I'm wondering what everyone thinks about curing... but during the drying process for the first few days having the stems resting in a diluted honey oil. Either by using honey oil with alcohol or by not fully evaporating the honey oil. The capillaries should absorb the thc with the alcohol and as the alcohol evaporates out of the buds/leaves it should leave behind the thc. This should make the buds and leaves have more thc in them correct?(the super-thc-stems can then be used with the other scraps for making honey oil again)

here's the problem, the solvent , alcohol will instantly kill and dehydrate the cells that are dipped in it so no capillary action would take place. Better to dip the entire buds in an almost dried out solution of oil, sort of "candy" coating them. That works great to beef up mediocre weed.

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Problem is if you dip it in the honey oil itself, it makes the weed taste like poopie(or so i'd assume, never done it for this reason) I know buds become worth like 3x as much in Amsterdam if they are dipped in oil, but I think i'd prefer some flavor. If i wanted a kickass smoke that tasted bad, i'd just smoke a bunch of oil or hash. Perhaps I am wrong and dipping it in oil doesn't make it taste bad. I'd still like to find out a way to beef up some buds without having it taste too bad.(I like to give the gift of giving to friends, and killer bud is always something friends enjoy)

Also are you entirely sure about that? My logic is that if the honey oil is diluted enough with alcohol/water, then it should be able to make an effect for a little while. As long as there is evaporation taking place at the buds/leafs, It will need water(in this case loaded with thc oil) from the stem. Same as any plant in a really dry environment needs more water from the roots.

Off topic but has anyone ever tried grafting a marijuana plant? same as they do with trees. Pretty interesting to have several different types of pot on the same plant.

Also has anyone ever directly injected sugars into the stem?

Depends how you made your oil I guess, ISO oil tastes like shit, period so you are correct there. Hexane or Naphtha extracted is as pure as Butane oil without the danger or air pollution (Butane IS a greeenhouse gas) I've only tried it once as an experiment with some ISO oil and it wasn't TOO bad. I'll be doing a run of Hexane extracted oil in the next month or so with all my fan leaves and a second run with all the trim leaves and some bud shake after kief screening. I'll do some "candied" bud with that for comparison.

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no I'm not, I'm just assuming. alcohol is a very dehydrating solvent. I guess there's only one way to find out, good luck.

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