you're right, i have seen that before cloudflyer, but i'm glad you posted it here because i think it adds useful relevant info to this thread- thanks! those are basically pics of the small leaves within a bud, right??

i've been following your thread on trichs, vh, and i'm glad you found this one. i would like to do the same thing as you, and harvest some at different stages- cloudy, part amber, and full amber, just to see how much i can control the quality of my plain old bagseed. excellent questions you posted there.


now that makes a lot of sense. i was thinking, though, that it might be good to be able to get this technique of viewing the trichs down enough to be able to hop around from bud to bud on a plant. i'm not worried about a 1/4 inch of one leave, but i know i will want to see how the top buds are doing vs mid and bottom buds...

that leads me to this question, which maybe belongs in another thread, but here goes anyway, lol: will trichome development vary depending upon how much light a particular bud is getting, in the same way as light affects the size or density of the bud? i know some people tend to harvest the top colla first, and then lower the light to fatten up the lower buds before harvesting them...

thanks for your responses everyone, this has been a good post!

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Good question on variation and it would matter if trich development really determines the high. If I took a lower branch and only the tip was getting direct sun would the remaining two thirds have different type high? I dunno and perhaps I'm getting too analytical. But it's worth a look and possibly even curing my buds by trich color regardless of what part of the plant.

Do people harvest top cola first on indoor? I was under the impression that most plant's bottom branches are ready first with the tops getting to that same point later- that whatever point your lower branches are your tops are a couple weeks or more behind, no?

Finally, I wonder why it is we care so much about strain(sativa or indica) yet so many of the articles and opinion regardless of strain are to harvest just at cloudy for a head high and half to mostly amber for a couch lock high. At the same time the only difference most people say between sativa and indica is just that- head or body. Is that to say that you can just grow either and get the typical sativa high by harvesting indica at cloudy or indica high by harvesting sativa at all amber? It can't be that simple.

Anecdotally regarding THC breakdown or other cannabanoids that TCH breaks down in to after harvest: I have some pretty good weed in an airtight container and have kept it around a few years. When I first got it it was pretty strong and gave more of that paranoid type high where it took me an hour or two into it to actually feel "ok". Now it is still a decent high but now I really feel calm like there's something in it that is calming and seems to affect my outlook positively for a couple days afterwards. I feel calm, clear and secure. I wonder if that's part of the breakdown and effect of THC turning into other cannabanoids that offset the racing, soaring of sativa. If that's what CBDs does for me then I want some of that and will be pretty happy with my white rhino I'm sure. As I understand it, it just takes a while for it to get that way post harvest as THC converts more slowly after harvest than when it's on the vine. Some of what I'm saying may be nonsense that I've twisted some concepts but I hope I'm on to something. That's why it would also matter to me if all the buds are at the same stage on a branch or if for accuracy in storage I need to check the trichs in the middle of a branch to see if they are like the tips that were getting sunlight and divide them up that way.

Yes, I know I'm overanalyzing all this but I'm still going to harvest some of each plant at cloudy, some at part amber, and a little of each strain at mostly amber just to see.

VH, I think you will find answers to some of your questions by reading "Marijuana Botony". It's pretty technical but it seems to be a very reliable source on growing, life stages, breeding etc. I use it constantly. Personally I do, for the most part, check individual branches, but not necessarily individual buds. I use a combo of pistils and trichs. If however, I have any question on ripeness I will always clip a leaf and scope it. So I pretty much use the scope constantly (lol). GL HH

of course, one thing i plan on doing is sampling!

excellent discussion, my friends... it's nice to have an intelligent one!

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