Dr. Who
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I see the same thing in strains that amber heavy or easy.....mid bloom "false" finish (my term) when you get a quick group of amber. It kinda stops and then when the plant is mature....Boom, they come on fast and you have maybe a 3 day window to harvest. After that, degradation is too far!I can answer to the hybrids I grow. I'm high and hanging out too.
If the plant only or mostly shows clear to cloudy like the guides I harvest when the trichs are all cloudy and just a bit degraded.
Degrading trichomes to me look bent down with browning heads maybe starting to look dented as well.
Potent trichomes in this case look tall and have an opaque milky white head that is big and round and full. The stalk will start bending under the weight of the oil.
In plants where I see multi colored trichomes they seem to develop heavily around 50% clear and the rest cloudy or colored transparent.
I wait till exactly the same effect. All cloudy or colored no or very little clear and some cloudy starting to degrade.
And I have been testing this a plant at a time almost every week we harvest one and what I wrote above gives the most complex strongest long lasting high regardless of strain.
Also the colored trichs are no indication of someone's most enjoyable high or stone.
My trippiest strongest plant ever was a Herijuana x Jack 33 and she showed no colored trichs but could give you a giggly for hours high ending in a nice mellow stone.
My second favorite one is a BLT that has tons of colors and has a slightly more even uplifting high than the heri did. But the heri was still more full and potent.
I did not clone the heri unfortunately but I run the BLT now as a staple daytime work kind of weed.
It's a G-13, ECSD, Lemon Thai hybrid.
"Degrading trichomes to me look bent down with browning heads maybe starting to look dented as well."
Now here, I have to say I still don't see any real "browning heads" At least that's what I'm talking about, strain wise in this thread.
I must say I do see a bit of the denting - Nice observation! I'll factor that in and look for it closer in relation to maturity of non-ambering strains......I'll take another look at "sagging or bending" as a point but, looking at notes and drawings....I'm not seeing me take much notice to a "specific" time this begins......You've made start to pay attention to that point though!
Nice 2 cents MI.
UPDATE:
Found a notation about heads appearing to shrink. Then another about how they became full and very milky by plain watering of the last cpl of days leading to harvest.......Be looking at that closer down the road too.