Not just extract but also flower; though I wouldn’t know how to mix it properly. I was wondering if blends or pairings are a “thing” in US and Canada. If so, how do they go about the pairings and what would one look out for in creating nice blends?
This is outside of crossing strains in the grow. I mean blending two extracts as an example, and how one goes about the considerations for a successful blend.
Well I’m not sure I got your question correctly but I’ll attempt
We noticed our lemon banana sherb crashed crystals (THC) like crazy (forgot which genetics, circ. 2017-2018). It’s flavor was there, but it didn’t overtake the profile of other strains. On the other hand we had some Slymer that wouldn’t do a thing, small grainy crystals in a black soup if anything. We found that we could use LBS to force crystals while modulating the taste with other strains that we couldn’t get to crash. All fresh frozen material, treated properly extracted on a full sized MEP paired with a GC5000 punisher.
We also had so much LBS and didn’t want to slam out that many of a single sku. We continued to mix and match at random, nothing came out unsellable. I now belong to the church of LBS
Was it sold as such? Like, was it labeled as a blend. Did you find any change if effect going from single strain to mixing?
I had more in mind of creating various flavor pairings and noting differences in effect by combining two high quality shatters as an example, unkown ratio’s. Much like is done with come Cognac makers, as all XO that I know of is never single cask. Noting the obvious process differences keeping in mind the end result if that makes sense.
I saw a company rolling buds in hash and oils and thought this can be done in a much more refined way.
Yes it would have been sold as strain x strain on the jar.of sauce or whatever it was. We would pack the columns in layers of the bud.
I know a lot of companies are doing infused smokeables in my part of the country, king rolls by kingpen and lil jeeters. They can be done well but sometimes it tastes harsh af, like combusting a cart in a joint…
I envision something like… noting effect from strain 1, noting effect in strain two and then mixing them both at different ratio’s to get a different kind of high that you may not achieve from single strain. Terpene profiles would have to pair well but I don’t think that’s going to be difficult.
Then achieving a desired effect and selling it as such noting on the label the sort of experience one might have.
This all might sound silly but I like making things and I have watched on over time a very elaborate and sometimes strange alcohol industry. One may be a sucker for a particular crafters blend.
Only thing i can think of is people preferring certain swisher flavors for different strains. Pretty bad example tho lol.
This sounds like something that folks in Amsterdam would be into. @Roguelab have u ever heard of this before?
Doesn’t sound too popular. I can see the first response was a more intricate way to produce a product - me more-so just talking retail and marketing by combining extracts post production as a singular product with particular notations on effect and taste - like a novelty kind of product but a tad more unique and refined than crudely rolling shit in shit.
I was thinking you were meaning like how folks will pair a certain kind of wine with a cheese or steak.
Personally like to mix any strain thats gives that earthy taste in your throat when you exhale with any gassy fruity strains. But I’m easy to please, as long as it smells strongly like terpenes and not mold lol.
I know what you mean. I just find it boring smoking single strain extract all the time. I do mix them but I don’t have enough product to mix up a decent menu. And I like it - if I can only get Sativas this week and Indicas next week I’ll mix and match to get a different kind of high, which might be more refined to my personal tastes.
Flavoring though, I have to admit I don’t think is a big deal - no one is ever going to say it tastes bad. It’s weed, not beef.
My question was more like do any stores or extractors do this and label a unique product - how far do they go to display it’s uniqueness and so on.
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The Purple Poison Cookies (10/31 extraction date) was not a mix worth repeating. Durban & GSC might have been a win, but the Purple Kush didn’t bring it together…
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My favorite cart flavors are 3:1 hemp terps:botanical terps.
My wife’s absolute favorite flavor is 3 parts Fat Dog CBD Suver to 1 part Denver Terpenes Blueberry Kush or 1 part Floraplex Orange Daquiri. The blend adds complexity you wouldn’t get from each by themselves.
Strawberry cough + lemon diesel terps blended make strawberry lemonade carts. That was sold as a blended strain cart at my previous shop, and was my best seller.
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I know the owner is floating around on here somewhere. Super knowledgeable dude and willing to chat up a knuckle head like myself.
@PharmExOregon is great guy, and sent me some samples of cbg/a, and the terps. I sincerely appreciate anyone that takes the time to send a sample of what they produce, and the same goes here. But, that’s why I went straight to him. Well, that and the fact that he offers gram sizes on his site. Maybe one day I’ll buy kilos, but currently that’s not realistic
THIS - this is what I’m talking about. Have you tried adding different strains to the mixture as well? I am trying to combine two shatters, one sativa dominant the other indica dominant and trying to make a day - time happy high.
Oh but then I want to try out some different canna derived terpenes and try to see if the dabs come out differently. Taste matters man.