DIY Vapemail, why do you play with my heart!?

[JetSmooth]

My first Wizard Labs order shows as Out For Delivery and I watched the mail truck drive up and down my street. I ran to the box and found some letters, but no package. WAT?

Anyway, I'm going to trust it will be found this evening and delivered, but I'm not holding my breath for it until Monday. My mail carrier is incompetent and I often go days without mail, only to have it shoved into my door by a neighbor who got it by mistake. I HOPE that's not what's happened here!

Anyhow, I'm going to mix 0mg juice for now. I have been vaping low to no nic juice (<=6mg) and it's mostly for the experience. I want to nail a flavor down before I add a little nic.

In addition to the bottles, syringes and needles, I have these flavors on order:

Blueberry Extra Flavor Concentrate
Earl Grey Tea Flavor Concentrate
Belgian Waffle Flavor Concentrate
English Toffee Flavor - TFA
French Vanilla Flavor Concentrate
Black Honey Tobacco Flavor Concentrate

For my first DIY, I want a Blueberry Waffle with light toffee and tobacco undertones. I will be mixing into 100% VG.

I'm not sure how to spread out the flavors, so this is what I'm thinking:
Waffle about 15%
Blueberry about 10%
Toffee about 5%
Black Honey Tobacco at 5%

I'm not quite sure how strong each of these are. I don't want an overpowering toffee or tobacco, but more of a morning/relaxing vape that's sweet with a baked goods feel.

I have a secret code name for this recipe, if I can perfect it. Not sharing that now.

So, how's it look? Am I going to overpower myself? Do I need to up these %s for the 100% VG base?

 

[JetSmooth]

And now the package has been "delivered"--only not to my address. Bloody worthless federal employees.

Disclaimer: I am a federal employee myself.

 

[alffalvo]

And now the package has been "delivered"--only not to my address. Bloody worthless federal employees.

Disclaimer: I am a federal employee myself.

Good luck with your package hope you find it

 

[JetSmooth]

It was one street over. I often get the mail for a house with the same street number. So I went by as the guy was getting home. He had my stuff for me. Yay!

 

[B2L]

Str8V8ping has a great blog with mixing tips, http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blogs/str8v8ping/2705-diy-tips-str8.html , this really helped me alot when starting out. The biggest thing I found helpful was to mix individual flavors first and find which percentages work best for you before you begin combining them, good luck and have fun!

 

[djbishybish]

Str8V8ping has a great blog with mixing tips, http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blogs/str8v8ping/2705-diy-tips-str8.html , this really helped me alot when starting out. The biggest thing I found helpful was to mix individual flavors first and find which percentages work best for you before you begin combining them, good luck and have fun!

This. Although I don't do it myself, it's a good idea to figure out the individual percentages of the flavors you're working with just to know the strength you're playing with.

35% is a pretty high flavoring percentage, but it could work. I'd try lower since you're looking for a more mellow, relaxing vape for the morning.

 

[JetSmooth]

I dove in whole hog and mixed up a few things to get started. I'm loking them so far.

My "sepcial mix" isa work in progress but I can see I'll have to get a dripping atty and smaller 3ml bottles to mix in to do taste adjustments along the way. Can't go through a whole 10ml mix and carto each time I want to tweak the mix.

I also mixxed a 10% each Earl Grey and Black Honey Tobacco, which I'm enjoying. I can imagine it will be better with some steeping.

Also recieved a small sample of Sweet-tart, which I just threw in at 20%. not bad.

 

[purelyscientific]

I use a template for making up test batches of new flavors-
24mg 60/40 PG/VG
5% flavoring
2%ethyl maltol

Then I mix 5 different flavors and draw a grid on a sheet of paper and label the boxes and put them into their respective positions.
Labeling them individually takes too much time.
I write down notes about how the flavorings taste and what I can do to make them better.

Using this method it usually takes me no more than 3 tweaks on the original template before the flavor is perfected.

 

[JetSmooth]

I love that method! Definitely going to try that out.

I'm a home beer brewer and was trying to approach DIY ejuice with some sort of system. This is a great place to start.

Thanks for the ideas.

 

[SurReality89]

i would just take your tracking to the post office right as they open and pick it up before it goes out for delivery, or talk to them the day before and ask them to hold it for you. i do that a lot just because i don't want to wait all day if i'm not doing anything, my mail lady is pretty cool (and sexy )