cutting 48 to 24 500ml

[shnikies]

Hi first time poster here I've been vaping for about 6 years now. Ive been mixing my own for about 2. Anyways what I am trying to do is take a 500ml bottle of 48mg 100%pg and cut it too make two 500ml bottles of 50/50 24mg liquid. I was going to split the 500ml bottle in half with two 500ml bottles and top both bottles with pure VG to get my 50/50 mix. I was trying to figure out if adding this much VG would ruin the luiqid. Ive made a lot of small mixes but never one this large. I appreciate the help.

[mcquinn]

The flavor would be cut in half as well.Other than that you would end up with 24 mg 50/50 .Try 10 ml first and see if you like it,would be a shame to ruin that much liquid.

[Mike]

If you are cutting unflavored 48mg pg with equal amounts of vg there are a couple of things to keep in mind. You will have a 50/50 pg/vg @24mg. This would be a good base to use if you vape at 18mg or less. I say this because you could then take the the 50/50 and add flavor(s) which are mostly pg and possibly a bit more pg without nic to hit your desired nic level. This will give you less than 40% vg in the final mix which is just thin enough for just about any type of clearo or carto. Otherwise you may have to use water or alcohol to thin your eliquid. The other thing that comes to mind is shelf life. 500ml is a lot of eliquid and 1000ml is a ridiculously large amount. I like to use up anything I have within 6 months or so and if I had a liter that would last way too long. I put my vg in last and don't pre-mix it with my pg with nic but that doesn't mean it's not ok to do that. In either case the clear liquid will turn a light shade of pink after a month or 2 but this doesn't effect anything. PG and VG both have a shelf life of at least a year when kept in a cool dark place and much longer if refrigerated or in the freezer, which I don't think is a good idea because this could lead to an accident and it's just not necessary to keep such large amounts. Your better off keeping no more than a 6 month supply of DIY stuff IMHO and buy it fresh when you start to get low.

If you are cutting flavored 48mg eliquid, mcquinn is right, you with end up with half the flavor level in the end.

Edited May 4, 2013 by Mike

[shnikies]

Thanks guys i was just trying to save some money. I'm already getting a good deal on 500ml just trying to stretch it even further. I'll just stick with 500ml at 24mg.