New to DIY, question about consistency

[Cuppa noodz]

Hey now! So, I started making juice about a week ago, (the forum definitely gave me the guts to try ) and I've acquired a ton of different flavorings, as well as VG and PG from Bull City Vapor. I quickly composed a few recipes that I've noticed to be popular on the web, and I'm very happy with my juice as far as flavor goes. However, what's really bothering me is the consistency of the juice while vaping. Ill try to explain this to the best of my ability. When I drip into my RDA, on fresh cotton, I noticed that the cotton becomes over saturated very quickly. Then, when I vape, I don't get the nice crackle and pop that premium juices always have. Instead, it's more like a flooded sound, reminiscent of over dripping. More of a gurgle, and less of that nice "rip" I've grown so accustomed to. When things begin to get dry, and I redrip, my RDA is prone to leak and fill up quickly, as if the cotton is having trouble really absorbing the juice. The only other time I've ever noticed this is while vaping lower grade "bargain" type juices. Premium juice seems to soak right up into cotton and literally burn better and cleaner. I'm trying to figure out what I can change in order to get a more quality vaping experience, because my initial impression of DIY is very off putting simply because of this juice consistency issue. My juices are around 80/20 VG/pg, anywhere from 10-18% flavoring, bull city vapor VG/pg, and 60mg nicotine from nicotine river in pg. None of my juices have steeped much, but I'm nearly positive this is not a steeping issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Scy123]

The only thing I can think of is the VG/PG ratio is not the same. As long as it's the same it should vape the same. Premium ejuice is not magic!

 

[fratervapor]

Any chance you've got your pg/vg ratio reversed?

Recipes were traditionally written pg/vg, so if you were following a recipe written like that and interpreted it as vg/pg you would have a much thinner consistency than you were expecting. And some of those symptoms.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

I would personally change the ratio to a 30/70 PG/VG blend. I was doing all of my mixes at 20/80 when I first started, even less PG than that if I could, and I definitely had the same problem of the cotton taking forever to soak up the juice. At 30/70, which seems to be the most common ratio with the premium juices I used to vape, it absorbs into the cotton nicely. You even get the bonus of a stronger more pronounced flavor from your juice!

 

[Cuppa noodz]

Thanks for the responses. Yeah, I was assuming my best course of action was to drop to 70% VG. Hopefully that's the solution. I plan on mixing later tonight, so I'll update later. If it's still flooding at 70% then I'll assume it's the base itself and switch brands.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

With a dripper, the possibility of different saturation is much higher than a continuous feed system. I use my drippers carefully and generally for testing DIY or other's juices. But in the end, I stay closer to RTAs. My Reos, seem to be in the middle. I give a pump, it saturates and the remainder drains back down.

I just recognize that my drippers have more inconsistencies.

 

[Cuppa noodz]

I like my tanks, but I drip 9/10 times because the flavor and vapor production is unparalleled in my experience. That's why I'm willing to spend the time to adjust my DIY juice to make it best suited for getting the most impressive dripping experience possible. Stuff like looper just drips amazingly with little gunking and consistent aftertaste.

 

[Neunerball]

Some people mix some (real) destilled water or Vodka in their high VG juice, in order to make it more fluid, which in turn might also cause those sounds you described.

 

[SteveS45]

Are you compensating for the flavoring? Some of mine have PG in the flavoring which you must allow for in the Recipe using the calculator. Make sure the calculator had your flavor set for the right percentage of VG/PG. O prefer a thick VG/PG ratio of 80/20 over a 70/30 muself.

Good Luck!