UK420 > URGENT - Does Skunk#1's triacomes go amber or cloudy?

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Mintball

Jun 18 2009, 05:23 PM

Hi All, just looking at my plants with my 100x lighted microscope and the triacomes are about 75% cloudy but I have yet to see any that have gone amber.

What I need to know is does the triacomes in Skunk#1 go amber, or just cloudy?

I have searched the net but have not managed to get an answer.

I was thinking of flushing from tomorrow evening for a week and then harvest 8 days later.

Now after looking at the Trics I can see that they are now mostly cloudy so I am wondering whether I should not bother with the flush and harvest tomorrow so the THC does not begin is degradation process.

I wont have time in the week to harvest really, so need to do it either this weekend or next weekend, either to have a flush or sacrafice the flush in favour of keeping the most THC.

What would you reccomend? I could start a flush now so they can flush for 2 days until saturday evening.

So, im basically asking, do the trics on Skunk#1 go amber?

If not and they only go cloudy should I harvest this weekend instead of next, and if I should harvest this weekend, is it worth me doing a 2 day flush before harvest?

Sorry for rambling message, quite stoned... If you could please answer as soon as possible because im with my girls now and will begin a flush if you suggest to do so.

Thank you all in advance!

Mintball

Mintball

Jun 18 2009, 06:14 PM

bump...

COUGHCOUGH

Jun 18 2009, 06:20 PM

there is a big misconception in the search for amber trichs. Read the original version of OT1's advice that is floating around most other sites and you'll see what I mean. The one on this site is slighty different and more confusing. Amber trichs only happen on a small minority of plants and those plants trichs are all clear and not cloudy. If you have a plant with cloudy trichs and you see amber ones, these are not the amber trichs people talk aboiut, they are brown trichs which are beyond their prime.

My advice is to go on breeder advice, colour of pistils and using your own initative.

I should know as my first grow went for 13 weeks (6 over what it should have) searching for allusive amber trichs, oh and skunk#1 was one of them

ganjademon

Jun 19 2009, 08:19 AM

I never saw any amber trichs on my skunk no1 even after an extra week of flower

And after reading the info here I guess its one that doesn't

chris

Kafka

Jul 18 2009, 08:42 AM

QUOTE (COUGHCOUGH @ Jun 18 2009, 07:20 PM)

Not if you read this

QUOTE (COUGHCOUGH)

Amber trichs only happen on a small minority of plants and those plants trichs are all clear and not cloudy. If you have a plant with cloudy trichs and you see amber ones, these are not the amber trichs people talk aboiut, they are brown trichs which are beyond their prime.

This is all mentioned about 1/3 of a page down in the section named "A quick note about psychoactivity by oldtimer1". Here's a copy

QUOTE (OT1)

Real Amber trichomes only happen on a very few varieties (mainly sativa dominant), the order is clear, clear slightly pale yellow, ie [going amber], to clear red amber. [at all stages they remain jewel clear]

With most varieties (indica dominant) you get clear trichomes then slightly cloudy finally milky.

What happens to both types (sativa and indica) is that eventually both milky and amber trichomes will finally degrade to brown, people often confuse this brown with amber, true amber trichome types remain crystal clear until they finally degrade, they are not the same, the final brown is cloudy/muddy in both types, when trichomes are getting to this stage potency is declining rapidly and the buds well over the top.

Quite simple to understand

QUOTE (COUGHCOUGH)

I should know as my first grow went for 13 weeks (6 over what it should have) searching for allusive amber trichs, oh and skunk#1 was one of them

That might be because you're growing an indica dominant plant

- Kafka

Kafka

Jul 18 2009, 06:50 PM

QUOTE (oldbaldy @ Jul 18 2009, 02:38 PM)

So does that mean that it's a common misconception that you can control the amount of CBD by waiting later on into the harvest?

No it still applies, CBD is a degraded form of THC - so the longer you leave you're plants past being ripe the more CBD will accumulate.

- Kafka

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