Ionic Silver VS Colloidal Silver

[Aku]

I thought this would be a good post as it is the culmination of a couple days hardcore digging into CS.

There is a difference between ionic and colloidal silver and ionic may or may not reverse your plant. What I found out is there can be two results when running CS at home:

Ionic Silver: end result is clear, a laser pointer shining through it results in a glittery, sparkly, non solid beam. This may or may not (it did NOT work for me) reverse your plant.

Colloidal Silver: end result is cloudy and amber in color, darker is stronger, a TDS meter will only read so much then will cut off usually around 20 ppm. A laser pointer shining through it looks solid, like a light saber, without glittery sparkles. More of a creamy look to the laser beam.

I've only just succeeded in running the latter. I am hoping this will be successful in reversing my plant as the former was not. The ionic was only successful in stunting my plant and burning it to all hell. It ended up crispy, brittle and the branches were easily broken off.
I will report on how this amber fluid works on my plants.
Hopefully this will save you some time, trials and tribulations.
Please see photos for the difference between the two different products.

 

[Aku]

 

[Aku]

Gooood night. I usually pride myself on spelling. Could a mod please correct the title of this post to:

Ionic Silver VS Colloidal Silver

instead of the abomination it is now, please!?

 

[AKNorthernlights]

Thanks for posting this I a making some CS for the first time and have heard conflicting ways to make it.

So can you tell me how ionic silver is made compared to CS so I dont get it wrong.

 

[Aku]

I wish I had this down. I do not. I am using a 9v 600mA transformer hooked to 2 alligator clips, clipped on 2 99.999% silver wires submerged in distilled water in a glass container.
How or why it goes from ionic to colloidal, I have no idea. I have made runs with bubbles and it has come out clear or ionic every time. The 1st time I tried it without a bubble tube and moved the wires apart some, I seem to have made colloidal silver. Beyond that, its unclear to me. I have another batch going now which is 10hrs into it now, its at 12-13 ppm and somewhat amber.
I am still digging around the web to find out the ultimate method off getting the amber fluid as end product every time. Problem is, most of the info is for human consumption and the whole ionic vs colloidal thing is still somewhat hard to find.
If anyone can add verifiable info or has a fool proof way to make the amber colored colloidal silver please add to this!

 

[AKNorthernlights]

Thanks I too hope to get this figured out and your right most info is geared for consumption more than reversing.

I have a 7.5volt generator I made. I read once on here that lower Voltage was better for smaller particles but I only did a short test run to see if it was working and it was.

I just started my seeds and will try make batch when thy are ready to be sprayed.

I was wondering how yellow do I need to let I get? I was planning on around 8-12 hrs as a guestimate.

 

[JM]

Gooood night. I usually pride myself on spelling. Could a mod please correct the title of this post to:

Ionic Silver VS Colloidal Silver

instead of the abomination it is now, please!?

:check:

 

[Aku]

Sounds like a good place to start. I'm only on my 2nd amber colored run and its not quite as dark as the 1st. I just found another thread and they were successful using the clear end product but said their beam was almost solid. Confusing as alll hell isn't it? I do know, the darker it is, the stronger it is. My guess would be that one would want to use the weakest possible solution that would still work. Where that is at this point in my hunt is a very big question mark unfortunately.
Please feel free, if you track down more info, same or contradictory, add it to this post until we get something definitive that will work for everyone.
The more I think about it, the more I believe its bad genetics I'm working with. The clear ionic or a weak colloidal might just turn a stable strain much more easily than my effed up plants. More on this when my bean orders arrive. I am hopefully going to try to reverse a dark devil and a berry bomb.

 

[Aku]

MUCH thanks JM, that was killing me. I hate reading thgs tht r missspled!

 

[JM]

https://www.autoflower.org/f81/coll...anowski-14726.html?highlight=colloidal+silver

https://www.autoflower.org/f117/def...tutorial-9878.html?highlight=colloidal+silver

https://www.autoflower.org/f117/silver-collider-times-spray-31670.html?highlight=colloidal+silver