So, I'm About Ready to Try DIY for the First Time, Any Comments on My Plans?

[amoret]

A little background, I'm mostly trying DIY so that I can try doing my own extractions of home roasted coffee and a few teas that aren't available in flavorings. I've read through the methods, and will start with the brief microwave in pg method for that.

As long as I was getting the ingredients for that I went ahead and got the flavorings for a few other things that I like, but since I don't like bakery or sweet flavors, those should be pretty basic. Earl Grey tea (I got two brands of flavoring plus some Bergamot and black tea to adjust with if I don't like the results from single flavoring), some Burley tobacco and menthol to try to come close to the one premixed tobacco flavor that I like, and a few fruit flavors in the hope that I'll like them with little or no sweetening. I'm also going to try an unsweetened mint black tea mix, since the one that I bought already mixed was cloyingly sweet to my taste.

To my way of thinking it makes the most sense to try the Earl Grey tea and a fruit flavor or two first, since that seems more straightforward than the coffee and tea extractions. In the meantime I can be trying to make my first extractions to mix after I get my feet at least a little bit damp.

I bought 48mg pg nicotine, and since I usually vape 18-24mg 70/30 pg/vg I'll be really close if I cut that in half with a 50/50 mix of plain pg and vg. I have the e-juice me up app on my laptop. I have syringes and droppers, gloves and eye protection, cleaned out bottles to put the mixed liquids into, a label maker, and will be getting my beakers from Amazon delivered tomorrow.

So, if I start by entering all of this in the app, start with a fairly low amount of flavoring and work up from that and stick to small amounts to start with, am I good to go?

Sampling will be a little bit of an issue since I don't have a dripper, but I figure that since I mostly use bottom coil clearos that I can just use a mini protank and live with the fact that I may waste a small amount of juice in the process if I need to dump it back out to adjust.

Oh, and yes, I did read the stickies and a lot of the threads here.

 

[Huckleberried]

You might need a little PG and VG to add to it, still. It's the only thing that popped into my (limited experience) mind and without doing the math. Everything else sounds good to go. Hopefully someone way more experienced will chime in.

Sounds fun!

 

[amoret]

I forgot to say, yes I did get some pg and vg. I'm not relay fond of vg, mostly use it only because of opinions in other threads around ecf that things might be too thin without it.

 

[dannyv45]

A little background, I'm mostly trying DIY so that I can try doing my own extractions of home roasted coffee and a few teas that aren't available in flavorings. I've read through the methods, and will start with the brief microwave in pg method for that.

As long as I was getting the ingredients for that I went ahead and got the flavorings for a few other things that I like, but since I don't like bakery or sweet flavors, those should be pretty basic. Earl Grey tea (I got two brands of flavoring plus some Bergamot and black tea to adjust with if I don't like the results from single flavoring), some Burley tobacco and menthol to try to come close to the one premixed tobacco flavor that I like, and a few fruit flavors in the hope that I'll like them with little or no sweetening. I'm also going to try an unsweetened mint black tea mix, since the one that I bought already mixed was cloyingly sweet to my taste.

To my way of thinking it makes the most sense to try the Earl Grey tea and a fruit flavor or two first, since that seems more straightforward than the coffee and tea extractions. In the meantime I can be trying to make my first extractions to mix after I get my feet at least a little bit damp.

I bought 48mg pg nicotine, and since I usually vape 18-24mg 70/30 pg/vg I'll be really close if I cut that in half with a 50/50 mix of plain pg and vg. I have the e-juice me up app on my laptop. I have syringes and droppers, gloves and eye protection, cleaned out bottles to put the mixed liquids into, a label maker, and will be getting my beakers from Amazon delivered tomorrow.

So, if I start by entering all of this in the app, start with a fairly low amount of flavoring and work up from that and stick to small amounts to start with, am I good to go?

Sampling will be a little bit of an issue since I don't have a dripper, but I figure that since I mostly use bottom coil clearos that I can just use a mini protank and live with the fact that I may waste a small amount of juice in the process if I need to dump it back out to adjust.

Oh, and yes, I did read the stickies and a lot of the threads here.

It sounds like you have it planned out nicely and looks like your good to go. The little waste from dumping the protank out don't sound like a big deal it's just the rinsing of the coil that's a hastle. Hope you are a coil rebuilder because if you are you'll need to replace the top wick after each rinse. If you can get a cheap 510 atty locally that would be easier. I just wad a little cotton shove it in and test then dump the cotton and rinse then wad more cotton and put it in for next time. Takes all of 30 seconds. Good luck and let us know how you make out.