economical source of .999 silver?

[starramus]

Yes my only interest is in feminizing cannabis seeds. The junk silver route seems the most economical, but as you are unsure of so am I. Will it be effective? It appears I need a chemist, but that would be far more expensive than the .999 pure silver.

[PigSquishy]

As someone who is actually semi-familiar with this process and how it all works, and some of the reasonings why you may want colloidal silver... That being said let me just shoot you off the basics of everything, if someone else wants they can fill in all the blanks here for you. When making the colloidal silver, it is the opposite process of electroplating, in electroplating we have the metal(s) suspended in the liquid to then make them attach to the piece we are working on, thus adding metal to the piece. When making colloidal silver however you are then taking the metal and suspending it into the water, thus removing it from the piece you are working with. Now if you use a lesser purity of silver, you will then have a lesser purity of colloidal silver, now depending on what you need it for maybe that matters or maybe it doesn't matter so much... That is something I can't speak to, I just know you will get exactly what you put into the process as the metal purity will remain the same, it's just a matter of what you are doing with it will depend on if the purity of the silver is going to matter, over having say perhaps more tin or some other metal mixed in with it.

Which reminds me of something I was reading recently on composting, as they were discussing the minerals and metals absorbed by a plant during its lifetime will in turn be there in the plant until it is either burned and released or composted and released back to the earth. Thus if you had for an example, aluminum absorbed by a plant you then smoked it, you would thus get aluminum in the smoke, which is then known to do whatever else inside the human body. Colloidal silver has been used going back 100+ years for medicine, and as far as I've always known I wanted .999% silver for that reasoning... Looking at it from a medical point, they now have learned viruses such as Herpes 1 & 2,, and they even believe the HIV virus actually survive in the body by hiding in the feet of the body where heavy metals collect, as it gives the virus a place to hide from the antibiotics and things that would kill it, as the metal then in turn kills what would kill it. So they are now looking at this with a hope of finally being able to kill such viruses and things within the body, and that opened my eyes to the seriousness of heavy metals in the human body.

So while I know I haven't answered your question directly as you may have hoped I would, I suspect you are going to use colloidal silver to force a plant to make female seeds by this process, and so I do not know if the amount of silver is overly important... but I am aware of other ways to accomplish the same end without having to use metals to do it.

[starramus]

In these times of inflated equities and commodities I am looking for a reasonable source of .999 pure silver. I have never made colloidal silver before, but am wondering if there is an economical source for this. I find some jewelry wire on Amazon, but am wondering if this will hold up in the process. The Canadian coins are just getting too pricey. Also would junk silver .90 be usable in this process?