All white may be lacking the resin building / finishing potential was the premise. It's why I started this thread.
What I was wondering is when we say Far Red, Near Red, what frequencies of the spectrum does that represent? Is Near Red 600-700 and Far Red from 700-800?
Trichome production is really interesting, though puzzling subject. Thinking of their function, my thoughts are that they are somewhat a response to a threat (pests, herbivores, radiation etc) and have a strong genetic component to their expression too. "Ripening" of the trichomes is unfamiliar to me, but in nature, UV-light should have some influence to the compounds inside the trichomes? I assume that over expression or lack of other wavelengths will have their influence too, to how much trichomes the plant produces and what happens inside them.
Some of the grows I have observed with led lights having very reddish spectrum seem to produce very frosty plants, almost to the point of ridiculousness. Maybe plant senses the saturating narrow bandwidth light as a threat and reacts by putting out more trichomes? Photons of red wavelength should have the least harming effect towards photosystem damage, so that is quite interesting (yellow & uv are the most damaging, so puzzling!). Maybe there is just some "switch" that reacts to saturated or strong red light? Other possibilities are endless, but with my limited knowledge & experience of leds that is what I wondered.
Maybe you have grown "too healthy" plants with that wide spectrum.
