I love your smell descriptions. Creative. Raunchy dirty diapers? Yow!
Smells are hard to describe, I am not very good with it but those don’t sound overly inviting…Did you like them?
Smell does not necessarily equate to a good smoke. Case in point is my outdoor winter crop I posted, those purple girls were some of the stinkiest ever, acrid, eye watering gaminess. Kinda hard to be in an enclosed place with it.
Thank you, it takes a few whacks at smoking/smelling samples for me to go from general descriptive words to more specific. For instance, I’d start with a sample and the description “plasticky” would immediately come to mind. But there is a better way to describe it since there are different types of plasticky smells, so I’ll keep smelling it until I run through different types of plastic or if particular memories are associated with the smell until I can narrow it down from “plasticky” to the smell of freshly opened dollar store inflatable pool toys.
I do enjoy the more offensive side of the palette. I’m struck by the plants that have smells you wouldn’t necessarily associate with plants. Fruity strains are great, but fruit are just other plants, so it’s not a wild leap to say, “here’s a plant that smells like another plant”. On the other hand, when I come across a plant that smells like bacterial/fungal infection, spoiled dairy, or hot asphalt it really pings my interest into the complexities of the plant. It also adds to the “attitude” of a particular cut.
This’ll sound weird, but I like to think of anthropomorphizing strains and visualizing them as a character. So if cannabis was a high school, the skunks, diesels, and chems would be cutting class doing donuts in their Trans Am in the parking lot blaring Megadeth, while the “mass appeal” fruity cuts are in class trying to make honor roll.
The smell does not equate to taste tho, too harsh for me. Winter hash is outstanding but I don’t smoke the winter plant straight. Enjoy the smell, just not too close.
That same strain cranks the intensity way down when grown outdoors in summer. More pleasant. Still fragrant but sweeter. The cold winter struggle must produce some stinky plant hormones. I would love to identify ways to stimulate those hormones...
Agreed. You can increase terpene production by removing or damaging leaves to simulate an animal eating the plant (
it doesn’t know the difference) as the terpenes can serve to repel any potential threats. The plants think they are just trying to deter hungry fauna. I don’t know if the terpene production is worth the trade-off of mutilating the plant, might be the subject of a future side-by-side.
She has said that in the past a few times before though so I may not be done just yet.
Gonna put 1 of each in 5gal pots and plant outdoors... These are supposed to be bodhi crosses: cacklemonkey,space monkey s1s,and Fat cherry sunshine... All fems... Don't know about forum genetics products,but I'm gonna try em...
