DIY noob has a supplies question

[thunderbrothers]

I was having problems trying to find a good plain ripe banana flavor, so I thought I would try to DIY my own flavor. I figured this would be a nice simple recipe to learn from.


I'm a little overwhelmed by this, with people saying you need Nic base, PG or VG, and a bunch of other stuff.

I usually vape 24mg pure PG juice. With the two bottles I bought pictured below, the nic is in a 24mg PG base, so I shouldn't need to dilute it, or mix anything else in except flavoring, right? Just 5-15 drops of flavor for every 100 drops of base, steep, and I'm good to go? Or is there something I'm not understanding? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[pamdis]

If you're not worried about the exact concentration of nic, then this will work fine. If you add the entire 15 drops of flavor, your nic level goes down to between 20-21mg.

100/115 = .87
.87 * 24 = 20.88 mg/ml

 

[Wingsfan0310]

If you vape 100% PG juice then that's all you need. I don't usually use drops, I use syringes because different size droppers, different viscosity fluids will produce different amounts. But since it's only PG with a PG based flavor (most are) it should be ok. The only thing to be aware of is as you add flavor, you will lower the Nic %.

EX: if you make a 10ml bottle with 15% flavor. That will be 8.5ml of your 24mg/ml Nic base with 1.5ml of your flavor resulting in 20.4mg/ml Nic.

Cheers,
Steve

 

[thunderbrothers]

Thank you. I thought I ordered the right stuff, but it seemed too simple. I just wanted to make sure.

I did download the juice me program, so I'll get it mixed correctly. I know the mg level will be less than 24, and I'm okay with that.

So theoretically, if I want to mix 50/50, I either need to find 24mg VG base and mix with the PG base, or I need 0mg VG and 48mg PG bases. I doubt I will find 48mg, but if I understand the theoretical, the practical becomes easy

 

[Wingsfan0310]

You seem to have it. Some places will sell the Nic in a 50/50 mix also.

I buy stronger Nic concetration than I want my juice to be, then dilute it with the amount of PG and VG to get to my desired PG/VG ratio and Nic strength with the flavors also accounted for in the e juice me up calculator that I use.

Here's an example: I use 100mg/ml Nic in VG (I don't suggest that high of concentrate until you are comfortable in DIY). So for a 10ml bottle that I want to be 50/50 PG/VG, with 10mg/ml Nic strength, and with 10% PG based flavor. I would add 1ml Nic (that counts towards VG), 1ml flavor (counts towards PG) and 4ml each of plain PG and VG. Hope that makes sense.

Cheers,
Steve

 

[thunderbrothers]

It makes perfect sense, but I'm not ready to get 50+mg nic bases yet. I figured if I can also find 24mg VG base, then I just have to test each bottle once to verify they were labeled correctly as far as nic strength. This way no matter how I combine them, I'll always be at 18-24mg nic depending on flavoring, and I don't have to worry about accidentally poisoning myself...

Thank you for all your help. Now to go shopping for 24mg VG base, a test kit, mixing supplies, and more flavors

 

[Wingsfan0310]

Your welcome and have fun with your DIY.

Cheers,
Steve