I Think the plant "hairs" are the Terps..and although we think of them as hairs..they are trics like any other..
You are correct here mate, this is exactly what they are the are a non glandular tric. Think of it this way, the regular tric that carries what we all like forms the head with the stalk. It grows together from what i understand.
The terp or non glandular ones grow then the glob travels up and matures out to that golden reddish color. That is the biggest difference in the two as far as growth pattern goes.
We have a load of info these last two pages of things we REALLY need to be discussing..this includes the Change of Auto lighting that we were discussing behind the scenes.
you should see the PM's i got last night from arctic, we need to pick his brain a little more about this cold stuff. There is something to it Wiz.
not mine but cold conditions......
I'm gonna have more time to get into it when I get back...coz I'm going AWOL for a few days shortly..
:no: and just when my brain is hot with ideas....i got something for you to think about while you are gone
You mentioned this
I Think the purple is the Purer/earlier form of the plant..the green is more bred..just IMO...
I can see this too, only because i take a look at what is around me. Cannabis has had human assistance since the dawn of time. I mean the shit would not still be around if not. Now with that said who is to say that the first cannabis was a photo sensitive genetic make up? I am sure that once its secrets were found, it spread with travelers and nomads a like to the different areas like many other types of fruits and vegetables. Now i am not talking recent history or even the last 100 years im talking centuries ago here.
Then with the wide spread of the seed the plant began to acclimatize. Thus seeing all the different flower times. Some of the sativa's especially the equatorial hazes take way longer than the indicas, but look at where they "originate" from, the plant has fixed its self to the light schedule of the sun.
I think of it like this when i grew peppers indoors for years i learned that they do not rely on a light schedule to flower and produce fruit. They just need a lot of direct sun to produce well. Autos are the same in this aspect. They can be grown under any light condition, and that's proven with your dragon and the ones that the arctic guys are running. If you want them to bud out like crazy give them the right amount of light and wham sticky dense buds. But its apparent that they don't need that to survive and still produce in cold bitter ass conditions.
For Certain...the Black that arcticsun has been showing us on those leaf tips..IS..one of the most cold tolerant pheno that I have found.
like i told arctic last night, we know that the plant changes in cold conditions because it slows the mobility of the p element in the plant, but WHY purple, and not yellow, or the typical burn color we see with every single other plant issue?
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