LOL, I don't use either product. Some people are just stubborn and refuse to read what's clearly posted. None of my posts disagreed in any way, you think they do lol. You are reading something I'm not posting. I can't say it any other way. You do you champ.
FYI to all, I tried this procedure on a small scale. While it works initially, overnight it set up into insoluble colloidal gel.
That was a GREAT link!!!!!!!! Thanks for that!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does it burn or stay in the ash?
Silica is not a bad idea at all. Plenty of literature on the benefits of silica. It actually helps the plants to not take up toxic metals. And actually according to Bruce bugbee your trichome stalks are made of alotta silica.
I think Joe was suggesting smoking silica ( in the form of atomized silica as the plant combusts) could be potentially dangerous for the user. Insoluble silica, while non toxic, can cause chronic problems if it makes its way to the lungs of people.
But how would that happen? Maybe if you do foliar silica in late flower… I’d hope nobody would spray their buds with silica… or that would be a bad idea
I don’t know conclusively about Cannabis species, but many plants assimilate silica in there cell walls. So, as the plant combusts the organic vaporize and you are left with silica residue in the ash, and potentially the smoke.
I wouldn’t say he is Jesus but I would definitely say his word holds more weight than any random person on a forum. And I never heard him claim to discover wollastonite. He just said he uses and it works. And tells you how he uses it. At the end of the day I’m all for running a side by side and testing things for yourself. take in the wealth of info in the internet but you need to test yourself as we all have many different variables and what works in 1 setup may not work the same in another.
What's interesting about all that, is that Harley Smith talks about how calcium is the real champ at cell building and strength of the cells. It makes me wonder how the combo of silica and calcium would be a one two punch of cell strength.
Oh yea for sure. I follow how bill farthing says to add more calcium transition. Well I did before I switched nutes. Calcium is essential. Silica is not but it does help. So I make sure to give plenty calcium (140 ppm) and also add silica. I’ve used silica blast botanicare for a long time. And used agsil 16h. Right now using grow genius MSA. They all work, but I do like what I’m seeing with the MSA. So had some kerosene krash from Dutch passion. A cut I’ve ran many times in the same setup so when I’m switching products I can tell what it does or doesn’t do. Without silica this cut gets floppy as soon as buds start getting weight. Nice buds always but she just has weak branches for me. With silica blast they don’t get floppy until much later when the buds have some real weight. With MSA I think they are going to make it to harvest without needing support. They haven’t needed it yet but still a few weeks to go. (Week 7 but usually they are floppy by now it’s a 9 week cut) But this wouldn’t be a definitive test because I also switched nutes on this run. But without silica vs silica blast that test was legit. Everything was the same except the silica. So for me I always use silica but now just trying out the MSA and seems good so far.
Funny you should mention kk, that was my last grow. How do you like it? Mine wasn’t gassy or keroseney at all, but smells nice now. I also noticed it was very floppy. I probably should have added more silica in veg. Nice smoke tho
Yea I just had a 3 pack and the keeper wasn’t really like the description. They said it didn’t stretch much and that was a lie… she does have some gas on her. It really comes through in organic. Not so much without it tho. And yea the silica really helps her out. But I like her. She is just stretchy with weak limbs. I’m not running her right now but still have a cut I’ll probably run her again next run. I also over did the silica blast with her on 1 run and she held up better but the nuggets came out super hard. In a bad way. Literally had to tear them apart and now that I think of it the taste was a little off that run too. Tht taste could have been from too much silica or it also coulda been me not flushing good too. Idk really. But that’s how I learned to cut silica by day 28.
