Can marijuana be determined on quality by what color hairs it has? Like Red, Blue, Gold, Purple etc. I see alot of green bud with red hairs, and randomly I'll get purple or blue hairs.
in a word, no... in fact in some cases the amount of red hairs is a detriment to the quality of the weed. that is because although harvest can be determined by the amount red hairs ,the best way to tell is by the clarity of the thc crystals which sometimes pass there peak before the standard 75 to 80 percent of hairs have turned red... or at least thats what numerous articles on the web say....
I'm not talking about all red hairs, its mostly green with some red hairs. If thats what you were talking about?
im pretty sure the crystals on the bud are resin glands which have alot of the thc/cbd's so i think the amount of crystals affects the quality. the times when i have gotten bud that was completely covered in hairs its been really good though some weed is purple because of how it was grown, thats probably why all the other hairs are whatever color they are
I thought that the hairs had little relevance to the quality of the bud. I thought that if roughly 1/3 of the pistils had changed that meant that the bud was more of a "sativa high" and that if the pistils were roughly 2/3 changed then the bud was more of an "indica high". I thought that buds could be manipulated with temperature change to make them "purple," but I thought that such manipulation actually affected the THC level. I could be wrong, just thought it was some info I read a while back. Peace out.
I heard somewhere that if you put the bud in a freezer or fridge or something or other the hairs will turn purple. Any comment?
as i stated while the color change of the pistols can be used as a basic guide to thc development,they in no way have to do with the high of the weed. also as i stated before,the only true way to judge from what i read is by the amount and clarity of the thc. crystals. once again,in some cases the pistols will change to slowly and the THC will pass its prime, causing the crystals to cloud and thus the thc quality to decline. as far as turnin the pistols colors besides red,i have no idea. i just ran across the lil i posted while browsing the web.
Very much not true. Your right that the hairs have little to tell about the quality of the bud. But, you are wrong in thinking that the pistol color ratios have an effect on the type of high. You're on the right track though...it's the trichomes that can influence the type of high rather than the pistols. If the heads of trichs are mostly cloudy (you'll need a 30-100x microscope to see these) then you'll get more of the sativa high, while trichs that are more amber colored (which were harvested later) will give a more indica high. The ONLY way to truely tell the quality of a bud is to smoke it. Althogh trichome content/"frostiness" is a decent indicator, it can be deceiving (like if the bud was harvested too early it could have a lot of trichomes but not be as potent).
Thanks for clearing up my statement and setting me straight. The book I read it in (and misrepresented in this thread) was Cannabis Cultivation by Mel. I'm glad to see it being advertised on this page - giving it more credibility, not that I didn't trust it to begin with. I think I might re-read the book and clear some things up. Thanks again. Peace out.
