DIY Noob
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Oh thank goodness I've searched all over for VG and the pharmacist said this product was PG
pretty good stuff. I thin mine some with distilled water when I use that brand @ 10%.
I have yet to order PG so I'm going to use distilled water to avoid my Carto from getting clogged
Is that a plastic bottle?
The one I get is in a dark glass bottle; white plastic cap.
The one I get is in a dark glass bottle; white plastic cap.
That is VG, or vegetable glycerin. maybe I am wrong but I believe you call base to the mix with nicotine that you purchase to make your liquid, for instance "VG base" (nicotine diluted in vg), PG base (diluted in PG) or VG/PG base (nicotine diluted in a mix of pg and vg).
What you have is a perfectly good vegetable glycerine. Sorry if I am wrong on the above, my liquids are DIY but I am not an expert.
What you have is a perfectly good vegetable glycerine. Sorry if I am wrong on the above, my liquids are DIY but I am not an expert.
It is a plastic bottle...found it at walmart..... question though....doesn't PG give the TH?
PG is one factor of throat hit but the biggest factor is NIC. Some flavors will provide additional TH.
I don't think my 6mg of nic gives me the throat hit I'm lookin for...but I wanted to go lower on mg of nic with vendors hoping the flavors would pop more..
If juice tastes better with lower nic levels, it usually means their nic base sucks.
I've been DIY juice a long time and have yet to find my juice tastes any different at different nicotine levels. (TH is directly impacted though, which is what is should be.)
I've been DIY juice a long time and have yet to find my juice tastes any different at different nicotine levels. (TH is directly impacted though, which is what is should be.)
In short, for the same mg strength nic, the 70%PG liquid will give harder th than the 70%VG liquid.
Between PG and VG, the PG is much thinner than VG, and vaporises faster.
Higher PG liquid will vaporise faster and whatever nic level you are vaping at, the higher PG is going to essentially giving you more nic vapor than a high VG liquid.
With VG, you have get it to vaporise faster with more power, but then VG is thicker and more likely to burn.
yes; stronger than 30 PG 70 VG of the same 6mg.
Will vape faster too; and can even vape at higher wattage.
For anyone doing DIY I strongly recommend regardless of what you do with flavors, keep some unflavoured always on hand.
Its a good way of having a baseline to start from.
If you don't like your unflavoured mix then you can't expect to like your flavoured.
Its a good way of having a baseline to start from.
If you don't like your unflavoured mix then you can't expect to like your flavoured.
'Scuse me, Hoosier (and a sucky nic base may very well be one reason juice tastes better with lower nic levels), BUT we have one vendor here who has a nic base already made up, and a flavor base already made up. What they do when they mix juice is add one of those to the 10 ml bottle (eyeballing it), then add the other to fill it up. This means, of course, that the higher nicotine you ask for, the less flavoring they add to dilute it. The less nicotine you ask for, the more flavoring is added. I noticed this pretty quickly last year. I bought a menthol juice in 6mg and later decided I needed to bump up to 12mg for a while. I didn't like the 12mg nearly as well as the 6mg. One day when I was sampling flavors there, a lady came in and asked them, something like..."Does the higher nicotine mean less flavor?" They confirmed this.
Ideally, that isn't the way it's supposed to work, but I guess most people don't notice or don't understand, or whatever...
So I have glycerin, distilled water, root beer Watkins and strawberry Watkins...what's my next step?
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