Adding concentrated essence and food colouring for fun

mattiegk

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I've smoked bubblegum infused buds that smelled and tasted like bubble bum, was pretty much like smoking sweeties , I've read about people doing all sorts of flavours by feeding a few drops in the flush stage with water.
Has anyone done this with food colouring? The idea just came to me , I'm all about experimentation so I might do it . Literally just a food grade colouring with no smell or taste . Thoughts or anyone tried this?
 

mattiegk

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I'm thinking you might get coloured pistals/hairs and a slight colour in the stems like most flowers , the dye will get sucked up the plant no douts about that
 

Kili Frunza

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Haha this is interesting but is it still healthy to smoke afterwards? I mean cannabis is a medicine, will it affect it in any way? Not sure but i am curious myself
 

Siino Gardens

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Haha this is interesting but is it still healthy to smoke afterwards? I mean cannabis is a medicine, will it affect it in any way? Not sure but i am curious myself
People put it in the food we eat, only difference is going through the liver or going through the lung. I wouldn't do this but I am curious what happens when you do.
 

mattiegk

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Ok I've done some searching and found it's been done before , works in hydro best 2weeks from harvest. , you need a lot of dye. What is very effective is cutting the stem and letting that sit in the dye , the plant will suck up the colour in 24hours . Seen pics of this and it did look cool
 

Labs Dexter

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I feed raw honey with bottled water after week 5 of flowering and that helps sweeten the buds and creates allot of crystals. I wouldn't do the food die, why not cool your room temps to 17-18c and that will rush colours in at the end of flowering naturally... Nearly all plants have colours when you cool em in the last weeks.
The food coloring might looks good but realy doubt it's gonna smoke good... Just imo
 

Cl@rksville

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Ooooher you're messing with a great force of nature here man...
If a root was human it would be a massively intelligent life source, the filtration system it utilises has never been worked out properly, even by top biologists, simply because its so complex! Somehow it knows that this pigment is there and holds it back, it dyes the roots nicely though! To trick a plants root zone into releasing this dye into the plant is a whole new story...

I once flushed a shit strain with a sweet, blueberry food flavouring for a week or 10 days to enhance its bag appeal, res stunk of berry, house stunk of berry even my clothes and undies stunk of berries but weed stunk and tasted of weed... my brother a very clever fella worked in fragrance and flavours all his life, terpenes, oils, hormones, auxins, esters, chems, compounds you name it. He tried introducing neat flavour compounds, terps, oils etc to his crop all the time, it never worked and somewhere on here I read his ramblings regarding it. In fact reading through his grow diary was a revelation as to how far he took his experiments, like some some mad bastard in a white coat!!!

Chop a stem and stick it in blue food dye and for a week it will take up the colour, we did this at school and a bit more of a complex experiment at uni. But it only gets the leaves and white flowers, it'll be dead before it gets into the flower bud of MJ imo. Chlorophyll as a pigment is like a colour defence system it don't like other colours coming through them roots man, don't get your hopes up and try it if its of interest to you... Plus I like shit like that :idea::weed:
 

TimeToBurn

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Ok I've done some searching and found it's been done before , works in hydro best 2weeks from harvest. , you need a lot of dye. What is very effective is cutting the stem and letting that sit in the dye , the plant will suck up the colour in 24hours . Seen pics of this and it did look cool
Yeah I searched too awhile back and its been done before. Takes lots of dye and tastes horrible when smoked. It was good for show/pictures only.
 

mattiegk

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:wink: mainly not doing this though save maybe a 1/4-1/2 oz from my 15oz crop
i will however be trying to maximise my natural smell and taste though manipulating and preserving natural terpines
will let you know how that goes. just ordered a AC unit to give my babys some cold treatment'
 

Labs Dexter

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:wink: mainly not doing this though save maybe a 1/4-1/2 oz from my 15oz crop
i will however be trying to maximise my natural smell and taste though manipulating and preserving natural terpines
will let you know how that goes. just ordered a AC unit to give my babys some cold treatment'
Try raw honey one table spoon a 14 litre water for last week of leaching I swear by it. If you have a Holland and Barretts get the zamibian forest raw organic honey is what I use.
And watch the crystals form more and you end up with sweet buds,..
My uncle uses fresh from the hive and that's how he gets crystals on his landrace and in heat of East Africa.
 
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