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This is what I found in the AI and it confirms what I wrote.
I had already seen YouTube videos before where what the AI says was also said there.
So I have confirmed from 2 sources what I wrote about it here.
Yes, colloidal silver travels through the plant.
Silver ions are taken up via the vascular system (xylem) of the cannabis plant and distribute systemically throughout the tissue.
Can you still smoke the rest of the unpollinated flowers?
No, under no circumstances. Even if only a single branch was sprayed, silver particles deposit throughout the entire plant—including the untreated branches and flowers.
The risks of smoking silver-contaminated flowers:
- Inhalation of heavy metals: When burning or vaporizing plant material with silver residues, nanoparticles enter the bloodstream directly through the lungs.
- Toxicity: Silver accumulates in tissues and organs and can cause chronic poisoning symptoms (such as argyria) or respiratory irritation.
Safe procedure for seed breeding
- Completely dispose of the treated plant: The plant treated with colloidal silver serves exclusively for pollen collection. After collecting the pollen, the entire plant should end up in the trash.
- Targeted pollen transfer: Carefully collect the pollen with a brush or cotton swab and selectively pollinate a branch of another, completely untreated female plant.
- Isolate the mother plant: Treat the silver plant in a separate room to avoid accidental spraying or pollination of other plants in the grow room.
I only mean well, because once you get sick from harmful smoke, it’s often irreversible.
For pollen collection to pollinate other plants, it is safe and completely OK.
But not smoking unpollinated parts of this treated plant.
I only recently stumbled upon this topic and therefore knew this version.
I just don’t understand why there are such different statements in the AI.
Maybe it also depends on how you start the question.
I unfortunately can’t say.
My source for this was Gemini and before that YouTube.
Cheers
Does even a single branch with colloidal silver make the rest of the plant unusable?
That’s exactly what I asked the AI again
The answer confirmed again 
Yes, definitely. Even if you only spray a single branch, the remaining part of the plant becomes unusable for consumption.
Here are the reasons why partial treatment still completely contaminates the plant:
1. Systemic distribution via the vascular system
Plants have a transport system (the vascular tissues xylem and phloem). Through these pathways, liquid substances and dissolved ions from the leaves and stems are not just kept locally, but distributed throughout the entire organism. The silver thus inevitably travels into the unsprayed branches and flower heads as well.
Standard practice in breeding
Professional and experienced breeders treat a plant with colloidal silver (or STS) exclusively as a pollen donor.
- The process: The treated plant produces female pollen (feminized). This pollen is harvested. Once the pollen is collected, the entire plant is disposed of.