Just clear and amber trichomes, is it possible???

noob12345

noob12345

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I recently had to harvest my outdoors a little early because of some wet/humid weather in mid oct. Im not sure whether it is genetics as I grew all the same strains i grow indoors or because of the weather or a mix of both of these things, I wanted to know why my outdoor is ok but no where near the potency of my indoor as trichs looked ok when i harvested but yesterday i got my big microscope out and put a few samples of dried under to look at and i noticed a lot of clear and some amber, not many cloudy! It has go to be something to do with light, Next year I will be choosing some diff genetics for my outdoor....
 
Puff_Dragon

Puff_Dragon

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imo - for newbies (or when you are dealing with a new strain you've never grown before), I'd recommend:
harvesting one bud from each strain/plant each week (from beginning of week 5 / 6 say). What this allows you to do is examine how YOUR plants (or plant, if they are all clones) are expressing their high and flavours over the course of the flower cycle. This will give you a true understanding of your plants (like how grape/wine testing is done) ..as opposed to using a 'best guess' technique. You will then (if you work clones from the first run) know all the strains quirks and can harvest in future with pinpoint accuracy (even changing where you harvest for specific end user needs :)
 
trinketswittrichs

trinketswittrichs

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taintedDove said:
My Harlequin is driving me crazy. The trichs look pretty clear compared to my Granddaddy purple and my Unknown plant. I know all plants are different, especially ones that are like Harlequin. The first 4 pics here are of the Harlequin. There are verrrry few brown pistils, but they are finally changing fast over the past 2 days. The trichs seem clearish to me but there are a good amount of amber heads even on very very clear trichs. So it can happen. Then next 2 pics are of the GDP and unkown, much more cloudy trichs. I find it very easy to tell the difference between cloudy/milky and a clear/glassy one. View attachment 3873616 View attachment 3873617 View attachment 3873618 View attachment 3873619 View attachment 3873629 View attachment 3873630
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That is a very nice scope. What brand is that? I have a cheap 5 dollar lope 40x which I think is a lie because I have a hard time even telling if any are milky at all.I need a good trichoscope like yours.Thanks
 
Queenbees

Queenbees

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taintedDove said:
My Harlequin is driving me crazy. The trichs look pretty clear compared to my Granddaddy purple and my Unknown plant. I know all plants are different, especially ones that are like Harlequin. The first 4 pics here are of the Harlequin. There are verrrry few brown pistils, but they are finally changing fast over the past 2 days. The trichs seem clearish to me but there are a good amount of amber heads even on very very clear trichs. So it can happen. Then next 2 pics are of the GDP and unkown, much more cloudy trichs. I find it very easy to tell the difference between cloudy/milky and a clear/glassy one. View attachment 3873616 View attachment 3873617 View attachment 3873618 View attachment 3873619 View attachment 3873629 View attachment 3873630
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I have this same problem because of light intensity and heat problem in the middle of flowering

Now the trics are clear n amber.

Should i wait the clear to become cloudy since the buds already turnd brown n white lol?
 
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Richalpha

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Queenbees said:
I have this same problem because of light intensity and heat problem in the middle of flowering

Now the trics are clear n amber.

Should i wait the clear to become cloudy since the buds already turnd brown n white lol?
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Lol we are late to this post but turn your lights down and check the buds below the top canopy, preferably the buds that are dense but have not been affected by the high light intensity
 
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Geeked

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Do you foliage feed? And do any of the nutes makes a brownish color appearance? My guess is maybe the nutes color foliage feeding is just making the trics amber looking? Because I have that same issue and that’s my only guess to why there might be some amber and clear trics with no cloudy.
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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Geeked said:
Do you foliage feed? And do any of the nutes makes a brownish color appearance? My guess is maybe the nutes color foliage feeding is just making the trics amber looking? Because I have that same issue and that’s my only guess to why there might be some amber and clear trics with no cloudy.
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You shouldn’t spray ANYTHING on flowering buds.

The reason that long deceased poster had issues with clear triches was because it wasnt ready and probably judged leaf instead of calyx areas for true maturity. Touching flower can damage triches PLUS the fact it was Sativa Dominant- which can run long flower time. His 59 day old plant was no where near time to chop.
 
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Geeked

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Budzbuddha said:
You shouldn’t spray ANYTHING on flowering buds.

The reason that long deceased poster had issues with clear triches was because it wasnt ready and probably judged leaf instead of calyx areas for true maturity. Touching flower can damage triches PLUS the fact it was Sativa Dominant- which can run long flower time. His 59 day old plant was no where near time to chop.
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Yeah I didn’t know until today when I read about the trics. I was foliage feeding mine all the way to harvest. That’s the reason why some of my trics were amberish. Just trying to figure out why you would have amber and clear but no cloudy. That’s what he’s saying, his was no where near but had amber trics…
 
Left thumb

Left thumb

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muha said:
We cut off small leaves from the buds and watched them away from HPS. He has illuminated microscope 160X - 200X, but when he zoom and focus he see through them (I think that microscope is to strong to see it good, and because of that I see through them and it is very sensitive in focuse). When he defocus a little bit, almost all are cloudy/milky.

Can he have all types of trichomes (clear, cloudy and amber)? I am asking about this because I would like to know, do all clear trichomes disappear, or there have to be all types of trichomes, that you have never seen all cloudy and amber without clear trichomes.
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Your looking where the white hair now red comes out of the caylx
 
hillbill

hillbill

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Trichs on calyxes are the only ones that you should be looking at. Trichs on leaves go through phases more quickly than the ones on the buds.
 
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Gorilla grow person

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Puff_Dragon said:
imo - for newbies (or when you are dealing with a new strain you've never grown before), I'd recommend:
harvesting one bud from each strain/plant each week (from beginning of week 5 / 6 say). What this allows you to do is examine how YOUR plants (or plant, if they are all clones) are expressing their high and flavours over the course of the flower cycle. This will give you a true understanding of your plants (like how grape/wine testing is done) ..as opposed to using a 'best guess' technique. You will then (if you work clones from the first run) know all the strains quirks and can harvest in future with pinpoint accuracy (even changing where you harvest for specific end user needs :)
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Do you have to dry and cure the bud before you sample it? Is there some quick way to do that? Thanks.
 
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