Weird/interesting question

Mentalchild

Well-Known Member

• May 30, 2009

• #1

I was wondering i heard about this plant that you can put food color in the water and water it and it will change to that color i was wondering if anyone has seen or done or tried this and what happened afterwards? If no one knows the answer imma test it on 1 of my plants.

 

GigEmGreens

Active Member

• May 30, 2009

• #2

NO! it kills it brosky. its for cheap plants that u dont mind dying afterwords. plants need to be green to absorb the kind of light it needs to survive, dont mess with its spectrum

 

grow space

Well-Known Member

• May 30, 2009

• #3

yep man-dont do enything stupid.(coloform makes the plant green and it must be that way because it has been that till the start).

 

Mentalchild

Well-Known Member

• May 30, 2009

• #4

But would it change the color of the plant? if it does i might just do that to the males if i have any in my grow instead of throw them away. i mean sure im going to take the males away from my girls but i just wanna test it on them and she if they just dye or if they do change color and then dye.

 

ViRedd

New Member

• May 30, 2009

• #5

Carnation growers/florists do that AFTER the flowers are cut. For example, if a white Carnation is placed in a glass of water tinted with red food coloring, the stem will draw up the color and the edges of the flowers will be red, while the insides will still be white.

 

Mentalchild

Well-Known Member

• May 30, 2009

• #6

ooooh ok thank you guys because once i heard that i got to wondering if you could do that with weed, but guess it isn't a good idea lol thank you.

 

daz321

Active Member

• May 30, 2009

• #7

when you harvest your plants take a small stem and place it in a cup of water with a food colouring of your choice (blue works best) makes your bud tast like crap but looks the part

 

spiked1

Well-Known Member

• May 30, 2009

• #8

You have to cut them first, the roots will stop the colours from absorbing.
FDD did this as an experiment a while back and it does work.

 

Mentalchild

Well-Known Member

• May 30, 2009

• #9

Oh interesting so it will taste like crap but will it effect the thc in anyway?
Spike do you have a link to his thread or remember any of the name of the thread so i can search it?

 

spiked1

Well-Known Member

• Jun 2, 2009

• #10

Sorry but it was about a year ago and it could take forever to find it.
Basically he tried it with a plant but the roots filtered the colour,
so he cut the stem and placed it into a glass of coloured water,
the colour went through the plant and that's about it really.
I can't remember if it changed the taste, but if you want to try it let us know how it goes.

 

bgmike8

Well-Known Member

• Jun 2, 2009

• #11

what about that shit that you add to your nutrients that turns the buds purple?

 

Mentalchild

Well-Known Member

• Jun 2, 2009

• #12

ight i will after my plants are ready, but not to all of them.

 

KaliKitsune

Well-Known Member

• Jun 2, 2009

• #13

A root system is similar to our blood/brain barrier - only good stuff gets filtered and allowed through (assuming a healthy plant) and thus trying to dye the plant doesn't work unless it's bound to something else the plant will allow through.

The stuff they use to make your stuff turn purple is exactly that. And you can tel it gets used when you put your bud through the water test - take a cured bud, break it up in your hands, and run water over it - stuff flows like ink. Anytime I see purps like that I ask for my money back and never speak to that person again unless they have GREEN weed, because they obviously can't tell genetic or aged purps from forced purps.