Can you use capilary action to benefit your fresh cut cola's?

[Icemud]

I was pondering this idea but really couldn't find a good answer online...I'm still searching but would love someone's input...

Ok, most of you probably remember that kindergarten experiment where a piece of celery is cut, stuck in a cup of water with food coloring, and after a while, the leafs turn colors...right??

Well can the same be done to freshly cut branches with colas or even a full plant at harvest time to help clear out salts/nutrients for a better taste?

Say you cut your plant at the main stalk/stem and remove the roots and pot, and immediatly put this into a bucket of water for a good 4-6 hours under your lights...wouldn't this allow the plant to continuously suck up pure water, and help rid it of nutrients? Or say you left it there for a day or 2 in just the water? Just like a christmas tree it will remain living for a few days at least right?

If this was true, couldn't you also add extracts such as vanilla or peppermint to get a sort of flavor or scent from the plants?

Im curious to know what you all think or maybe have experienced...

 

[Icemud]

I found only one article dealing with the same question/topic and I don't know the rules of posting full articles on here...so I will only post the title and writer and if your interested you can look it up... but this seems to possibly be something that can be taken even deeper than just flushing your weed...

Rootless
Transport
Mechanism
(The RTM or Dr. Allen’s Procedure)
David B. Allen M.D.

It seems that with this we may not only be able to have cleaner tasting and smoother smoking plants, but also be able to add flavor/fragerance, possibly other things such as medications or even increase THC content...

Pretty awesome thought...

 

[Oregons Best]

For years, people have been adding extracts to enhance the flavours in our area. I personaly have put freshly cut colas in a jar of Peach Snapple and back under the lights. The taste was not really peachy, but I did notice the trichromes swelled a little and the flavors/aroumas were a little more intense. My patients can tell the differance in a blind taste test so I guess it works. My pallet must be tainted from years of cigarettes.

 

[Icemud]

For years, people have been adding extracts to enhance the flavours in our area. I personaly have put freshly cut colas in a jar of Peach Snapple and back under the lights. The taste was not really peachy, but I did notice the trichromes swelled a little and the flavors/aroumas were a little more intense. My patients can tell the differance in a blind taste test so I guess it works. My pallet must be tainted from years of cigarettes.

It's good to know that people have done it before and it has worked Right now I am on some High Mad Scientist shiz trying to find out what compounds make up THC, and then if there is a way to feed these into the cuttings to increase THC content...

So far my curiosity is with vinegar, being that it is mainly acetic acid and water... being that acetic acid is a carboxylic acid and one of the precursors for cannabinoids, can take a cutting, dip it in a vinegar/water solution and increase THC production?

 

[Oregons Best]

Sounds possible. A little over my head though, lmao.

 

[Icemud]

Yeah its over my head too...I'm exploring it thought and would love to hear others opinions...especially botany or chemistry majors

 

[NCDude]

thanks for posting

 

[miwa]

Yeah its over my head too...I'm exploring it thought and would love to hear others opinions...especially botany or chemistry majors

Very very interesting...Treating Yourself Magazine #18


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[Icemud]

That article was the only one I could find with information on this...I think I may try it with a couple different cups...One with just regular distilled water, some sugar or liquid carboload... and maybe one with some grape juice or somthing, maybe even one with food coloring just for fun I am really curious to know if this works....especially for having super flushed pure tasting buds...

 

[norman]

It's good to know that people have done it before and it has worked Right now I am on some High Mad Scientist shiz trying to find out what compounds make up THC, and then if there is a way to feed these into the cuttings to increase THC content...

So far my curiosity is with vinegar, being that it is mainly acetic acid and water... being that acetic acid is a carboxylic acid and one of the precursors for cannabinoids, can take a cutting, dip it in a vinegar/water solution and increase THC production?

Actually, THC biosynthesis is pretty complicated and simple precursor feeding seems unlikely to help much. And the precursors are really complicated terpenes themselves, so you'd have to somehow get these compounds in hand and then get them up into the plant (and I doubt they are very water soluble). Check out the biosynthesis image on Wikipedia in the THC entry.

This is in contrast to other psychedelic-producing plants: those that produce DMT (as I recall) do respond favorably to tryptophan feeding. This holds true for mushrooms too (that make psylocibin, only one or two steps from tryptophan). While I have never tried to spike growing fungal cultures to increase potencies, I think the biosynthesis is simple enough it could work, and I recall reading research reports of success.

Cheers,

Norm

 

[whitey83]

I just looked up dr allens rtm procedure and tonight after looking around the house to see whats handy i have decided to try the rtm procedure to flavor my ak49 autoflower plant that was stunted and stressed. My wife has thise e cig things that have flavored nicotine oil drops and i squirted about 1/2 of each bottle into a solo cup for each flavor and added some bottled water and stirred. Im a smoker in good health so it doesnt really bother me the possibility of ingesting nicotine in my buds. I plan on leaving the branches in the cups for about a week. Im tryinhbout strawberry, cherry, cotton cany , watermelon and rasberry. Dr allen stated that by soaking in vanilla ectract for a week but claimed that in just 24 hrs u could smell the vanilla in the colas. he said everyone loved the vanilla. I will report back with the results after i get to sample the smoke