Developing a palate?

I used to smoke on and off but never was big into it but stopped once I got to college because I couldnt fail any drug tests. Ive started up frequently though after a pretty serious injury and I know a lot of people on here are always talking about tastes. I personally never really get much of a taste from smoking any of it, only with one strain I recently got called Big Ben do I have much a taste, which is really more just spicy than anything. I heard getting a vaporizer like a volcano makes it a lot easier to really taste the strains though, and less coughing....

I guess my question is, will I just start to notice tastes more as I become more experienced with smoking regularly? Cuz I dont really want to spent 500 on a volcano lol

thanks everyone

smoke some og kush or sour diesel or blueberry or trainwreck or....NOT big ben

tasty weed taste, grow your own, or change supplier

the problem is probably your bud all the stuff i get which is top quality nuggets not reggie has a strong taste and if not still very noticable
however some strains have little to no taste but the majority of the bud you get when you pay high buck should have a high quality taste
either a deep fruity/earthy taste,sour,sweet,skunky or spicy etc. and if it isnt then i would suggest getting a new connect if not an option
i guess you will just have to live with what you get and dont go buying a volcanoe just because your product dosent taste good

It is definitely a developed palate sort of thing, you will get better at it the more often you smoke... but you don't necessarily taste it every time. You will definitely taste it when changing bags, though. Have a lot of different strains on hand at once and you will be able to rotate them and notice it more often.

But, like anything, it's a matter of familiarity with the "general' flavor of weed. When you have sort of numbed that out of your taste range you start to notice the finer intricacies from bud to bud, heh. Probably not the best way to put it but it's kind of accurate.

I'll also point out that if I smoke constantly I taste it less each time... but if you smoke intermittently and give your nose/throat a chance to clear out the taste, you'll taste it again without a strain change or anything. It all has to do with relativity... if your mouth tastes like candy canes already, you're not going to taste a candy cane very much, but if your mouth tastes like a burrito already, a candy cane is pretty damn noticeable. Shit works the same way with your nose.

You will definitely notice Sour Diesel having a taste of it's own lol. OG Kush was a revelation for me; it has this particular peculiar scent and taste all of its own. Super sweet strains like bubblegum haze are also nice from time to time. Try changing your papers, cleaning your glassware and omitting any herbal mixers you are using if you're not using a vaporizer. AltarNation said the gist of it x

Yeah, sour D for teh win. I always recognize and can taste out sour D. Purple Kush has a pretty recognizable taste/scent to me too. But Sour D is just so obvious... literally smells like diesel-gas and sour candy, heh.

im working on my first grow right now, its master kush. But the stuff I got from my new guy is easily the best overall quality ive ever had. Both strains I got were frosty, smelled great and were not fluffy buds. Its just kinda lacking much taste but ill clean my equipment and give it another try. Just dont know if I wanna even keep the spicy strain because im not a big fan of my throat feeling on fire after 2 hits

Not a big fan of "spicy" weed myself, and usually consider it a step down in quality... I don't know exactly what causes that... could be just a strain taste, but it also might be something mis-cured or something, because it shouldn't feel harsh on the throat either way, whether it's a matter of bad cure or strian or whatever... who would want to smoke something extra harsh? Hah.

Cool on your master kush, that shit is good. My whole grow was 7 bag seeds so I'm going to get a variety of god-knows-what... I just hope I did enough of a good job to get something quality out of these. Might go ahead and buy good genetics for my next round so I can compare quality and determine how important it is...

Some people never do...

When I started smoking I though it all smelled and tasted the same. Once I started smoking more frequently and was being exposed to different varieties side by side it was super obvious to me but I couldn't pinpoint strains/genetics from the taste/smell alone. Smoke a whole bunch more and half the time I can tell you what type/lineage the bud is - if you give me two buds of trainwreck from the same grow but different plants I can usually tell A from B - fairly subtle differences.

I have an older friend that has been smoking for longer, been exposed to all the strains, good, bad... If you have one bud that smells like dog shit and tastes like cheese and one that smells like berries and tastes like candy he can tell the two apart by taste only half the time. If you give him two fruity strains - even if they taste/smell extremely different (imo), he can't tell the difference at all.

It's really a personal thing - my wife for the life of her can't tell the difference between different coffee varieties - Instant Uban tastes the same as primo fare trade freshly ground stuff...