Rose colored pistils

Sunbiz1

Sunbiz1

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Hi all,

I have a kush strain here that I am growing both indoors and in-ground, all of the beans came from the same mother I had 3 years ago. The indoor project is using a sun room on a second floor with non-UV blocking glass. Yesterday I went to water the in-grounds, and noticed pink/rose colored tinting in the pistils. I couldn't bring the digital b/c I was loaded with water, but I'm sure many of you have seen this as well. The mother of the beans did the same thing 3 years ago outdoors. Yet, as you will see every single indoor girl goes from standard white to receding rust colored.

Does anyone know what would cause this?. My only guess on the variation is cooler temps??.
 

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canefan

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This is probably just a trait of the strain, there are many which turn colors. If the rest of the plant looks healthy then I would just be happy and enjoy the view.
Happy Growing
 
cannawizard

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canefan said:
This is probably just a trait of the strain, there are many which turn colors. If the rest of the plant looks healthy then I would just be happy and enjoy the view.
Happy Growing
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*yea.. what canefan said :) if you can, try taking a pic of the pistils :)
 
Sunbiz1

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canefan said:
This is probably just a trait of the strain, there are many which turn colors. If the rest of the plant looks healthy then I would just be happy and enjoy the view.
Happy Growing
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Weird, it must be a trait to do so outdoors only then. The indoors go straight from white to rusty receding, no pinks or reds at all.
 
Sunbiz1

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cannawizard said:
*yea.. what canefan said :) if you can, try taking a pic of the pistils :)
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I'll drive out there during the week. I know I'm having a good year when all I have to worry about is pistil color...lol. You've never had any girls show translucent rose/pink?. Eventually they go all red.
 
canefan

canefan

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Sunbiz1 said:
I'll drive out there during the week. I know I'm having a good year when all I have to worry about is pistil color...lol. You've never had any girls show translucent rose/pink?. Eventually they go all red.
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I have a strain now which go from white to red, to pink and back to white during flower, another which stays a whitish pink inwhich the pink only shows when the sun hits if right. Then the one in my avatar which just stays red and gets redder throughout its flower. I do seem to show much more color in strains grown outside than the ones I keep inside.
Good Luck and Enjoy
 
Sunbiz1

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canefan said:
I have a strain now which go from white to red, to pink and back to white during flower, another which stays a whitish pink inwhich the pink only shows when the sun hits if right. Then the one in my avatar which just stays red and gets redder throughout its flower. I do seem to show much more color in strains grown outside than the ones I keep inside.
Good Luck and Enjoy
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Now I'm really stumped. You have had the same experience, yet are located near the equator. So, that eliminates the cool weather theory. I have another site with a few of the same girls I haven't checked in a while, located near a river basin where the soil content is high in lime. I was thinking medium might bring out those inherent genetic characteristics.
 
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growone

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there's a lot going on inside the tric's genetic driven chemistry
i had a NL whose trics would ripen as golden yellow, would not amber
never even clouded actually, just a more golden, translucent color as it matured
 
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Sunbiz1

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growone said:
there's a lot going on inside the tric's genetic driven chemistry
i had a NL whose trics would ripen as golden yellow, would not amber
never even clouded actually, just a more golden, translucent color as it matured
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Yep, therein lies the problem with that trich color chart people have been posting for years...it's outdated at best. I've read postings where fairly new growers waited 90-100 days looking for amber that will never appear.
 
canefan

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Sunbiz1 said:
Now I'm really stumped. You have had the same experience, yet are located near the equator. So, that eliminates the cool weather theory. I have another site with a few of the same girls I haven't checked in a while, located near a river basin where the soil content is high in lime. I was thinking medium might bring out those inherent genetic characteristics.
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Yes I am only a few hundred miles north of the equator but I am also at 6500 ft above sea level, so it does get pretty cool here. What I mean by cool is if it is clear at night it will drop to 52 or so and if it stays cloudy it will stay around 58 or so at night with little change throughout the year. The highs rarely go higher than 76 sometimes maybe once or twice a year it might make it to 78 or 80 but this is very rare indeed.
As Growone has pointed out the genetics are the driving force here, whether triggered by surroundings, which will activate certain genes or turn some off. With the breeding going on today and so many many crosses with sativa and indica it gets harder and harder to tell what is going on inside a plant. Trichs ebb and flow so much during the later stages of flowering, which will bring color along with the little growing bursts you incur during the last few weeks. One day you are looking at almost totally cloudy and the next you say hey why are they almost all clear. This happens often at least in sativa which I am the most familiar with, I just don't grow many indicas.
You mention ph and the color which I am sure can be a leading cause in many strains. I can't tell you anything about that, I haven't tested for ph since I bought a new farm in 1987 and just wanted to know where the fields stood. After that and mixing my own soil for the girls and the garden I just go about building to the soil the way I was taught as a tot, lol.
So I guess the only way to narrow down what it is, would be to grow out clones and changing the conditions and seeing what the results are.

