Weird question on a theory

noxiously · Oct 18, 2011

I'm sure it's been asked a thousand times before, but I don't feel like doing a search and sorting through hundreds of posts cause I'm being lazy tonight.

I heard before that you can add "flavorings" to your res starting at about 2 weeks prior to harvest. That your plant will pick up these flavors and give a slight taste to the bud. So my question is, if I were to put some banana, strawberry, root beer, vanilla etc. extract in the rest a few weeks before harvest would it get the buds to taste like whatever extract you put in? Is this even possible? Even if the flavor isn't there I wonder if it would enhance the smell. How cool would it be to have some buds that smell like banana.

Many of these designer strains out there like blueberry, strawberry cough, etc. don't even taste or smell like the name so it's a big let down. People come up with these names that doesn't even match the strain, just because they want a strain with an awesome name.

Maybe this can be an experiment for me to look more into later in the future. Anyone have any experience with doing this?

Stoobie · Oct 18, 2011

Make sure that your extracts are not alcohol based. I wouldn't go to the market for some vanilla extract to dump in my reservoir. (I'm not suggesting that's your plan...just a caveat for anyone else reading.) There are plenty of products with flavors in them specifically made for hydroponics. General Hydroponics Flora Nectar comes to mind. Maybe someone else will chime in as to whether it works, because I haven't used it.

karousing · Oct 18, 2011

Ive had a couple friends try the additives to make it sweet/candy but marginal results. The smaller buds seemed to grab some of the flavor but the bigs ones passed on it completely.
But then again ive tried a vanilla cocoa kush which literally gave my mouth an orgasm

dbkick · Oct 18, 2011

noxiously said:
I'm sure it's been asked a thousand times before, but I don't feel like doing a search and sorting through hundreds of posts cause I'm being lazy tonight.

I heard before that you can add "flavorings" to your res starting at about 2 weeks prior to harvest. That your plant will pick up these flavors and give a slight taste to the bud. So my question is, if I were to put some banana, strawberry, root beer, vanilla etc. extract in the rest a few weeks before harvest would it get the buds to taste like whatever extract you put in? Is this even possible? Even if the flavor isn't there I wonder if it would enhance the smell. How cool would it be to have some buds that smell like banana.

Many of these designer strains out there like blueberry, strawberry cough, etc. don't even taste or smell like the name so it's a big let down. People come up with these names that doesn't even match the strain, just because they want a strain with an awesome name.

Maybe this can be an experiment for me to look more into later in the future. Anyone have any experience with doing this?

a thousand and one times, I see no point. whats wrong with weed that tastes like weed?

dbkick · Oct 18, 2011

and everyone knows if you want your bud to taste like root beer you soak your bud in root beer not put it in the res. so these flavorings, they must be meant to smoke eh?

dbkick · Oct 18, 2011

I mean if I lace my bowl with grape koolaid(this is not a racist remark) then my bowl is gonna taste like grape koolaid right??

noxiously · Oct 18, 2011

Thanks for the info Stoobie. I see some don't take experiments serious. Sure, weed tastes great the way it is, but if we just take that approach with everything then the people in the NFL would still be wearing leather helmets. Also, yea chocolate ice cream is awesome, but from time to time I like to have something a little different so I don't get burned out and take that original flavor for granted. Out of curiosity wouldn't you want to smoke some stuff that was supposed to taste like a whipped cream, or oranges, or bananas, or anything else for that matter? I don't know about you but I'm not a boring person, lol, I like to switch things up from time to time.

noxiously · Oct 18, 2011

Now back to the matter at hand. I thought about those extracts at the store, as to how they are alcohol based. I wondered if it would hurt the plants. Which more than likely it would, in large amounts. I saw some of the hydro stuff out there that's suppose to sweeten the flavor, but I want to dive even deeper by having a variety of flavors. Instead of just a general sweet flavor you could distinguish one flavor from the next.

kushnotbush · Oct 19, 2011

IMO I have not really found anything that really works as said, as far as adding further scent or taste. I haven't really tried a whole lot of stuff but what I learned with my experiments was that there was no profound effect and I got crap in my res which caused bad bacteria to grow. Anyway I hope you document your experiment because like you said who knows right? And variety is the spice of life! Good luck and happy growing.
KnB

lordjin · Oct 19, 2011

Stoobie said:
Make sure that your extracts are not alcohol based. I wouldn't go to the market for some vanilla extract to dump in my reservoir. (I'm not suggesting that's your plan...just a caveat for anyone else reading.) There are plenty of products with flavors in them specifically made for hydroponics. General Hydroponics Flora Nectar comes to mind. Maybe someone else will chime in as to whether it works, because I haven't used it.

Hydroponic flavor enhancers are intended to enhance the natural flavor of the weed, not to change the flavor to something else. For example, if you grew tomatos, your tomatos will taste better, but they'll still taste like tomatos, not hot dogs or marshmallows. This person could put flavoring or food coloring or whatever in the res, but to noticeably influence the characteristics of the plant (which I doubt would happen at all), you would have to put high concentrations of flavorant or coloring. Most definitely not a good idea. Anyone who has grown in hyrdo more than just a few times knows that any foreign matter that does not nourish or benefit the plant in some other way has no business in the res.

