I'm totally new to DIY. All I've tried so far is mixing LorAnn flavoring with VG to get me through a couple of days before my next order of e-juice arrived.
What I'm thinking of doing: a 125ml bottle of 100mg/ml unflavored pure VG nic liquid and a 250ml bottle of VG mixed together in a 500ml amber or blue bottle. I would store this inside a plastic container in the refrigerator. (If my calcs are correct, this would be 33.33 mg/ml.)
When I want to use it, I'd mix it 3 to 1 with a flavoring/PG solution. (If my calcs are correct, this would give me 25mg/ml to vape.)
I'd make the flavoring solution by mixing 4 parts flavor with one part PG. (This, I believe, would give me 20% flavoring in the final mixture.)
Why I want to do it this way:
1) 100mg/ml calls for careful handling, and I'm a klutz. Rather than fooling around with beakers or graduated cylinders, I'd only have to empty the bottle it comes in into a larger bottle.
2) Other than on the day it arrives, I wouldn't have any 100mg/ml in the house. Although I have no pets or children, I'm not hot on the idea of having a potential poison in the fridge.
3) Rather than having to do calculations each time I wanted to make a new juice, I'd only have to fill a 6ml syringe with the unflavored mix, put it into a separate bottle, and add 2ml (by syringe) of flavoring solution.
4) I could vary the flavoring strength or mix flavors easily by changing whether that 2ml is pure flavoring solution, 1.5ml solution and .5ml PG, 1ml of one flavoring solution and 1ml of another, etc.
I'm not concerned about the final VG/PG ratio because I'm all about the ritual of 'smoking' and the flavor. The only real difference, to me, in having high PG is that I seem to have to refill cartos much more often.
As I said, I'm a total noob, so I'd appreciate anyone or everyone pointing out the flaws in my doing things this way.
What I'm thinking of doing: a 125ml bottle of 100mg/ml unflavored pure VG nic liquid and a 250ml bottle of VG mixed together in a 500ml amber or blue bottle. I would store this inside a plastic container in the refrigerator. (If my calcs are correct, this would be 33.33 mg/ml.)
When I want to use it, I'd mix it 3 to 1 with a flavoring/PG solution. (If my calcs are correct, this would give me 25mg/ml to vape.)
I'd make the flavoring solution by mixing 4 parts flavor with one part PG. (This, I believe, would give me 20% flavoring in the final mixture.)
Why I want to do it this way:
1) 100mg/ml calls for careful handling, and I'm a klutz. Rather than fooling around with beakers or graduated cylinders, I'd only have to empty the bottle it comes in into a larger bottle.
2) Other than on the day it arrives, I wouldn't have any 100mg/ml in the house. Although I have no pets or children, I'm not hot on the idea of having a potential poison in the fridge.
3) Rather than having to do calculations each time I wanted to make a new juice, I'd only have to fill a 6ml syringe with the unflavored mix, put it into a separate bottle, and add 2ml (by syringe) of flavoring solution.
4) I could vary the flavoring strength or mix flavors easily by changing whether that 2ml is pure flavoring solution, 1.5ml solution and .5ml PG, 1ml of one flavoring solution and 1ml of another, etc.
I'm not concerned about the final VG/PG ratio because I'm all about the ritual of 'smoking' and the flavor. The only real difference, to me, in having high PG is that I seem to have to refill cartos much more often.
As I said, I'm a total noob, so I'd appreciate anyone or everyone pointing out the flaws in my doing things this way.
