Best cotton

[r055co]

For me, the best cotton isn't cotton - it's rayon. Five hundred feet cost about $15 at Sally Beauty Supply. Each six-inch piece makes seven or eight wicks, doesn't burn easily and has very little taste other than from your juice. Of course, this post could start a whole 'nother argument!

I can't stand Rayon, it does have a nasty taste and it gives me a nasty dry throat. Plus if you happen to get dry hit it's the nastiest vomit inducing experience ever.

As to the point that is it lasts longer than Cotton my coils need to be cleaned long before Koh gen Do starts to break down.

Bottom line though is what ever works for someone that's really all that matters. I believe that the huge amount of options is why vaping is so successful.

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[vapdivrr]

I can't stand Rayon, it does have a nasty taste and it gives me a nasty dry throat. Plus if you happen to get dry hit it's the nastiest vomit inducing experience ever.

As to the point that is it lasts longer than Cotton my coils need to be cleaned long before Koh gen Do starts to break down.

Bottom line though is what ever works for someone that's really all that matters. I believe that the huge amount of options is why vaping is so successful.

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Either you have some rank rayon or your simply not wicking correctly. ...there is no way possible that you should be tasting anything nasty from rayon, period. Now if you said you like both rayon and cotton, but prefer cotton slightly better, then I could possibly see that, but if your getting a dry nasty taste, something is not right. A properly wicked coil with proper rayon should be very neutral and not much different in flavor to cotton.

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[Robino1]

Either you have some rank rayon or your simply not wicking correctly. ...there is no way possible that you should be tasting anything nasty from rayon, period. Now if you said you like both rayon and cotton, but prefer cotton slightly better, then I could possibly see that, but if your getting a dry nasty taste, something is not right. A properly wicked coil with proper rayon should be very neutral and not much different in flavor to cotton.

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I taste the rayon. I also taste cotton. There is always a break in period for me.

 

[r055co]

Either you have some rank rayon or your simply not wicking correctly. ...there is no way possible that you should be tasting anything nasty from rayon, period. Now if you said you like both rayon and cotton, but prefer cotton slightly better, then I could possibly see that, but if your getting a dry nasty taste, something is not right. A properly wicked coil with proper rayon should be very neutral and not much different in flavor to cotton.

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Sally's Beauty Supply, was wicked properly.I I'm not the only one that thinks Rayon tastes like $! £ and gets a dry scratchy throat from it. For me Koh gen Do has a neutral flavor and has excellent wicking properties.

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[Taryn32]

HI. Best cotton which isn't giving the aftertaste of the cotton and is very durable?

I love native wicks cotton

 

[BlueMoods]

Best I've found is local cotton. It is grown near me and, if I ask, any farmer will sell me a gallon bag of cotton balls I pick myself for 5.00 - that's a lot of cotton. I have two organic farms I go to. Simple, just cotton, noting added or removed. Okay I have to pick a few bits of plant leaves and such out myself, no big deal- it's good cotton.

 

[vapdivrr]

Sally's Beauty Supply, was wicked properly.I I'm not the only one that thinks Rayon tastes like $! £ and gets a dry scratchy throat from it. For me Koh gen Do has a neutral flavor and has excellent wicking properties.

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I hear people say this cotton tastes so much better then this one, or rayon taste so much better then this or that. I have used a dozen different types of wicking materials and if wicked properly they are close. I garranty if multiple exact tanks were wicked properly with various cottons and rayon, all with the same juice, 99 percent would never know which were which in a blind taste test. I'm not saying that there aren't subtle difference in flavor between cottons but for one to taste terrible or really nasty has to be a fault of some sort.

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[vapdivrr]

I taste the rayon. I also taste cotton. There is always a break in period for me.

Yes I agree that there is a certain taste to each if you really think about it but for one to be really horrible, I think somethings wrong. Yes I prefer rayon but I still like cotton and imo the differences aren't that much. The only time I have ever tasted a wicking material being really bad, it was a bad wick job or something I didn't do correctly

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[vapdivrr]

Best I've found is local cotton. It is grown near me and, if I ask, any farmer will sell me a gallon bag of cotton balls I pick myself for 5.00 - that's a lot of cotton. I have two organic farms I go to. Simple, just cotton, noting added or removed. Okay I have to pick a few bits of plant leaves and such out myself, no big deal- it's good cotton.

That's so cool! Pick your own, that's awesome

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[Tonee N]

That's so cool! Pick your own, that's awesome

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But shipping takes forever![emoji1]

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[Imfallen_Angel]

I've used various pads, and Bacon V2 (and other stuff too), and it's more about the wick I'm doing that I'll pick which one I use... as long as it's clean, organic and such, the break-in period is just a few minutes of vaping, and I never see a difference...

