[retro]

I give my plants a shot of beer 1 week before chop, figure sugar won’t hurt at this point in time and they got to have a drink before they move on. Old farmer told me that

[melonfarmer]

One for my senescent homies. Love it.

[dudewiththe2x4]

That’s fair, I’m a few weeks out I may have to follow suit at least one drink before the big day couldn’t hurt

[green-giggles]

This is a thought Ive never tried.

I remember as a child we performed a ‘science’ experiment in grade school. Simply put food coloring into the water of a bunch of harvested daffodils. As they take up water the color starts to show on the outer edge of the petals..

I would never use food coloring, but maybe beet juice. Curious to know if the deep red color would come through with continued use. Just the leaves? or might it continue into flower?, would you have blood buds?

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[SlamFM]

Very unlikely it would do much if anything at all. It’d have to be done on cuttings of nearly finished flowers, just like with the old science experiment. The dye might not be able to get everywhere it would need to be to cause the color to change. Could be why you don’t see everyone doing it, I’m sure they would if it worked though lol. The plants can already produce some pretty wild colors naturally during senescence. New Millenium’s “Winter Frost” can really bring out those natural colors too but only the colors present in the plants genetics.