Flowering and crystal production questions.

if the plant doesnt show lots of crystals by week 3-4 of flowering.. does that mean the strain is bad?

does keeping the light too close to the plant lower crystal production? maybe too warm?

Keeping lights close to the plants should NOT affect the THC crystals. You're still just a little to early in flowering to see them. Give it another 2 weeks and you should see the THC trichomes start to form. Too much heat could affect the plant overall which could hurt crystal formation. Try to keep it between 70 and 80 degrees Farenheit.

Also, each strain is going to frost up differently. I wouldn't say it's "bad" if they don't frost up a lot, but it might not be real stoney.

well next to white widows they are looking real pointless right now, which is why im wondering if they should be chopped.

they are not heat stressed since the plant is very healthy, they just look like jank compared to the ww. ww has crystals all over the top, hairs are getting curly and increase more and more everyday, looking nice and fat... and this other strain is just... pretty much what my ww looked like in week 1 of flowering. a couple of them have SOME crystal forming, but i just dont think it will suddenly burst with crystals at this stage. so im debating whether i should remove them... hmm...

is there any strain that isnt frosty on top but is still good? haha

Why on earth would you be thinking of chopping them this close to harvest.

they could be sativa's with longer flowering periods than your ww dont chop em yet let them go

yea thats what i figured, they are sativas, but for some reason the thc production is just so minimal, which seems to bug me. on the actual buds, there are lots of crystals, but around it it just looks like a boring plant with hairy centers. =/

it does seem like some of them are expanding, but we will see what happens. thanks for the opinions!

im 18 days in flower and my 2 mostly indica have loads of trichs already my sativa very few yet

yeah dont chop em if they arent that great mnake hash out of em or something

mmmmmmmmm hash

Be patient let em ride.

I've been reading that trichome production is not an indicator of potency. Indeed there are many trichome-laden strains that could provide you with little more than a headache.

In short, you have nothing to worry about. Although I'm sure a few pic's would help out with any diagnosis.

And i would think that if you tried to make hash out of a plant that did not show much trich production then it would not provide much hash at all because that is what hash is. The trichs off of the trimmings. No trichs, no hash.

That would be a tragic waste. Think of those poor THC-starved kids in Africa man.

buster7467 said:

And i would think that if you tried to make hash out of a plant that did not show much trich production then it would not provide much hash at all because that is what hash is. The trichs off of the trimmings. No trichs, no hash.

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Not all trichomes are potent... as i said, even the most trichome laden plants could provide you with little more than a headache. What good would the hash be?

Trichome production is dependent upon genetic variation. One plant may be covered in trich's compared to another but that is no indicator to potency.

Environment can and does play a part in a plants potential to achieve genetic potency levels. More Trich's are formed in more drier conditions for varying reasons, which is why humidity is kept at a minimum during flower. Then the levels of photosynthesis (light + co2, as an equal or relatively balanced combination of the two will provide maximum growth efficiency and therefore potency) will determine the eventual potency level.