changing colors

[Grow_4_us]

If I add food coloring into the res. to change the color of the plant ;will buds change color too or will they?
I'm going to find out but if somebody already knows then please4 type a reply.

[Grow_4_us]

The word thats suppose to be after "or will they" suppose to be Die.
I haven't gotten a reply yet so either no ones read it yet or they just didnt feel like repliing.It should go to the new post list as soon as I send this "renewing post" for those of you who only look at the current ones in todays posts.Thank you and please let me know if you have tried that as soon as you can because I going to try it as soon as I get home with one of my clones!.

[basementjungle]

You gotta remember your color addition. The plants are already green, so if you add red to the reservoir you don't really get red leaves or whatever. You get red plus green which is really dark. You can change the lighter parts of a plant more.

I don't think the food coloring would be bad for you or anything, but I'm not sure how well it would work long-term. Plus, you might lose the color when you flush. Not sure there. There could be fading or changes in the color during drying and curing, too.

It'd be interesting to see what happens though, I haven't read anything about someone doing this before.

[stinkyattic]

Plants change color according to their pigments. You are assuning that a) the food coloring is a molecule that the plant can actually uptake, b) that it will not metabolize it into something colorless c) that you can add enough (assuming a and b are true) to see a actual change and d) that the food dye is safe to smoke, which is different from being safe to eat.

Grab a bottle of SnowStorm (seaweed derived plant hormone), foliar feed your plants with it, drop your temps down to 60 at night, and watch the magic. This only works on plants that are genetically capable of producing the dark pigments.

[basementjungle]

That's a good point.

And if you can find a dye that's safe to smoke you could always add it to the buds after curing.

[LOC NAR on probation]

All it will do is change the color of the roots. A Bro of mine tried.

Much like the color of the nutes you use will change the root color. Seems to change more if you use a dripsystem, cause it's runnung down all the roots. Did nothing for the plant. The roots looked so bad I almost got him to scrap them untill he told me what he did. LOL