@WhiteHighlights @FranC thanks for the response.
The majority of the recipes used were highly rated ones off e-liquid-recipes DOT com, one from DIY or Die and one from the store in which I shop for my DIY stuff! All are strawberry or lemon type desert recipes that range between 7% to 20% flavoring. The reason behind Strawberry was because I first purchased a DIY kit based on Strawberry Cream. Lemon is cause it is my most preferred commercial flavour (ATM). Not sure why we can’t link e-recipes DOT com, would make life much easier but here is one from DIY or Die
70%VG 6mg.
Capella- Lemon Meringue Pie 5%
Flavour Apprentice - Key Lime 1.5%
Capella Sugar - Cookie 2.5%
Flavour Art - Meringue 0.5%
Flavour Art - Sweetener 0.5%
The recommended steep was 3 days. At 10 days I felt everything was muted but the most prominent flavour was the key lime. It had a peppery aftertaste. At 20 days, lost the lime flavour and no pepper aftertaste. Everything muted and just a dry vape.
Mostly enjoy desert type commercial flavours although I haven’t had much luck finding creams and custards that I like. My 2 current are DL Lemon Tart and a Japanese Lemon Cake. I switched to DIY cause I tend to get board of juices very quickly and thought this would be a more economical way to explore different flavours and perhaps broaden my pallet in the process.
I’m not as experienced as some others here but I do know that most lemon flavors fade and by the sound of what happened to you, evidently lime does too. If you want to taste the lemon then I’d add some FE lemon. At the amount you used, I wouldn’t think that the sweetener would have muted the flavor. I haven’t used the cap LMP or the Tfa key lime. Maybe there are better brands that would work for you. There’s a really good lemon meringue pie recipe going around on this thread if you’re interested.