Bud safe treatment?

[deadhead77]

So here's the deal. Milk is mostly water (87%) and diluting further (50/50) you really have a mixture that is basically water with a smidgen of protein, milk sugar (lactose), vitamins and enzymes.

From experience (I know it sounds nuts to spray them a week or even days before harvest) buds treated with bicarbonates in my garden always showed a bit of "damage". You know, that tired, brownish appearance with burnt hairs and blotches on the leaves. Hard to market schwag.

After spraying with a milk/water solution (without going the bicarbonate route), the PM disappeared and the buds appeared to perk up, as if the goodness of the milk (protein, lactose, vitamins, enzymes, etc) resuscitated some life back into them a bit. Not saying they will heal all wounds, but they looked a helluva lot better and showed zero PM after everything was said and done.

Taste, aroma, flavor....I could not detect any negative nuance, and my nose is very, very good at detecting and distinguishing aromas (an infliction I developed as a result of being a connoisseur of fine wines for many decades).

Hope this helps!

I definitely agree that spraying potassium bicarbonate late in flower will damage buds to a degree

 

[DocTim420]

Mothers Market in So Cali carries Raw Milk from two diaries. 1/2 gallon of skim from Organic Pastures is around $7 or so.

If you feel really weird about leaving the milk residue on the buds, a slight mist/shower on harvest day (think brief fall rain) and then hang the plant upside down with fans blowing air might make you feel better. That is what I did the first time...but not the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.

Good luck man!

 

[deadhead77]

Mothers Market in So Cali carries Raw Milk from two diaries. 1/2 gallon of skim from Organic Pastures is around $7 or so.

If you feel really weird about leaving the milk residue on the buds, a slight mist/shower on harvest day (think brief fall rain) and then hang the plant upside down with fans blowing air might make you feel better. That is what I did the first time...but not the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.

Good luck man!

Thats cool, thank you for the invaluable help. I guess im just really cautious about somethings. A friend who has lots of PM(i stay away from his product/grow) has possibly used milk. I kinda remember tasting something like milk MAYBE ( i can remember the taste of just about every bud ive smoked even say 18 years ago) BUT it may have been something else easily, it was an assumption that he usedused milk in the first place. So with that in my mind im just being really cautious.
- i figured spraying RO water directly before or right after harvest would be effective in washing residue off, i didnt want to jump ahead too much. Thank you for your time and insightful informatiom. Good luck to you my friend ill post again within a month to report back

- i wanted to throw this in there so im editing to say i have concluded off some assumptions in the past and i could very easily be wrong but i remember almost positively tasting apple cider vinegar in his buds(i dont smoke them often bud i bought a bunch of different stuff off him at one point when i had mites) i guess he should have just washed them off but then again he may have and the bud may have absorbed some of that apple cider vinegar ? Im drawing blank conclusions again as i truely dont have any factual expertise with the foliar in flower. Very interesting though