Smaller buds (phenotypes) have more trichomes?

MassaNPK

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Hey, guys.
I have grown hundreds of cannabis so far.
I noticed.
When 10 identical genes are germinated, each has a phenotype.
Smaller buds (phenotypes) have more trichomes.
Does anyone know anything about this? Or anyone who agrees?

I'm not good at English, sorry.
 
Actually there is something to this IF what you are talking about are larger growing Sativa strains, especially ones that tend to fox-tail a lot. Some of the biggest buds I have ever grown indoors were Sativa's, I'm talking about buds the size of two liter pop bottles. Mind bending weed for sure, but I know it wouldn't have tested above 20% thc, no way.

I wouldn't say that any of my truly MASSIVE sativa's were as potent as the hybrids or more pure indica's. It was also true Outdoors. in Ca I saw this all the time. You could grow these freaking huge Sativa's or mostly Sativa's that would dwarf the indica's but the indica's would kick their ass in the thc department.

When we are talking about modern indoor genetics, it's all hybrids now, so potency no longer has that much to do with size. Although obviously size isn't all that matters, otherwise that's all people would breed for.
 
Sorry, my words were bad. The small phenotype (10%) has almost 100% more trichomes.

I think I get what you are saying. You are saying that when you get a variation of pheno's from one set of seeds, that the larger pheno's are often less potent than the smaller pheno's. That actually does make sense and I've seen this too but again, most often because you get a big pheno that is more Sativa like and starts to fox-tail. When it comes to plants that are more stable you won't see this happen as often. But yes I have noticed that sometimes the bigger plants don't seem as potent. The number one problem though is usually getting fox-tails or not letting that bigger bud actually finish up all the way. Selective harvesting is often used successfully for certain strains for this reason.

Quick question. Are you growing with American Genetics or European? I ask because that was something I noticed from European Strains back in the day, if they weren't stable hybrids the bigger pheno's were often more Sativa leaning and would fox-tail and take longer to mature fully.
 
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I think I get what you are saying. You are saying that when you get a variation of pheno's from one set of seeds, that the larger pheno's are often less potent than the smaller pheno's. That actually does make sense and I've seen this too but again, most often because you get a big pheno that is more Sativa like and starts to fox-tail. When it comes to plants that are more stable you won't see this happen as often. But yes I have noticed that sometimes the bigger plants don't seem as potent. The number one problem though is usually getting fox-tails or not letting that bigger bud actually finish up all the way. Selective harvesting is often used successfully for certain strains for this reason.

Quick question. Are you growing with American Genetics or European? I ask because that was something I noticed from European Strains back in the day, if they weren't stable hybrids the bigger pheno's were often more Sativa leaning and would fox-tail and take longer to mature fully.
Thank you for your reply.

I have only used seeds from well-known seed companies.
For example, RQS Dinafem.

I recently raised and harvested the RQS Sherbet Queen from 10 seeds.
1 (big buds and ordinary trichomes)
8 (medium buds and ordinary trichomes)
1 (small buds and many trichomes).

I spawn 10 seeds of the same variety each time. Strains with low yield always have a lot of trichomes. Does anyone agree? Or do you have that experience?
 
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