My intentions were to go based on the trichomes as I have a 30x illuminated magnifyer. When I look at a sugar leaf from about mid-range, I see that the trichs are cloudy. Which I find interesting because visually the Blue Dream looks a lot more mature than my four Hawaiian Snow plants which all have plenty of amber trichomes?
He knows what he says. Got to have at least a magnifying glass 30x
Yeah, I have a 30x magnifier and the trichs look mostly cloudly with a few clear and a few amber.
Keep up what your doing. Then I start harvest each bud, as the bud is all cloudy and turns a little amber. But that's old school. Others
Trust the scope and keep flushing. Have you stripped any vegatation or is this how your strain looks?
If I were to take only the top buds down, would I chop the top branches, or simply clip the nugs off the branch?
Yes, I take what ever cause the least stress for the plant. Fewer cuts on live plant.
That makes sense. I think I'm going to take the top nugs tonight and just clip the nugs themselves, as opposed to taking the entire branch... as to minimize stress to the plant. I'll try taking the remainder a week or so later.
Should I be aiming for cloudy trichs? Or are you an advocate of seeing a certain mixture of amber and cloudy?
There you go!
At the end the calyx's swell and gain weight, mostly water, the pistils are completely retracted. There really are no white pistils left. If ur lucky enough to have a cool basement it helps bring out the purple in some strains I've grown this winter. That's another indicator. The whole amber thing has turned out to be baseless. Check out high times for the article. Thc is degraded and amber is the degraded result. Other cannabinoids are affected too. And they can give you more of a medicated couch lock effect. it's up to the grower.
What I mean is I tend to error for a 10% amber rather than 10% clear. The more amber the more body, less heady the high.
Dannyboy to the rescue.! Just got through reading, seems they are going back to the old school way of thinking again.
Just to make sure I understand correctly, I should not take the trichome color into consideration? Instead a better indicator you're saying is to gauge how swollen the calyx is and how visible/which color the pistils are?
Looks immense man