I've seen several recipes that I want to try to create but they always seem to be VG/PG ratios in the 50/50 to 60/40 range. I really want something around 80/20 but of course with the same flavor intensity. Is that possible by adding more flavoring or would it create an off taste?
Adjusting flavor for higher VG e-liquid
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I generally add flavouring in the proportion I have VG over 50/50, for example if I use 100% VG base I add 50% more flavouring.
Naturally this doesn't always work, so my advice is to start adding more flavouring slowly testing your liquid every time until it feels right.
Naturally this doesn't always work, so my advice is to start adding more flavouring slowly testing your liquid every time until it feels right.
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That is what I'm thinking about. The PG has a certain amount flavor carrying capacity and beyond its ability to absorb what happens? Would I have a supersaturated solution that ultimately tastes off?
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I always hear that high VG juices need more flavor, but I haven't seen it to be true. I have made some of the same mixes at 50, 60, 70, and 80% VG and never noticed a difference except that some flavors need to steep longer when they are in a high VG mix. If your juice is 15% flavor, it's 15% flavor. It just might take a lil longer to soak in to VG because of it's viscosity. Just my 
though.
though.Hans I think that's why ppl up the flavor so doesn't have to steep as long. But thats just my thoughts on it.
I always believed vg had the same capacity to carry flavors as pg but recently changed my mind. The reason I did was because I tried a liquid I had made 6 months ago with vg and water and forgotten about it. Tried it last week, and the flavor was seriously muted. Part of it could have been the high 15% water content, but I am sure the lack of pg was also a factor.
That's sounds right to me. If the VG is essentially inert then the PG and PG based flavors are the only chemicals that are volatile, and they should eventually spread out evenly through out the mix either through heat or vibration. So the question is with extra flavor added will it take longer to steep and with correspondingly bigger flavor even at high VG levels?
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I have never found that max VG juice needs more flavoring percentages; it just needs more steeping time, IMO. Once it is fully steeped, it should be slightly sweeter, smoother and with denser vapor than the same recipe mixed 50PG/50VG. Just my experience. 
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