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I've been growing for almost 3 years now and I've never produced bad weed, in fact it has all been well above average. It smokes nice, good effects and not harsh one bit. The smell is always on point, but for some reason I can't bring out the taste of the terps. It doesn't taste bad, I must stress that. 80-90% of the weed I've ever smoked doesn't have that kind of flavour, but I know there's weed out there that when smoked you can taste the orange, lemon, Z or whatever. To be fair, I don't smoke top shelf dispensary weed evey day though so maybe that's why I don't see it often.
I come from England but now I'm living in Thailand. I had to start off small and because of that, I didn't have the money to buy everything I wanted. I've had to use the tap water which I've learned is full of 'something', all I know is the ppm is around 260 and there's no calcium or magnesium in it. I have to run calmag with every feed. RO water is available here from machines nearby but not easy to carry 5 gallons in 35-36°c heat with without transport.
Regardless, I'm going to start using the RO water as when tested the ppm was around 20 I think. I grow in soil and the stuff I've just taken down got 3 feeds with water only after tapering down the nutrients, the last one was with the RO water and it has no taste up to now. It's into day 17 of drying and its not done yet as I do it low and slow, hung as whole plants with large fans removed. Most growers here have recommended 3 weeks to me, after that it will be going into Grove bags, heat sealed and stored in my new wine fridge for a few weeks. Tried some today and unfortunately it's burning quite dark. Not black, but like a darkish grey colour. No harshness or bad taste as mentioned above. There's still some excess moisture in it but I think it could also be down to whatever is in the water. I should have tested the water a lot sooner, I hold my hands up to that dumbass mistake.
My question is this... At what point of the grow or drying phase does the taste start to come out of the flowers? I've had flower that literally coated my mouth with flavour, and then I've had buds that smelled amazing and tasted like burned flowers. I can't seem to get this part right, definitely switching to RO water and flushing harder next time which should fix the ash colour, a minor issue in my books, but I need to know what it causing my weed to have no translation of the terpenes. I want to make a legitimate business out of this here and getting my weed to taste right will make it stand out from 90% of the stuff here.
The only time my weed has had 'terp flavour' was when it was left in a jar at very low temperatures for 3 months without being opened (I was on holiday). The house had no heating on so temps were probably around 10-12°c. There must be a way of doing this quicker though as I bought some Gypsy Soap here not long ago that clearly wasn't cured for long but was the most flavoursome weed I've ever tasted, the flavour was still noticeable a few minutes after having a bong. In 20 years of smoking this plant I've never experienced flavour like that and since then, I've been obsessed with trying to figure this out.
I come from England but now I'm living in Thailand. I had to start off small and because of that, I didn't have the money to buy everything I wanted. I've had to use the tap water which I've learned is full of 'something', all I know is the ppm is around 260 and there's no calcium or magnesium in it. I have to run calmag with every feed. RO water is available here from machines nearby but not easy to carry 5 gallons in 35-36°c heat with without transport.
Regardless, I'm going to start using the RO water as when tested the ppm was around 20 I think. I grow in soil and the stuff I've just taken down got 3 feeds with water only after tapering down the nutrients, the last one was with the RO water and it has no taste up to now. It's into day 17 of drying and its not done yet as I do it low and slow, hung as whole plants with large fans removed. Most growers here have recommended 3 weeks to me, after that it will be going into Grove bags, heat sealed and stored in my new wine fridge for a few weeks. Tried some today and unfortunately it's burning quite dark. Not black, but like a darkish grey colour. No harshness or bad taste as mentioned above. There's still some excess moisture in it but I think it could also be down to whatever is in the water. I should have tested the water a lot sooner, I hold my hands up to that dumbass mistake.
My question is this... At what point of the grow or drying phase does the taste start to come out of the flowers? I've had flower that literally coated my mouth with flavour, and then I've had buds that smelled amazing and tasted like burned flowers. I can't seem to get this part right, definitely switching to RO water and flushing harder next time which should fix the ash colour, a minor issue in my books, but I need to know what it causing my weed to have no translation of the terpenes. I want to make a legitimate business out of this here and getting my weed to taste right will make it stand out from 90% of the stuff here.
The only time my weed has had 'terp flavour' was when it was left in a jar at very low temperatures for 3 months without being opened (I was on holiday). The house had no heating on so temps were probably around 10-12°c. There must be a way of doing this quicker though as I bought some Gypsy Soap here not long ago that clearly wasn't cured for long but was the most flavoursome weed I've ever tasted, the flavour was still noticeable a few minutes after having a bong. In 20 years of smoking this plant I've never experienced flavour like that and since then, I've been obsessed with trying to figure this out.
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