Trichomes are about 50% amber at 4 weeks into budding?!?!?(not talking about pistils)

[twentyeight.threefive]

I'm a first-time grower of Trainwreck And they never really held any amber pistols. I'm at 9 weeks now And my trichomes are cloudy but none of them have an amber color to them. When should I harvest my Trainwreck

 

[TheWholeTruth]

I had the same thing happen to one of the plants in the grow I just harvested. It's kind of funny, one of these old posts here said he saw it in a "Hawaiian strain", well, the plant that did it for me was Hawaiian Snow. Some buds 100% amber while some, on the same canopy level, same light exposure, are between 5-50%. Out of curiosity, I tried smoking some of the 100% trichome bud and it was outstanding, zero couchlock effect. Don't buy into the "harvest when milky" "too much amber=couchlock" BS bro-science that keeps getting repeated with no one actually verifying its accuracy...if you harvest with little to no amber, you are harvesting weeks early and greatly losing out on potency, yield, and quality of high. If you want a positive "up" high, get yourself a pure or close to pure sativa AND shoot for 30-50% amber trichomes AND all of the other signs of ripeness. If you want a couchlock strain, do the same for an Indica or Indica dominant strain. The point is, let your plants ripen FULLY and they will display the full genetic potential of their high.

Did you keep the Hawaiian snow crazy growing one around by any chance please ?

 

[Hook Daddy]

And the thread lives on! Again.

 

[DancesWithWeeds]

And the thread lives on! Again.

There are a lot of old threads that could be revived. I have to admit that I do it intentionally sometimes. I even brought 2007 thread a couple days ago. The OP had forgotten all about it but it was a good thread, I read the whole thing and made a post. I that was at Grass City.

 

[yesum]

I noticed this thread today because I got a like on it. I had written that I wait till amber on lower leaves in 2012. hehe Times change, I no longer wait on amber resin at all. I see some cloudy resin and I chop it. The pistils can be mostly white or immature in color, no matter to me. I found waiting on amber did not improve the high on anything I grew, and just made it more sleepy in effect.