Purple Trichome heads!!

I have orange, purple and pink trichome heads, very bright in color. Just the heads. only a few though , scattered amongst the cloudy ones. Interesting .I did left temps dip very low towards the end. As low as 58 Nighttime, 70 daytime .

not the best pics, but shows that my trich heads are very purple. this is Durban Poison. Hopefully this is not due to heavy theatment with B.A.C. plant vitality plus..

I fucked around. I found out!
Thin Mint outdoor on harvest day.

Starting to see some on a purple haze pheno!

Insurance Agent said:

Alright, I know the diff between clear, cloudy ect. However, I can not find much solid info on purple head trichomes. My temps are 64f at night and 74f daytime. I really have a nice garden to work in, but this is my first time finding 3 plants with all purple trichome heads. The stems are clear, but the heads are purple as can be. Sorry no pictures my digital was dropped in the snow this weekend. Open to all opinons, thanks.

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These are purple, its purple punch. What these trichs are from.

I've been growing nonstop for years, switching from indoors and outdoors with the seasons...Last couple years since legalization has really kicked off I've started to see a lot of strange shit that I and nobody I've asked has ever seen before. I'm thinking it's related to all the cross breeding/gene mods over the years so plants are starting to get genetic mutations.

I get a lot of purple with my outdoor because of the low temps in fall, purple indoors if they have the genre...2 years ago I had a plant I grew from a seed I got when I crossed with Durban poison with poison berry that had some neon/hot pink and some normal white pistols. What was odd is that the pistols were 3x-4x thicker than normal and they stayed a mix of hot pink and white after the buds were dried. I called it strawberry yogurt...

I grew some outdoor wedding cake/night terror last year I got from a breeder in Maine from April 20th to October 20th-ish. Average yield per plant was around 1000 grams. (beautiful, tall, stinky extremely full and very purple plant BTW but so thick and full you have to trim a lot because their not very mold resistant) That's the plant that brought me here. My brother kept talking about the purple crystal's from the bud and I kept brushing it off thinking he thought it was the trichomes that made it purple...but this morning an old school hippy from the 60's/70's asked me if I had anymore of the shit with the purple keef. I told him it's not the "keef" that's purple. He told me I was wrong.. He likes to dry it out, run it thru a grinder with a double keef catch because he loves the keef. He brought his grinder to show me the purple keef this morning. It definitely looked purple so I threw some under my microscope to show him that it was just very fine pieces of leaf mixed in and boy was I wrong. You could clearly see purple trichomes heads, some with a small part of the stem still attached. I've been researching about it which brought me here. Obviously you can alter the color of the trichomes if the plant can do it naturally itself. I want to figure out how to make the purple trichomes on the strawberry yogurt I have with the hot pink/white pistols because I think it would look cool as hell. I breed the strawberry yogurt with purple Kush and purple diesel this winter. I'm hoping I can get some dark purple buds with hot pink pistols ,which would also be cool as hell. Then my end game will be breeding the dark purple with hot pink pistols buds with the buds that have purple trichomes so I can try to maybe end up with dark purple buds with hot pink and white-ish hairs AND purple/pink trichomes if I'm successful I will come back to this post and put up some pics

Have a bunch of purple showing up on my Mango Kush at week 7

SCT1984 said:

I assure you, you still get a high lol. I took a sample about 2 weeks ago (since the branch was dying anyways) and took a sample a week ago - didn't let it cure enough obviously after one week and although not ready yet, the high is still quite strong.

I am wondering if those 'missing heads' are because these are trichs on leaf material? I had to bring the sample to work to use our microscope here and I didn't want to cut off part of an actual bud... maybe i should to see the difference, if any.

then again, when you look at the back side of the leaf, the heads are pretty apparant.

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The reason there are missing heads is because he rubbed against them and knocked them off. There are different types of trichs and some don't have heads but that's not what we're looking at. You have to be careful because that will not grow back. The color is due partly to genetics, partly to night time temp sounds like. Colors start showing when below 70ish°. Many purple strains can show through the trichs but sometimes it's simply reflecting the purple from the bud. Finally never go off of the trichs on the leaves. They mature faster and you will harvest early if you go by them. Make sure you are looking at bud trichs. The purple shouldn't interfere with the harvest. When they start clouding the purple won't be as obvious. It does take a trained eye but once you have gotten to know a few plants it'll be easy enough to tell. If you want to be stuck on the couch, wait till you see some amber, like 20%> if you want to have the cerebral head high and still be active, chop right when you see a lil amber but mainly that all/ most trichs are cloudy . If you cant see the color of the bud through the trichs, it's cloudy. If you can, needs time.

420God said:

You are going to need pics or this could get ugly. Not too many people are going to believe it otherwise.

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Check this shit out.

I haven't seen purple tricomes but the first time I grew bubblegum I did get bright gold tricomes. I thought it a novelty until I dried cured and smoked it. Electric shock from the top of my spine all the way down to my pelvis with waves of electricity out to my fingers and toes. Unbelievable high. Never found it again but I keep growing bubblegum.