colorado outdoor

So with the wind storms down in the springs the last few days I was wondering about the dust and sand that is being blown around. After the storms I have seen layers of a sandy dust like material all overt the place.

This bears the question, if you put plants outside what keeps them from getting gritty and dusty? do the buds in later developement trap material in them making them kinda gross?

Of course they do. They also get all that nastiness from bugs, birds and pollution soaked rain (trichs are sticky for a reason). Indoor quality will ALWAYS top outdoor as YOU control mother nature...not the other way around. I'm sure about a bazillion outdoor growers will throw the hate my way, but the evidence says other wise. When you have access to a lab with high end spectroscopic/ sampling equipment and you check out some of the things on there, you'll see. Also, my indoor lettuce needs no washing...it's good right from the container. They (outdoor growers) say the rain will wash off the nasties in time, but it absorbs quite a bit of that through foliar feeding over time as well. Many Colorado folks just received a nasty dose of ash from the recent fires too!
No thanks.

BadAndy said:

So with the wind storms down in the springs the last few days I was wondering about the dust and sand that is being blown around. After the storms I have seen layers of a sandy dust like material all overt the place.

This bears the question, if you put plants outside what keeps them from getting gritty and dusty? do the buds in later developement trap material in them making them kinda gross?

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I don't know if you got a chance to sample any of the Dairy Queen I took to EC's bud bowl but it was grown outside. I don't recall anyone being grossed out by it. You do occasionally find random debris in the buds when you trim outdoor plants but there is so much bud you can just throw away anything that doesn't look appealing. The G13 Haze I grew outdoors a couple years ago got hit by bud worms, which sucked but I just cut off the buds they were on and tossed the worms and all far away from the garden. Honestly, I have seen worse issues with fungus gnats indoors. Those little bastards get stuck in the calyxes and you don't see them until you are breaking up the bud to smoke.

I'm not claiming outdoor bud to be better than indoor. I think it has a lot to do with the grower and how well you stay on top of your environment, whether that be indoor or outdoor.

MMMM Dairy Queen!!!
That stuff was awesome, i never would have believed it to be outdoor.
Nothing like breaking up that nice tight bud to find those little iridescent wings staring back at you (fungus gnats indoors). Fucking Bugs!!!!

Bugs...oh yeck! I guess I need to further clarify my statemnt as well- I had a friend that lived near a cement plant. Needless to say the outdoor garden was a dismal failure and anything that grew...was coated with nasty cement dust. Pretty much anbody living in that area...figured out real quick they wouldn't be gardeners.

@med, I dont smoke so no i didnt get to sample your DQ...

Its not a question of quality to indoor, Im just asking if buds get gritty with all the sand blowing around the state. Im a seasoned outdoor grower so I know about bugs and the like, just new to the area and wondering about any random shit that I dont usually encounter.

Hey Andy - Macguyver's cement plant example hits home to what I was talking about with managing your environment. If you plant next to a major source of dust you'll have dust covered buds. In general though I don't think dust is going to be a problem for you.