Purple Trichome heads!!

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Alright, I know the diff between clear, cloudy ect. However, I can not find much solid info on purple head trichomes. My temps are 64f at night and 74f daytime. I really have a nice garden to work in, but this is my first time finding 3 plants with all purple trichome heads. The stems are clear, but the heads are purple as can be. Sorry no pictures my digital was dropped in the snow this weekend. Open to all opinons, thanks.
 
THCBD

THCBD

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some trichromes (i've heard this about sativa genetics) have different coloring. feel blessed, these trichromes will be a little harder to tell what stage they're in, but you can make some really cool hash, and your buds will have a cool glow about them, clone those genetics!
 
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LoL I can't do pics. My light microscope does not take them and I would not lie about this if I was asking for information. The entire plant has a purple hue to it as well. I'm going to go off the stem of the trichome then to determine when there ready to pick. Excited and hopefully have some pics up in the next 2 weeks. Must be the strain then.
 
Dizzle Frost

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Ive had some real nice blue plants..but never blue trichs yet ..jus crazy colored pistils. Try to get a pic someway lol
 
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mafia

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I had some on my last laughing buddha plant, i thought it was from the cold.
My trich stalks were more purple than the heads though.
 
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This is what I see LOL except my stems are clear and the heads are purple as can be. Gives the entire plant a purple tone as well. It does'nt get below 63f though. I think it's cool as hell, but wanted to make sure it's possible. Thanks guys. I will buy a microscope that takes pics this week and load some up. I still have a good week or so before harvest.
 
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cguzek44

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I just noticed some purple trichomes on my plants that are coming down SOON! When i googled purple trichomes, this was one of the links that came up. Well, here are some pics of my Sweet Deep Grapefruit by Dinafem Seed Company. It came as a freebie, and boy am i happy it did. Well, here are some pics of my purple trichomes.[video=youtube;cHOx63rmKI0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHOx63rmKI0[/video][video=youtube;unTdAHqrIjA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unTdAHqrIjA[/video]View attachment 1474996View attachment 1474997
 
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I know also, that purple color has to do with that when it gets to a certain temperature, phosphorus cannot be absorbed properly, and this causes the purple to show through, this is for the chlorophyll part of the plant though, so god knows why our trichomes are actually purple.
 
cannabisguru

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crazy... never heard of purple trichs before.

just goes to prove that even with 4 years of experience that I have with growing.. you still learn something new each and every day. Well, maybe not every single day.. but you get the idea. ;)

Pretty amazing if you ask me..

peace.
 
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cannabisguru said:
crazy... never heard of purple trichs before.

just goes to prove that even with 4 years of experience that I have with growing.. you still learn something new each and every day. Well, maybe not every single day.. but you get the idea. ;)

Pretty amazing if you ask me..

peace.
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Lol and you're the kid that was bitching in the " My buds turn brownish after curing " thread, about noobs and not knowing shit and blah blah. Came off like a real tool.

Now your saying oh i learn so much everyday blah blah.... So it's ok for you to learn but not us?
 
FarmerJJ

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I had purple trichs on my lionheart from almighty seeds, the purple glow to the buds is amazing, they looked just like yours
 
dman8168

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figured id ask here seeing as the pics i have a question about are here.kind of off topic but maybe not. was wondering in the photos posted by sct1984,why the trichs seem to be mostly missing the head.i thought the thc was stored in the head.what would cause this and will it still have a "high"?
 
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I assure you, you still get a high lol. I took a sample about 2 weeks ago (since the branch was dying anyways) and took a sample a week ago - didn't let it cure enough obviously after one week and although not ready yet, the high is still quite strong.

I am wondering if those 'missing heads' are because these are trichs on leaf material? I had to bring the sample to work to use our microscope here and I didn't want to cut off part of an actual bud... maybe i should to see the difference, if any.

then again, when you look at the back side of the leaf, the heads are pretty apparant.
 
Vapekush

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SCT1984 said:
I assure you, you still get a high lol. I took a sample about 2 weeks ago (since the branch was dying anyways) and took a sample a week ago - didn't let it cure enough obviously after one week and although not ready yet, the high is still quite strong.

I am wondering if those 'missing heads' are because these are trichs on leaf material? I had to bring the sample to work to use our microscope here and I didn't want to cut off part of an actual bud... maybe i should to see the difference, if any.

then again, when you look at the back side of the leaf, the heads are pretty apparant.
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I love that you brought your weed to work to check under their scope, very cool. Depending on how you transported your sample to work, that could be why your trichs are almost all missing their heads. Too much handling can damage them, possible case in point here. The fact that they are on a leaf won't make a difference, trichs are the same shape on leaves as they are on buds. Awesome pix though.
 
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