Welch's Juice adds flavor and color!

Pravius

Active Member
Well no shit this explains it. Ever since I have started growing I have been shooting loads in my plants to provide some extra protein we all know Semen has a ton of protein. Sell a ton of this to the ladies for some reason they love it, there has been a report around town of quite a few immaculate conceptions.. well now we know, I am going to be owing some child support. Thanks alot Welch's Grape Juice dude.
 

bigjesse1922

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WOW!!! see that RIU!!!!! this is what is looks like when 2 adults discuss something.......and i didnt call bigjesse a name the whole time!!!!!Nor did he call me one


see RIU!! it can be done!!!!!
I am glad we could set an example.

And thanks to you as well for civil discussion. :joint::peace:
 

massah

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Another thought just came into my head, I don't know why i didn't think of it earlier...so we have that lovely root system as a barrier to introduce flavor/color/etc into our beloved Mary J, why can't when we cut the stem off throw it down into a bucket of fruit juice for the night instead of trimming that night...proven by several experiments with many other vegetables/flowers/etc the capillary action sucks up the juice and perspires it...hmmmmm I think I have something to try out with my Iranian G13 which is already a bit fruity flavored to begin with...

*gets out his bill nye t-shirt*
 

suTraGrow

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WOW!!! see that RIU!!!!! this is what is looks like when 2 adults discuss something.......and i didnt call bigjesse a name the whole time!!!!!Nor did he call me one


see RIU!! it can be done!!!!!
hehe you all exchanged like 3 posts :-D not much of a convo ;)
Wonder what would happens another 15min into the convo when the disagreements would start occurring. Haha no no i joke your all awesome.
 

gfreeman

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Another thought just came into my head, I don't know why i didn't think of it earlier...so we have that lovely root system as a barrier to introduce flavor/color/etc into our beloved Mary J, why can't when we cut the stem off throw it down into a bucket of fruit juice for the night instead of trimming that night...proven by several experiments with many other vegetables/flowers/etc the capillary action sucks up the juice and perspires it...hmmmmm I think I have something to try out with my Iranian G13 which is already a bit fruity flavored to begin with...

*gets out his bill nye t-shirt*
perhaps this experiment should be done with a strain that has NO fruity taste to begin with...

that way when a fruity tastes is detected, it can be attributed to the fruit juice, and not the strain itself.
 

GreatwhiteNorth

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perhaps this experiment should be done with a strain that has NO fruity taste to begin with...

that way when a fruity tastes is detected, it can be attributed to the fruit juice, and not the strain itself.
No fruity taste - or - exotic coloration.
 

Jogro

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OK, kindergarden celery experiment aside, I'm going to give my serious response here.

First of all, I've never actually tried flavoring marijuana this way, nor do I have any interest in doing so. If I'm going to be smelling marijuana (let alone smoking it), I think I'd like to smell what the actual herb smells like, not some added flavoring agent. It really ought to smell and taste pretty good all by itself!

You don't take beautiful $25/lb Hawaiian Kona coffee, then add artificial hazelnut to it, do you? Would you take a nice 14 year old Scotch whisky then add it to RC cola? How about taking a $25 Dominican Cohiba cigar and then dipping it into cherry cough syrup? So if you wouldn't do those things, why are you going to take your $300/oz homegrown connoisseur herb and soak it with Welch's grape juice?

If I want to taste some grape juice, then I'll just drink some, preferably a nice Chardonnay from Napa, fermented then aged in oak for five years, thanks. I wouldn't want to take a chance ruining good cannabis with kiddie flavoring tricks.

Next, I believe adding grape juice to your grow is just fundamentally a bad idea. Grape juice is basically just a concentrated sugar solution. Add that to your soil, and you're potentially going to cause all sorts of problems with bacterial and/or fungal growth, attract insects or other pests, and even potentially damage your plants roots.

Unlike the cut celery experiment, plant roots act as biologic membranes; they don't just instantly take up any liquid they're surrounded with. Flavoring agents (actually smell agents) are generally large organic molecules, and without good evidence to the contrary, I'd assume that even if added to soil, the plant roots simply wouldn't absorb them. They'd absorb the water from the grape juice, but not the smell.

Also, plants have metabolisms. Any flavoring agent that did get taken up by roots would probably be metabolized by the plant relatively quickly and effectively destroyed.

Now, if you really wanted to get your grape juice into your buds, you MIGHT be able to do that if you cut off the plants stem at harvest, then immerse the cut stem into (say) a whole cup of grape juice for about 3-4 days. A little light at the top would ensure the plant would transpire water vapor out, and then take up your grape juice via capillary action through the cut stem, just like the food coloring in the celery experiment. Most of the grape juice would probably go into the plants leaves, though some probably would get into the buds.

Even so, again, grape juice is mostly a concentrated sugar solution. So while you may have gotten some smell/flavor in, you've also filled your buds with sugar, which once dried will caramelize when burned. Not sure I'd want to smoke that.

Might was well just take your cured (or uncured) buds, and just soak them in grape juice then redry (or cure). Seems easier to me, and probably more "effective", even if this is like dipping your expensive cigar into cough syrup.

In short, I believe that adding grape juice to your plant's medium probably will NOT cause it to be taken up by the plant, and it might even hurt the plant. Adding it to a container with CUT plants for a few days might let it get taken up into the leaves and buds, but even if this were to happen, I'm not sure the result would be worth the effort.
 

Jogro

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No fruity taste - or - exotic coloration.
Well to be clear, the molecules that give grape juice its color are probably different than the ones that give it its flavor.

So if you tried this experiment, coloration (present or not) really wouldn't tell you anything about the flavor. In other words, the leaves could turn purple, yet the plant have no special taste; or it could have zero color change, yet taste like grape Kool-aid.

Again, even if this did work, personally I still wouldn't do it, but a relatively cheap and easy experiment would be for someone to take two clones, and drop one into a cup of Welch's for a few days.

Then they could dry and cure both, and give them (blinded) to a second person to smoke. The sampler would be asked if

a. There was any difference in the smoke, and
b. If he/she tasted anything "unusual" and if so, what.

That would be a better experiment than having someone smoke something they expected to be flavored since expectation bias could throw off the results.

Again personally, I wouldn't try this even if I knew it would work, but since I mentioned Grape Kool aid, as nasty as it is, I think the concentrated artificial flavorings in it. . .MINUS SUGAR. . .might make a better added flavoring agent.
 

gfreeman

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OR you could jsut invest in a strain that tasted fruity. THERES SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM. lol

silly rabbits, welchs is for kids.
 

massah

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Even so, again, grape juice is mostly a concentrated sugar solution. So while you may have gotten some smell/flavor in, you've also filled your buds with sugar, which once dried will caramelize when burned. Not sure I'd want to smoke that.
ooo...didn't think of that one...ok then, artificially flavored grape drank it is then :D
 
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