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Just make up another bottle of unflavored juice at the same ratio/strength and add a few drops or so at a time to dilute. If the ratio of VG/PG/Nic drops ever so slightly in a test batch it wont even be noticable. You can make another batch to be sure the recipe works from start to finish afterwards.
When you're experimenting, you don't worry about your exact PG/VG ratio or nicotine level.
You start with XYZ, taste, add flavorings as needed, taste, etc. etc. IF you get something right, you go over your notes and figure out how much flavoring you have in there and make a new batch with your PG/VG and nic levels where you want them and see if the new batch works. To keep waste to a minimum, most start small and work up.
If you have a pre-mixed juice, and are adding to it, you do much the same thing. Take a small volume of the premixed out in another bottle and start experimenting and keeping notes. IF it works, then you have a record of what it took to get it there and you can make a mix of that, in the right ratio, and mix a larger batch of that recipe with your premixed. (Unless you are diluting the flavoring of the premixed, there is no way to maintain PG/VG, etc. You're probably using PG based flavoring and increasing your PG as you add flavoring.)
You start with XYZ, taste, add flavorings as needed, taste, etc. etc. IF you get something right, you go over your notes and figure out how much flavoring you have in there and make a new batch with your PG/VG and nic levels where you want them and see if the new batch works. To keep waste to a minimum, most start small and work up.
If you have a pre-mixed juice, and are adding to it, you do much the same thing. Take a small volume of the premixed out in another bottle and start experimenting and keeping notes. IF it works, then you have a record of what it took to get it there and you can make a mix of that, in the right ratio, and mix a larger batch of that recipe with your premixed. (Unless you are diluting the flavoring of the premixed, there is no way to maintain PG/VG, etc. You're probably using PG based flavoring and increasing your PG as you add flavoring.)
This^. The most important thing is the amount of FLAVOR. A small change in anything else, when experimenting, is fine. In a five ml batch, upping flavor by 5% is about 5 drops.
Outside of owning an ejuice business in where it would be in your best interest to have a super-consistent, correctly-advertised product - who cares?
One more way to look at it - if you have a 10mg 10 mL base and add 1 ml of flavor and call it "10% flavor" in your head... Yes, it's actually 9.1% flavor and 9.1% nic. BUT, if you LIKE it, you know how to remake it. AND you can adjust everything else accordingly in your second mix if you want a true 10% by upping flavor and nic by .1 mL.
Even if you do it "wrong" every time, you've still got a consistent mix.
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In example I was testing a single flavor boysenberry (fa) noticed other flavors I had from them I had to go to 15% so I said heck I'll just start there and go from there ( obviously a big mistake) so I made 4ml o nic 50/50 15% I used two drops on my dripper to test and one of two things it's either to strong or just a bad flavor I figured I can adjust the percentages and lower it to maybe 10 % or even 5% the ratio went a little something like this 2 ml vg 1.4 ml pg 0.6 of flavor to bring the flavor to 15% so I figured I can still use this batch and bring it down to 10 percent by adding say 1 ml of each (vg and pg) I just wouldn't know what my end result percentage flavor would be so I can know in future references
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If your flavor was 10% and you made a non flavor exactly the same base. Then you can cut it 50/50 to get 5% flavor to cut 15% flavoring down to 10% it would require 1/3 dilution. To go down to 5% would then require 2/3 dilution which is pretty simple and if you had say 2.8% you can just bump the flavor to 4% then dilute 50% to get 2%. It's really simple although it might seem complicated you can always bump the flavor up and then bring it down if needed to make the math easier.
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