[zingablack]

a friend of mine wonders if you put lets say purple food coloring in with the water your watering with. that while growin the buds will become purple.

i told him his an idiot and i think its a bad idea but hes hell bent on trying. so i figure if nobody has a conclusive answer i may kno in a few months

what negative side effects would the food coloring have?

[NFR]

Food coloring wont do that. They actually put dye in many fert products already. I dont see those colors come out.

You want some color in your buds, cool your room down to below optimal temps for the last few days and the purples start showing.

[zingablack]

yea i told him that. but he thinks this will be a quick fix to his to hi temps and wanting purple.... lol

first time grower. new med patient.

[Snype]

Food coloring won't do anything. Not all strains will purple when you drop temps to below 60 but a lot will. In my experience more indica's will purple compared to sativa's when temps drop.

[Herbasaurus]

First, I must agree that this is indeed stupid. Why would he want to do it? It isn't going to make anything more potent or taste better, now will it enhance the plant in any way. It definitely will not compensate for his high temps.

That being said, it does work with cut flowers as little kids know
https://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/s...ngflowers.html

You may get some slight coloring adding to a growing plant but it will probably only be slight. To see what happened when other kids have tried it try googling "coloring growing plants, food coloring in water"

You might tell him that many strains will turn purple naturally when the weather is cold.

[skunkfunk]

Say it worked and you got rainbow bud....would you smoke it ??

Hey snype your post count is freaking me out lol.

[zingablack]

lol at snypes post count.

i think he got the idea just remembering doing it as a kid.

owell well see if he actually goes through with it.

[Snype]

Originally Posted by zingablack

lol at snypes post count.

i think he got the idea just remembering doing it as a kid.

owell well see if he actually goes through with it.

[reckon]

seriously?

so if you did this, and then dip a dried bud in a glass of water, it would turn the water purple, since the dyes are water soluble.....and that's good?

and you're actually going to SMOKE THAT?!? Q: whats in purple food coloring? (or red and blue since there is no purple) A: both red and blue are refined from coal tar with red being refined from petroleum now.
so what happens to that when it's burned? so your going to inhale coal tar & petroleum extract? like 3 grams a day?


THE dumbest idea since dumb ideas

Purple color has NOTHING TO DO WITH POTENCY or FLAVOR, all it means is the strain has an underlying purple coloration, and as chlorophyll production ceases, the underlying colors come out,...just like a maple tree in the late fall with the reds, yellows, and oranges.
getting the NIGHT TIME temps BELOW 65f degrees helps to bring out the color, BUT THAT WILL FUCK UP YOUR YIELD.

I see guys on here going WAAAAAY past what SHOULD have been the harvest date, JUST BECAUSE they are trying to get more purple.

The current purple "craze" is the SECOND dumbest idea since dumb ideas, with the purple dye "cannabis nutrients", being the THIRD dumbest idea, since dumb ideas.


I harvest when it's ready,...PERIOD,.....if it's purple I really don't care,....I get the same effects and price from it either way.

(I'm SURE someone will begin the heckling now)

[Snype]

I feel you Red and I agree but the masses are dumb and they are the ones spending the money so you got to give them what they want sometimes. You can cool the room at the very end with just the right amount of cold air to not lose that much weight but I know what you mean.