Hate to say it, but pot ash is basic, it’s gonna throw off the acidic compounds, even if you can scrub for the ash compounds, you won’t fix the damage to the material that it imparts.
Maybe distillate, but hydrocarbon is a no go in my book.
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So back in the day field burning was a common practice…
Adding carbon to fields is preety common in agriculture.
Plantwise I would stipulate that dust particles hinder photosytnesis as a covering, but pest wise it should hinder movement of spidermites or other critters aswrll…
Also stomata would most likely start clogging having dead sites that, would vector disease…
Now as for the flowering part… Trichomes should be affected and now that I think of it hash or direct smoking of the flower wouldnt be advisable, but still your making more ash from it in the end so kind of a phylosophical, that one…
Now extracts would probably be best choice as filtration would probably take care of that in a heartbeat, where comes the interesting part…
The biomass is auto-carbon scrubbed the secind it hits the solvent…
So worse case a bunch of metal burned next to your grow and you got HMcontamination that you remediate…
Maybe a mount of plastic is the worse case…
Anyhow…sad story and hope all you guys in simmilar situations have lost as little as possible in these tragic natural events…
Cheering for rain… .
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Way to jynx it! Lol. No smoke until yesterday… ugh. Fingers crossed it doesn’t start raining down ash again.
There was ash on my truck this morning. They say the wind is shifting tonight, and it’ll blow out of the valley. Weather in the 90s this next week isn’t promising any real end to the fire season. This is the new normal. Expect it every year until we no longer have anything to burn.
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This thread is depressing… 
I’m so sorry you guys are having to deal with all that. Sounds horrific, stays safe and best wishes to those dealing with.
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We just out here in respirators watering small buds.
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We’re just getting on the other side of a few weeks of chaos around here. Ugh. It’s the worst.
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Southern BC (okanagan) in Canada here with 60 acres of outdoor THC, we’re not seeing any detrimental growth effects yet, in fact we are seeing faster veg if anything. Also don’t have any visible ash on the plants, thank god
I would hate to have campfire terps as most of our harvest is for bho fresh frozen, would suck to have to put it all to distillate
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The ariel parts of Cannabis that are subjected to prolonged exposure to smoke from forest fires will bioaccumulate pyrogenic PAH’s (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - which are well-known for their carcinogenic and mutagenic properties). They’re transferred to plants by particle-phase deposition on the leaf cuticles or by gas-phase uptake through the stomata and there’s no getting that shit out. I wouldn’t want anything that was harvested in the vicinity of these fires, but that’s just me.
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I like your handle and your IG.
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It certainly begs the need for indepth spectrographs and chemical analysis. I’d be curious to see what is present and how that compares to most of the food humans consume. Or say sitting around a campfire, could be less toxic than breathing one lungful of wood smoke, but I don’t have any data, but I promise I will have biomass for testing.
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Generally speaking, the PAH concentrations typically reflect the length of exposure and volume of smoke. I believe naphthalene, retene, and phenanthrene are commonly found in the highest concentrations within the smoke itself, with the epicuticular/intracuticular plant wax layers commonly accumulating acyclic saturated hydrocarbons, acids and ketones (e.g. alkanes, alkanoic acids, alkanones). Obviously, this can change depending on what else is burning within those forest fires e.g. houses/chemicals.
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I think the risk is notably greater here, as post-harvest cannabis products with potential hydrocarbon contamination are primarily being consumed via combustion vs being orally consumed.
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Agreed, I guess I’m thinking about all the various chemicals used in industrial agriculture, some of which are pretty nasty and how those chemicals compare to the things present in smoke and the various levels found, or not, in the weed. I want to know how proximity to fire affects these things and to what degree the air quality day to day affects plant development.
Fuuuuuuck
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She’s going to be a banger crop this year, still no smokey hints & we had rain last night Hope that helps put these fires out
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Just looking at this “Vista grande” makes me simultaneously thrilled and exhausted.
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Damn, hope they got that fire on the hill put out
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@CaptTigerpants have tons of friends in the area hope you guys are ok out there. I used to live just a few miles away from the pictures you took !
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