Sounds good! I've been reading a lot for several weeks so far. I've bought a small notebook to take notes of all the info.
A hot plate with mixer is out of the budget for now, I'm hoping a 150mL beaker and stir rod will suffice for now.
I bought 4 50mL sterile vials and 4 60mL syringes with 18g needles 1.5" and 10 18g needles at 4" to easily reach the bottom of the media bottles, but the backfilling route sounds easier.
Are you transferring your to 10ml vials? I thought maybe 20 ml vials would be easier since the stopper would be taking a beating on a 50ml, and I don't necessarily want a shit load of 10ml vials sitting around. That looks bad lol.
Yeah, I think the ingredients and melting point of each compound seems like the trickiest parts. With heating, I'm going to experiment with just some MCT oil and see what the low setting on my stove gets the oil to and go from there. I'll have a thermometer ready.
I am leaning more towards suspension with the Var. I saw some Ora Blend online that has Ora Plus and Ora Sweet blended together. I've read that some people use Everlear with it as well, or alone. I would think a ratio of both would be best. Still researching, though .
Thanks again, you've definitely helped a lot.