Flavoring Extract

_BushBaby_78 said:

Hey everybody! Wanted to gauge opinions real quick. How well does using flavoring extracts in soil work? I'm using an organic lemon extract to enhance smell and taste as an experiment. I noticed with a certain brand of vanilla extract that my leafs would turn brittle and discolored. I looked at the ingredients and found it has alcohol in it. Use was discontinued. Can I boil the alcohol out and still use that particular extract or no?

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MICHI-CAN said:

I never tried soil additives. Not logical to me. I do use fresh lemon leaves off my trees to flavor infused oils. And I would suggest just scraping a vanilla bean if you want the oils and no alcohol. Boiling it will just leave a small amount of a mess. Not much in extracts besides alcohol.

Best of luck with this one.

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Beehive said:

Here's how to do it. It's old-school.

Take a cut branch, that's going to the drying tent. Stick the cut end of the branch in water with vanilla. Or other flavoring.

Roots filter things. They won't uptake a flavoring or else it'd taste like fertilizer.

With a cut branch. You're skipping the blockage that's the roots. The branch will wick up the flavoring water. After the soak. Dry as usual.

It's not practiced a lot because most folks like pure weed. Nothing added. If they want a different flavor. They'll roll it up in a chocolate flavored blunt wrapper.

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drsaltzman said:

I was gonna say the same thing.
You know how they can make blue roses? They take white ones, cut the stems and use blue coloring in the water.
So it might work after the plant is finished and you cut a bud and do what Beehive said.

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