Read
this first.
I know I should be trashing them, but can't get over it throwing all those nice trichomes away. So I'm making bubble from them so as to seperate the trichomes from as much plant material as possible.
But, this is my descision and I have no imperical proof that the STS hasn't traveled into the trichomes so I can't recommend you do the same.
The post you referenced was from 2014 by an AFN member that has zero scientific credentials posting exclusively their opinion as if it was some sort of dogma. It is mostly opinionated bullshit.
"they are nasty when burnt and inhaled , carcinogenic , toxic , taste nasty , will really hurt and mess up your lungs" - Prove it. Show my a study showing cannabis treated with a few micrograms of STS is carcinogenic. In fact, extensive research has never indicated that silver is a carcinogen. As for taste, please - have you done a blind taste test on plants that have been treated vs plants that have not? I have. No difference.
"when i say not to smoke reversed plants that includes plants that only had a branch or two reversed as the silver/chemicals do in fact flow through the entire plant (fortunately not enough for full reversal with those reversing just one branch)" Once again, Prove it. Prove to me that silver ions can travel against the vascular flow of a plant and deposit themselves in other branches somehow without precipitating the production of gibberellins in other branches but still reaching so called "toxic" levels.
"please do not post in threads or make new threads and claim it is safe to do so as you are playing with other peoples lives and health when you make such false claims" This was posted by somebody in 2014 that is no longer a member. Feminized seeds and autos were pretty new in 2014, so I'll give the OP the benefit of the doubt for his ignorance, but posting conjecture as if it were scientific facts does not belong here.
I've smoked bud off of untreated limbs from plants that I've treated with both colloidal silver and STS for a couple of years. I could not pick it out in a taste test nor have I turned blue or suffered any other ill effects. Its a choice I have made, largely based on my ability to do math. I dilute my STS by 90% and then I use a wire thin lab pipette to apply a few milligrams of dilute STS to a single bud. The total amount of entrained silver in each of the 3 doses is measurable in micrograms. EVEN if the OP was correct and that silver was evenly distributed throughout the plant (which is certainly NOT true) - the total dry weight of the plant may be a half kilogram or more divided by a few tens of micrograms of silver. The math just does not work for acute toxicity, its in the high parts per billion - low parts per million range. Not to mention that half of what I smoke stays in the bowl as ash.
I'm certainly not saying to smoke STS treated buds or even that you should smoke STS treated buds. What I'm saying is that there is no proof whatsoever that it is toxic and we owe it to the community to not promulgate unsupported opinions as facts. Maybe its time to go through some of the old rules of thumb from AFNs early days and apply a more scientific eye.
