How to make sweeter tasting buds?

Hey everyone, im I'm growing my first purple strain (mendo purps) and just started 12/12. I wanted to know the best way to enhance that fruity purple taste.. also I have some jack and green C I'm growing for the first time too. they are young and still have a few weeks to go befor flowering but if anyone has any info on them also that would be great.. thanks everyone for ur herb knowledge..

Look into high brix gardening.

dial in your temps, rh, c02, air flow, nutrient supply, water quality, light supply and garden habits. nothing else is needed for perfect plant expressions to their fullest potential
your plant will only grow to its weakest resource. you get to decide what that resource will be.
If you find you gain extra good smells, or healthier growth by adding another resource you'll see its only because you were shorting it in the first place. The best light in the owrld wont do shit if you over water the plant all week. The highest quality nutrient system will not support a healthy plant in high temperatures, or with no c02, for example.
the last resource I provided in my rooms was c02. I find that terpene profiles increased as well as overall plant development. when I add something to my garden now... my plants suffer. I feel dialed in now and want for nothing.

First off, I have been growing for quite awhile now, and I no one thing. I can plant 8 seeds of the same strain and get some times 8 different pheno's.

For instance this last hindu kush run all of them were beautiful, they all smelled fabulous and all were a little different, some sweet some skunky, and as for taste out of the eight only 3 had really nice hashy flavor.

So I guess what I'm trying to say its my opinion you can do all the right things in regard to growing and loving your plant , but if its not in the seeds makeup its not going to taste.

What kind of soil are you growing in? If you're growing in a living organic soil with a dialed in environment then you'll have some of the best tasting buds in my personal experience. And, believe it or not, there have actually been studies showing that certain microbes (bacteria more specifically) actually produce terpenes that would otherwise be unavailable.

I forget exactly where I read it, however a quick google search was able to bring up some links to back up those claims.

http://www.medicinalgenomics.com/microbes-and-terpenes/

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2014/12/terpenes

So pretty much just get your living soil and grow environment as dialed in as possible and you'll get some incredible quality. A good enough soil that is properly taken care of and maintained will turn anyone into a good grower. Only way I'm doing it

Get better strains.

What's up kratos! Yeah, I'm in a living organic mix. My first time doing it. They are looking great. Actually once I hit them with the AACT, holy shit they took off. I'm actually having to adjust my grow space because theyre filling it up faster than I thought.. I sprouted 10 reg seeds in hopes of getting 5female and I got 9. Though I've already stated to flower, they have shown no signs of slowing down... thanks for the info guys.

kratos015 said:

What kind of soil are you growing in? If you're growing in a living organic soil with a dialed in environment then you'll have some of the best tasting buds in my personal experience. And, believe it or not, there have actually been studies showing that certain microbes (bacteria more specifically) actually produce terpenes that would otherwise be unavailable.

I forget exactly where I read it, however a quick google search was able to bring up some links to back up those claims.

http://www.medicinalgenomics.com/microbes-and-terpenes/

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2014/12/terpenes

So pretty much just get your living soil and grow environment as dialed in as possible and you'll get some incredible quality. A good enough soil that is properly taken care of and maintained will turn anyone into a good grower. Only way I'm doing it

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Also, I wanted to ask u, what light do u prefer for flowering.. I have hps hps and mh. I still have a few plants in my veg room I've been running a MH with but they will be going to flowering room in a week or so, so I'm going to put one of each in the flowering room when I take the ones from veg to flower as long as amount of electricity permits.. In my flowering room I have a 400watt MH going but was going to take it in my veg room since that mh bulb blew out. and put a hps bulb I i havr and put it in the flowering room for the time being untill until they are all in flower.. what do u think? I've read that alot of people havr been going with MH for flowering. Just wanted to get ur take and make sure changing the lights around all Willy nilly won't cause any problems like herming..

A proper strain, with a proper cure.