some red inside trichomes

PinPin

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I have decided to check trichomes from one of my plants through a microscope and noticed that there are a few of them(probably 5-10%) that has red or more like dark magenta colour inside them.

All but one of my plants has 2 more weeks to go as they are only on 6th week of flowering.

On the same sugar leaf I checked there are some of them that are just cloudy, few with clear colour, some with brown heads and a few with magenta colour. It is not a colour of these trichomes or their balls though, it is like something is flowing through them and freezed in time.

This picture shows the same colour but not a state of mine
https://i-h2.pinimg.com/564x/5b/58/9d/5b589d0f015d6114551b6a664d8a2c79.jpg

I guess when it is ready for harvest this colour at least will come to a ball on top of a trichome and it will come to the picture above.

And there are not so many trichomes(sparkles) developed on my buds and sugar leaves yet and that why I think they are not ready yet, no matter what colours they are shown.

I have just never seen they can develop this colour.
 
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Lordhooha

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I have decided to check trichomes from one of my plants through a microscope and noticed that there are a few of them(probably 5-10%) that has red or more like dark magenta colour inside them.

All but one of my plants has 2 more weeks to go as they are only on 6th week of flowering.

On the same sugar leaf I checked there are some of them that are just cloudy, few with clear colour, some with brown heads and a few with magenta colour. It is not a colour of these trichomes or their balls though, it is like something is flowing through them and freezed in time.

This picture shows the same colour but not a state of mine
https://i-h2.pinimg.com/564x/5b/58/9d/5b589d0f015d6114551b6a664d8a2c79.jpg

I guess when it is ready for harvest this colour at least will come to a ball on top of a trichome and it will come to the picture above.

And there are not so many trichomes(sparkles) developed on my buds and sugar leaves yet and that why I think they are not ready yet, no matter what colours they are shown.

I have just never seen they can develop this colour.
I’ve had some that had a pinkish purple hue to trichromes it’s genetics
 

xtsho

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What strain is it that you're growing? I've seen that with Pakistani Chitral Kush.
 

vostok

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I have decided to check trichomes from one of my plants through a microscope and noticed that there are a few of them(probably 5-10%) that has red or more like dark magenta colour inside them.

All but one of my plants has 2 more weeks to go as they are only on 6th week of flowering.

On the same sugar leaf I checked there are some of them that are just cloudy, few with clear colour, some with brown heads and a few with magenta colour. It is not a colour of these trichomes or their balls though, it is like something is flowing through them and freezed in time.

This picture shows the same colour but not a state of mine
https://i-h2.pinimg.com/564x/5b/58/9d/5b589d0f015d6114551b6a664d8a2c79.jpg

I guess when it is ready for harvest this colour at least will come to a ball on top of a trichome and it will come to the picture above.

And there are not so many trichomes(sparkles) developed on my buds and sugar leaves yet and that why I think they are not ready yet, no matter what colours they are shown.

I have just never seen they can develop this colour.

its called anthrocycline or stalled sap (xylem) due to cold exposure often happens here in winter too

good luck
 

PinPin

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In my case it is anything but cold. It is quite hot where I am.
I guess it is just a specific strain like Purple Kush that turns into purple when it is flowering. May be what we see on this type of a strain as a purple colour are just trichomes starting filling with this colour.

I need to check what strains I bought for my first grow as I used seeds from that grow for the second one.

UPD: May be it came from this https://www.cropkingseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/White-Widow-Auto-Fem.jpg as this the only auto I had in my first grow and may be this one turn into hermie pollinating all others. All other strains I have bought do not seem to have this colour at all.
 

PinPin

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Mine are not that awesome too. It was not my picture in my first post as I could not take it through a microscope eyepiece using a phone. I have plans to purchase a microscope camera, then may be I will be able to give my pictures.
 
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