I brought something up on Sawney's thread about anthocyanins. Other than the cobbing, Does anyone know of a process where you can utilize the anthocyanins that are produced?
The Black Afghani produces a lot of anthocyanins, I presume. Anthocyanins have a lot of very good benefits.
When I was informed of an old classmates ordeal with cancer, I went down a few rabbit holes. I ended up making RSO For her To deal with the pain the last few weeks, Instead of being in a opiate induced coma..
One of those rabbit holes was looking an amazing Afghani that I saw from INDIAN LANDRACE EXCHANGE on IG. That got me to look at the benefits of anthocyanins. I thought a good cross would be one of these Black Afghanis with a known good CBD medicinal strain, like Dutch Passion Charlotte's Angel.
So now I have this cross with lots of anthocyanins. What process do I use to make the anthocyanins available? The only process that I know works is cobbing. It's the whole bud. It will be there. Just slice it up and let it steep in coffee or tea. It probably could be ground up and put in capsules. Vidamints is the only anthocyanin heavy plant I've grown. Under heavy UVA, she'll get black. Vidamints was also cobbed with great results.
The only two other processes where it could be possible are infusing in oil and alcohol extraction. I guess it just depends if anthocyanins are alcohol or fat soluble. While you can get purple water when doing an ice water hash extraction , You are only extracting the heads other trichomes' and I don't think they carry any anthocyanins. Dry ice would be the same as well as blasting with butane.
Anyway, it would be an interesting cross! LOL!