Lemon Tea, as a last supper!?

[Cheesus]

Sup guys,

I've been googling around and checking forums all over the web, for an answer to...

How does people get the different taste and smell of different strains. I.e Cheese, smells somewhat like cheese,
super lemon haze smells/tastes a little like citrus, u catch my drift ?

How does it work?, i mean, it comes with the strain, i wanna make my own strain with its own smell and tast of something i really like, how would i do that? or do u have to be some kinda genius to make it?

found some info about serving your girls a last meal with taste extracts like vanilla, lemon, orange etc once or twice before harvet can give you some smell and taste of what you gave them.

Have any one tried this, sounds really nice if it does work.


/Cheese

 

[Cheesus]

This is a copy paste of one dude on the web. I dont know if its BS or not. any one with experince (or not) are welcome to give their thoughts on this.


His reasoning is this, on one of his grows, shortly before harvest, he added fish emulsion as a top dressing to his soil. He harvested shortly thereafter and was horrified to discover that his bud had actually smelled and tasted of dead fish. A light bulb went off over his head and he had his epiphany.

This is the article he wrote...

People pay a lot of money to get seeds they think will grow pot that smells like blueberries or chocolate or something else.

Often these strains are hard to grow or may not be as potent or high yielding as other less expensive varieties.

People want to know if orange bud smells and tastes like an orange. With the proper techniques you can make your favorite variety smell and often times taste like anything you want.

You want to do this without ruining the cure. It's no point having blueberry pot that burns your throat or doesn't get you high. Do not pour any syrup or similar flavorings on your pot. The sugar will make it very harsh and you are inviting mold. There are better ways.

The best flavor enhancing starts while the plant is still growing. You can do a certain amount while it's curing and you can even affect the smell/flavor somewhat after it's been cured.

There are two main approaches, inside out and outside in. You can apply flavors inside the plant while it's still growing and you can try to add flavors after it's been harvested but this is from the outside.

Anything you put in your plants water will affect the taste of the finished product particularly if you harvest it right afterwards.

I learned this about 20 years ago the hard way. I fertilized using fish emulsion right before I topped the plant. Bad move! The resulting top smelled like fish and had a foul taste.

What you want to do is select a flavoring that is very concentrated. Lets take orange for an example. You could use orange juice but if you could find concentrated orange extract you would have less pulp etc to deal with. You will find some concentrated flavor extracts in the grocery store.

Want your pot to smell like vanilla? Vanilla extract is cheap and readily available, so is lemon extract (cooking variety). Other extracts can be found in stores that specialize in baking supplies.

Lets say you can't find any of that and you want to use what you have on hand. I took the example of orange flavoring. If all you have is orange juice you could use that.
I would suggest filtering it first to get out as much of the pulp as possible. A coffee filter works well but it'll take a while to filter it all.

You may have to change filters a few times. Those with hydroponic units will shudder at the thought of a lot of goop going through their system. That's why I suggested the concentrated extracts if you can find them.

It's important to do this shortly before harvest. For one thing, most extracts including the ones you make up yourself have a lot of sugar in them. This sugar will ferment and decay rapidly, even more so in a hydro unit.

With hydro I recommend putting the flavoring in the water between 1 and 3 hours before harvest. This rule isn't set in stone but I heard from one grower who used a sugar based clearing solution on his crop and less than 24 hours later the water was foaming from bacteria growth.

Plants draw up solution fairly quickly so one hour should be enough for some of the flavoring to reach the top.

Three hours should not be enough time for bacteria to grow but you will want to dump out the solution right afterwards and clean out your unit.

If you read the SU of Mar 27 you knew to use plain water for a few days before harvesting your hydro crop so all that will be in the water will be the flavoring.
If you are a soil grower it's even easier. You might think it would take longer for the flavor to work it's way through the plant but this is not the case.

All you have to do is let the plant dry out a little before your apply the solution. In other words schedule a watering just before harvest.

Naturally you were giving your plants plain water for several days to a week or two before harvest weren't you? Give the plant the water with the flavor when it's a little bit thirsty and it will draw it right up. One hour is more than enough time for this to happen.

After harvest it's important to give it a good cure as I described last week. Resist the temptation to fast dry some of the weed to try it out. You will find it's even more harsh than it would be normally because you have added some sugar to the plant by way of the flavoring.

The curing process will take care of the extra sugar and give you nice mild smoke. It will also have the flavor and aroma you are looking for.

 

[Cheesus]

Found this site on the web that sells flavour extracts

Tasty Puff Tobacco Flavoring.

Think it can work ?

 

[WizHigh]

Well for starters what ever flavor your trying to get it has to be real strong. And anything is possible to put it in your soil just make sure the sodium isnt above 1% and alot of other bad things that might f up your grow. Its will only be needed in the last week to get the flavor or smell in the buds. Organic products will work best. I will be using organic blueberries in mine to change the color of the buds and flavor. Also lemon juice is a good one and pineapple. I havent ran across any liquid cheese or something with out alot of salt.


The link you got looks like its only for spraying it over top of the bud. So i dont think it would work very well. In that case you mine as well get some real stinky German cheese and stick it in the jar while curing. That would work to.

 

[Cheesus]

The link i posted have both spray and drops.

I would never spray anything on the buds, but putting stuff in the soil sound good.

So basicly u buy a bag of blueberries (or what you would like as a taste), and put them whole in the soil?, or do you crush/blend them and make a juice and give the the last week?

 

[WizHigh]

Yea you have to crush them up in a blender. If you want the cheese flavor I would say sit a block of the strongest cheese in a jar while curing

 

[Cheesus]

Thanks man =) much appreciated

 

[WizHigh]

No problem.

 

[Cheesus]

Wiz are you still around?

quick question, about how much water are u using when doing your "juice"? and about how much berries are u using =)

Happy new year

 

[WizHigh]

Just add what ever amount to your feeding or water per gallon. You can use 1 whole bag of blueberries I suggest getting organic ones. The blueberries will turn your bud purple to. Oh and use a blender.

As for juice you only need about idk say like a couple tblespn per gallon. If its lemon, pineapple, orange, coconut it shouldn't take much because those are very strong smells. Make sure it's concentrate though. Goya food juices may even work. Remember it's only used in the last week before harvest.


Happy new year to you also Cheese!