I heard water activates the pollen. Then if it’s not captured by the plant it dies in like a day. When the pollen toughes the moist pistils that activates it as well. At least that’s what I think I remember from somewhere.
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mmmmm! Yah I heard the pistil hydrates the pollen as well. I’ve got to dream up a scheme to video record pollination under the microscope. It’s so hard to set up I failed once already.
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I think trichomes are definitely putting out that signal. In the flash photo it seems like trichomes are definitely reflecting the light! I’m going to keep looking at this curious phenomenon! GOG is god-tier. lol!
“Your god is dead!” - my favorite line from the witcher 3.
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The function of pollen and stigma is a very interesting subject in its own right.
When you consider the vast varieties of plants using the same basic process and the fact that most don’t interfere with each other’s processes is mind boggling.
Keep working on that effort to capture the process, it will be amazing.
Cheers
G
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I was thinking the sparkle originated from these silver spheres. There’s nothing else I could see that was abnormal.
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There, I think this image captures the strange trichomes. See those white dots? Visually as you change the angle of the leaf for viewing, they flash and sparkle in the light, looking like spider mite bite marks. They look huge to the naked eye, and it’s really hard to understand they are like 80 micrometers across, yet still visible.
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ahh a study on leaves. Just gathering some data to see if those silver trichomes appear on any other plant. This is IPW leaf. I was checking for bugs!
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Sooo… at specific angles they are acting as retroreflectors (corner prisms)?
Does that suggest some crystallization? 
Cheers
G
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Usually only the caps on capitate trichomes sparkle because of the thc. So… there should be some THC in there??? hah hah no idea yet. It’s the color that’s really strange. They are almost silver, or something. Never seen that before!
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Turns out I can make hash from this low-yielding GOGxGMO that grew outdoors from the compost. I estimate 1% yield.
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ok uhhh we have another experimental plant!
This is the front of the calyx. I’ll flip it over and check the other side. Its tiny!
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Here’s the back of the calyx…or the front? Whichever you want it to be! Welcome to the “other side” of the calyx. There are a number of what I would say are sessile trichomes. That’s not usually a good sign. There are many plump caps! That’s definitely a good thing. Interestingly enough at this stage, there is no sign of purple. You think that starts after actual bloom?
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I’ll figure it out 100% in the coming seasons. The GOG plant that has the strange shiny sparkles is a god tier plant with probably 3-4% trichome mass per calyx. I’ll be planting it’s clones today I think! I first noticed the sparkles when I was looking at all the plants in the mother plant container. IT looked like spider mites had bitten the leaves, but a closer look showed it was “something else”. I’m still betting on those strange silver trichomes on the leaves.
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I just stumbled upon this thread as my break is finishing. I will for sure read this one thoroughly as I reading the first post I could feel the knowledge and wisdom!
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wow, yah back in the day I was using my camera to take photos through the eye lens. Then I got the crazy microscope camera, and things got wild! I have taken 1400 photos of cannabis at a microscopic level.
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You sound like my kind of Growmie!
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Just be prepared to ask a lot of questions haha.
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Sparse trichomes and the ones on the mid vein are actually kind of large. Those will get caught in the hash bags, I’m pretty sure. The trichomes are beyond ready! I see amber and also disintegrated caps.
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