The Hexapus's Garden

Don't get me wrong... Not saying "who cares".. Just that I doubt its the huge danger a lot of people think.. At least, as of now... Yes, due to the fact people have been drinking the stuff.. Inhaling it is a different deal, granted... Metal particles of any type is not something I want in my lungs... But you know yourself, Grizz, the shit that we inhale every day, on building sights, for example.. As of about 2 years ago, I installed SolaHarts for over five years, doing all the roof-work.. I don't wanna know how much copper, silver-solder, fibreglass, asbestos, rat-shit, mould/mildew, spider-eggs or god-knows-what-else I inhaled.. Or landscaping; all the biologicals I've swallowed/inhaled over decades... the human body is very efficient at getting rid of unwanted solids and contaminants..
A quick google now shows plenty of Colloidal Silver vapour therapies for Cystic Fibrosis for example.. Also found an ad for a Colloidal silver Vapouriser ("Nebulizer")..!
Google also points out that no test/studies have conclusively proven anything yet...
You are right; I would also be careful with it. But I admit it wouldn't worry me as much as say, asbestos, which I also know for a fact I have swallowed or inhaled...
 
I will do some research. Thanks for looking out for me guys. When I look back at all the shit that has entered my lungs- like years of tobacco smoke, pot smoke, diesel and gasoline fumes working with everything from fishboats to chainsaw milling, years of working sanding and grinding down silver and gold, 40 years of breathing sawdust (lots of it) and metal dust from woodworking and construction jobs. Not to mention living in some dirty ass cities like Bangkok where sucking exhaust fumes was a way of life. When I was 16 I got a minimum wage job polishing underground parking lots with an ancient gas powered floor polishing machine we called 'the billy goat'. The parking level would get so smoky that I couldn't see the other side. Every 20 minutes or so I would wobble over to a stairwell and find a place to slump on the floor till the hallucinations settled. Did that all summer. Thanks for the great job guys! :high-five:
Anyway.... A few particles of silver vapor doesn't scare me much at this point but I will take your concerns seriously Grizz and take a good look at the facts if I can find any. It's just a couple plants - if I think they're polluted I'll chalk it up to a seed farm/science experiment this time around.
 
Cheers, WC... Just looking into it a bit more myself.. Talking about breeding at Nismo12 and CannaMontanas place and the use of CS also..
I am genuinely confused. For me, drinking it kinda kills the argument, as Grizz said... Doesn't mean it's GOOD for ya but millions of not-dead-yet CS drinkers/inhalers can't all be wrong either..
Ps that parking lot job sounded terrible... I worked in an aluminium foundry for a while in my 20s... The shit in the air in that place... If I have any metal toxicity at all, it's from there.. As far as I know, aluminium vapour is much more toxic than I really wanna think about... And I was only there for 6 burn-scar, black-lung, fried-hair, black-ring-in-bathtub inducing months..
 
These comments have been copied and pasted from another forum.. Sum up my thoughts on it... I'm no scientist or even a health conscious person, so dont know any facts, which you won't find, no test studies into the inhaling of plant matter with silver... Not a good practice contaminating you grow. Not a good idea to put others at an unknown risk, if your selling. Grow more if your that hard up that smoking contaminated is your only option..


why the hell would anyone want to smoke a plant that has been sprayed with CS?

Why would he chose to smoke this plant ?

If one wants to make fem seeds with CS , why not just take a clone and used it only for breeding , spray it with CS , get the pollen from the male flowers produced , use a different clone (same genetics or not) to apply the pollen to for making seeds..

and use other clones for flower production that is for consumption..
Silver on its own isn't the problem ...

My personal concern is when you PUT A FLAME to it alongside bud and whatever else is in your bowl ... what REACTIONS will occur??? What will you end up smoking???

The simple answer is that probably NOBODY here knows one way or another if it is safe or not, so in other works you're taking a risk.

Afterall, it's usually just one plant ... and if you've ever seen a plant that has been sprayed with colloidal silver for two weeks, TRUST me you wouldn't want to smoke it!!! lol, it looks so dodgy, and literally a bit 'rusty'

At the end of the day this thread is simply about gambling with your health ... "this is PROBABLY unhealthy, but can I ???"
Personally I'll stick to smoking natural organic bud that hasn't been drenched in anything, but each to their own I guess!
 
Santb, people are mixing diatomaceous earth with water and drinking that, a intestinal and colon cleaner but don't be doing lines of it, breathing that shit in. Don't use it for eye drops, lol..
 
Cheers, Grizz... I actually agree with you... It might not have been obvious, but I meant that the over-spray probably not a problem if it hit another male or different part of the same plant.. I do admit I would smoke buds that may have a tiny bit of over-spray on them.. But not if they were fully treated or looking strange or malformed in any way... I don't even like spilling compost tea on my plants... It's why I wash my buds!
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Hmmm.. the CS seems to be in minor danger of producing disagreement as well as hermies. I wil point out, Grizz, the opinions you are quoting from are just -opinions and basically meaningless. The same as if I had an opposite opinion about it, and so I went and found a website where some guy was saying the complete opposite, based on his opinion.
Not that I am saying I feel the opposite to you. I'm pretty open minded about it though I admit I would rather smoke that plant than not smoke it at this point, based on what I see as the situation.
Anyway- that's about the only sort of stuff I've heard about silver on cannabis sites- people going with their gut feeling. Nothing wrong with that I guess but I still wouldn't mind digging deeper.

