouds, and has a firm throat hit that is likely to satisfy all. It just does all the things juice needs to, quite well too, so is not all Vegetable Glycerin created equal? Or is it possible my shop uses more flavor concentrate in their recipes to up the viscoscity? And has anyone out there spent some vapetime with 100% VG and has some input to share?
pg = water thin, stronger TH, allows more of the added flavor to show...vg = syrup thick, more vapor, naturally sweet on its own...etc etc
now, practically all of the hundreds of ml ive puffed in my early but rapid vaping career, with the exeption of one 30ml of 50/50 has been all VG. ive vaped it in pretty much all available heating elements i know to exist, i.e. filler-based and wick-based cartos, top coils, bottom coiled kanger t3's...etc etc all at different wattage's. i mean... yeah the juice into cartos indeed fill uncomfortably slow and the juice doesnt climb the wicks in CE4's and nova-type clearos fast enough, but a horizontal handling while taking a whack cures what ails it (i hate those things anyway)
...but aside from that, ive had virtually no random dry hits, or ever a lack of OOMPH when I need to "hit the spot"...yet ive noticed practically all online vendors, excluding Alien Visions with their Gorilla Juice and their notorious, enigmatic, "favorite or hate it" Bobas Bounty (both PG-free), use greater majority PG in their blends. I read people talking about their preferred VG/PG ratios, and practically never is the VG more than PG. even the arguably most well known Youtube reviewer said that the only practical realistic way to vape all VG is to drip it on an atty, due to its supposed inability to wick.
Of the one bottle i did have with 50%/50%, it of course was quite thin in comparison to what i was used to, but it had a faint chemical taste, of course to be expected, but after 3 days of open air aging, became very prominent and made the consistently incredible flavor very difficult to enjoy.
So my question to you all: Why is the general notion that PG-free juice seems to be non-ideal? Its all i vape, and its working phenomenal for me. The taste is all there, its gives milky clouds, and has a firm throat hit that is likely to satisfy all. It just does all the things juice needs to, quite well too, so is not all Vegetable Glycerin created equal? Or is it possible my shop uses more flavor concentrate in their recipes to up the viscoscity? And has anyone out there spent some vapetime with 100% VG and has some input to share?
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Regardless of the price I'd be much happier with some stuff manufactured here and would be willing to pay a premium. I always wash my tanks and wicks in PGA before using them.
