Red Hairs GOOD OR BAD????

Shouldn't all buds have red hairs befire harvest??????

wildcajun said:

Shouldn't all buds have red hairs befire harvest??????

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If by; "hairs" you meant pistils, then the answer is no. Not all will turn red. Some will turn orange, some will turn various shades in the red or orange range but not exactly either and Mantanuska Tundra is known for still having most to all pistils still being white when fully ripe.

It's sort of a genetic thing on what color they will turn or if they will turn or not.

Yeah they're not all red, but they shouldn't be white.
I haven't seen any strains with white hairs in the good and proper end product.
Even the supposedly "albino" strains just have like light red/pink, or light orange/red hairs.
Some hazes have "silver" hairs that I've seen. But they're really just really light, trichome covered hairs.

If your only gonna use one factor to decide when to harvest, then you should go by the color of the trichomes, not the color of the hairs. But really it's more about reading your plant, the trichomes, and the red hairs.
Like ten, twelve years ago ppl used to harvest when 60-80% hairs tuned red, or something, but now it's more about the trics.

Beansly said:

Yeah they're not all red, but they shouldn't be white.
I haven't seen any strains with white hairs in the good and proper end product.

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Mantanuska Tundra is known for still having most to all pistils still being white when fully ripe.

Now at least you have heard of one.

Really? Interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
I've never smoked it.

Likely never will smoke it either, not to disappoint you. It's a definite rarity.

ATF and MTF are making a comeback in Cali, but I'm sure someone will just argue that it's not REAL ATF, etc. Etc.

But I have seen more clones out there from reputable clone vendors. I've grown and smoked an ATF cutting and it was great, my first real taste of high end weed that I grew. Everything before that was bag weed, so it's probably like how your first anything is always going to be the best. But I digress.

I've had several strains not change color, I've even took a strain way too long trying to wait it out when I first started. It's totally genetic like BT said.

Maximus cannabis said:

ATF and MTF are making a comeback in Cali, but I'm sure someone will just argue that it's not REAL ATF, etc. Etc.

But I have seen more clones out there from reputable clone vendors. I've grown and smoked an ATF cutting and it was great, my first real taste of high end weed that I grew. Everything before that was bag weed, so it's probably like how your first anything is always going to be the best. But I digress.

I've had several strains not change color, I've even took a strain way too long trying to wait it out when I first started. It's totally genetic like BT said.

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It is not all that common, especially as genetics become more and more that of mutts, Heinz 57 Variety genetic mixes, but it can and will happen and it is proof that the once believed to be solid true fact that pistil color change is a sure absolutely positive sign of ripening, or ripe, is another piece of old hippie folklore. Sometimes it just won't happen and it is not a sign of lack of repining. It is only different genetics doing what comes natural to them.