There's something to this whole "Crystal" thing. When I'm looking at trichs on a live plant, they are not crystals. I'm not sure how these terms get transposed and interchanged. Clear trichs do look sparkly and crystaly, but the material has to be processed first, don't it? if you bite into a raw bud, it aint like salt or sugar crystals with a gritty texture, it's a sappy glue. I think the crystals form after processing.