Oh, I’d throw in some MEO-EST with the EST, P103 and P80. It works especially well with them!
Depends on the pheromone. With some I want to wear 2.5mcg and some I want to wear 50mcg. Generally, I prefer to start small and build up as I get to know how a pheromone works. Some people prefer to do the exact opposite – start with an intentional od and back off. I see no wisdom in making my first impression of a molecule potentially awful. If you buy higher concentrations, you can dilute a few mL in a togo with grain alcohol to get 2.5mcg or whatever you want. Buy a couple of pipettes with your next order. They are only 99cents under Mixing Supplies.
If you are going to be mixing pheros, you want to buy larger concentrations. Otherwise you might wind up having to spray thirty or forty sprays of your mix to get reasonable dose. [The example below would be 91 sprays if it were made completely from 2.5mcg pheros.] I usually aim for a concentration of about four times what I want to use per dose of my mix. So if I am going to use 7.5mcg of P80, getting a 30mcg bottle would be good. Getting eight times might seem even more reasonable in terms of spray count needed from the final mix, but those high concentrations start to get expensive and hard to work with.
I like to build a mix table like this:
dose pherom conc spray 4x 8x
12.5mcg P83 025mcg 1/2 02 04
50.0mcg P86 025mcg 2.0 08 16
07.5mcg P80 030mcg 1/4 01 02
6.25mcg TAF 025mcg 1/4 01 02
12.5mcg MEO 025mcg 1/2 02 04
37.5mu P103 050mcg 3/4 03 06
100.0mu EST 100mcg 1.0 04 08
xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx 5.25 21 42
The table is ugly because the text editor removes multiple spaces so I need to come up with contrivances to keep the columns lined up. You can make a much prettier one which is easier to look at with a pencil and paper – plus, you can erase pencil!
This is only an example, using some of the pheros you have mentioned. Change it to suit your wishes.
The first column is the dose.
The second column is the pheromone.
The third column is the cocentration of the bottle you’re mixing from.
The fourth column is the theoretical number of sprays of concentrate per dose. The column four total is the number of sprays of the mix per dose.
The fifth column is the number of theoretical sprays of concentrate per four doses. Why four? You have to complete column four before doing column five. Four doses is like a common denominator and gives you whole numbers easy to work with. If you had a column four with 1/5 and 1/10, you might use 10 doses for column five. I typically run into 1/2 and 1/4 in column four so I use 4 doses for column five.
You have to complete column five before doing column 6. Column six values are a multiple of the column five values. Here they are each twice the value in column five or eight times a single dose. Using eight times gives you total of 42 which if you’re using the spray technique is the approximate number of sprays in a goto bottle. If you only want a half togo to test first, you can just use column five. If you wanted to fill a 30mL bottle, you might use 6x to create column six and the total would be 31.5, which is the approximate number of mL in a 30mL bottle. You’d then use pipettes to add the column six number of mL for each pheromone to the mix.
But remember a togo spray is 5/6 or .833 times the size of a regular spray. The total of column four gives you 5.25 sprays per dose. You’ll have to adjust that to 6.30 sprays per dose [5.25 * 1.20] if you have mixed it into a togo bottle from 30mL bottles. You need 20% more sprays for the same volume from a togo bottle. Of course, if your concentrates are from togo bottles, it will all work out, but you’d have to recalculate in the opposite direction if you pour it into a 30ml spray bottle (i.e. the 30ml bottle dose would become 5/6 the number of sprays).
I hope I haven’t confused you. Making a table like this is the easiest way I have found to develop and manipulate mixes.