black ash , white ash - cant we all just get along

[justcurios]

question: i have heard that good organic marijuana when cured correctly is burned, it leaves a white ash. and with marijuana grown with chemical fertilizers when burned, leaves a black ash. have any of you found this to be true? i thought the black ash was from the plants not beeing flushed with pure water before harvest thoroughly. any thoughts?

[Lungus]

Correct, If you don't flush your plants when you use chem nutes your weed won't burn properly and you'll be able to taste the chem salts. If you flush out your chem fert weed properly it will burn as white as any organic weed.

[c-ray]

black ash or white ash can come from organic feeding and it can come from salt based (chemical) feeding, it is all about feeding the plants what they need and not overfeeding, feeding the plant what it can metabolize, if I fed you 6 cheeseburgers a day you would burn black too

[justcurios]

LOL . yup the longer the flush the better ,aye?

[The Cannarchist]

Pimping it out to the end is for steroid monkees....

[Irie1]

I always go for the white ash. I have found it is easier to flush non-organic ferts out, but I prefer organic herb. I grew hydro for 8 years and was always super anal about flushing for 2 solid weeks, but I switched to organic/soil a few years back and the same two weeks never netted me the same results. My latest crop got 3 weeks flush, but I feel like I am really missing some key points of hard fert pushing. I am now straddling the fence on which is better. Great thread!:bongin: