Premix flavor base add Nicotine later?

[wickedawesome]

I cannot say. I'm a very literal person. I read the question to be exactly what it says, "mix flavored base without nicotine then add it later." I have no idea if it is just flavoring, flavoring and PG, Flavoring and VG, flavoring and PG/VG, what the nicotine level ranges are, why you'd want to do such a thing, or any number of things. Just without then add later, so I went with the simplest answer, skip adding nicotine.

I've seen questions where folks just wanted to know how to mix their flavoring combo up together and use it as a single flavoring. I've seen questions where the person wanted to make all their mixes at 50% of a flavored base and the remaining half whatever they wanted. And all kinds of different versions of the rough concept. I try not to assume what the intent of the OP's question. Since the math behind this comes so easy to me, I am never sure I'm the right person to answer because I tend to miss stating details that I assume are well known concepts. Of the two questions I used as examples, the math is the same really, but the results are different. As usual with mixing math, you eliminate variables if you start with what you want to end up with, so starting with the desired end result makes things easier.

I guess I should have been more specific . If I make a 150ml mix of 70/30 PG/VG with flavor but no nicotine it would be PG 82.5ml, VG45ml. and flavor would be 22ml .Using 100mg 100%pg nic can I add it after I have made the original mix. Say I want 15ml at 18mg of nicotine could I just add 2.7ml of nic and the rest of the mix would be the original flavor mix that I made. So it would be 2.7ml of nic and 12.3ml of the original mix to get to 15ml. or would it weaken the flavor? I have been making juice for awhile and the only thing that changes when I change the nic level is the pg amount ,when making a 15ml bottle at 18mg nic with one flavor it's always 2.7ml nic 5.55ml PG 4.5ml VG and 2.25ml of flavor. Not sure if how I am explaning it makes any sense lol

 

[Hoosier]

If it tastes perfect without nicotine, adding anything will change the taste, be it PG, VG, or nicotine.

So you make a base that has too much flavoring as it sits, but will be perfect with added X, so the total flavoring % stays the same as you first perfected the recipe.

 

[Train2]

I'm only joining to add a little extra confusion.
More people request the OPPOSITE - in case you hadn't thought of it as an alternative time-saver.

They mix up unflavored BASE: say a Gallon that's 80VG20PG with 18 mg nic.
Then they know they can simply add flavoring in small batches without measuring nic again. They take into account that the flavor will reduce nic %, and perhaps increase PG a little - but if most of their mixes are 10% or 20% flavor, this is easily accounted for...

 

[Hoosier]

I sometimes mix two batches of the same thing, one at 24mg/ml, which my sister vapes, and one at 0mg/ml so I can mix them together to get any level from what my son vapes to what I vape.

 

[Stacy1]

would this work?

Put your recipe into calculator for say a 100ml bottle, made at 24mg nic. Once calculated, mix everything except for the PG, and the PG based nic. When you're ready to mix say a 30ml bottle at 18mg using the base mix, put your size, nic strength, and overall flavor percentage as flavor one then calculate and only add the PG and the nic to your 30ml bottle. Then subtract the total ml of nic and PG from 30ml and that will give you how many ml of base you need.