Hey every1! I'm new to this site, and fairly new to growing. I have 3 females that are in thier 3rd week of flowering, not sure what strain just a couple of mystery seeds I got from a good batch I came across. I am already seeing bud production and tons of white hairs. On 1 of my girls I'm already seeing hairs changing to a rusty orange color, not much, just a few here and there. But still I am seeing no signs of trichomes. Yes, I am looking under a magnifieing glass but still don't see 'em. Do the hairs usually start to change color before you see trichomes forming? Also, do they form at the top before anywhere else, or should I look at every potential bud site. So ease my worried mind and let me know what, where, and when I should be seeing my ever so precious trichomes!

Some strains do not produce trich's until very late into flowering, if you are only 3 weeks into flowering you still have at least 5 weeks to go probally at the earliest. By the time your trich's are getting cloudy and amber pretty much all the hairs will be orange. You got to remember the plant really steps up the trich production and THC because it is die'n essentially. Dont worry they will come but there may not be alot as you dont know the strain and some produce a very crystally bud and some do not.

Thanx SikSol. I appreciate the quick replie. This was the exzact awnser I was looking for! Now, can you please tell me where the trichomes will first appear? All replies are welcome!

Great questions bro.... I'm growing for the first time (bagseed) and in 3rd day of flowering!! had not thought to tackling those questions yet, but nice... i'll keep checking back to see the answers, and you keep up the questions...
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Your trichs will first appear typically in the bud then depending on strain spread out the leaves from the center

Once again.. thanx SikSol. My stoner ass spent hours lookin for these awnsers before I came upon this site! RUI is the shit! Another question for you guys. Will my final product be the exzact same as the bud I got the seeds from, or can I better it with TLC? Not sure how good you guys our with your strains but any ideas on what mine mighy be if I told you it looks like a 60/40 Indica dominant, and smells like skunk/lemons? All replies are welcome!

Could make some guesses on the strain but really couldnt tell you for sure there are so many variants and hybrids out there. As for if you final product will be as good or better than the bud you got it from I cant tell you. You dont know if the male the polinated it was of the same strain if it wasnt then you got a different plant on your hands then what you smoked. Also it depends how good the grower was that grew what you smoked and how good you are at growing what you got. Just try your best and in the end the reward is just knowing that you pulled it off and grew your own smoke, now if its some bomb ass shit on top of that then its a bonus. Good luck and hope you got some good stuff there.

Right on SikSol! Thanx for the advice, I'm likin what I'm seein so far.

i grew from a bagseed to. my plant is in its 9th week of flowering and within the last 2 weeks i had some trich explosion. my girl is like 4 feet tall and the buds are finally startn to plump up nicley. since it was bag seed the buds werent quite as big as i would have expected since it was my first grow but bud is bud and its white and ccrystal covered so are the leaves. smells deliscious. thinking im gonna give it another week since im trying to figure the trich thing out. got my magnifier and some of the trichs are cloudy but i would say more clear trichs than cloudy. already kinda started the flush process as my plant uses the nute water its setting in i replace it with regular water. so my thing is when to acually chop. how much longer should i wait. and the weird thing is im getting more bud sites now at week 9 crazy. i think. help if you can

chop when about 30% of the trich's are amber at least thats when I like too. Kinda works like this if you chop when they are mostly clear more of a "head high" if you chop when they are mostly amber more of a "body high" or "stoned out on the couch" kind of high. A good rule of thumb though is when the trichs are 20-30% amber chop it.