What causes trichs to turn amber while most are still clear?
- Thread starter BluJayz
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age..degradation of thc.
Dogenzengi
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Age and light cause the breakdown from clear to cloudy to Amber, at least that is what I believe.
I read last night on the subject, not all plants go amber, Sativas mostly.
Idicas may stop at cloudy.
it is also a very strain related trait as well.
I read last night on the subject, not all plants go amber, Sativas mostly.
Idicas may stop at cloudy.
it is also a very strain related trait as well.
BluJayz
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Right.
Let me rephrase the question.
The question relates to the trichs not going cloudy as they are still in the clear stage (45 days ish). However groups of amber trichs are spotted. What would cause this?
BluJayz
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see post #2..if it's the top of the plant it's more than likely too close to light
Not quite that easy; even lowest nodes (3 feet) have small groups. Temps in high 70's.
Any experience with Kosher Kush?
AimAim
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If they are in "groups" I think it can be due to touching the bud or something physically touching the trics.
Kind of like bruising a peach.
BluJayz
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OoOoOooo Thing's just got interesting....
That's something I had not thought of; big wind in the last few days...
Do the trichs have the ability to recover?
AimAim
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OoOoOooo Thing's just got interesting....
That's something I had not thought of; big wind in the last few days...
Do the trichs have the ability to recover?
I doubt if they recover, the bruising just does something to speed up ripening would be my guess. And it's just a guess. I can tell you on my last indoor grow I handled the plants quite a bit in flowering and I would notice dark patches, where I assume they had bumped another bud as I carried them around, or where I bumped them myself as I did LST etc.
Do a little experiment: pick a bud with clear trichs and touch it, and watch to see if the spot you touched turns amber in a day or two. Won't cost you much of a loss, and you will have answered the question if that was the cause.
kinddiesel
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got a pic. if only a few are amber and all the others are clear. your scoping them out way to early. you need to wait until at least 60 % of the white hairs are brown. then scope them out. when they are very young immature they will look like what your describing on here. this is normal. if you scope them out every day that's what you will see. so step back . start looking at the hairs on the buds once they turn brown then look through you scope. this is a very common mistake even people scope them and say her there done and the plant did not even get half the yield it could of if you waited , what im telling you is from years experience. 1000 harvests. I know what your doing incorrect.
dubcoastOGs
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I agree with the above comment. Most people harvest way too early. Either by only looking at the hairs. "Omg, 50% of the hairs have turned orange/brown - I better harvest." Or because they see a few amber trichs, and think it's now on the potency decline. Wait it out. You want those calyx to swell.