Hey Growone, its been awhile hope all is good with you.

Happy Growing to all
 
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canefan said:
Yes I am only a few hundred miles north of the equator but I am also at 6500 ft above sea level, so it does get pretty cool here. What I mean by cool is if it is clear at night it will drop to 52 or so and if it stays cloudy it will stay around 58 or so at night with little change throughout the year. The highs rarely go higher than 76 sometimes maybe once or twice a year it might make it to 78 or 80 but this is very rare indeed.
As Growone has pointed out the genetics are the driving force here, whether triggered by surroundings, which will activate certain genes or turn some off. With the breeding going on today and so many many crosses with sativa and indica it gets harder and harder to tell what is going on inside a plant. Trichs ebb and flow so much during the later stages of flowering, which will bring color along with the little growing bursts you incur during the last few weeks. One day you are looking at almost totally cloudy and the next you say hey why are they almost all clear. This happens often at least in sativa which I am the most familiar with, I just don't grow many indicas.
You mention ph and the color which I am sure can be a leading cause in many strains. I can't tell you anything about that, I haven't tested for ph since I bought a new farm in 1987 and just wanted to know where the fields stood. After that and mixing my own soil for the girls and the garden I just go about building to the soil the way I was taught as a tot, lol.
So I guess the only way to narrow down what it is, would be to grow out clones and changing the conditions and seeing what the results are.

Hey Growone, its been awhile hope all is good with you.

Happy Growing to all
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canefan, it has been a while, good to touch bases on this topic
your growing environment sounds superb for sativa's
 
Sunbiz1

Sunbiz1

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canefan said:
Yes I am only a few hundred miles north of the equator but I am also at 6500 ft above sea level, so it does get pretty cool here. What I mean by cool is if it is clear at night it will drop to 52 or so and if it stays cloudy it will stay around 58 or so at night with little change throughout the year. The highs rarely go higher than 76 sometimes maybe once or twice a year it might make it to 78 or 80 but this is very rare indeed.
As Growone has pointed out the genetics are the driving force here, whether triggered by surroundings, which will activate certain genes or turn some off. With the breeding going on today and so many many crosses with sativa and indica it gets harder and harder to tell what is going on inside a plant. Trichs ebb and flow so much during the later stages of flowering, which will bring color along with the little growing bursts you incur during the last few weeks. One day you are looking at almost totally cloudy and the next you say hey why are they almost all clear. This happens often at least in sativa which I am the most familiar with, I just don't grow many indicas.
You mention ph and the color which I am sure can be a leading cause in many strains. I can't tell you anything about that, I haven't tested for ph since I bought a new farm in 1987 and just wanted to know where the fields stood. After that and mixing my own soil for the girls and the garden I just go about building to the soil the way I was taught as a tot, lol.
So I guess the only way to narrow down what it is, would be to grow out clones and changing the conditions and seeing what the results are.

Hey Growone, its been awhile hope all is good with you.

Happy Growing to all
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Let me get this straight. You've owned a farm in one of the best growing areas in the entire world since I was in college?...life seems very unfair to me at the moment!. You can grow some of the original gold strains etc that don't do well outside of their native habitats. I tried it once in Florida outdoors a decade ago, wound up making hash out the harvest and went back to what we used to call Okeechobee Purple. My best guess is the strain didn't take kindly to high heat at sea level.

Alegre crecimiento !!
 
smellzlikeskunkyum

smellzlikeskunkyum

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Sunbiz1 said:
Hi all,

I have a kush strain here that I am growing both indoors and in-ground, all of the beans came from the same mother I had 3 years ago. The indoor project is using a sun room on a second floor with non-UV blocking glass. Yesterday I went to water the in-grounds, and noticed pink/rose colored tinting in the pistils. I couldn't bring the digital b/c I was loaded with water, but I'm sure many of you have seen this as well. The mother of the beans did the same thing 3 years ago outdoors. Yet, as you will see every single indoor girl goes from standard white to receding rust colored.

Does anyone know what would cause this?. My only guess on the variation is cooler temps??.
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HA SOME ONE ELSE HAS THIS TOO HUH???

i have two clones from a mother plant outside under cool michigan sun. they still need another week or so... the mother is from a random assortment of seeds, all from similar "mids"/"good,green regs". a bagseed by all means. i got rid of the mother and trimmed a couple stems off of her when i did. i put them outside of bam! two clones! and now they have VERY vibrant, bright pink/lavender colored pistils. the only ones that aren't are just still white(less than 20%). That same color is present on the vein like structures of the fan leaves. it has a very good flower/leaf ratio as well. the plant is very nice all around, it even has a super strong skunk odor you can smell from many feet away. bagseed plants can be gold mines... i have a lot of proof from many different plants. dont get me wrong tho i grow dutch strains too! Nirvana is the best!!
I personally believe that the strain has to be like that genetically number one. also it has to be in the right enviroment, which seems to be cool/cold temps, and possibly a certain PH level. I read that from a cannabis culture magazine, it featured a strain called "fucking incredible" in the article, which talked about colors. they said when u had the right PH level the hairs(pistils) would all turn pink link this on that strain. they pictured an enitre garden full of uniquely shaded purples and pinks. calyxes and pistils of all colors in between and they were not all the same strain, so someone knew what they were doing for sure...
GENETICS, TEMPS, PH LEVEL THOSE ARE THE FACTORS TYPICALLY.
 
