DIY still sucks

[MC Vape]

Guys guys guys. I've been doing DIY since October 2015. After almost a year I still didnt make not even one perfect ejuice. Researching, trying but nothing. Even if I make some of your proven recipes I still dont get a good ejuice.
Im using Kanger Subtank Mini and I see most of you use rda's so thats might be a problem with my flavor tasting.
This morning I made this recipe they just said shake and vape no steeping necessary but I feel no flavor at all:
Fuji apple FA 4%
Shashi Strawberry INW 5%
Marshmallow 1%
2 drops sweetener
I made 10ml 70vg/30pg 6% nic
I feel no flavor at all

 

[ghola1was]

Are you able to taste the flavor of store bought juice?

 

[MC Vape]

Are you able to taste the flavor of store bought juice?

Definitelly yes. I even taste my DIY but its never good flavor, too weak and different.
This recipe I posted above I dont taste strawberry at all, there is something bitter I feel a little and thats probably fuji apple but thats the recipe of Wayne from DUY or Die. I cant believe I cant feel almost nothing after mixing I ussume its because of the tank and all you guys use RDA.

 

[ghola1was]

I use both RDA and sub tanks.

Maybe try the above recipe using Bill's 100 drop test.

Using Bill's 100DT Taste Test Method | E-Cigarette Forum

Using this method, you can increase the flavor percentages until you can actually taste them.

 

[KentA]

So add more strawberry. Try 8% & see if you like it....

 

[MC Vape]

So add more strawberry. Try 8% & see if you like it....

I cant believe that I cant find a good flavor after almosta a year of mixing. Sometimes I see some guys mixes something like 1% of this 2% of that and you get a delicious vape. I try it and there is no flavor at all. Then you see a guy says for similar recipe 15% of this 10% of that. Ok how come this [removed] feels good flavor at 1-2% and other needs 10-15% for the same thing. I know definitely its not my taste buds its either a tank or flavor percentage in the mix.

 

[Rickb119]

All of our "tasters" are different. What's good to one person, may not be to another.

The recipes I used to try (from others) I almost always had to tweak to my liking. A little more of this, a little less of that, eliminate that one completely, etc.

Also, over flavoring can mute flavors more so than under flavoring.

I don't vape fruits but, I'd probably start with
1.5% Apple
2% Strawberry
.5% Marshmallow, and leave out the sweetener (for now) as marshmallow is a sweetener.

I recently switched from Protanks to the Subtanks and find that I need much less flavoring, and nicotine. Much or the juice I had made (using PT2's) was 70VG/30PG 12mg nicotine. I diluted it 50% for the subs and it's perfect.

 

[retired1]

Moved to DIY E-Liquid

 

[MC Vape]

I use both RDA and sub tanks.

Maybe try the above recipe using Bill's 100 drop test.

Using Bill's 100DT Taste Test Method | E-Cigarette Forum

Using this method, you can increase the flavor percentages until you can actually taste them.

For this drop test Im not sure is what I think Im gonna need RDA. Make a juice test it you need more flavor add more drops of it until I get the flavor I like.

 

[MC Vape]

All of our "tasters" are different. What's good to one person, may not be to another.

The recipes I used to try (from others) I almost always had to tweak to my liking. A little more of this, a little less of that, eliminate that one completely, etc.

Also, over flavoring can mute flavors more so than under flavoring.

I don't vape fruits but, I'd probably start with
1.5% Apple
2% Strawberry
.5% Marshmallow, and leave out the sweetener (for now) as marshmallow is a sweetener.

I recently switched from Protanks to the Subtanks and find that I need much less flavoring, and nicotine. Much or the juice I had made (using PT2's) was 70VG/30PG 12mg nicotine. I diluted it 50% for the subs and it's perfect.

You see, other guy just said add strawberry 8% and you said lower strawberry to 2%. Now at 5% over 70% vg I feel nothing

 

[retired1]

For my tastes, generally the primary flavor is going to start at around 7-8%, possibly more depending on what I prefer. I even have a few recipes where I use 13%.

You have to play with the percentages until you dial things in to where YOU like them. Recipes are a guideline. They're not meant to be written in stone with no deviation permitted.

