Want to improve my DIY technique

[SrK]

Hey guys, as the tittle sais I am thinking about changing my DIY method.
Now I am doing the standar DIY, for example if I want 5% apple + 3% lemon in a 10ml batch, I put the base and then with a syringe I put 0,5 ml of apple and 0,3 ml of lemon.
Nowadays I am doing lot of trials and small batches with many flavours, and I am mixing by drops (I will be trying mixing by weight soon). But I find very uncomfortable to have to take every single flavour for each batch, mix all in very low % and all this things.
So I am thinking about doing this:
Put each flavour standalone in bottles of 10ml in a 10% with my standar base. Then, when I want to do a mix for example( apple 6% + lemon 4% ) in a sample of 2ml: I would take 1,2ml from the bottle of apple already mixed and 0,8ml from the bottle with lemon.

I think this method could facilitate to make very small samples with lots of flavours. But I have few questions:
The result will be the same?
Will be the steeping faster as the flavours will be already steeped when mixing them?

Any advice about this methods will be very appreciated, thanks guys!

 

[Vaslovik]

Well for what it's worth I've always gone by ml, not percentages, and I make 100 ml batches. Thus, if I want 12 mg nic I measure out 12 ml of 100mg/ml nic in my graduated cylinder. For flavors I worked out how many ml of each worked right in my recipe. If I want 4 ml of graham cracker, I just draw that into a syringe and add it to the nic in the cylinder, then add the ml of other flavors I want in the mix. Nic and flavors come out to 32 ml in the graduated cylinder.

When I have the nic and flavors in the graduated cylinder I pour them into a 150 ml beaker, then measure out the PG in the cylinder, pour that into the beaker, and follow with the VG. Stir well with glass mixing rod and decant into 100 ml Erlenmeyer flasks.

 

[Alter]

Thats how I mix my Hangsen tobac juices and TA's. I mix them as a 6% standalone with no nic, let then steep then blend them together in different ratios and steep again. My initial steep since they are tobaccos is over 3 weeks on most but once I blend them together then add the nic I let then sit another week or so before I begin to enjoy them.
I warm up my base a bit also with hot water, use a magnetic mixer and scale with a syringe. My vapes aren't harsh and IMO taste mighty good. I started making 50ml batches but found it not enough for how long the steeping takes so I now make 100ml standalone mixes but blend 50mls at a time.
I'm still in awe on how good Hangsen tobaccos are also how they blend with other flavors to even bother with making someone else's clone juice.

 

[suburbiansam]

SrK,
You certainly can, but I find the time I take to make a juice is time well spent. That way I can play with the proportions of the juice more. If you make 10% flavorings, you may find yourself limited in how much of a flavor you can have in a juice vs nic vs pg/vg. I'm just thinking about how I do it when I mix 5-10 flavors into a juice. It becomes a bit time consuming, but still a lot of fun to play with that many flavors. Either way, good luck and keep us updated on how it went!

 

[Hoosier]

Mixing single flavoring liquids together in various ratios is my usual method.

Allows me to get the % fairly close on the singles and is easier to make a number of small batches for test testing.

Notes are darn important and my labels on my small batches are also shorthand versions of my notes. Otherwise reverse engineering the final recipe is a pain.

 

[cocacola31173]

I use 100 mg mix but I cut it down to 2 mg in a 400 ml batches. I have a 500 ml glass amber bottle and I mix it in there with my PG and VG. That way I can easily make bottles on the fly by putting my flavor in a bottle and top it off with my nic base. And I am only handling the 100 nic once every couple of months.

 

[dannyv45]

I have a 32oz bottle left as an extra from re-bottling my NIC for freezing. I was thinking of making 32oz of my ADV which would likely last me about a year. I've been vaping this ADV for 2 years now so getting tired of it is not a concern.

Never making such a large quantity before I wonder how fresh or how much it would change over a year or more of storage at a constant 72 degrees. Or if I should store it in the refrigerator.

I usually make 2 120 ml bottles that last me about 10 - 12 weeks and after that amount of time it still taste as fresh as when I first made it. I store that on a dark shelf in a constant 72 degree environment. But 16oz not sure how well it will store.