DIY people do you make most of your own

[Caro123]

i was just wondering if DIY people make most of their own juice. I am making juice only for me. I am a little reluctant to try too many store bought juices, mostly because the few I have tried are either not very good and I have just wasted $20.00 dollars or I really, really like it and don't want to be spending $25.00 a week on juice. I go through about 30 Mls of juice a week. What do the juice companies know that I don't? Has anyone gotten to a place where they can make all their own juice?

 

[supertrunker]

I make all my own juice and HRH makes all hers. We both like totally different flavours, but the point is that they are our respective all-day vapes.

If you find a liquid you can vape all the time, then you have half won. Plus it's cheaper. I go thru about 20ml a day.

T

 

[Marc411]

Since starting DIY I haven't bought any juice and the liquids I have in my cabinet are getting lonely.

 

[ckquatt]

I haven't bought vendor liquid in a month or two. I'm vaping up my supply of store bought juice (about 700mls or so left) while I perfect some of my recipes. I have 4 fantastic ones so far for ADVs! I haven't made those in bulk yet, just nailing down the recipes. Once I run out of vendor liquid, I'll be making my own full time!

 

[zoiDman]

I haven't bought a Bottle of Retail e-Liquid in Over 4 Years.

So Yeah... I make All my Own.

 

[Caro123]

I would like to support the local lads so I do buy my adv there but the price of making my own is so very much cheaper IF I could just find a couple that I can make that I enjoy. I have about 75 flavours but I have only made one that is possibly tolerable as an adv. the price of my adv is 25.00 and while that is a 1/4 of the cost of a carton of smokes it is still too much at 1200 a year I could take a trip.

 

[Caro123]

I haven't bought a Bottle of Retail e-Liquid in Over 4 Years.

So Yeah... I make All my Own.

how in the world do you do it?

 

[zoiDman]

how in the world do you do it?

When I first Switched to Vaping, there wasn't the Vast Array of Retail flavors that there are Today. And Many of the Retail e-Liquids just Tasted Bad. Lots of Low Quality Nicotine Base was being used.

So Doing DIY that Tasted Better than Most Retail e-Liquids Wasn't Hard. In Fact, it seemed Hard to Not make an e-Liquid that wasn't at Least "Average".

DIY isn't Hard. It just takes Patience. And you have to keep Very Accurate Records of what you do. You also have to be Unafraid to Throw e-Liquids Away that Don't Taste Right. Or Can't be Fixed.

 

[Steamix]

how in the world do you do it?

DIY subforum here - sources for supplies, recipes, plus free apps that do the math for ya. One stop info shop into the world of DIY.

Costwise, DIY can't be beat. Build your own coils too and you looking at reock bottom expenses. Read enough posts of fellow vapers that getting by with eay less than a dollar a day while chainvaping...

Tastewise ... well, I had my share of 'duds' , but that's part of the fun too - finding out for yourself what works and what doesn't. And this is very individual too...

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I buy some cheap tobacco flavored juice but that is all Maybe 30 ML of it for under $10 per month.
I make all of the rest of my juice.
Rebuild all my own coils, etc.

 

[wheelie]

Make all my own. I check juice sites for new recipes everyday. Find one new one about every two weeks with the mixes I have on hand. CHEERS!

 

[Jugband]

I have been DIYing for over a year now. Huge money saver! But there's that one juice, my white whale so help me, I can't crack it. Boba's Bounty! I'm vapeing it right now. It kills me to pay that $$$$$ such a markup. But what are you going to do? If your hooked on that one juice, your hooked

 

[Cullin Kin]

I am now making my all of my own juice! Just like ckquatt, I have a bit of commercial juice remaining while I perfecting some more recipes.

 

[Caro123]

DIY subforum here - sources for supplies, recipes, plus free apps that do the math for ya. One stop info shop into the world of DIY.

Costwise, DIY can't be beat. Build your own coils too and you looking at reock bottom expenses. Read enough posts of fellow vapers that getting by with eay less than a dollar a day while chainvaping...

Tastewise ... well, I had my share of 'duds' , but that's part of the fun too - finding out for yourself what works and what doesn't. And this is very individual too...

thank you I do have an on line calculator that I really like and I have bought the supplies to make my own coils for the dripper and the it'sy bitsy ones for the evod tank top. I didn't have much luck with the nautilaus mini coil. I just can't seem to get a really nice adv that I have made myself- it is close loranns keoke, English toffee and stevia -close but not on par with the one I buy. I am retiring soon and if I can make and vape my own it will be the same as adding an extra 500.00 a month to my pension if I buy the adv I will add 400.00 a month to my pension and next year when the sh.. hits the fan that vendor juice will be 50.00 which means only 300.00 to my pension. I am astonished as anyone could be that I no longer spend 500.00 a month on cigarettes but I can foresee where vaping could become just as costly and I have wasted thousands upon thousands of dollars (40 year smoker at pack a day or better) on smoking and am determined not to continue this into my golden years

 

[zoiDman]

I have been DIYing for over a year now. Huge money saver! But there's that one juice, my white whale so help me, I can't crack it. Boba's Bounty! I'm vapeing it right now. It kills me to pay that $$$$$ such a markup. But what are you going to do? If your hooked on that one juice, your hooked

Don't feel Bad. It took me about 9 Months to Clone TV Tastyfinger.

