New guy, Juice question

[BryanL]

Hello everyone, I got some juice to refill my cartos the other day. I added some juice to a spent carto right after arrival and it tasted great. I let it sit for about a week (dark cool closet) and filled several empty carts, the taste is now rather bland. The only thing I can think of that I did differently is that this time I did not really shake the bottles before dripping them. Could that be an issue? Or maybe a changing taste issue?
Thanks A Lot

 

[squirrel64]

Hey Brian a lot of juices will change over time. This is referred to on ecf as steeping. Many juices when you first get them from the supplier have a funky taste or a strong taste and will mellow in time. Sounds like yours mellowed too much !

 

[Renzuli]

Definitely need to shake the bottles up , before dispensing . Some of the different ingredients , do separate , and do need to be , re-mixed , so to speak . But They do , as squirrel said , do mellow , somewhat , after steeping .

 

[swedishfish]

Could be your taste buds doing weird things. After I was vaping for a few weeks, I had a couple days where I couldn't taste anything.

 

[BryanL]

So it basically could be almost anything? I will wait a few days before using them again, maybe my tastes will change again, but i will shake the bottles before adding them. Thanks

 

[dormouse]

Yes I think shaking can make a difference. I always shake.

And what PG/VG and color is your juice? I find I get the best continued performance out of cartomizers with thin light clear juices - 20% or less VG and light clear ones that don't leave flavoring sediment (shame too because there is a very dark-colored cocoa juice I love but it crapped up all of my atomizers and cartos with abundant sediment)

I find juices with more VG sort of solidify the stuffing of the carto and make it absorb, wick, and drag sluggishly, provided smaller hits that are harder to get.

And juices can change. You had the juice capped right? And what are you vaping it in? Carts as in the kind you use on an atomizer? Have you cleaned your atomizer or at least blown it out? I had to clean my atomizer weekly when I used atomizers. And certain kinds of dark sedimenty juices would gunk my atomizer up even faster. I would swap to a clean one (after priming it well with juice and waiting for that to soak in) and start cleaning the used one. A dirty atomizer will dull all flavors.

Swap atomizers and try cleaning the dirty one. If you don't have spare atomizers I recommend you buy 2 - one for swapping and one as a total spare.

 

[jjones14]

Hello everyone, I got some juice to refill my cartos the other day. I added some juice to a spent carto right after arrival and it tasted great. I let it sit for about a week (dark cool closet) and filled several empty carts, the taste is now rather bland. The only thing I can think of that I did differently is that this time I did not really shake the bottles before dripping them. Could that be an issue? Or maybe a changing taste issue?
Thanks A Lot

Wait till your taste buds get back working normal again. You can really taste those juices then.lol But just like everyone else said shake um up.

 

[BryanL]

I got the juice from Vermillion River (Fruit Stripes and Raspberry) neither seems too dark. It says they are 30-40 % VG is that too much? The juices were capped, and I'm vaping out of an 808 from V2 Cigs.
Thanks for the help!

 

[dormouse]

That fruit stripe had a distinct gum taste to me - like when the flavor is gone and you can just taste the gum.

And many many things can make a juice taste less -

You drank hot drinks or alcohol or ate or drank anything that left a flavor in your mouth

You vaped a NON-contrasting flavor prior to the flavor (like if you vape a sweet flavor then vape another sweet flavor, you may not sense the sweet in the second one)

You forgot to smell the vapor (which is most of the flavor) or something prevented you from smelling the flavor (wind, fan, anything that is moving the air)

 

[BryanL]

Thank You for sharing your wisdom with a newbie I appreciate it

 

[LauraBolyard]

must say... one month ago I could only tollerate 'MARLBORO' and the like... that was all I could taste!! In a few short weeks, I have revisited those juices that I had put "on the back burner' WOW, I can taste them... yum!!

 

[ShannonA]

30% vg is fine I don't know about 40... If you are fairly new I would bet your taste buds are going through a phase... make sure you drink plenty of water, cleanse your pallete regularly and yes shake the bottle if they've sat very long.

I've never tried the two flavors you mentioned but VR is my main vendor and in my experience their juice doesn't change very much over time because they steep it before it goes out.