Fruit flavorings.

[3mg Meniere]

Most of my standard lineup mixes are floral teas. I like a bit of a bite in most of my mixes.

I do changeup with a strawberry absinthe and a mixed fruit yogurt. However, those two turn dark in my Orchids quite quickly, and I find myself discarding the last ml and washing the wick frequently. I generally mix at about 5% total. Absinthe and yogurt are both FW. If I increase those complements will I have less problem with the darkening, or are they sweetened as much as the fruit flavorings?

 

[BrotherBob]

If I increase those complements will I have less problem with the darkening

My experience is:
If I increase the flavor percentage, the wick will darken quicker (for any flavor regardless of the sugar content of the flavor).
If I increase the sweetener percentage (if a sweetener is used) in the mix, the wick will darken quicker (for any flavor regardless of the sugar content of the flavor).
If I increase the temperature setting of the vape, the wick will darken quicker (for any flavor regardless of the sugar content of the flavor).
I find that anything I add to mix, the wick will darken quicker (for any flavor regardless of the sugar content of the flavor).

I have a box of CelluCotton rayon Coil--500 feet., with my rda, 2 minute wick change every 2 day or so I'm good to go.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

I have a couple of flavors that are coil gunkers. I find that vaping a tank of unflavored after every couple of tanks helps to clean them out and makes the wick last a lil longer. It also helps to mitigate vape tongue.

 

[3mg Meniere]

That could help. I'll up the absinthe and the yogurt in each one, and make the fruit one just peach. Then do a half-tank of unflavored for each tank of those flavors. That should help-- I really don't like to open them up unnecessarily.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

I really don't like to open them up unnecessarily.

I hate opening up my orchid. It's guaranteed I will have to re-wick it if I do or it will leak. The unflavored should help t keep the wicks a lil cleaner. Maybe they will last a day or 2 longer for ya.

 

[Alter]

I had that happen in my protank days. In the protanks it was that I had too big diameter coil or too long and it was too close to the side and heating up the metal and with low ohm chain vaping... it gets hot. Hot enough to burn sweet juice.
My wife vapes cotton candy I make and its .75% in a desert ship base and its mighty sweet to me. When I first started experimenting making her juice I made a 5% cotton candy standalone and it went to syrup.