Food Coloring

Would you try food coloring to make your plants bushy(enough so u cant see thu h20)

  • no way

    Votes: 13 65.0%

  • yea

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • only if im smoking it.

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • only if im selling it.

    Votes: 4 20.0%
  • Total voters
    20
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Cannabis Cutie

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I read a scientific journal that proved through scientific study that plants (any plant) grow better (healthy, bushier, and more beautifull). The plants will also have a tint of color. I don't know if the dye will turn the buds color yet but after 30 minets of watering one of my baby girls with blue water the leaves (between the veins and at the tips and edges) were darker green and new growth has been coming out darker also. Like half an inch from the dirt up had been stained on the outside of the plant (the skin (too small for bark yet) My plant is about 6 weeks old had had the color treatment since yesterday. Im not trying to decieve any 1 i grow for my purposes only.:roll: happy growing.
 
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Cannabis Cutie

Active Member
GreenBully said:
got any pics
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I hope you ment of my plants if so no. Their has been a chage since yesterday in my plants. the leaves appeared to grow fast er and my plant appears to have a heavier top b/c it is leaning down farther. (my plant got lost in tall weeds when i had to ditch the plant or get caught withit ant for the first 2 weeks of life it got little sun and the plant streatched up to like 5 in and had 2 set of leaves now it leans some i would have corrected it with supports but it gives it character. sorry i like boasting about my plants. :joint:
 
GreenBully

GreenBully

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rite on..you should..i wanna see what the plant looks like..so ur using food coloring outside with every watering or feeding??
 
VaporBros

VaporBros

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This has been done before. It makes you bud burn SUPER fast and taste harsh and bad. I dunno about veg, but i know it messes it up during flower.

Im not sure i can believe what you read in the article, because if that was the case wouldn't everyone be watering with food coloring? There is nothing in food coloring to promote growth in plants, its not a nutrient, its a dye.

Post pictures of it.
 
Hayduke

Hayduke

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If you have it handy, could you provide a link to the journal article on this?

As for the plant changing color...It will, through transpiration. We did this as an experiment for a special ed biology class a couple of weeks ago and turned cut celery leaves and stalk blue, demonstrating transport tissue in plants.

Think green carnations for St Pat's day.

But the question you should be asking is; do I really want to smoke Blue food coloring?

:leaf::peace::leaf:
 
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Cannabis Cutie

Active Member
I water with a litle fert. dye, and mostly water i put 2 drops of green and about 20 drops of blue(i'm just doing it for experimentation)
 
VaporBros

VaporBros

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cannabis cutie, ill try and find the thread for you. But it does effect taste.

Hayduke, i also did that experiment in 3rd grade. The roots of a marijuana plant dont suck up the dye. When i mix all my nutes with water, the water is usually orange, but it doesnt make my plant turn orange...
 
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Cannabis Cutie

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i think the amount dye present would decide whether it tints the plant or not. Plants filterout like 90%(not 2 sure on statisics.) of junk and use the rest so if the water is where you cant see through it (it takes about 1 food color thing to get this dark but that not much color compared to water amount about 16 oz.) i think that is how you tint your plant . (ev1 member this is all ezperimental i just want to see the results for myself refering to bud amount quality and taste.)
 
VaporBros

VaporBros

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no he didnt put dye in his buds, read the thread, search the thread and the other threads. It make the quality of the bud really shitty. Im just trying to help you out before you ruin a crop. If you want purple plants and shit just make the nighttime temps below 65 last few weeks of flower
 
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Cannabis Cutie

Active Member
well it said he dyed two bowls worth and either he spreyed the dye on the plant, which im not, or he had a plant with only two bowls worth of bud on it so which is it
 
Hayduke

Hayduke

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Cannabis Cutie said:
i think the amount dye present would decide whether it tints the plant or not. Plants filterout like 90%(not 2 sure on statisics.) of junk and use the rest so if the water is where you cant see through it (it takes about 1 food color thing to get this dark but that not much color compared to water amount about 16 oz.) i think that is how you tint your plant . (ev1 member this is all ezperimental i just want to see the results for myself refering to bud amount quality and taste.)
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As for the amount filtered out by the plant...The dye molecule is small enough to be uptaken by the plant (not filtered out), and yes the amount of dye was high in the experiment, but we were trying to see a change in less than the 2 hours of lab. We did. Left for 5 days and the celery is very blue green...with no roots...oops...maybe the dye molecule will not pass the epidermis of the root...the experiment was with a cut plant. Anyhow IF the dye passes the roots, the dye MAY build up in cells if not metabolized, or excreted as morning dew.

I will now read FDD's thread, if he already did this, save the time...and the felony:mrgreen:.

:leaf::peace::leaf:
 
VaporBros

VaporBros

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the roots wont take up the dye. When FDD did it he cut a branch off of his plant a few days before harvest and put the branch in a cup filled with dye, maybe about an inch or two of dye. The color ran up the branch a little and turned the trichomes blue. But, it tasted like it wasnt flushed and very harsh.
 
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