1st cautious DIM juice

[bigbells]

My first DIM attempt:

2ml 100mg/ml unflavored nic juice (.2ml nicotine with 1.8ml PG)
PLUS
6ml VG (yielding 8ml of 25mg/ml unflavored nic juice with a 77/23 VG to PG ratio)
PLUS
6 drops TFA Black Honey Tobacco

Unsteeped, the very small amount of flavoring is very weak when vaped. But I've read too many tales of over-flavored mixes and since it's tolerable as is, I'll see if steeping increases the flavor element before I add more. I can tolerate unflavored juice and have the naturally cautious nature of an oldest child (except, of course, when it comes to those things my siblings run away from, lol.)

 

[Hoosier]

Nah, very weak, I'd add more flavoring right away.

If it was kinda weak, I'd let is sit and see if anything happens.

Glad to see you've taken the plunge!

 

[bigbells]

Added 4 more drops of the same flavoring. 10 drops now in the existing 7.7ml of remaining liquid, for a flavoring addition of approximately 4%. Thanks, Hoosier. Go Duke!

 

[kwalka]

Welcome to ECF!

I just (literally 10 mins ago) mixed up some 0 nic tobacco. My first attempt at DIY. It is 20% flav in a 50/50 pg/vg blend. It's excellent. I've been vaping since my join date and always wanted to diy. When I think about the amount of $ I spent on juice its crazy not to mix.

 

[Hoosier]

Thanks, Hoosier. Go Duke!

The dance is starting soon, bet you can guess who I'm rooting for. Should be a great tourney.

 

[bigbells]

The dance is starting soon, bet you can guess who I'm rooting for. Should be a great tourney.

You're a Boilermaker fan if I recall correctly, who masquerades as a Hoosier whenever Purdue is out of it, lol. My Scarlet Knights won't make it to the dance either. I've been in NC for 25 years now but grew up in Joisey. As a non-native North Carolinian*, I'm allowed to switch my allegiance to the Tarheels if they should outlast the Blue Devils. Natives are prohibited, by law I believe, from rooting for more than one ACC team in the state.

I'm really pleased with my first DIM, after a little steeping. I dare say it's as good as anything I've bought. It's also very very smooth, and leaves my tongue feeling like it's coated with honey.

The fact that it's milder in flavor than most of what I've tried is for me a plus. I'd make me a big batch if I didn't have a year's worth of pre-made juice to go through first. I'm fortunate in that my taste buds aren't super-picky about what to vape. There's nothing that I've tried yet that I find to be terrible, even though it will take a good long time for me to get through the sweeter-tasting stuff that I've got like banana cream and cinnamon roll.

By the way, Hoosier, your blog about flavoring levels should be required reading for all new DIYers. I doubt I would have gone overboard, but reading that blog made SURE that I wouldn't. I'm lucky that I like "plain juice" because that means I can never have too little flavoring, just too much flavoring.

*I can fool people up Nawth into thinking I'm from the South, but nobody from here would ever be fooled. You want to know how much the good people of NC love the ex-Yankees who move here? Co-workers, upon hearing that I was going to retire, would ask "so, you gonna move back home once you retire?" Lol.

 

[Hoosier]

You're a Boilermaker fan if I recall correctly, who masquerades as a Hoosier whenever Purdue is out of it, lol.

Actually went to Purdue and got some silly piece of paper before I left, but I wore cream and crimson when IU came to play. I never caught any flak from the other students, but some say that is because I look like Mongo. but I'm pretty sure it was because of the same mental condition that caused them to cheer when the guys in gold make a bucket instead of when the guys in crimson made a bucket which was what the sane people were doing...there was only one sane person in that joint...

Glad to hear your mixing efforts have paid off and it is nice to know that my blog may have helped.

 

[bigbells]

Yesterday I added yet another 5 drops of TFA Black Honey Tobacco to the remaining 7ml of liquid that I had made. It's perfect, smooth and tasty. Did I mention smooth? Almost 80% VG in the mix. I like! No harshness at all but plenty of inahalable vapor.

Just picked up from the PO my 500ml of unflavored 48mg/ml 75/25 VG/PG nic juice from MFS. Hey, mail lady! That box would have fit in my oversized mailbox. You thought it wouldn't and didn't even bring it with you out on the route, right? Love the glass bottle that the nic juice came in! It went straight into the freezer. I also received the 4X 50ml bottles of various flavors of premade (36mg/ml nic) juice that I ordered from an outfit in China. I ordered the juice because of the great price before I discovered the even better prices at Mt Baker Vapors. I will eventually cut both the Chinese and the Mt Baker juice with additional VG to decrease the nic level. I find there is no juice I've tried yet that I mind cutting the flavor level as well, which of course will happen at the same time.

Also ordered 2X 1300mah Spinners. Except for maybe a clearo coil or two, I'm set for the next (approximately) two years. Maybe longer. Dynomite!