atomicData
Well-Known Member
Hey, y'all.
This has been bugging the shit out of me, so I thought that I would see if any of my RIU brethren had any ideas. My last grow, which was my first grow in a few years, has been dried and cured and is sitting in jars. I have tried smoking it in a paper, and even in a freshly cleaned pipe, and both times have found the taste disgusting. I know what good pot tastes like, and this isn't it.
It tastes like it has already been burned or something, like rolling a joint from old roaches. I don't understand how this can be. I flushed the shit out of the plants. I flushed both plants at seven weeks with a bunch of water, one was without food for two weeks, the other for nearly a month because the goddamned trichomes wouldn't turn, so it isn't a matter of not flushing enough. I was growing in Canna Coco, and I used only the base nutrients, Canna Coco A and B, to see how it went. The water I used was mostly RO with a bit of tap water, since it helped to buffer the water up a bit. Lots of people grow with tap water, so I also assume that is not the issue too.
I have come up with two hypotheses for this foul weed flavour. One is that I didn't use any extra supplements to increase terpene production in my pot, only the base nutrients. I used to grow in soil with organic nutrients and this is my first grow with this type of nutrient system. Perhaps this is what pot tastes like without all of the extra terpene scents?
My second hypotheses is that I contaminated the plants' tissues. I was using an old bottle of 85% phosphoric acid as a pH down solution and an old bottle of 45% potassium hydroxide as pH up solution. I think that I used the pH down solution the most. These bottles are several years old. Maybe pushing a decade; I'm not sure. I have now noticed that the cap liner for the bottle of phosphoric acid, which is coated in what appears to be some kind of metal foil, has had some of the metal foil dissolved off of it. I assume that that metal would end up in the phosphoric acid. Does that mean that it ended up in my plants? Could that have caused the taste?
The last plant that I grew a few years ago had the same problem and I assumed that I just hadn't flushed it properly. I had used the old pH adjustment chemicals for that grow too. Perhaps it is just a coincidence?
I am not using these old compounds on my current grow, so maybe time will tell, but I don't want to miss something and have it happen to my current grow too.
This has been bugging the shit out of me, so I thought that I would see if any of my RIU brethren had any ideas. My last grow, which was my first grow in a few years, has been dried and cured and is sitting in jars. I have tried smoking it in a paper, and even in a freshly cleaned pipe, and both times have found the taste disgusting. I know what good pot tastes like, and this isn't it.
It tastes like it has already been burned or something, like rolling a joint from old roaches. I don't understand how this can be. I flushed the shit out of the plants. I flushed both plants at seven weeks with a bunch of water, one was without food for two weeks, the other for nearly a month because the goddamned trichomes wouldn't turn, so it isn't a matter of not flushing enough. I was growing in Canna Coco, and I used only the base nutrients, Canna Coco A and B, to see how it went. The water I used was mostly RO with a bit of tap water, since it helped to buffer the water up a bit. Lots of people grow with tap water, so I also assume that is not the issue too.
I have come up with two hypotheses for this foul weed flavour. One is that I didn't use any extra supplements to increase terpene production in my pot, only the base nutrients. I used to grow in soil with organic nutrients and this is my first grow with this type of nutrient system. Perhaps this is what pot tastes like without all of the extra terpene scents?
My second hypotheses is that I contaminated the plants' tissues. I was using an old bottle of 85% phosphoric acid as a pH down solution and an old bottle of 45% potassium hydroxide as pH up solution. I think that I used the pH down solution the most. These bottles are several years old. Maybe pushing a decade; I'm not sure. I have now noticed that the cap liner for the bottle of phosphoric acid, which is coated in what appears to be some kind of metal foil, has had some of the metal foil dissolved off of it. I assume that that metal would end up in the phosphoric acid. Does that mean that it ended up in my plants? Could that have caused the taste?
The last plant that I grew a few years ago had the same problem and I assumed that I just hadn't flushed it properly. I had used the old pH adjustment chemicals for that grow too. Perhaps it is just a coincidence?
I am not using these old compounds on my current grow, so maybe time will tell, but I don't want to miss something and have it happen to my current grow too.
