Trichome HD Close Ups

[UrbZ]

Tent 1. Labels are in photo caption.

[UrbZ]

Tent 2. Labels are in photo caption.

[UrbZ]

A picture of my Guinea Pigs. I can tell a couple def. are not ready just by the smell.

[Nartak]

Sweet shots you got there Urbz,all dat sugar

[UrbZ]

It is mighty frosty. They are soo close I can smell it! 😤

[alltatup]

Great pics, UrbZ!! I can really see in some pics how the capitate trichomes are beginning to form heads, just barely distinguishing themselves from the stalk! It gives me a lot more perspective on how the development of the head or bulb works!!

[UrbZ]

Great pics, UrbZ!! I can really see in some pics how the capitate trichomes are beginning to form heads, just barely distinguishing themselves from the stalk! It gives me a lot more perspective on how the development of the head or bulb works!!

I am just learning about most of this, its all a bit new still.
You can definitely see what makes a trichome ready and what ones need more time.

These pics are all mid level buds from each plant. I didnt take tops right from under the lights. I figured these buds would be a better indication of the whole plants readiness over a top.

From the looks I am thinking a week for tent 1. They are 60/40 indica/sativa. I want just at amber with them if possible.

Tent 2 I am sure the Grape God, Purple Urkle and The black 1 will also be a week. The Black 2 is the one I want to pull a bit earlier. But it seems its getting about a week as well. Thats when one week of flush is over.

Pretty much every bud I snipped last night smelled premature. 1 smelled like mature bud, but they got mixed up and I dont remember which plant it come from.

After looking at these what is your opinion?

[alltatup]

It's difficult to say: Are these supposed to be low aroma strains? Smell for me is one of the indications of harvest readiness. And of course, you can always harvest top buds first, leave lower buds on...

Freshly cut bud is always gonna smell like fresh cut bud, but you should smell terpenes. It never smells the same after it's dried and curing.

[UrbZ]

Well none of them ended up being low odor really. The black smells strong like chronic. The grape ape smells strong like woodsy grapes. The urkle has no real smell. I am attributing this to her being ill for 3 weeks. The torpedoes are overwhelming smell of bubble gum and chronic.

Just by triches alone what is your opinion, I would like to weigh as many opinions as possible.

[UrbZ]

Dutchman1

Here are those pics bud.

[Dutchman1]

Where ?

[UrbZ]

The pictures on this post silly! You asked for more on the journal.

[BlueBudz]

I love trying to get good closeups

[BlueBudz]

They are all from the same two Girl Scout Cookies. Getting close to harvest!

[Dutchman1]

Great pics.

[BlueBudz]

Thanks guys

[UrbZ]

Bud pics labeled according to the plant. Forgot to add them the other night. Thought I would share some of the buds the shots were taken from.

[UrbZ]

Tent 2

[Bigpapa]

Great shots here. So I’ll join the party 🎉.

4th grow
Northern Lights
4x4x80 Vivosun tent
4” in-line filtered exhaust fan
6” intake cool air fan
6” oscillating fan
3 gallon DWC
GH Flora Trio nutrients
8 weeks under 600w MH - Humidity 65-75%
8 weeks under 600w HPS - Humidity under 40%

[UrbZ]

First one to harvest is getting the final chop and trim tomorrow. I took all of the fan leaves and larfly off tonight, shes only gonna get 12 hours of dark. Been fed only water and sugar twice and water with flawless finish once in a week. This is the 1 plant of the 2 that are the same strain. I wanted to pull one early and 1 later. This one is about 95%/5% cloudy/clear. No amber present at all. The second from this strain I will pull maybe 20% amber or so.

Pretty sure her take will me minimal. Theres more I think I could have chopped that wont amount to much. Still excited to get one under my belt. Plus maybe the extra time the others will fatten up a bit more.

[BlueBudz]

Good job! Such an exciting time!

[Dutchman1]

Grats UrbZ.

[UrbZ]

Thanks everyone! I moved her to a dark room to get another 8 of dark or so so that will be like 20 hours. Gonna chop her and hang her when I get home from work tonight.

[Bigpapa]

I agree!

[UrbZ]

Got her hanging in my bedroom closet, as no tent is available to dry right now. Environment is not 100% desired but should suffice. Its 70° F and 40% RH. Im thinking with the lower humidity and smaller size of her buds she might only hang for 3 days before being jarred. Took about an hour of trimming.

[UrbZ]

Thanks ATU!

Cool. I figured temp was good. Just a bit of low RH. I am happy with how she came out. Not the biggest of buds, but smells pretty potent and super sugary.
Now just waiting on the other 6 to finish up.

[Dutchman1]

Nice trim job. The 3rd bud pic looks nice and sugary.

[UrbZ]

Thanks dutch, trimming is the one thing Ive had a bit of practice with. Was a trimming grunt a few times.

They turned out nice. Grew just as described, mostly grape sized nuggets. The longer cola kind of gave me a good goal for next grow. I would like to see that completely fill out.

[Bigpapa]

Wow! You say only an hour of trimming? My wife and I spent almost 6 hours to get what is pictured below.

[DrPhoton]

Yea thats the worry i have with trimmers, i know some larger facilities use sheep sheering tools with success. However like i said i worry about the quality loss. I might look into it again though.

[Dutchman1]

Im only dealing with 2-5 plants at a time so no big deal for me. I enjoy trimming.

[UrbZ]

Yea it was only 1 hour for this plant. This was my most defoliated and smallest producing plant. I have 6 larger ones all coming off at once. I figure 6-8 hours by myself on those.

Ive never really seen an auto trimmer that I like personally.