Flavors of Marijuana (picture)

heyy guys,
I was browsin thro GHS and came across this. I figured it's pretty sick as it is a good way to really describe the flavors of whatever you're smoking (should help out with Smoke Reports).
Enjoy!

Weed tastes are all just hype IMO. When you get right down to it all weed tastes pretty similar with very minor variances. If you really want a super fruity taste you'd have to do some long term curing with fruits like they do with tobacco. In any case, I smoke for the high taste is a secondary function to me. I will say weed smells vary more than taste to me. I've had berry smelling, spicy smelling, and citrusy smelling weed, but they all taste about the same once the flame hits them.

Ronjohn7779 said:

Weed tastes are all just hype IMO. When you get right down to it all weed tastes pretty similar with very minor variances. If you really want a super fruity taste you'd have to do some long term curing with fruits like they do with tobacco. In any case, I smoke for the high taste is a secondary function to me. I will say weed smells vary more than taste to me. I've had berry smelling, spicy smelling, and citrusy smelling weed, but they all taste about the same once the flame hits them.

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Sometimes the tastes are very subtle, sometimes it's night and day. Many have a similar base taste.

*Tips:

1) Smell it! (pull it out of the bag and take a deep breath).

You'll notice different base smells (along with the tastes, the smells are Sweet, Sour, Spicy, and Bitter) along with subtle undertones (which the 'map' breaks down in flavors).

2) Try putting weed in a pipe, and pulling in (without lighting) hold the taste in and 'sample' it like you would wine or tea. The same bases & subtle hints can be noticed, like when you smell it (think of tasting a fine cigar, the herbs/spices/infused flavors)

That will give you the taste of the terpenes before being burned.

3) Burn it! When burning scents will hit your "taste buds". Another trick is to "Smoke Through the Nose".

First, take a decent puff from a properly-lit stogie. Not surprisingly, your mouth will fill up with delicious smoke. Good. Next, slowly release about 80 to 90 percent of that smoke by gently blowing out.

After that, close your lips, trapping the remaining smoke in your mouth. This time, instead of releasing, literally swallow the smoke (as you would any food or beverage). Then, with your mouth still closed, blow out through your nose. If you see smoke, congratulations…you’ve just smoked through your nose.

Why go to all the trouble? Well, let me answer that question with a question: Ever notice you can’t taste food when you have a cold? That’s because flavor information can’t make it to the odor receptors in your nose.

Our noses can tell the difference between many different tastes, but our tongues can only detect a few flavors: bitter, sour, salty, and sweet. Only about 10 to 20 percent of flavor information comes from our tongue. Smoking through the nose, therefore, will allow you to detect flavors and aromas on the palate you otherwise wouldn’t be able to by just smelling cigar smoke.

Now you certainly shouldn’t do this on every puff – once or twice per cigar should do the trick. Just give it a try and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

With different strains you'll start to notive flavors and scents that you may not have noticed before. Go through your kitchen spices and smell and taste different ones, you may be able to associate aromas/flavors that you didn't notice before.

Ronjohn7779 said:

Weed tastes are all just hype IMO. When you get right down to it all weed tastes pretty similar with very minor variances. If you really want a super fruity taste you'd have to do some long term curing with fruits like they do with tobacco. In any case, I smoke for the high taste is a secondary function to me. I will say weed smells vary more than taste to me. I've had berry smelling, spicy smelling, and citrusy smelling weed, but they all taste about the same once the flame hits them.

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wonder where you get your bud from. come out to cali and smoke some medical bud and i bet you will be like damn wtf is that

damn, that chart is sick. +rep

monstagonja said:

wonder where you get your bud from. come out to cali and smoke some medical bud and i bet you will be like damn wtf is that

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I can guarantee you I get some of the dankest weed you can get in my area. I've also smoked a lot of "namebrand strains" friends have grown...and guess what it all tastes the same in the end. People hype up taste to make themselves feel like a connoisseur...I say get over the hype who gives a shit how weed tastes? Seriously, weed connoisseur are a joke get over yourselves I say, all you're trying to do is get high (I'm using "you're" in a general sense not calling you out). I don't know a single person that smokes for it's taste. If that were the case I say smoke pipe tobacco, now that shit tastes good. As I said the high matters most and 99.9999% of all weed tastes the same for the most part. The only time I can tell some variance in taste is with a volcano and even that is minor. For instance the sour diesel I got tasted like a more sour weed, but it wasn't that major of a difference.

thats sweet

I have noticed different flavors in Mary. It seems to me the most basic and common difference is the very inner circle of the chart. I notice the bitter or sweet or sourness of the herbs I have smoked. I have also smoked some fruity strains, but those are more of a smell than a flavor, except lemon. Lemon anything will have distinct lemon taste on the exhale.

It could be that I vape all of my herb.

I wonder if that chart helped them out with their 200,000 seed packs that were sold in the first 6months of 2009.

i wish i could send you some of my harvest when its done Ronjohn7779. you could do a side comparison of my cannalope haze with a chocolate thai, you would DEFINITELY taste the difference. the strain names give these no justice. i also have a random bagseed thats in flowering right now and i took a sample off it to get a general idea, it smells lemony and has the sweetest taste, it was like i was sucking on a ludens throat drop. yes generally weed has the same taste but in the background. i have had strains that were knock you on your ass potent and they didnt taste anything like weed, jilly bean tastes like a tropical fruit drink! i dont know just maybe move out of your area and try some other stuff.

ps. bubblelicious cured correctly, volcano that then your mouth will taste like bazooka joe bubble gum.

clasonde said:

i wish i could send you some of my harvest when its done Ronjohn7779. you could do a side comparison of my cannalope haze with a chocolate thai, you would DEFINITELY taste the difference. the strain names give these no justice. i also have a random bagseed thats in flowering right now and i took a sample off it to get a general idea, it smells lemony and has the sweetest taste, it was like i was sucking on a ludens throat drop. yes generally weed has the same taste but in the background. i have had strains that were knock you on your ass potent and they didnt taste anything like weed, jilly bean tastes like a tropical fruit drink! i dont know just maybe move out of your area and try some other stuff.

ps. bubblelicious cured correctly, volcano that then your mouth will taste like bazooka joe bubble gum.

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ya ronjohn be crazy..

Dr. VonDank said:

I wonder if that chart helped them out with their 200,000 seed packs that were sold in the first 6months of 2009.

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heh possibly. I didn't pick it up because it has GHSC's seeds on it.. I picked it up to break down base flavors, undertones, nuances, etc.

I am working on a list of terpenes found in marijuana and the effect they have on aroma and flavor.. it is pretty badass! A lot of the terpenes in marijuana can also be found in other herbs, flowers, fruits, trees, etc. and give related aromas/flavors.

You'll find with strains like blueberry, most of the terpenes present, can be found in the actually blueberry plant