My First, Tiny Foray Into DIY--Kind Of :)

[vuJim]

Amongst others: My wife and I have been vaping a blueberry, made by a local place, named Blue Slush. To make the long part of the story short: We noticed that our senses "burned out" on that flavour very quickly.

Then I remembered when I replaced the wintergreen juice in my wife's tank with this blueberry. There was a short interval where they co-mingled--producing an interesting mix. So I dropped some of that wintergreen into a tank that had the blueberry in it, mixed it as thoroughly as possible, and, lo and behold: It brought the blueberry out more brightly.

So today I stopped by a DIY supply store, nearby, and bought 10 ml of Flavour West's Wintergreen.

Starting with two drops in about 20 ml of 70/30 Blue Slush. Using my Protank 3 Mini to test, as new juice gets through that tank's atomizer pretty quickly. I think it worked. The true test will be whether or not I'm still tasting the blueberry at the end of the evening.

Then the next challenge will be to drop a couple drops into a bottle of max VG Blue Slush and get it to mix

 

[FL_David]

And then you may find you want to make your own Blue Slush, with added wintergreen.

 

[vuJim]

*Bah*

Two drops of the FW Wintergreen wasn't quite enough in the 70/30 juice. There was more juice in the max VG bottle, so I added three drops and it's too much. Oh well: I guess this is how you learn.

It isn't bad, per se, just not quite how I wanted it to turn out. Too much wintergreen. It's kind of burying the blueberry.

 

[vuJim]

Oops. it may mellow out some, though I don't find that with my peppermint.

And, in fact, it did. At least in the tank, it did. Or seemed to have by the end of the evening. Vape became pretty interesting. Fairly mellow wintergreen with a bit of sweetness on the edges on the inhale, with a lingering blueberry and sweetness after the exhale.

I've never had FW, that sounds on a par with the general strength of FAs. Strong stuff.

The guy at the store warned me it was. "Start with just a couple drops," he cautioned, "and see how it turns out." "In the tank," I asked? He got this horrified look on his face. "No! In 30 ml."

 

[vuJim]

LOL, scared him eh?

Then again, you did feel 5 drops was too much.

Not even five. Three! Three drops in... estimating... 25 ml. of juice?

Glad it mellowed and/or you got used to it, mints strong.
I'm always using too much.

I'm glad, too. It was "ok," at first, but got much better.

 

[vuJim]

The experiment continues.

The addition of wintergreen made the juice better, in my wife's and my opinion, but, while it kept the juice from going utterly flat, the blueberry taste still seemed to all-but-entirely fade after vaping for a while. So: Back to the store. As luck would have it: One of the guys who develops and makes the juices happened to be hanging around behind the counter. I described what we were experiencing and what I'd tried. (He found my wintergreen experiment and the result interesting.) After a bit of back-and-forth, he recommended I next try Flavor Art Billberry. I've added one drop to what remains in each of the 70/30 and max VG 30 ml. bottles. Shook the livin' daylights out of them--the max VG, in particular. Let them sit overnight. We'll see what happens.

 

[Chrispdx]

Since you are using max vg, warming up the bottle (using warm/hot not boiling) will make mixing a little bit easier since vg is so thick.

Sometimes I'll run hot water out of the tap over the bottle for a few seconds.

 

[vuJim]

Since you are using max vg, warming up the bottle (using warm/hot not boiling) will make mixing a little bit easier since vg is so thick.

Yeah, that's what I did when I added the wintergreen. I put the bottle in a baggie (so the water wouldn't destroy the label), sucked out the air, put that in a coffee mug, filled with hot tap water.

I don't want to keep re-heating the juice, tho. So this time I just put a drop in and shook the livin' hell out of it for a while, a couple times.

 

[Sirkris]

My taste buds usually burn out when the flavor percents are really high.
Another experiment you may want to try is diluting the original juice with a nicotine base equal to the mg you vape. Make sense?
This would cut the percents of flavoring in half, and possibly extend the amount of time you can vape that flavor.

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[ghost1k]

made my first diy ejuice... i had a bottle of mothers milk i was vaping on, made my first batch of diy shake n vape... that mothers milk will be sitting there for a while lol

 

[OBDave]

Curious how this turned out - FA Bilberry should help in a big way, though I always have to heat my own blends via a hot water soak and periodic shaking due to the high VG content I use...