Super Trichs from the future!!

[Crookie Monster]

One time about three or four years ago I had a special Buddha's Sister female that would produce what looked to be an abnormally large trichome here and there....I think I may have read another thread where someone mentioned they had seen something like this before, but I can't think of who.

This is a special F2 from my 'proven purple' line that produces resin sacs like molasses!! I noticed the first few dots on the lowest pistils in the axial area. These dots weren't just 1 or 2, there's more than a few. They must be 15-20x the size of a "normal" trichome and they even seemed to turn clear/cloudy/amber over time...



Those lil' blingers caught my eye big time, but I could not believe what I saw a few weeks later as the plants began to ripen... On the underside of several leaves were HUGE oozey/gooey resin glands!!!

Some of these look like a small q-tip head of molasses, some came out in a coil and some look like multiple boiling trichs oozing into eachother.





I do not have any bugs, (not even a thrips; there is no such thing as a singular thrip, look it up) certainly no sap sucking aphids that would leave this kinda goo behind. The first two pics look very much like super trichs from the future but the next 2 look almost like phloem fluid. The plants were in a basically unmoved scrog so there was no damage done to surface tissues during flower that would cause back-phlo of sugary fluids...

Pretty magnificent if you ask me...I'll post up some cured nug pics later, I'm gonna go eat some Crookies

 

[cocktail frank]

i had the same thing happen to my nycd dominant lsd lady.
weird looking, but i don't think its anything thc related.
do a search, there is a thread on this here already.

 

[Crookie Monster]

...yeah I've seen some of these before too (the aforementioned B.Sister from Soma), but had never found any through my own hybs (until now). The smaller dots on the pistils (which I'm sure are similar to what you encountered) could easily contain active thc. The first two pics show clear to cloudy perfectly and I've got cured nug shots that show amber.

Did you get any resin oozing out of the underside of the leaves, like in the second of my two pics? These spots are as large as a tic-tac or two!

 

[- ezra -]

they are not trichs, or resin, or ready to smoke hash oil. Its called honeydew and it is very well known amongst gardeners. It is a secretion from certain sap sucking insects. It is basically concentrated sap and it will be sweet and gooey.

I dont want to get into and argument over if you have insects or not. You can choose to believe they are trichs if you want, or molasses. But yes it is almost certainly honeydew which is very well documented and not unusual.

BTW, I like the title of your thread.

peace, Ez

 

[Crookie Monster]

...only a two year old would be here to argue Ez...I'm not gonna say that they're trichs, especially not the molasses-ish ooze

Honeydew is what is excreted by aphids, and I certainly do not have them. I have seen aphids excrete dew on trees before (it leaves a black sooty mold). I have also seen what aphid excretion looks like when they are on cannabis plants (and this looks entirely different). There is not a single aphid, mite or thirp in my garden...furthermore these bubbles of phloem juice are not present on ANY other plants in the garden...

I've got another one of these plants ready to go into bloom soon, we'll see if it happens again.

 

[guest5703]

dude crookie monster, I got your back bro! haha obviously the first two pics are different from the last two. I believe that the first two are possibly bigger trichomes. Why not?!?!? I really think you should focus on that and try to breed a strain that has only enlarged trichomes....someone has to do it, somone with a strain that is already kind of doing it. I dont know it sounds like you already harvested that particular plant but I'd say keep it and use it. The second two pics, I don't doubt you have no bugs, but those don't look like trichs to me. But really the first two, FOR SURE could you get a closer shot of one in the future? Good shit man can't wait to see this shit take off!

 

[JeffSpicoli]

that last pic looks alot like honeydew ive seen myself, but the first two not so much

 

[Crookie Monster]

Yes Jeff...the "coiled caramel" pic doesn't look natural at all...the first two pics and the cured nug pics I'll post later show very perfect little globes of "resin" though.

I frequently encounter aphids in my line of work. There's a few obvious thing you'll see if it's aphids; twisted/contorted foliage, dead molt remnants (little white body shells), and of course the sticky "honey dew". I observed some aphid "sharts" (think about it ) on a flowering annual today and they seemed clearer and more like a bunch of flat/splattered out sh*t/farts than what you see in either of my pics.

I certainly didn't find any aphid residue on the annuals I observed that was anywhere near as neat of a "dot" as is shown in my first 2 pics...

Here's the most important part...aphids aren't the only insects that have piercing/sucking mouth parts. Until I find evidence of bug larvae or something I have no explanation as to why this "mystery bug" would only be "attacking" 1 plant out of 50 in this room. Not one of the other plants has bug damage to the foliage, or mysterious phloem ooze coming out...it's odd

I've got another one going into flower soon so we'll see if the same phenomenon occurs.

*I'll bust out a pyrethrum "bomb" in between cycles if I ever suspect my regular neemings aren't working...

 

[Guest]

You do occassionaly get unnusually large trichome heads, but that is not what you have here. I would say that blob of goo came out of an insect as it doesn't look like anything that could have been produced by the plant. How can you be sure you don't have any insects? Get one of thse sticky insect strips and leve it in your grow for a week, that will show you if anything is there. But I'm 99% certain that is not a plant secretion, my money's on it having originated in the anal gland of an insect.

 

[Crookie Monster]

B_H we've discussed the "mystery bug" possibility quite thoroughly, the 1st two pics do appear to be enlarged trichs possibly (If you read the post above yours you'll notice I vividly describe how the aphid excretions look nothing like these)...can you explain why this mystery anal oozer only "attacks" this one plant among a sea of 5-gallon plants?

Also, I have a blue sticky strip for aphids in my veg. It's been up for months and theres a only spider stuck to it (the "bombs" I let off periodically take care of a lot)...

...sit tight everyone, I'll let you know if I see these symptoms on any other plant, and I'll also report on the next one going in & we'll see if it's a recurring characteristic of the plant tissues or not!

 

[Guest]

Try this....

Get a rolling paper,then let a corner touch and
suck up the goo and try to smoke it an see???
not resin......looks cool but no go we all wish maybe!