Yes some extremely small amounts of vapor containing silver got into parts of the plant which I may end up smoking. Silver melts into liquid at about 900C (I solder with it often) so in particle form like that it definitely could melt in a cigarette or pipe, though I wouldn't necessarily expect it to move after that, or end up in our lungs after it did. I've never been able to find any info about silver giving off any fumes when it melts.

Silver is considered to be non toxic to humans and there have been no links to cancer and such like you find with lead and mercury.
In the past I was mainly looking into the health effects of silver because of the dust produced in jewellery making. Obviously breathing in anything like that is not good- and I'm much more concerned about the dust I'm exposed to than I am with this CS thing. I find black stuff in my nose at the end of a long day of jewelry work.
However- all the studies that I could find on prolonged breathing of silver dust were also surprisingly benign- mild health problems like irritated nasal passages and such.

Besides all this- silver particles are used to 'seed' rain clouds to cause rain. And if the government says it's so safe that they can fly around with airplane loads of it above our heads and spray it all over us- hell, it must be perfectly safe, don't you think? I mean, that pretty much settles it right there.

Just shitting you mate. I don't know if it's safe or not. I'm pretty sure a lot of things aren't safe. I am surrounded by toxic substances. Like- by far the most toxic substance of all- my ex. Somehow small particles of her continue to contaminate my life and cause major health issues, mostly mental. It's a real problem for me and has already shortened my life, and caused much pain and suffering. Let's hope I don't hermie myself, under the stress.
 
I only copied and pasted as they summed up my opinions on it.. Ever found yourself in an argument on something that a; doesn't concern you b; nor do you care about.. I do, flicking hate it.. I'd hate whoever more though if they sold me contamo-weed but that's why we grow our own... Started off a merely an observation, kinda warning.. And no the government aren't trying to kill you, that I can guarantee, they are trying to make money off you, not kill you. If the government wanted us dead, we would be..
 
All good, brotha. You obviously feel strongly about it. No dramas! I get it. I grow my own weed now and I plan on growing a lot of our food too, if I ever get organised enough to actually start, for the same reasons.. I am definitely one of those guys that don't think too much about that stuff until it smacks me in the face. Shit; me and you are from the last generation to really eat a lot of dirt and skin knees daily, so I feel immune to toxins.. I've never been sick in my life, maybe 4-5 times with the flu; caught chicken pox off a mate at age 31, but that's it..
Even cigarettes haven't killed me. I'm like Deadpool!
Actually, I'm getting less confident the older I get.. I'll be working out, soon, and buying Mens Health mags, skin care products....
But is that living? Please pass the mercury..
 
Tead said:
I did that dance in my 30's as well. Sucked! Then shingles a few years later.
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Haven't got the shingles yet touch wood.. I had C. Pox as a child so was a bit of WTF. The doc explained that it's a wives tale that you can't get twice.. And the older you are, the worse it can be.. Knocked me around, I'll tell ya that.
 
Just :surf: through and all the talk of Colloidal Silver smoking got me thinking about the plant I'm currently smoking which was treated with Colloidal Silver. Personally I wouldn't want to smoke the treated branch as it looks like shit but the rest of it there is no noticeable difference whatsoever, I think it's just a case of common sense but I have ingested it before today as treatment for sore throats etc. Done me no harm whatsoever.

All in good fun of course but I'll bet I've smoked worse bud in the past, much much worse :thumb:
 
It's been a long time since I was that trim WC lol. I'd be more like a big fat hairy biker than a silver surfer nowadays :)
 
I cut the hermie branch off of the Thai Stick plant.

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After doing so I figured out that -it was the only branch on the plant with balls on it. What I thought were other branches growing balls just turned out to be parts of the same branch sticking up in various other spots of the tangled mess I have created.
That doesn't explain what happened to the MT/TS plant, but it occurs to me that I may well have sprayed a branch on that plant too, in one of my drugged out stupors, and then forgotten.
I suspect this is what happened to cause the extra hermies, rather than the overspray theory. At least I sense a little glimmer of a memory of that in what's left of my tiny brain.

I converted my drying box into a jail cell for Mr./Mrs. Hermie.



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Subjected to a chemically induced sex change, then cut in two and placed in solitary confinement. There she/he is, stuck in a pot, slumped over a plate, waiting to release pollen. The poor thing... What a cruel world.
 
I went a bit Neanderthal with my branch and just beat it over every flowering plant that I had :rofl:

I still have it growing though, with the bottom of the plant in the dark, I have one bag with some in the freezer but it may be immature. Hopefully I'll be able to take some more at a later date, but I fancy your chances more than mine with that solo teleportation chamber. That looks great :)

Looking great over there :thumb:
 
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