DIY Is Great But........

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WharfRat1976

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Well, the vendors started out as diyers too, so you supporting them fine...if I had a juice business, I'd be glad people doing diy liked my mixes enough to still buy on occasion a good thing. I like many of my mixes more, I like the art of mixing and figuring out a mix to suit my tastes..if I'm lazy or trying to get close to cloning something I'll buy on occasion. I just really like the custom modification you can get from diy...I do diy much more than buy, but as most things it's a just a personal choice....ahlusion juices sort of beyond my level of diy...my vendor weakness I suppose
Yes, Ahlusion juice is ridiculously good. Another bad weak spot. I have 2 large "green bottles" in deep deep steep. I pull some out every now and again. How do they do it?!
 

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I keep all my mixes in Evernote. Just switch back and forth from my juice calculator to Evernote and back again. I have developed a solid Crunchberry, a decent custard, a number of RY4 tobacco things, 1 or 2 strawberry, some peanut butter juices as well as flavorless vapes. If I could not buy commercial juice I would survive. My return on my diy investment has been lax I guess is what I am saying. Yea, I need to work harder at it as was recommended.
 

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outside of proprietary extracts, there is no flavoring used in any commercial juice that you can't buy. Except maybe Halo. I always felt they had an in house flavor chemist that made their own flavors.

It's exactly like cooking. My tortas are better than any taqueria so I don't buy tortas when I get take out. My pozole is better than any taqueria, with the exception of one. I still go buy their pozole on the weekends because it has some magical secret ingredient that makes it more fragrant and more complex than any bowl of pozole I've had elsewhere. My pozole is almost as good, but I still crave theirs.
 

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It depends on how hard you work at it. You need to perfect a mix and not just mix a flavor once and decide it's no good and go on to the next. I vaped halo prime 15 exclusively and then perfected my own clone and recently vaped prime 15 and found I prefer my own far better. SInce then I've come up with many mixes and prefer them all to commercial juice. Those that mix commercial juices started out just like you. The difference is they worked putting a lot of time and effort into perfecting them.


Superb post and very true , thanks for blowing up the commercial juices are always better myth .
 

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All of that^

Example:

I've been on-and-off working on a banana pudding that tastes like what my mother made when I was young. I've gone through A LOT of flavorings over the passed few months and am just now getting it dialed in. It never turned out bad, but was always missing something.

Keep at it and you'll figure it out.

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It depends on how hard you work at it. You need to perfect a mix and not just mix a flavor once and decide it's no good and go on to the next. I vaped halo prime 15 exclusively and then perfected my own clone and recently vaped prime 15 and found I prefer my own far better. SInce then I've come up with many mixes and prefer them all to commercial juice. Those that mix commercial juices started out just like you. The difference is they worked putting a lot of time and effort into perfecting them.

TFW Danny!

I have dumped liters down the drain. I have had juices that have been in beta for over a year before I finished tweaking. I have some that have never come out but I keep going at them (pumpkin-I will own you one day!). No one becomes a chef in one day and they have schools and tv shows and books and every thing else for cooking!

There are many many stand alone mixes out there that if you just want to save money, work awesome. There is nothing wrong with that what so ever. But, if you want your juice to stand out or to be able to reproduce with some accuracy, it takes a ton of experimentation, failure and eventually success.
 

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I've mixed and labeled over 150 juices...maybe more. I have test vaped more.

Nothing comes close to commercial juices. The commercial juices I am addicted to. The Milkman, The OB, Tribeca, Churios, most Steam Factory juices.

I just wanted to go on the record.

Those commercial recipes were made by mixologist that spent months working on just one recipe, can you reproduce them ? well in my quest I have sometimes come up with something even better by accident, of course making your own NET's help ..............
 
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