Crazy trichome production

oceanic6

Active Member
So I have grown aurora indica before and it was so so, mainly because it was one of my first grows and I screwed it up by keeping the room to hot. It hermied pretty bad and i got about 40 seeds out of it.

So when I was about to start my new grow in my grow tent I decided to plant some of these hermie seeds and keep them outside and just experiment with them.

Now here is what happened.

I kept them outside in my yard and in good sun and about half way through flower I moved two of them to a shaddy part of the yard.

I chopped the one in full sun about a month ago and forgot all about the other 2.

I went out there today and saw them and I thought they had gotten some sort of fungus because they were almost all white. When I went right up to them I realized they were trichomes.

Now I have seen some Dank bud over my life and this was insane to look at. It literally looks like there is snow on them. There is NO green because it is covered in millions of white trichomes.

Under the microscope they are ALL milky... NONE are clear or amber. Weird right?

So this is where I need some ideas.

Both of these were in the shade. One was in complete shade and the other had some sun on the one side. Nothing great.

So back when I put them in the shade this is what happened from then to now.

Never watered them (rain water that made it there is probably how they survived.)

They got no light (except some on the one)

At night my light in the yard is on so they get some of that because the light is right above them. The light is a daylight fluro.

It has been getting cold out the past few weeks.

They are about a month past where I thought their harvest date would have been.

So they were getting no water, no light in the day, fluro light at night, cold air and way past the optimal harvest date.

and I get small looking popcorn buds all over the plant. These popcorn bud are insanely covered in thick, milky trichomes that look like there is a thick layer of snow covering the plant. I am going to try and take a picture tomorrow because you have to see this to believe it.

Now i know they are small popcorn buds but the amount of trichs is so overpowering on the plant that I would imagine it is worth 3 big nugs of normal trich.

So how do you guys think this happened? I would love to incorporate this into my good grows and get that kind of trich development on fatter buds.

I just dont understand after treating them like that how they could develop like that.
 

sso

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it makes me wonder how the plant in full sun, wouldave looked if you had cut it a month later.
 

slonez47

Active Member
I've heard that up to forty eight hours of total dark right at harvest kicks in resin production. Maybe it had something to do with that. It's the plants defenses to certain stimuli.
 

LD25Delta9

Active Member
I was just reading Jorge's Cervantes Indoor/Outdoor bible and it says that a plant that sits in indirect sunlight or shade won't produce many calyxes and that all the workload goes into trichrome production. Take a look at your plants and see if the Calyxes(buds) are very big. Chances are, they aren't and that's why they are so resinous. Just my $0.02 though. You should also harvest them if your trichs are milky...
 

slonez47

Active Member
I was just reading Jorge's Cervantes Indoor/Outdoor bible and it says that a plant that sits in indirect sunlight or shade won't produce many calyxes and that all the workload goes into trichrome production. Take a look at your plants and see if the Calyxes(buds) are very big. Chances are, they aren't and that's why they are so resinous. Just my $0.02 though. You should also harvest them if your trichs are milky...
Jorge definitely knows MJ. I love that book!
 

sso

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I was just reading Jorge's Cervantes Indoor/Outdoor bible and it says that a plant that sits in indirect sunlight or shade won't produce many calyxes and that all the workload goes into trichrome production. Take a look at your plants and see if the Calyxes(buds) are very big. Chances are, they aren't and that's why they are so resinous. Just my $0.02 though. You should also harvest them if your trichs are milky...
the vendors of whitewidow seeds (forget exactly who) recommend 2 weeks of darkness before harvest.

so, maybe if you let the buds get big, then into darkness for max trichs.

dunno, seemed always bit extreme to me, makes bit more sense to have at least some light, maybe a fluo or 2. but i could be wrong of course. havent tried it and am gonna wait for someone else to do it :)
 

oceanic6

Active Member
Here is a pic... I tried getting better shots but my cameras macro sucks. It looks much more intense in person.

 

oceanic6

Active Member
I was just reading Jorge's Cervantes Indoor/Outdoor bible and it says that a plant that sits in indirect sunlight or shade won't produce many calyxes and that all the workload goes into trichrome production. Take a look at your plants and see if the Calyxes(buds) are very big. Chances are, they aren't and that's why they are so resinous. Just my $0.02 though. You should also harvest them if your trichs are milky...
Well this is a perfect example of what he is talking about. They are small popcorn buds and look at the trichs. Jorge knows his stuff. I might put my white rhino i am growing in the dark for a week before harvest to see what will happen.
 

azryda420

Active Member
I would need to see that under my microscope to see where the crystals meet the matter. Could be coo for you. Chop it up and dry it to crisp, and dry ice seive that shit
 

oceanic6

Active Member
Yeah, I think I am going to purchase a kif box and put them in there to collect it all. the buds are too small to put in their own bowl. So looks like keifing is the way to go. I wonder why they never went amber though. guess it takes longer to degrade without sun.

if anyone has ideas or a way to incorporate something into a good grow it would be great. if these buds were big with this type of production it would be heaven
 
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