Colloidal silver in the Res instead of H2O2. Any thoughts?

Japanfreak

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no doubt more than one way to skin a cat people.. keep this in mind.. yes clones will root in the dark .. Japanfreak "kinda" proved this.. but by no means is this an approved method of cloning for "advanced" "EXPERT" gardners right "Japanfreak"..aka fdp4life.????
I don't know who you think I am, I only go by this handle and in rare cases when I have to use another it usually a variation of the same handle. No kinda about it but I understand you're too lazy to check or too cynical to believe. As far as "expert" growers go I don't know if anybody has ever done a side by side test of cuts rooted in dark compared to ones that haven't but once again, if you don't have experience just make it up right?
 

doniawon

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This guy did it also, not the best looking cuts going in but they were non worse coming out with roots.

Yeah and in 5 days 3/4" of an inch of the stem started to die off and root above the neoprene collar. i dont believe it. How old was this clone??
 

Japanfreak

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I too thought it looked like damping off, turned out to be root bumps above the net-pots, I had never seen that before but I think he found out the reason for that. Any other things you'd like to get wrong today?
 

jakesteed

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Damn! You guys are talking some shit!

From all that I have gathered elsewhere around the internet, silver is a common trace element in soil. I read that it is good for plants and helps them fight disease just like us. I am not spraying the plant with high ppm CS to cause male flowers. I'm putting some in the res mix at a ratio of about 1:200. The PPM of the CS is 8. I don't think the plants will die or herm out. I'm doing this for a preventative for mold because I have about 10 days left to go and this shit is mad fat already. All else is cool and looking great. But I've seen it before...looking great at this point, then all of the sudden: MOLD!...in some small places on my biggest colas. I don't want to loose anything to mold this time. I consulted my nutrient company about it. They should hit me back by tomorrow. I'll post what they reply.
 

doniawon

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I too thought it looked like damping off, turned out to be root bumps above the net-pots, I had never seen that before but I think he found out the reason for that. Any other things you'd like to get wrong today?
I see it all the time on old ass aeroclones that "finally" root. where is the fuckin link.. im done with it. im on a peaceful journey now.. thanks bubblegum.
 

Japanfreak

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Like I said, do your own googling, I'm not here to prove shit to you, the thread is over at icmag plain as day. It's called a search tool.
 

Japanfreak

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You're guessing wrong, here's an idea, stop guessing. If you're a member at icmag you can use their search tool, but what's the point, what are you hoping to prove? The experiment was run just to prove that you could clone in dark, not that it was better, although some people reported better results and some talked about doing it that way for years. Some people claimed it would fit their needs perfectly.

But like people in this thread, when it was suggested a bunch chimed in with "bullshit, will never work," or "has no place or reason in growing." Now this guy is talking about CS in his rez and people who have never tried it like yourself are asserting that it will hermie or kill his plants. Why on Earth would you want to claim something you don't know? That's what I don't get about people like you. Running around pot sites seeing where you can find something wrong with the way people do things to the benefit of no one.

Just a quick search on google and I found info on CS being used beneficially in gardens, so we know that it shouldn't kill them. You claim it will hermie them, if it doesn't what are you going to do? Are you going to say, "Whoops, I was wrong"? I doubt it, people like you run away usually or make excuses when they are showed they were wrong. So go ahead guessing who I am not, I'll just keep laughing.
 

doniawon

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forgive me for being the nah sayer.. i stated that it would cause hermi's.. I really dont know.. This is worth trying. I love to see the conviction from cannabis enthusist, and the evolution of the art/lifestyle. Sorry for blowing hot air. CS is well know for its hermi'ing ability when applied to foliage but this was my only true point. No point in ruining a harvest halfway through cause your root sanitizer splashed on your foliage.. that would be about as pointless as rooting clones in the dark.. :twocents: whens the book of useless growing facts come out guys??????????
 

Japanfreak

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Well at least you can admit that you were blowing hot air, but you couldn't leave the little jab about the cloning could you? What's pointless for you is very useful for others. Now if you had any brains I'm sure you could come up with a few reasons why it would be useful, since you can't I'll just guess that you lack any imagination or insight. Not very surprising there.
 

doniawon

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actually my mind went to work when i heard about it.. its good insight. im a sore loser and i was being the pesimist. .. I will be more optimistic in my future post and japan i think me and you would acutally get along outside of school. all that arguing got me somewhere and ill admit you never know till ya try.. good luck with your future grows gentelmen.. im hittin the sack.. im looking forward to a big FU neg rep in the morning.. once again sorry for the negitive insight, and childish jabs.+rep.
 

MediMary

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I know stich says you can use colodial silver, he(stich)
and ed Rosenthal authored that book "marijuana garden saver"
 

jakesteed

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OK, Folks....ladies, gentlemen, and boys. The harvest has weighed in and it is record breaking for me, which means nothing to you, but there was no mold. Humidity outside in the area I live remained unusually low for this time of year, which very well could be a contributing factor. I applied one dose of CS during the end of week 6. One dose, in a forty gallon res, was about one quart of 8 ppm CS. It raised the solution from pH 5.78 to 5.87 and affected the ppm negligibly. There was no sign of hermification, only a gang of sexy female buds...and I didn't even splash it on the foliage! I will definitely try it again and report in a new thread.
 

jakesteed

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Thank you, MediMary, I found the small paragraph in 'The Garden Saver' that you were talking about. That gives me more confidence to use it in higher doses next time.
 

Grumpy Old Dreamer

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CS on already fem plants?

What is the hoped for outcome?
CS kills a multitude of pathogens so would/could/should be beneficial in the rez.

The only other outcome with CS is when it is applied to the bud sites and foliage of plants to turn the plant male from being a female, in which case the plant does need to be a "fem plant" to start with ... and the "hoped for outcome" is pollen.

Have a look at the second link in my sig - I have just produced my "female" pollen and started pollinating to get feminised seeds.
 

Stonetech

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Hey Jakesteed, did you just buy the CS from a health food store? I've heard they've been peddling this snake oil to cure everything from athletes foot to cancer. I know its been used for ages on burns victims to fight infections. Makes sense to use it instead of h202 in my opinion. In low dosages I doubt it would be enough to cause a hermi. The trick would be figuring out the optimal strength. Although I'm not sure if it would be more cost-effective than H202.
 
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