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Nice-guy-eddy

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Well no shit your not my parents...the purpose of this forum is to get informative information instead of laughing at someone for a question.
 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Nice-guy-eddy said:
Well no shit your not my parents...the purpose of this forum is to get informative information instead of laughing at someone for a question.
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You ask a controversial question with no source and demand a specific answer


Anyone can muck up a hydro grow and cause nutrient residue
But mostly drying and curing is the cause
unless they have been abused and forced to die early
 
xtsho

xtsho

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All carbon based matter will first turn to charcoal when combusted and appear black. If you apply combustion long enough that black will become white. The same thing happens when you make fire out of wood. The ash starts out black but eventually turns white.

Have you ever been camping and had a campfire going? When you go to sleep for the night after letting the fire go out it will be glowing charcoal and ash. When you get up in the morning it will have burned into white ash.

Even white ash is still nutrients. How do you think Potash was originally made? The ash itself is nutrients. When you smoke any cannabis flushed or not. Overfed or not. You're smoking nutrients because the plant material itself is made up of elements. No matter what you do you're smoking nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, etc...

Some will say it's from not flushing, too many nutrients, all kinds of reasons. I prefer science.
 
jondamon

jondamon

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Nice-guy-eddy said:
I literally have had buds out trimmed and everything for like 3 weeks and still getting black ash...I would of though they would be dry by now....humidity in the space is at 60% percent
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You will probably find that the internal humidity amongst the bud is a lot higher.

I have similar conditions in my drying area.

I do one of 2 things.

I either leave the buds hanging and pick off whenever I feel like it.

or I box them up when they’re not getting any drier.

This then forces any internal moisture out to the extremities of the bud. Then open the box for a few hours each day to balance the moisture.

This allows the buds to crisp up a little more over time.

But ultimately black ash is caused by moisture.

Plants uptake nutrients as ions. Once they are taken in they can’t be taken out. Only depleted which causes deficiencies.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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jondamon said:
You will probably find that the internal humidity amongst the bud is a lot higher.

I have similar conditions in my drying area.

I do one of 2 things.

I either leave the buds hanging and pick off whenever I feel like it.

or I box them up when they’re not getting any drier.

This then forces any internal moisture out to the extremities of the bud. Then open the box for a few hours each day to balance the moisture.

This allows the buds to crisp up a little more over time.

But ultimately black ash is caused by moisture.

Plants uptake nutrients as ions. Once they are taken in they can’t be taken out. Only depleted which causes deficiencies.
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Moisture can impede the carbon from converting to carbon dioxide gas during combustion leaving behind what's basically charcoal. Save enough of that black ash and it will burn but to a white ash just like when using lump charcoal for a barbecue.

White ash or black ash is due to the moisture content during the combustion process. Not from flushing or not flushing.
 
Smallbud

Smallbud

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Humidity dosent tell you they are dry or not, humidity tells you how much moisture is in air.

When buds are dry they will stop releasing moisture into air.
 
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