I could get So Close. And at Times I felt I had all the Flavors Right. Just Couldn't get their Proportions right. And for Weeks I would have all these 15ml Bottles in my "Steeping" drawer labeled TF15, TF14B, TF12C + V, TF13D - AL, etc.

Kinda became an Obsession.

LOL

 

[Cullin Kin]

Don't feel Bad. It took me about 9 Months to Clone TV Tastyfinger.

I could get So Close. And at Times I felt I had all the Flavors Right. Just Couldn't get their Proportions right. And for Weeks I would have all these 15ml Bottles in my "Steeping" drawer labeled TF15, TF14B, TF12C + V, TF13D - AL, etc.

Kinda became an Obsession.

LOL

Ha ha I hear that! I have a juice titled Vanilla Custard Mark 6248... Really though, it has to be the, at least, 100th iteration of a DIY Vanilla Custard I've tried. It's the only juice I can't perfect to my own liking. Vanilla Custards are some of the hardest and I don't understand what companies like NT and CJMR are doing that I'm not.

 

[AndriaD]

i was just wondering if DIY people make most of their own juice. I am making juice only for me. I am a little reluctant to try too many store bought juices, mostly because the few I have tried are either not very good and I have just wasted $20.00 dollars or I really, really like it and don't want to be spending $25.00 a week on juice. I go through about 30 Mls of juice a week. What do the juice companies know that I don't? Has anyone gotten to a place where they can make all their own juice?

Yep, I pretty much make everything I vape. There's only one ejuice I'd still willingly buy, just because I can't seem to reproduce it, Sweet-vapes' Blueberry Muffin... but I still have a little, and haven't vaped any in quite a while, so it's not something I really need. My own strawberry & cream is the best thing I've ever vaped, and my Smocha makes a nice after-meals and early morning vape. I've usually got one or two experiments going on, at any given time; right now, a couple of 5ml testers for a sweet cherry pipe tobacco, and another couple for a cherry soda/Code Red sort of flavor. Both are steeping, because the amount of flavoring is much lower than I've been accustomed to using.

I'm just not going to pay extortionate prices for ejuice, when I can make far better myself. Maybe not everytime -- it's a fairly new pursuit. But I get better, the more I do it.

Andria

 

[Caro123]

I have been DIYing for over a year now. Huge money saver! But there's that one juice, my white whale so help me, I can't crack it. Boba's Bounty! I'm vapeing it right now. It kills me to pay that $$$$$ such a markup. But what are you going to do? If your hooked on that one juice, your hooked

that juice here would cost me 30.00 plus 15 % tax plus shipping I am new to vaping and have not tried too many vendor juices -well I have bought 15 only one of the 15 can I vape all day. those 15 bottles cost me about 20 to 25.00 each this is 300.00 or more in juice in 5 months that I don't like won't use or will need to find a home for. I have saved money on smokes but unless I find the magic elixir on my own I will not be saving money on vaping and while the health benefits may be there, at this stage of the game I would very much like to recoup some of the money I have blown up in smokes

 

[zoiDman]

Ha ha I hear that! I have a juice titled Vanilla Custard Mark 6248... Really though, it has to be the, at least, 100th iteration of a DIY Vanilla Custard I've tried. It's the only juice I can't perfect to my own liking. Vanilla Custards are some of the hardest and I don't understand what companies like NT and CJMR are doing that I'm not.

I know what you Mean.

I could give someone the List of Ingredients for my TastyFinger Clone (which I Won't!) and they Still Couldn't make it without Dozens Trials and the same amount of Errors.

It the Proportions many times that are Illusive.

I know the Owner of a B&M. And I attempted to Clone one of his Mixes. Because he (just like me) wouldn't give me his Recipe. I got it 93% there, and gave him a Bottle to Taste.

He told me it was Damn Close. But it was Missing the "Special Ingredient" that is in All his e-Liquids. I asked him What the ____ was the this Special Ingredient that was in All of his e-Liquids?

He Smiled and said it was BPA that comes from the Cheap Plastic Bottles he gets off e-Bay.

LOL

 

[Caro123]

Yep, I pretty much make everything I vape. There's only one ejuice I'd still willingly buy, just because I can't seem to reproduce it, Sweet-vapes' Blueberry Muffin... but I still have a little, and haven't vaped any in quite a while, so it's not something I really need. My own strawberry & cream is the best thing I've ever vaped, and my Smocha makes a nice after-meals and early morning vape. I've usually got one or two experiments going on, at any given time; right now, a couple of 5ml testers for a sweet cherry pipe tobacco, and another couple for a cherry soda/Code Red sort of flavor. Both are steeping, because the amount of flavoring is much lower than I've been accustomed to using.

I'm just not going to pay extortionate prices for ejuice, when I can make far better myself. Maybe not everytime -- it's a fairly new pursuit. But I get better, the more I do it.

Andria

perhaps I will try making 5 ml testers I usually do 10 Mls