 

[Bonskibon]

I can never make anything good on my own, but have better luck with recipes. For me I need to steep my juices a long time before I like them and they usually turn out pretty good.

 

[MC Vape]

For my tastes, generally the primary flavor is going to start at around 7-8%, possibly more depending on what I prefer. I even have a few recipes where I use 13%.

You have to play with the percentages until you dial things in to where YOU like them. Recipes are a guideline. They're not meant to be written in stone with no deviation permitted.

I've tried 15% recipes and 25-30% of total flavors in 50pg/50vg mix. I definitely felt the flavor but I needed to work on the recipe. For example 10% of Capellas Vanilla Custard was not bad but it needed couple of weeks of steeping.

 

[retired1]

For example 10% of Capellas Vanilla Custard was not bad but it needed couple of weeks of steeping.

Which is perfectly normal for e-liquids with that flavoring.

 

[MC Vape]

Which is perfectly normal for e-liquids with that flavoring.

Which means I feel the flavors its not me. And I do researches all the time. Before I mix I always go only and see recommendation percetage for that flavor and use common sense.
Yesterday I've made honeydew.
10% Honeydew melon 10%
1 drop per 5ml of koolada.
60vg/40pg 6% nic
Yesterday was smelling good, today even better and less chemically but still feel the chemicals but dont want to breathe it so I dont lose the flavor. Will test it tonight.

 

[MC Vape]

Here's an update on my apple strawberry.
I forgot it in a car and it got warm and leaked out of my tank.
Strawberry smells but after I vape it its harsh no strawberry flavor at all and little of apple in the background if you can call that an apple.

 

[sketchness]

I would advise starting by testing your base with no flavorings. To me it sounds like a nicotine issue. Mix up a 70/30 at your desired nic level and see how that tastes to you. If it isn't good with no flavor adding flavor rarely helps out.

I exclusively use a dripper and find that nearly all of my recipes are not nearly as good in a tank. Perhaps it would be different if I could stay on a tank for a few weeks but I always revert back to my RDA's. I also have weird sense of taste. Most recipes (and store juice) do not taste good to me. they often are missing something or I go flavor blind to them in a couple of vapes.

It took me about a year to nail down a vanilla custard recipe I REALLY like. So i play with other stuff and make the Vanilla Custard 800mls at a time with quality nicotine.

 

[MC Vape]

I would advise starting by testing your base with no flavorings. To me it sounds like a nicotine issue. Mix up a 70/30 at your desired nic level and see how that tastes to you. If it isn't good with no flavor adding flavor rarely helps out.

I exclusively use a dripper and find that nearly all of my recipes are not nearly as good in a tank. Perhaps it would be different if I could stay on a tank for a few weeks but I always revert back to my RDA's. I also have weird sense of taste. Most recipes (and store juice) do not taste good to me. they often are missing something or I go flavor blind to them in a couple of vapes.

It took me about a year to nail down a vanilla custard recipe I REALLY like. So i play with other stuff and make the Vanilla Custard 800mls at a time with quality nicotine.

Yeah I was assuming it a nicotine issue. Thats why I lower it down to 6%. And I even bought a new one and I keep it in a freezer.
I can use RDA Im a truck driver so mostof my day I spend driving I cant dripp all the time.

 

[BrotherBob]

You could get an RDA and experiment with 2.0 ohm single coil at around 5 watts. Vape a known good juice and a DIY mix and see how they compare. Then, introduce sub ohm'g and tanks etc. The idea is to eliminate the variables and keep it simple to start.

 

[MC Vape]

You could get an RDA and experiment with 2.0 ohm single coil at around 5 watts. Vape a known good juice and a DIY mix and see how they compare. Then, introduce sub ohm'g and tanks etc. The idea is to eliminate the variables and keep it simple to start.

I have 2 cheap RDA's some clones or something but they are kind of tricky to build because the coil is so low and it makes it hard to wick. Plus after I built it once the taste was so weird I was coughing like crazy. Something like metal stong flavor vape. And those RDA's I have have narrow drip tip its not one of those wide ones.