What are the factors that cause white ash

Botany and Cultivation
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I see a lot of growers who specialize in white ash. what is the factor

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Extra minerals appearantly …
Some say it’s the lack of minerals…

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Another random flex in the sea of things that can make us look different and stand out

Got that white ash, if you don’t you’re not me!

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I know that flushing has nothing to do with it. I also think that a nice slow dry is required.

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This is an easy one - how much PCP is put in the usual feeding cycle.

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not putting lotion on!

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Ashy Larry! Marcy projects!

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Correct.

Possibly to an extent as far as how smooth it burns. But the white ash is usually an indication that the plant had proper nutrient uptake.

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Research into ash from wildfires points to burn temperature as the main factor in determining ash’s properties. With increasing combustion temperature, the charred organic material and organic nitrogen concentrations decrease, and the ash color lightens from black to gray to white

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I notice I get black ash when trying to smoke weed at 100% humidity

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. Structure and consistency of a strain
. Foiliar feeding residue
. Moisture level
. Resin content vs wax content of trichs
. Fertilizer quality / metal content of

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I would say it mainly has to do with drying.
Dried too quick and it will smoke with black ash.
Dried nice and slow and left to cure a bit, it will smoke white ash.
Something that is dried too quick but stored for awhile can still burn black ash because of how fast it dried.

I think it has something to do with how the chrorophyl breaks down.

Cigarettes burn white ash becasue of the salts they add to the mix to get a good burn.

You do need a certain level of cannabinoids and terpenes to assist the burn to raise its combustion temp, so i think thats where white ash is better came from. At one point everyonebwas getting bammer that was dried in a dessert and bricked up. Then once people started growing stronger genetics and drying them proper, they are percieved to be of higher quality. But now i can grow 30% thc strains, dry really quick and still get black ash.

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I’ve been doing a 60% 60° 12-14 day dry for over the last year, always burns white.

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Ive grown seperate strains in identical conditions ,some are prone to black ash and an inconsistent burn . Seems like genetics play a role.

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Sugars or rather lack there of

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I’ve been told its due to combustion temperature. Seems like this is something that moisture content and the presence of salts, waxes and sugars would affect.

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we been doing it that way for about 4 years now. no complaints from the patients.

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Welp, its deffinitly not in how you dry the tree. I just dried some weed in the oven and the bowl was white, but it tasted green.

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I’ve heard this as well. Unclear which…

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Well, a lot of people are just guessing…
In burning shit, when it’s dark there are still several things that are not burned away, and when it is white then it is mostly just potassium, in this case, pot ash is an awesome term.
Same thing with weed, it is dried too quickly so shit like chlorophyll isn’t broken down all the way (and other shit too) so it burns differently.
Maybe in chemical weed there is too much of whatever in there that burns dark like phosphorous maybe??? When charing bone or eggshell for calphos, you want it burned brown not white so there is still phosphorous in there, so maybe that’s what it is…

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