Foggy until I inhale

[soylent]

EDIT: Solved. I picked up some VG and used the ratio 48mg/PG/VG at 50/25/25 and it puffs close to the pre-flavored. I'm going to experiment to see what different ratios do, but I am now a happy camper/vaper. Thanks Moonflame, see you in the recipes thread.


Totally confused. Hopefully someone can explain what I'm missing. The issue is my DIY liquid has thick vapor when I don't inhale and just do mouth puffs, but when I take it in my lungs, even if just for a second, all the pretty vapor goes clear.

Here's the details:

I have a 510 and bought 4 10ml 24mg juices along with it from RMV. I switch the filler to the PTBs with great results. Love the whole set up, big clouds all the time, no complaints. But, I wanted to find my fav flavors without wasting a bunch of cash on 10ml pre-flavored juices.

I decided to try my hand at DIY liquids. Seemed easy enough, need unflavored XXmg juice, VG or PG, and a bunch of tasty flavors.

So I bought some 48mg unflavored juice and some straight PG from MFS along with some LorAnn flavors and some 3ml droppers. Mixed half/half and added enough flavor to get a decent smell.

But like I said above, I can do quick puffs or even hold it in my mouth and it stays nice and visible when I blow it out. However, If I do a straight draw into my lungs or a mouth hit then inhale, when I blow out there is little to no vapor cloud to see. This is not an issue when I use the RMV pre-flavored juice.

I tried vaping the PG straight and same thing, clouds unless I inhale. I don't want to straight vap the 48mg so I don't know what it would do.

So anyone spot what I did wrong?

The flavor is great and I can tell I'm getting the nic, but I can't vap without the cloud. It just doesn't feel like smoking without it. So I'm back to the RMV pre-flavored juices.

Help!

 

[breakfastchef]

Perhaps you did nothing wrong. Vapor disperses fairly readily in the lungs so you should expect some loss of vapor after an inhale. I will leave speculation about why you might be seeing significantly less vapor than you expected by more experienced DIY e-liquid chemists.

 

[soylent]

Perhaps you did nothing wrong. Vapor disperses fairly readily in the lungs so you should expect some loss of vapor after an inhale. I will leave speculation about why you might be seeing significantly less vapor than you expected by more experienced DIY e-liquid chemists.

If this was close to normal, no one would DIY. I stealth vap at work in my cube and have gotten pretty good at how long to hit and when to exhale to get almost clear vapor exhaling.

I'm hitting this twice as hard and exhaling right away and it's gone.

Does PG produce less cloud than VG?

 

[Moonflame]

If you use some VG in the mix to replace some of the PG you'll get more vapor. I use about 30% VG and get good vapor production.

 

[soylent]

If you use some VG in the mix to replace some of the PG you'll get more vapor. I use about 30% VG and get good vapor production.

Thanks Moon. I think I'm going to have to pick some VG up and give it a try. I really want this to work.

I'll update this thread when I have an update.