Flavor and aroma

[Miraculous Meds]

Simple question here is flavor tied to aroma. So if I have a very flavorful strain, will it have a strong aroma?

I do feel u can have a strong aroma without a strong flavor. I have experienced this. But I cant recall a kickass tasting strain, that didn't have a good aroma to go with it.

 

[chak-ra]

It will largely depend on your skills in curing the inflorescences.

If you haven't managed the curing technique properly (which is strain dependent), you'll breed 'in the dark'.

There's no telling apart from experience, how a strain will taste after a certain cure (method, technique, %humidity, temperature, time, etc).

 

[Euphoriaholic]

Some of my best keepers were the ones with the strongest aroma.

 

[Miraculous Meds]

It will largely depend on your skills in curing the inflorescences.

If you haven't managed the curing technique properly (which is strain dependent), you'll breed 'in the dark'.

There's no telling apart from experience, how a strain will taste after a certain cure (method, technique, %humidity, temperature, time, etc).

Ive never heard of curing differently for different strains. I will have to look into that. Is there a thread on it? and I have to look up the word inflorescences, idk what it means.

 

[Chunkypigs]

I don't know if it's as direct as saying the louder the smell the better the flavor but it seems related to me.
Many of the strains whose flavor impressed me most like OG, cookies, diesel, etc all had special smells.

I'm looking forward to a time when testing terpenes is common and there's a way to quantify the smells and flavors better.

 

[Miraculous Meds]

I don't know if it's as direct as saying the louder the smell the better the flavor but it seems related to me.
Many of the strains whose flavor impressed me most like OG, cookies, diesel, etc all had special smells.

I'm looking forward to a time when testing terpenes is common and there's a way to quantify the smells and flavors better.

Me too. Id love to be able to test terps and all cannabinoids on everything with ease and it being affordable.

Thanks for the response, this is the sort of thoughts I wanted to hear from people. Since testing these isn't super easy, convenient, or affordable for me personally.

While almost every great tasting strain Ive had, was accompanied by a good aroma. I have had a few strains that had amazingly strong odors, but not good flavor. I would love to understand more what makes that good flavor, besides the obvious being grown well and dried and cured properly.

 

[Former Guest]

a couple days ago I was reading this thread where a grower talked about this in one of his posts.

As an extreme example, I've seen healthy plants grown in LITERALLY straight chicken manure. Poorly composted, dry hunks, etc. The smell of the terpenes were AMAZING! It was a room full of Sweet Pink Grapefruit, and the room smelled EXACTLY like a warm warehouse stacked to the rafters with fresh grapefruit boxes. Amazing. But, the smoke was harsh. The plants showed some signs of pH flux, but overall the plants were surprisingly happy being is straight up chicken shit! The experiment taught me a lot! Actually, this was many years ago... when the dude told me he used straight chicken shit, I was ready to watch them curl and die! But that didn't happen. So surprised. We learn the best lessons from witnessing extreme examples like this.

At the other extreme of my plant growing experiences was the time I threw a single Sharon White Widow clone in some sandy soil, between two groves of White Pines. I gave her ZERO ANYTHING! I came back in the autumn and found that she had barely grown. I got about 1/4 oz from her. But let me tell ya somethin', that was THE BEST smoke I've EVER had in my life. Tasted like pine, burnt better than a dream, and the stone was off the charts, from my own experiences anyway.

So, the two examples, both polar opposites, can be seen as one understanding of nutrition and the effects on both growth potential and smoke quality. For me, I grow weed to smoke it, not to weigh it. However, it has always been my quest to be equally impressed by both the weight AND the smoking experience of indoor, organically-grown cannabis... This is my Holy Grail of indoor cannabis growing, and of course, I'm still looking for better polishes to use on that Grail, to get it to shine ever brighter. Always searching. Always looking for opportunities to identify that my current ideas are flawed, so I can move upward from those understandings. I LOVE being wrong! It means a new opportunity to know better has just showed itself. Ego and pride ARE deadly sins after all! Deadly to one's personal evolution. They stagnate a person, lock them into inferior understandings.

 

[Chunkypigs]

one of the things I've been checking out are the testing labs that do terp tests and publish the results.
some strains are coming close to 10% but most are 2-3%.

certainly there are many factors that will affect these numbers but I like having a number that measures "loudness".

 

[br26]

go read a book on esters , and aromatic compounds

this is all organic molecules

 

[chak-ra]

Ive never heard of curing differently for different strains. I will have to look into that. Is there a thread on it? and I have to look up the word inflorescences, idk what it means.

I'll explain tomorrow bit tired right now. Or you can PM THC123, he knows too