Issue #107 - Sunday, May 4, 2014
Dear Fellow Grower, In today's issue... - Learn about why you should never use ONA products IN the actual grow area...
- Learn about other tips to grow top-shelf buds including ways to improve their natural taste and smell!
- This week's Trophy Pics feature amazing results from one of our readers, plus see the plants on YouTube...
Happy Growing!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of
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"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." ~ David Bailey
PSA: Don't use ONA products to control smells IN the grow room by Nebula Haze |
A lot of cannabis growers are worried about the odor of flowering (budding) cannabis plants, and may be trying to avoid letting smells leak out of the grow room. Many of you may have heard of "ONA Gel" or other ONA products. ONA gel is powerful stuff and works incredibly well at neutralizing smells in your living areas, but
I wanted to warn you about one thing... Never let ONA products share air with your flowering cannabis plants! ONA products do not have to physically touch your buds in order to have a permanent effect on their taste and/or smell. --> Get Quality Seeds from Nirvana (this company rocks!)
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If air which has been treated with ONA Gel comes in contact with your buds for a significant amount of time, the treated air will begin to permanently change the taste/smell of the buds (giving them a
perfume-like smell and taste). This happens even if the ONA and cannabis buds never touch each other. If ONA Gel is kept in your tent or grow room throughout the entire flowering stage, the effect can be overwhelming and buds may smell like ONA Gel or taste like perfume or chemicals after harvest. This is because the ONA gel actually binds to smells instead of covering them up. Smells are permantly changed when they come in contact with ONA products. The perfume smell seems to actually become
"attached" to your buds, and there's no way to get rid of it at that point, even after months of curing. Don't use ONA products near your plants in the flowering stage unless you want buds that smell like perfume and taste like chemicals. Febreeze too! Any type of "odor neutralizer" can have the same effect. Even if you never get any ON your plants, the buds can
still be affected if they share the same air. Although ONA offers some of the strongest and most effective products on the market (and therefore ONA seems to have the greatest effect), you shouldn't be using any other odor neutralizers anywhere near your grow room either. What Exactly Is ONA Gel? The ONA formulations have been around for a long time - initial development began over 25 years ago. The scientist who is credited with inventing the first forms of ONA gel noticed that when terpenes were released into the air, strong smells were reduced. More development created formulations that not only masked smells, but permanently removed them from the air. "AiR8" is the term to describe ONA gel when it's used for industrial or commercial applications (for example to neutralize smells in sewer plants). The basic formulation is the same - AiR8 is used by big businesses, while ONA products are packaged and sold to individual consumers or
small business who want to permanently remove smells. According to Odorchem Manufacturing Corp., the people who make ONA: "This hydroscopic polymer has been saturated with a water-based formulation of active ingredients in order to slowly release into the air. AIR8 GEL is NOT a MASKING AGENT. It is a permanent
solution for the treatment of numerous odors." Learn More About The Science Behind ONA (aka AiR8) Here are the 3 mechanisms used by ONA products to get rid of odors: - Absorption: retains the smell through
absorption
- Adsorption: collects and holds on the smell
- Chemical Reaction (The "Pairs" Theory) - This is probably the most problematic part of ONA products for cannabis growers. The chemical reaction caused by ONA gel involves the permanent bonding of the odorous molecule (VOC) and the ONA active ingredients. This mechanism transforms the original
smell from what it was into something new. As a result, the original odor disappears, to be replaced with a new molecule that is meant to smell like ONA gel.
How Cannabis
Growers Can Properly Use ONA Gel If you're going to use ONA Gel to cover up smells that are being exhausted out a window, make sure the ONA gel is an actual part of the exhaust (air blows over ONA on the way out to neutralize the smells, so no ONA air ever comes in contact with your plants). If you're worried about smells in the home, it is
recommended you keep ONA products in your living areas (or otherwise outside the grow room). For example. ONA gel can be placed in your living room or hallways to make sure the smell of cannabis does not leak into your living areas. The main idea is to prevent ONA products from ever sharing air with your buds. There Are
Better Ways to Cover Up Smells! If you can afford it (and have room), I definitely recommend installing a carbon scrubber as part of your exhaust system to neutralize smells as the hot air escapes out your exhaust hole. With a carbon scrubber, there's zero worry about affecting the smell/taste of your buds. Carbon scrubbers will pull scents out of
the air, so exhaust air smells neutral, but carbon scrubbers don't permanently alter smells the way that ONA products can. A carbon scrubber also lasts a lot longer than a single package of ONA gel. As long as you make sure there's enough suction in the tent from the exhaust fan (tent should be bowing inwards slightly), no smelly air will be able to escape. It won't just protect the air coming
from your exhaust, if set up properly it will also prevent smelly air from leaking out of the grow room into your living areas. For example, with the carbon filter and negative air pressure set up in my grow tent, I can't even smell the flowering plants in my grow room until I actually open up the tent. Learn More About Carbon scrubbers How to Make an Effective Exhuast System
Conclusion: ONA for living spaces only! A few readers have written in who unfortunately used ONA gel in their tents during their cannabis plant's flowering stage, and they had to find out the hard way that it changes the smell and taste of their buds... Hopefully this Public Service Announcement will prevent that from happening to
you!
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Nebula Haze:As an epilepsy patient, medical cannabis may have saved my life, and I'm dedicated to
showing others how easy it is to grow their own supply of cannabis at home.
It is my mission to educate and build growing resources to help both new and advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money.
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Learn which seed sources are personally recommended by Nebula Haze |
Sirius Fourside:Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a
medium(deep water culture, bubbleponics)."Growing cannabis is a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady
characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, perlite, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
Better Taste, Better Smell |
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Produce The Best Buds You Can... Bring Out the Natural Taste and Smell of Your Buds Next
harvest, want to make sure your cannabis plants produce buds with the best taste and smell possible? The following article will teach you exactly what you need to do to maximize the natural taste and smell of your cannabis buds. In addition to learning about everything you can do to increase smells, you can also learn how to avoid common mistakes
(like using ONA Gel too close to your plants) that can get in the way of your goals! Better Taste, Better Smell: What Growers Need to Know
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7 Tips to Growing Top-Shelf Buds |
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Now that you've learned some thing about what NOT to do (don't keep ONA products in your grow area), learn about 7 things you SHOULD do to ensure that you're producing the most potent, best smelling and dankest buds possible!
Learn 7 Tactics to Grow the Best Cannabis Possible!
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Trophy Pictures of the Week!
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by Daves GrowGuide
First 2 pics are Chemdawg
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Next 2 pics are Fruit Spirit
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