Harvest is one of the most misunderstood and biggest problems with toxins in cannabis. w/o laying down a 1000 word documentary, i get a little wordy Ive been told, I'll give you some simple test that you can do w/o a lab.
But 1st the time window.
With 48 - 64 flower day plants it is very hard to flush and have proper nutes at the same time. Growing 96 day flowers are much easier to purify and vine rippen on the plant. Ethyl - glycol and other ripping agents (hormones also) stay away from these chems...
- How bout phytoremediation principles, how to use this to our advantage, Taste & Purity. I have never met anyone to date that manipulates this? Most overlooked taste benefit. Most add bad taste unknowingly.
- in the epidermis , plant cuticle , plant leaf wax, excuse spelling, how do we clean w/o damage to the plant. this is overlooked and where many plant toxin lay dormant waiting for chemical reaction like heat (fire).
- Harvest colors present? not to be confused with lower yellow leaves and plant flushing colors.
Okay once we've mastered growing for the Flush ( I could write a book on this alone) lets move on to testing our grow products for the most common poisons that 99% of growers are doing to their buds (heavy metals).
This just pisses off my Bro's so I quit doing it. But I'd go to ppl homes and to bongs like we all do, I had a certain magnesium alloy poker rod I use for this test, (use soft iron like a cloths hanger see below). I poke the bong to dirty the poker with resin. Once I had full rod I'd pull out a MET gas, but butane will work also. I light up over a ash tray and for those guys harvesting dark green and not washing correctly, LMAO,, I actually could make a Firework Sparkler out of the Resin magnesium alloy poker rod .
With butane or MET gas you will see sparks when the resin burns. This is METAL.
Foxfarm dirt says it contains metals and causes cancer, this is what those Cali tree huggers are talking about, metal poison.
I was asked to go work with the state of Oregon testing centers a few years ago. I went with the state guys I tested bud from Port to Bend. The shit was some of the worst I'd ever seen back then. Id walk into a facility get bud and throw it in a microwave with Clear glass observation window. I know which metal is in it by the colors of the sparks just like fireworks show.
In Alfalfa it was pure metal, I'd rate this bud almost lethal with metal toxins. The guy asks me for consultation on his sick plants, large grn house set up out there. I go back out and tell him what I'll do to fix it. he argues with me, wont pay a nickle, I go home. true story...
Metal Tests.
- Okay you just read about the FireCracker Test.
- Rod Test. Use soft metal poker, cloths hanger. Avoid harden rods/pokers and other metal alloys pokers. Burn (high temps) it with lots of resin from the bong or smoking devices.
Lots of sparks will fly off the resin rod with most resin from incorrectly flushed bud. Cpl sparks from this test is rare and the resin came from clean bud. If it look like a sparkler there is lots of metal in the cannabis consumption.
These test will not test for many pesticides. just a good test for the plant Flush success...