I just think that it's got more to do with the technique used to wick correctly than anything else.

If I go with many YouTube videos I've seen with "experts" that even I can say that many are horrible at wicking, it means that anyone can wick so that it works "well enough", but are not really that great at doing it absolutely "correct".

 

[David Wolf]

I like Cotton Bacon V2. It's easier to work with for me and no break in, I just pull loose a piece the width I want and gently roll and pull to the diameter I want. The organic Japanese cotton sheets to me have a taste until they break in and harder for me to work with. Cotton Bacon is fluffier.
Others will tell you the opposite so cotton is a matter of taste like juice

 

[David Wolf]

I hear people say this cotton tastes so much better then this one, or rayon taste so much better then this or that. I have used a dozen different types of wicking materials and if wicked properly they are close. I garranty if multiple exact tanks were wicked properly with various cottons and rayon, all with the same juice, 99 percent would never know which were which in a blind taste test. I'm not saying that there aren't subtle difference in flavor between cottons but for one to taste terrible or really nasty has to be a fault of some sort.

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I could taste the difference between KGD and Cotton Bacon V2 blindfolded the juices we vape may be a factor in what we can taste, my diy is lightly flavored except for my NETs.

 

[BlueMoods]

I can taste the difference between what I normally use and Cotton Bacon, or any other, feel and see the difference in how it wicks too. My raw cotton wicks faster than any purchased, pre cleaned cotton I've tried. You can buy balls of organic cotton on the stem at a few places. I will warn you to be very careful about removing every last bit of plant stem and leaf - it is dry and, even in juice, it burns easily - give you a burnt weeds flavor that is not pleasant unless you actually want the flavor of burning tobacco and, are using a tobacco flavored juice then, you may want to consider cotton stems as a wick (No do NOT do that, it's a joke.)

Cotton is a natural fiber, it's going to have a faint taste of it's own, where it was grown, how it was grown and, processed all makes a difference. The trick is to find what works with your flavors or, is undetectable to you. Taste is subjective so, you may not like my cotton and, I may not like yours.

 

[Tonee N]

I can taste the difference between what I normally use and Cotton Bacon, or any other, feel and see the difference in how it wicks too. My raw cotton wicks faster than any purchased, pre cleaned cotton I've tried. You can buy balls of organic cotton on the stem at a few places. I will warn you to be very careful about removing every last bit of plant stem and leaf - it is dry and, even in juice, it burns easily - give you a burnt weeds flavor that is not pleasant unless you actually want the flavor of burning tobacco and, are using a tobacco flavored juice then, you may want to consider cotton stems as a wick [emoji14] (No do NOT do that, it's a joke.)

Cotton is a natural fiber, it's going to have a faint taste of it's own, where it was grown, how it was grown and, processed all makes a difference. The trick is to find what works with your flavors or, is undetectable to you. Taste is subjective so, you may not like my cotton and, I may not like yours.

So when are you going to start selling it?[emoji1]

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[BlueMoods]

You may want to contact some of the organic cotton farms in both Texas and Arkansas, see if you can get a deal from them. Organic green, or raw cotton is also for sale on Etsy, Amazon and, a few places online but, it's far more expensive (3-10 USD for 10 heads or cotton balls) Each ball is about 7-10 wicks, so not too bad but, more than getting it direct from a farm.

I prefer brown or ripe cotton but, green cotton is good too. Brown is drier, the texture is like commercially available cotton balls. Green heads are more compact, a bit more firm to the touch and, more often have a "green" flavor, as if someone put parsley in your juice. (very light but, often the flavor is there.)

 

[frosc]

Cotton Bacon V2 for me, short break in period, very easy to work with. I'll probably gonna try Kendo or KGD next.
but as others have stated, taste is subjective, what works for me wont necessarily works for others.

 

[Eskie]

Best I've found is local cotton. It is grown near me and, if I ask, any farmer will sell me a gallon bag of cotton balls I pick myself for 5.00 - that's a lot of cotton. I have two organic farms I go to. Simple, just cotton, noting added or removed. Okay I have to pick a few bits of plant leaves and such out myself, no big deal- it's good cotton.

OK, you win the award as the ultimate in DIY vaper.

 

[Imfallen_Angel]

OK, you win the award as the ultimate in DIY vaper.

He's still missing the work next to a metal mining and can smelt his own wire medal ... hehehe.

 

[Asbestos4004]

I like Muji. I have 499.5 ft of Rayon taking up a bit of space if anyone wants to come get it. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. Vape wise, I didn't see a huge difference....but I know I don't like working with it very much.