Personally i think it's complete nonsense. White ash can be nasty and black ash can be great, it's completely strain dependant.
More importantly, it's a question of combustion. You can get any plant matter to burn white if you get it hot enough....hence "white hot". It's simply a case of using a higher temperate flame and bingo, what was black is now white.
If you're smoking a spliff and it's got black ash you've got two potential reasons;
1) the weed is wet, i.e it hasn't been dried properly and likely not been cured at all = dog shit
2) the weed sticky because it's full of trichomes and burns slow, appearing to be black because it hasn't completely combusted = good shit
Take No.2 and put one of those windproof lighters on it, (the ones that look like a bunson burner) and bingo....white ash.
If i had a pound for every time i've had to bite my lip with people talking about black ash and flushing i'd have about....well.... ยฃ45, but seriously, I grow in hydro, where arguably you don't even need to flush and i still do with RO water for 10 days, then dry for at least 2 weeks and cure for at least 8, and sometimes, yes, there are still certain phenos that will produce black ash.
The assumption that anything that burns close to black is somehow bad 'un-flushed' weed is a complete myth. There's bad weed that smokes white and good weed that smokes black (and vice versa), and the grey area in between.
Just my 2p.
Cheers. BB
More importantly, it's a question of combustion. You can get any plant matter to burn white if you get it hot enough....hence "white hot". It's simply a case of using a higher temperate flame and bingo, what was black is now white.
If you're smoking a spliff and it's got black ash you've got two potential reasons;
1) the weed is wet, i.e it hasn't been dried properly and likely not been cured at all = dog shit
2) the weed sticky because it's full of trichomes and burns slow, appearing to be black because it hasn't completely combusted = good shit
Take No.2 and put one of those windproof lighters on it, (the ones that look like a bunson burner) and bingo....white ash.
If i had a pound for every time i've had to bite my lip with people talking about black ash and flushing i'd have about....well.... ยฃ45, but seriously, I grow in hydro, where arguably you don't even need to flush and i still do with RO water for 10 days, then dry for at least 2 weeks and cure for at least 8, and sometimes, yes, there are still certain phenos that will produce black ash.
The assumption that anything that burns close to black is somehow bad 'un-flushed' weed is a complete myth. There's bad weed that smokes white and good weed that smokes black (and vice versa), and the grey area in between.
Just my 2p.
Cheers. BB
