Help reading trichromes
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Rurumo
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I'd re-read that article if that was your takeaway. Your plant is clearly no where near ready to harvest.
Don't take it wrong way yes look at all you said and check trichromes all I'm saying. There's no reason to chop a plant without checking trichromes. It's probably the most important.
Budzbuddha
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Plant ripeness can have other indicators other than triches … many growers don’t even bother scoping based on flower development.
phrygian44
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I'm targeting to reach 73.68% amber trichomes per 1,000 square nanometers under my scope, averaged across a random sampling of 7.3 calyx's off the tertiary stem.
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I agree with budzbuddha. <thumbs up>
Scoping is really Kool, but i would rely on all the other established indicators for harvest, and then look at the scope just as a comparison, to see what all those juicy, sweet tri's look like. But then again, botany is one of my hobbies, so scoping is not for everyone.
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I agree with budzbuddha. <thumbs up>
Scoping is really Kool, but i would rely on all the other established indicators for harvest, and then look at the scope just as a comparison, to see what all those juicy, sweet tri's look like. But then again, botany is one of my hobbies, so scoping is not for everyone.
Thundercat
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I would counter, that there is no major reason to check trichomes if the plant is showing all the other signs of maturity. I haven't looked at trichomes under a scope in years, because its not the most important, and can be VERY misleading for new growers that don't even really know what they are looking it.
If you are going to look at the trichomes, its important to look at them from the side, not directly from the top. From the side you can see through the trichome and get a rough idea of the color and clarity. If you look directly from the top like many people do, you can get a false impression of its maturity because the bulbous head magnifies the opaue stalk and makes a clear trichome look cloudy.
Another major issue with relying heavily on the trichomes is they are easily damaged which degrades them, and most new growers don't look at the whole plant, there just look at the top buds. Then as soon as they see any amber they think the plant is ready, when in reality it has many weeks left to finish growing.
phrygian44
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Can't remember. I find a lot of bugs in the food that i scope. It's real sickening some times. I used to eat dried alderberries all the time (they look like a dried up blackberry, but reddish-white). Man, were they ever good, and supposed to be one of dem super foods. Decided to scope it one day and just about threw up - so many fumigated or dried up bugs hidding in all the nooks and crannies. Threw the damn bag in the garbage and never touched another one again.
Also, if i may caution, i would Not scope your smokable plants unless you have a good constitution. There is so much gross shit on the leaves, like fungus and mico-bugs and micro-threads of slime and what-not, all magnified 100's to 1,000's of times.
it's one hell of an eye-opener, and may turn you right off enjoying your next puff. 
Bug was at 40 zoom.
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All thats getting burnt. No worriesCan't remember. I find a lot of bugs in the food that i scope. It's real sickening some times. I used to eat dried alderberries all the time (they look like a dried up blackberry, but reddish-white). Man, were they ever good, and supposed to be one of dem super foods. Decided to scope it one day and just about threw up - so many fumigated or dried up bugs hidding in all the nooks and crannies. Threw the damn bag in the garbage and never touched another one again.
Also, if i may caution, i would Not scope your smokable plants unless you have a good constitution. There is so much gross shit on the leaves, like fungus and mico-bugs and micro-threads of slime and what-not, all magnified 100's to 1,000's of times.
Bug was at 40 zoom.
phrygian44
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That's a hell of a good point, thundercat. By the time you cut the leaf or calyx and get it under the microscope, lots of those extremely delicate trichomes will have been damaged/popped. So if you're trying to achieve that perfect 73.68% average (see my previous post
), you've just skewed the hell out of your sample.
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phrygian44
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If i may recommend a superior method, get a 20x or 30X jewelers loupe. You will see the calyx right on the plant without damaging any trich's, with the 30x power giving you a very wide field of view, thereby allowing you to do a reasonable count/assessment.
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Thundercat
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Sorry but strain mostly dictates the effects. If you harvest early you get less high with shorter smaller effects. If you harvest when the plant is ripe you get more high with longer stronger effects. If you actually some how managed to harvest super late, you would get less high, and a more stedative effect from the increased CBN content. However I've seen test results and even plants left for a couple extra weeks past prime really didn't produce much notable CBN conversion. It takes a while for all these things to happen. I try to explain that to new growers all the time. It takes weeks for plants to mature, not days.
To some minor extent strains and even phenotypes may look a bit different at harvest. HOWEVER, MOST cannabis plants look very similar when properly ripened, and they follow a pretty standard process no matter the strain. Once in a while you'll have a weirdo plant that does its own thing, but that is definitely not the standard.
I'm not sure why you mentioned yellow leaves? Yellow leaves don't have anything to do with a plant being ripe........
phrygian44
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Budzbuddha
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First …. Start another thread for your questions
Peeps around here dont like engaging things not associated with original poster.
We will be more than happy to help you there.