Can you share some info regarding the melon boba? I've seen boba's bounty mentioned a lot on e-cig forums but frankly I don't spend much time on them because it gets overwhelming quickly, even to a moderately educated vaper. What's your setup?
I'm looking to make some informed purchases before wasting any additional money on gross juice.
Melon Boba's totally unrelated to Boba's Bounty; the latter's named after the Star Wars guy I think, but the former's referring to the tapioca. It's basically just a combination of honeydew, cantaloupe and watermelon flavors, with a very subtle milk mint undertone to it. There's no element of tobacco whatsoever. Has a fairly good throat hit to it, which combined with the flavor is what keeps it my main vape.
The guy that mixes at GLV is
really good and there's a ton of flavors to try out on his site, but this is still my favorite. Some of his others haven't been hits with me but they're still well-made liquids; more often than not from that site it's the throat hit being weak than the flavor really turning me off, though with the Magic Fairy flavor it really just kind of tastes like some kind of medicine.
I've tried Five Pawns too and they had some really interesting flavors - I particularly
loved Queenside, which was basically an orange creamsicle flavor - but none of their stuff had any throat hit to speak of, which is a deal-breaker for me. They're also one of the most expensive vendors out there, which doesn't help.
If you want my advice on how to get started on the right foot, get 2 eGo Twists (with the charger and wall plug), at least a 5-pack of some IkenVape 510 cartomizers (either the 2.5 Ohm standard ones or the 3.0 Ohm Mega Fusions), a cheap aluminum or stainless steel drip tip, and some juice you think sounds interesting. Maybe throw in a couple Kanger MT3 clearomizers if you want to try those. My experience with them has been a little inconsistent, as was my experience with Boge cartomizers, which is why I switched to IKV cartomizers. I don't use my Kangers anymore, and truth be told I don't find them all that more convenient compared to the Mega Fusion cartomizers anyway and don't see myself going back to them.
I picked up one of the disposable Blu e-cigs just to dip my feet in the water with this phenomenon.
A lot of the problems I had with it (irritates my throat, makes me cough, tastes like mint toothpaste and not a menthol cigarette) are probably related to it just being a cheap, disposable product.
But my major concern is that it was not at all satisfying as a cigarette substitute. At no point did I really stop wanting to go smoke an actual cigarette. I thought that maybe this was because they were using a low nicotine concentration, but their
website claims they are using 17-24mg, which is way more than I thought I'd ever need or want since I only smoke 6-10 cigarettes a day. Am I going to have the same problem if I switch over to a more costly and reliable setup?
I had the exact same experience as you the first time I tried vaping. This was a few years back (so they were probably even shittier) but it was the same idea; I was already a smoker, and bought one of those disposable Blu singles from a Walgreens or something.
In my case the problem was apparent from the start; the thing just had absolutely no throat hit. It was like sucking in flavored air, and while cigarettes basically taste like the devil taking a dump in your mouth, it wasn't much better.
These Twists I have are a whole different experience. I really don't have a reason to consider smoking anymore; for me the entire satisfaction of cigarettes
was the throat hit, and with these it's proven that it can do that better than a cigarette. Maybe it won't be the same case for you, but at the very least I can tell you it's definitely a different experience vaping my current stuff than it was that plastic stick I tossed in the garbage can back then.
Thanks!
