Compost Teas - Piney taste?

Hey. We did this grow with compost teas, and water.

I've experienced this with two out of three Silver Afghani plants from a prior grow and now again with the first of four plants harvested of this grow.

Cfl and Led were used for lighting if that is a factor.

This plant was in a smaller container, but still finished, and the two silver afghanis were in one gallon containers and also were able to finish.

All four plants from this grow are from seed, the three silver afghanis were from cuttings.

The one silver afghani in a three gallon container was perfect in flavor and medicinal effect.

The three remaining plants from this grow have been in 5 gallon containers. They are a Girl Scout cookies that was from an outdoor that got seeded last season, not sure what might be in as a cross pollination.

No bottled nutrients, just compost teas. Any input on what's up with the piney flavor? Thank you.

keysareme said:

Hey. We did this grow with compost teas, and water.

I've experienced this with two out of three Silver Afghani plants from a prior grow and now again with the first of four plants harvested of this grow.

Cfl and Led were used for lighting if that is a factor.

This plant was in a smaller container, but still finished, and the two silver afghanis were in one gallon containers and also were able to finish.

All four plants from this grow are from seed, the three silver afghanis were from cuttings.

The one silver afghani in a three gallon container was perfect in flavor and medicinal effect.

The three remaining plants from this grow have been in 5 gallon containers. They are a Girl Scout cookies that was from an outdoor that got seeded last season, not sure what might be in as a cross pollination.

No bottled nutrients, just compost teas. Any input on what's up with the piney flavor? Thank you.

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can't think of anything other than simply coincidence, none of my strains ever changed the actual flavor. regardless of what nutrients I use.
That's weird. I can't recall ever having anything really influence the taste of the strains I grow, sure things will make it a lil more pungent or stronger smelling, but not actually changing the flavor.
SSTs, cocowater, comfrey fpes, those will make them (or it seems to make them) more pungent and perhaps a bit more "crystally"
but not changing the flavor

may depend on how bare your soil is, I've done runs with ZERO nutrients added (just out of curiosity) and the flavor of those plants is somewhat subdued, but I can't say it makes it piney though.
whats in your soil?

greasemonkeymann said:

may depend on how bare your soil is, I've done runs with ZERO nutrients added (just out of curiosity) and the flavor of those plants is somewhat subdued, but I can't say it makes it piney though.
whats in your soil?

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Organic compost sourced locally and organic soil I've built from gardening over a season. Possibly traces of kelp meal, bone meal, and blood meal, as I had one batch of soil that got mixed into the garden after a grow. No other direct amendments to the soil for these girls though. Also, on the soil note, I'm feeling a lack of aeration, coco coir would fluff up the soil as it feels a bit too dense after running a grow through this batch.

keysareme said:

Organic compost sourced locally and organic soil I've built from gardening over a season. Possibly traces of kelp meal, bone meal, and blood meal, as I had one batch of soil that got mixed into the garden after a grow. No other direct amendments to the soil for these girls though. Also, on the soil note, I'm feeling a lack of aeration, coco coir would fluff up the soil as it feels a bit too dense after running a grow through this batch.

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I am a firm believer in excess aeration.
I base that solely on the post harvest inspection of the soil, more aeration means more dense root ball, at least in my experience.
BUT it also means that you want a bigger than normal container.
the GSC is sort of a piney skunky taste, at least the ones I've done.
Hard to say though, all my strains have specific tastes and smells, and I can't say anything I do really changes that, like I said, you can increase resin and crystals just on the sheer health of the plant, but the actual taste, I can't say I've influenced enough to mention.
I can say that my best results have been with using organics in a meal-based soil mix, with Homemade EWC and amended compost.
One thing I will mention though.
Certain bat guanos do tend to lend their smell to the nugs. I HAVE seen that.
which is a lil weird considering my understanding of organics, but the relation was noticeable.

Compost teas won't effect flavor. Im guessing its just genetic influence since piney flavor is quiet normal in cannabis. Have you read much about terpenes and their role in flavors and smells?

Could it possibly be because you used blood meal and bat guano and etc? I'm doing the same thing as you pretty much but my compost was made of strictly veganics and some soil egg shells etc, and I have read from some where a while back that if you use those it could have a effect with the soil which will lead to plant. Then again I could be wrong but I could have swore I've seen something state that