Sunbiz1

Sunbiz1

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smellzlikeskunkyum said:
HA SOME ONE ELSE HAS THIS TOO HUH???

i have two clones from a mother plant outside under cool michigan sun. they still need another week or so... the mother is from a random assortment of seeds, all from similar "mids"/"good,green regs". a bagseed by all means. i got rid of the mother and trimmed a couple stems off of her when i did. i put them outside of bam! two clones! and now they have VERY vibrant, bright pink/lavender colored pistils. the only ones that aren't are just still white(less than 20%). That same color is present on the vein like structures of the fan leaves. it has a very good flower/leaf ratio as well. the plant is very nice all around, it even has a super strong skunk odor you can smell from many feet away. bagseed plants can be gold mines... i have a lot of proof from many different plants. dont get me wrong tho i grow dutch strains too! Nirvana is the best!!
I personally believe that the strain has to be like that genetically number one. also it has to be in the right enviroment, which seems to be cool/cold temps, and possibly a certain PH level. I read that from a cannabis culture magazine, it featured a strain called "fucking incredible" in the article, which talked about colors. they said when u had the right PH level the hairs(pistils) would all turn pink link this on that strain. they pictured an enitre garden full of uniquely shaded purples and pinks. calyxes and pistils of all colors in between and they were not all the same strain, so someone knew what they were doing for sure...
GENETICS, TEMPS, PH LEVEL THOSE ARE THE FACTORS TYPICALLY.
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They reverted back to mostly white on the outdoors, some are now red but a solid red as opposed to translucent. I hear you on the bag seed. Every year I grow a few just for fun, always a new surprise!. I have a whole bunch of pics I'm about to post with a long overdue update on everything. I think the temperatures can cause the color variations, I wish I had taken my camera a few weeks ago to show everyone the opaque look as opposed to the normal solid color changes. On the other hand, you'll see a few pink colors on my indoor identical strain...grown using only sun but with a different medium.
 
Sunbiz1

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Hi all!

I'm going ahead and posting the below text minus the pics b/c I'm having some tech issues here and need to reduce my 3000 width jpeg's(I have a fancy Canon) down to 800. I know I can post an old one here from a month ago, I'll do so now( It's easily the largest indica dominant plant I've ever grown, over 8' and I topped it at 3). I'm having difficulty finding a good free service for reductions, the last 2 didn't work very well. If anyone has one, could you please post the link?.

Sorry for the long delay, but it's been a bit busy lately...now all is quiet until harvest begins in a few weeks or so. Also, thanks to whomever moved this over here, much easier to find. I'll try and go pic by pic here as to keep it simple. But first a bit of back round info starting with mother kush from 3 years ago. The original plant was given to me by a breeder that had to pack up and move in a hurry, and he couldn't recall which strain it was. I self-pollinated her and saved the beans for a hermaphrodite project I began back in March. I wanted to see if hermaphrodite offspring would have any tendencies to self-pollinate, plus I wanted to determine the exact ratio of feminized beans. I started with 20, 10 of which were done sort of indoors/outdoors all Summer...the other 10 in-ground with native plants. I had some interesting results, 3 of them I forced early...one was a straight male. The other 2 ladies showed not even a nanner, they are chopped. Of all the remaining, none are showing any hermaphroditic tendencies. The other 15% were STRAIGHT male, which I found interesting.
 

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irieie

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bro you have something very special. this look like a norcal strain which does not have a name and is only shared with in a tight group. very exclusive genetics which prob took a long time to breed. you can see one of these plants in joge cervantes' youtude video. if you watch closely youll notice that he names every other strain except the one with pink pistils. he is like " this is headband, and this is some og kush, and over here we have another variety... and here we have green crack..."
 
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jabkiller

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ive got a plant with some hairs like that too. Does yours smell really sweet with a lingering spicyish smell afterwards?
 
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Sunbiz1

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jabkiller said:
ive got a plant with some hairs like that too. Does yours smell really sweet with a lingering spicyish smell afterwards?
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Heading out there tomorrow to chop, but I'm smoking some at the moment from the indoor grow...shit packs a punch. Sweet tasting with a somewhat pine smell, but I used a lot of molasses...the stuff actually pops when you first spark it up.
 
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