Thanks Pop, I've read that thread and others, that are often linked to(including the original version written and attributed by Epic Genetics to a person called Cabron at another forum), head to toe a couple times or more now. It is what I based my first attempts at reversal on. It was not successful for me.
There is so much conflicting info about CS its kind of hard to dig through it all without your eyes crossing. Would you prefer I preface my post with; "In my experience"? as I have reported what has actually happened in my recent fight with my godawful defiant plants trying to reverse them. I don't believe I definitively stated anything other than there are two possible outcomes of running a CS batch. One being clear and has a sparkly laser light. The other being amber and having a solid "creamy" light result when shining a laser light through it. I have read and believe these are two different things, Ionic and colloidal silver. While both may work in reversing a plant, one has failed in my attempts. The same solution may be successful in a different plant.
Having tried and failed using the clear version of the end product (which I am referring to as ionic) I was excited when my CS run produced something different and resembled what was being called true "colloidal" silver on various health and human consumption sites. Excited to try something different I found the longer I cooked this batch the more PPM I read on my TDS meter, not that it is accurate but it is relative in that, the stronger a solution is, the higher PPM it will read (and in my last run and cited in several other articles, the darker amber it will become). Yes, if using a dark solution is successful then it will be contradictory to the "definitive" CS post, it will also have been successful, which is the entire point of the exercise.
I want to point out that this is different than another "darkly" colored result that can look black or grey-black which are, I think everyone agrees, bad and something has gone wrong.
I can re-look up all the sites I read but I don't think it would be worth the trouble as I don't think many folks would take the time just to re-read what I wrote and you kindly quoted. If not here somewhere I think I posted most of the info I found was geared toward human consumption. The main point of this was to differentiate between the ionic and colloidal silver as referred to in some of the longer articles and not mentioned in the Cabron post.
As I was not seeing results I mentioned the use of the clear version of "CS" failed for me. After my post and more reading, I now am thinking the genetics I am working with are wonky. I'm coming to the conclusion that both the clear and amber versions of what we are calling ionic and colloidal silver will probably work in reversing a cannabis plant, if, and this is a big if, the plant is stable enough for the switch.
There is probably a large window of opportunity to successfully reverse a plant, using clear, amber, sparkly, milky, 15ppm, 50ppm, fresh, months old, etc. I read that someone used sterling silver and it worked. My hypothesis now, is that it largely depends on the stability of the strain to have success and achieve pollen. 4 of 5 of my HBD beans didn't make it past seedling and the Black JH auto never auto'd but a clone of her finally did. These are the genes I have been working with which I am now attributing my failure to.
Other folks, and I have been asking and bugging people here at AFN, have easily produced pollen from homemade "CS" made a myriad of different ways. This is what made me start to look at my plants as being the problem. I heard all kinds of different results of using a range of different equipment, taking as little as a week and a half to turn a plant. Some folks had it take much longer but eventually it worked. I am thinking the most important variable has to be the genetics of the strain.
I'm glad the method in the post called "definitive" works for you Pop, it didn't work on my current stable so I looked into and found some additional information. I figured I'd share what I found, my experience and my thoughts on the subject. Some of that may differ from what has been posted previously or even go against what has worked for you personally. I don't think that makes it wrong to post. Especially if it eventually leads to me getting some freakin' pollen from these bitches!
