The Taste Of Coffee

hey guys
any one know if a batguano/coffee tea would imrpove flavour?
i have seen alot of people posting about its N enritching qualities, but nothing on taste

coffee tastes better with a small bit of salt added...

I like my bat guano with two lumps please... ;p

when i plan my garden correctly (imo) most of the nutrients will be used up by the time I harvest. Normally, even with different brand organics or home made organics the plants terpene production really shines through when its flowered long enough, which is normally the only flavor i taste in my flowers. My agent orange always taste like orangs and sour weather it was super soil or roots organic with ammended organic line ups.

I dont know if adding it will change the overwhelming terpene flavors, but thats a interesting thought.

rollinronan said:

hey guys
any one know if a batguano/coffee tea would imrpove flavour?
i have seen alot of people posting about its N enritching qualities, but nothing on taste

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Taste or flavor is an individual preference so what is yummy to one might taste like licking the bottom of a bird cage to someone else.

But if you are trying to make your herb have a coffee flavor by adding some coffee to bat guano, you can forget about it. You might end up with a flavor you like or prefer but it won't be Folgers or something.

For a plant to take in anything it has to be broken down to it's chemical elements and once that is done any flavor it once held has been 'torn apart' and no longer exists. That's why someone can't put a bunch of peppermint candies in their soil or reservoir and end up with peppermint flavored pot. It comes down to terpenoid production and that is basically genetic. Lack of elements in growth or length of flowering time can alter it some, but you won't totally change it regardless of what you do.

If flavors were directly absorbed by plants than many people's pot would take like bat guano or kelp or steer shit, etc.

You can however infuse flavor into anything, they can even make vegetable juice taste like fruit juice (V

You might be able to infuse flavor and aroma into the finished product however.... let us know if you succeed....

well the idea isn't to make it taste like coffee....
i wanted to know if it would affect the taste?
in the mix would be water , bat guano, molasses and coffee
this has reasonable NPK ratios if its diluted and mixed correctly and would provide ample amounts of nutes
but it would be further broken down while it is left to sit over a period of weeks by micro-organisims in the bat guano

I believe that everything we do affects bud taste. It is only with experimentation if you'll know if it's a good result or a bad. If you find out before getting a decent reply here, please post your findings here for others that may run across that very same question.

Serapis said:

You can however infuse flavor into anything, they can even make vegetable juice taste like fruit juice (V

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Sure, you can blend things after they are already grown and harvested and you can use all sorts of chemical additives that will bring out certain flavors and alter others but you can't feed tomato plants or green bean plants or celery plants or lettuce plants something that will make the freshly picked vegetables taste like apples or peaches or pears.

People have been trying to do that sort of thing for decades and decades, and likely longer, and it has never worked. I knew people in the late 60's and 70's that tried just about everything imaginable and their herb never came out tasting like they had hoped and some people killed plants in the process of trying.

You might be able to infuse flavor and aroma into the finished product however.... let us know if you succeed....

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Something with an intense enough odor/flavor might penetrate the green plant matter some and in doing so slightly alter the flavor but nothing someone can add will alter the terpenoids that already exist. They will not suck in/draw in some added flavor or odor and change their chemical makeup.

I feed my coffee grounds to my worms and then the coffee flavored castings to my plants.

Wet

You make some good points. This question gets asked a lot. I even had questions regarding it when i was new to growing. One thing I do now, and sorry, it's OT, but I toss in orange peel with my curing buds. I love the smell of citrus. Smell is an important sense related to taste.... If i can smell oranges, I can perceive tasting them.

This reminds me, yuk, tasty puff? gag....

Brick Top said:

Sure, you can blend things after they are already grown and harvested and you can use all sorts of chemical additives that will bring out certain flavors and alter others but you can't feed tomato plants or green bean plants or celery plants or lettuce plants something that will make the freshly picked vegetables taste like apples or peaches or pears.

People have been trying to do that sort of thing for decades and decades, and likely longer, and it has never worked. I knew people in the late 60's and 70's that tried just about everything imaginable and their herb never came out tasting like they had hoped and some people killed plants in the process of trying.



Something with an intense enough odor/flavor might penetrate the green plant matter some and in doing so slightly alter the flavor but nothing someone can add will alter the terpenoids that already exist. They will not suck in/draw in some added flavor or odor and change their chemical makeup.

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