Edit:
I'm also against the artificial coloring of aquarium fish. And people who dye their dogs or cats should be shot.

420forme · Oct 19, 2011

They sell crap to spray on your buds, flavor puff or something, they have like 50 flavors. It does the trick if that's what you want. People will know its artificial and not want it (teenagers might). Notice people love killer weed, if its killer it can smell like egg farts and baby puke and people will beg for it!

lordjin · Oct 19, 2011

420forme said:
They sell crap to spray on your buds, flavor puff or something, they have like 50 flavors. It does the trick if that's what you want. People will know its artificial and not want it (teenagers might). Notice people love killer weed, if its killer it can smell like egg farts and baby puke and people will beg for it!

That's for people whose bud tastes like shit so they need to mask its nasty taste. I've never had that problem.

RavenMochi · Oct 19, 2011

Had a thread on this many many months ago. People that had actually tried the hydro "sweet" line of products claiming to add blueberry or citrus said they noticed no difference in the flavor whatsoever. Never heard of anything else working either. With that said, their is an amazing variety of flavors in existing strains. Bout to start choc kush x chocolope thats supposed to have a chocolate taste to it...mmmm...double chocolate chip cookies.

RavenMochi · Oct 19, 2011

lordjin said:
That's for people whose bud tastes like shit so they need to mask its nasty taste. I've never had that problem.

Yep, the same purpose of flavored blunt wraps, for shitty tasting schwag.

noxiously · Oct 19, 2011

lordjin said:
Hydroponic flavor enhancers are intended to enhance the natural flavor of the weed, not to change the flavor to something else. For example, if you grew tomatos, your tomatos will taste better, but they'll still taste like tomatos, not hot dogs or marshmallows. This person could put flavoring or food coloring or whatever in the res, but to noticeably influence the characteristics of the plant (which I doubt would happen at all), you would have to put high concentrations of flavorant or coloring. Most definitely not a good idea. Anyone who has grown in hyrdo more than just a few times knows that any foreign matter that does not nourish or benefit the plant in some other way has no business in the res.

Edit:
I'm also against the artificial coloring of aquarium fish. And people who dye their dogs or cats should be shot.

Great post, and I agree with you on people who dye their dogs and cats. One of the biggest things that I was worried about was introducing a foreign substance into the res. I look at hydro as if it's a real lab. I would think that if one were to introduce a flavoring of what ever kind that it would create bad bacteria in your res, but also, some people add molasses and that is nothing but the by product of brown sugar so wouldn't that do the same thing. If molasses works to add whatever it adds, couldn't one add honey, or pure maple syrup. Sugars are nothing but carbs, and plants need carbs to grow.

daddytroll · Oct 19, 2011

just an idea what if you soaked the roots the day you were going to cut maybe a couple hours say 2. 2 hours with a shit full of apples in the resevoir. ?? you will cut it exactly in two hours of that time. Would it effect anything? that is something to try. If no one has tried this before that is. I myself use flavor enhancers. Example: sweet, pinapple sweet, and etc. This is just an idea. i have also heard you can dump some kinda of "scent" while you dry it under it with a fan so it blows up onto the buds, but i myself have not tried this because it was an idjiot who told me to do this. Yes i said idjiot.

daddytroll · Oct 19, 2011

daddytroll said:
just an idea what if you soaked the roots the day you were going to cut maybe a couple hours say 2. 2 hours with a shit full of apples in the resevoir. ?? you will cut it exactly in two hours of that time. Would it effect anything? that is something to try. If no one has tried this before that is. I myself use flavor enhancers. Example: sweet, pinapple sweet, and etc. This is just an idea.

oh yes. my bud is clean even tho i have added these products. Taste just like a very clean smoke pretty much.

noxiously · Oct 19, 2011

I would think that it would have some sort of effect on the flavor or scent if the roots are taking these flavorings up. Sure, you would still have the original scent/flavor but wouldn't it create just a little bit of a different flavor? It's just like humans, our scent can change due to the items we eat and how much of it we eat.

RavenMochi · Oct 19, 2011

daddytroll said:
just an idea what if you soaked the roots the day you were going to cut maybe a couple hours say 2. 2 hours with a shit full of apples in the resevoir. ?? you will cut it exactly in two hours of that time. Would it effect anything? that is something to try. If no one has tried this before that is. I myself use flavor enhancers. Example: sweet, pinapple sweet, and etc. This is just an idea. i have also heard you can dump some kinda of "scent" while you dry it under it with a fan so it blows up onto the buds, but i myself have not tried this because it was an idjiot who told me to do this. Yes i said idjiot.

As far as that goes, those of us who have the misfortune of having had to smoke schwag on a reg could tell you weed has a habit of picking up smells easily. Many a time has a bud had a tint of diesel, bounce, etc from transporting. I've heard of some that would put a light light dab of essential oils on the lids of their curing jars. The weed will pick up the scent to a point.

noxiously · Oct 20, 2011

RavenMochi said:
I've heard of some that would put a light light dab of essential oils on the lids of their curing jars. The weed will pick up the scent to a point.

That's pretty interesting to hear. I wonder how well this works. Food for thought, and possible future experimentation.

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