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Bubandy

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Hello, Just the usual am I done question for anybody with an opinion in such matters!

Just starting week 14, green gelato auto. Looks good, smells good but those trichromes just won't go amber. I'm afraid, can I leave it too long without them turning? Any thoughts on how long I should leave this go on?

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Beehive

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What are you using to view the trics?


I use a student grade microscope. Cutting a sugar leaf and eyeballing it under a microscope. I also have a loupe but with the cheap microscope. You can really see what's going on.

The samples are taken from the tip of multiple sugar leaves. Different places on the bud and between different plants.
 
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Bubandy

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Thanks, I have a ×100 loupe. I have examined little snips from all over in detail by snipping and laying out.

They just ain't there im afraid. Haven't seen any real development in how they look for a good two weeks now also.
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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Bubandy said:
Hello, Just the usual am I done question for anybody with an opinion in such matters!

Just starting week 14, green gelato auto. Looks good, smells good but those trichromes just won't go amber. I'm afraid, can I leave it too long without them turning? Any thoughts on how long I should leave this go on?

Thankyou
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You won't see amber trichomes on the flowers yet because they aren't ready yet. You still have plenty of white pistils signifying you have a few weeks left. The pistils we be all orange/brown and they will also start to retract towards the calyx which will be swollen when they are ready, they won't stick straight out.
 
Wattzzup

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Beehive said:
What are you using to view the trics?


I use a student grade microscope. Cutting a sugar leaf and eyeballing it under a microscope. I also have a loupe but with the cheap microscope. You can really see what's going on.

The samples are taken from the tip of multiple sugar leaves. Different places on the bud and between different plants.
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Great advice if the sugar leaves were accurate. Since they aren’t this is terrible advice.
 
Beehive

Beehive

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Wattzzup said:
Great advice if the sugar leaves were accurate. Since they aren’t this is terrible advice.
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I'm not snipping bud. A tight sugar leaf. 1/16" is all that's needed to view the trics. Snip and its places on a slide glass. Flashlight under the microscope table. Shining up through the plant matter. I've never had plants finish at the exact same time either.

Samples are taken daily in last week. Its been working for me for about 5 years. Found the microscope at Goodwill. Using the 4X lense.
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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Beehive said:
I'm not snipping bud. A tight sugar leaf. 1/16" is all that's needed to view the trics. Snip and its places on a slide glass. Flashlight under the microscope table. Shining up through the plant matter. I've never had plants finish at the exact same time either.

Samples are taken daily in last week. Its been working for me for about 5 years. Found the microscope at Goodwill. Using the 4X lense.
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We're quite aware of the process you are using. We're just trying to let you know that it's wrong and inaccurate. Examining the trichomes on sugar leafs, any part of them, will give you incorrect estimates of whether the plant is ready or not.
 
Beehive

Beehive

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twentyeight.threefive said:
We're quite aware of the process you are using. We're just trying to let you know that it's wrong and inaccurate. Examining the trichomes on sugar leafs, any part of them, will give you incorrect estimates of whether the plant is ready or not.
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Ready or not by how many hours or days?

Why not send a sample off and get it tested? How precise does it have to be? Because two cones of this stuff and I'm slobbering on the floor.
 
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Destroyer of chairs

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Beehive said:
I'm not snipping bud. A tight sugar leaf. 1/16" is all that's needed to view the trics. Snip and its places on a slide glass. Flashlight under the microscope table. Shining up through the plant matter. I've never had plants finish at the exact same time either.

Samples are taken daily in last week. Its been working for me for about 5 years. Found the microscope at Goodwill. Using the 4X lense.
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5 years to pick up on the wrong of ur ways and nothing? I call bullshit.
 
Beehive

Beehive

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Destroyer of chairs said:
5 years to pick up on the wrong of ur ways and nothing? I call bullshit.
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Man, I didn't know my little rinky dinky microscope would be so controversial. It doesn't even have a name on it. Best thing is its all metal. The pawnshop had one with the two eye pieces. $700 jobber and they wanted like $250. But it was missing a lense. The one I needed.

I think I paid $25 bucks for the one I have.
 
Beehive

Beehive

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I believe the location y'all think because I said sugar leaf is the problem.

The sample I take, from where I take it. First inch area down from top of bud. Has all the trics I need to determine if its ripe. I'm not snipping a half inch of water leaf. Staring at it through a microscope. Looking for trics that ain't there.

The sample of trics I use is representative of the overall tric maturity of the bud. What I'm snipping. I call sugar leaf. Not the ones that stick out an inch. The slight growth sticking out the bud by a maximum of a 1/4".


The only way to solve this, is to pass a cone around the room. But I can't do that.
 
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