What colour are my trichromes?

I broke down and bought one of those mini-microscopes ($15 Cdn at Radio Shack/Source by Circuit City) and tried to get some pictures of my trichrome colours.

It was a bitch to get it in focus with the microscope, then again with the camera, so the pics are not perfect, but they seem to show the trichromes. Sorry for the blurry shots, but frankly, I'm impressed I got this much!

Please let me know if I've done this right.

No2 Trichs


Ok, so it looks pretty obvious that the trichromes are still clear here, so that means "keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep on truckin'" for another week, and check again then.


Big Girl Trichs



This one is a little more problematic. It looks like some of the trichs are amber, but the rest of them are clear - none of them have gone opaque? What's going on? Should I cut this one? Keep at it? Help a brother out!!

Note - cross posted to my grow journal (link below)

let them both grow out until most are amber.

yeah wait till you see more amber and then cut away. You wont be disappointed...............

I'm a little puzzled because in the 2d plant, it looks like some of the trichs are amber and the rest are clear, with no cloudy ones.

If the continuum is clear-cloudy-amber, I would have expected lots of cloudy ones too.

I'm not disappointed with the result, just puzzled by it. Since the purpose of my first grow was to figure out how this stuff works, I'd like to get as much info as I can safely process.

Thanks for your advice.

just keep waiting. remember this saying, ''if in doubt, wait another week"

it's not uncommon to see amber trichs before seeing cloudy ones; the ones that turn amber early are generally the first ones that popped out.

i don't keep flower time records, i watch the plants. when the pistils start to die off in large numbers, i start checking trichs. usually at that point, they are all or mostly cloudy, two or three weeks left.

kp

I don't agree with the advice offered by the last two posters, you're growing a preodminantly Sativa plant, you don't want the Trich spheres to turn amber, which will produce more of a couch lock stone.

You ideally want to harvest at clear/cloudy 50/50 and as you've got signs in both pictures of both trichomes starting to turn amber - I'd chop now.

The bottom line however, it what you want and are looking for.