flavoring salvia ?

[nickelz34]

does anyone know any techniques to flavor salvia? i had a few people tell me to mist it with sugar water and than some say to water it with sugar water. i have also heard of using mint extract with water and spraying the plant with it or watering the plant with it. i mean you would think that if you added a little mint to your water bottle that it would affect the flavor if you smoked it? or maybe a menthol flavor like newports lol. any ways i was just wondering bc i saw a website that had bubble gum salvia, lemon, mint ,and some other flavors.

[hmuzik]

I personally wouldn't want to add anything to the soil thats not fertilizers or water.

When it comes to flavoring the salvia - you might as well do it when its already taken off the plant. It will have the most retention at that point anyways. Plus you don't have to worry about doing anything harmful to that plant.

[Arcygenical]

Flavors are just applied when the product is drying, and dry on the leaf.

For a cheap one at home, get some peppermint and spearmint leaves, and a stevia leaf. Crush 1 of each leaf for every gram of dried salvia extract you've got. Put these leaves in 20ml of acetone, let them sit, strain the solution, let it evaporate down to 10ml or so, and using a glass medicine dropper, wet your pile of extract with the solution.

Harsher smoke, but a bit flavored.

Pure vanilla extract is also a good choice if you can dilute it with some sort of high purity ethanol (0.5tsp vanilla in 1tsp Bacardi 151 or USP ethanol will flavor around 10g of extract).

[gnorme]

flavour for raw tobacco.    
perhaps worth a try?

[nickelz34]

hmm i wonder what would happen if i get a few mint plants take them apart then make a soil with these natural mint plants in it. than plant one of my salvia D. it this soil while watering the plant with watered mint extract solution. if the plant grows with this setup when it gets ready to seed i wonder if it will produce a seed that could have traces of the mint still in it.

i have seen my grandmother when i was little take a white rose and add blue food coloring to its water and in a few days the flower instead of being totaly white had traces of blue it it. so this must mean plants can uptake differant substances from their water.

maybe this idea is totally stupid ? idk it was just a thought lol

[MstryShovel]

its _possible_ to do this nickelz but the level of actual taste would be highly suspect, the reason roses and flowers do the coloring thing is because they take up water, thinking its water, but its really water-plus.  if you mixed old peppermint into the soil it would only decompose into a natural fertilizer. and watering with a flavoring would probably only cause a placebo effect as the molecules of the "peppermint flavor" would probably be too big or rejected by the roots. your best be would be what Arc sujested, or even mixing in dried peppermint into the final batch, u know like mixed crumbles of dried leaves.

this would be a cool idea if it worked though, but im plausible