Magnifiers for looking at trichomes

[dutch.lover]

Hey all, my babies are close to harvest time, so Harris and I picked up a magnifier that has an 8x function and a 30x function. the 8x one is the easiest to use, as you just pull out the piece of plastic and look thru it however it's not quite large enough to see the right amount of detail. the 30x is a bitch...you have to look through sorta like a tube so it's really tough to keep still and therefore nearly impossible to look at the trichs long enuff to determine their color.

I was hoping you could tell me what kind of maginifiers you all use, and maybe even post pics so i can see what a good model to use is. This would be very much appreciated! Our buds look awesome and it would really suck to allow their thc to degrade by not using the proper kind of magnifying tool!:smokin:

dutch.lover Reviewed by dutch.lover on 01-18-2007. Magnifiers for looking at trichomes Hey all, my babies are close to harvest time, so Harris and I picked up a magnifier that has an 8x function and a 30x function. the 8x one is the easiest to use, as you just pull out the piece of plastic and look thru it however it's not quite large enough to see the right amount of detail. the 30x is a bitch...you have to look through sorta like a tube so it's really tough to keep still and therefore nearly impossible to look at the trichs long enuff to determine their color. I was Rating: 5

[GaGrown]

I use 1 of those square 1's with a handle,like the ones used for reading You can see the whole bud and not just a lil' bit of it! You get a nice veiw! I got mine at Walden Books.I saw it and,I had to have it! It was 9.50. One of my better investments! Any large size magnifiying glass will work great for ya!

Ga Grown!

[brookerosebud]

radioshack has these cool little pocket microscopes. i was skeptical at first, 7 bucks for a microscope? come on! must be complete garbage...

but, after finding nothing else, i went with the pocket pal, and WOW!! i've had table top micro's that don't show as much detail!!

but, with these, you have to cut a tiny leaf to put on a flat surface.

radioshack also sells three way magnifyers. not sure of the power, but i know they would work. i like my 60-100x micro, though, so i'm not even going to experiment with the magnifyer.

hope this helps

brooke

[brookerosebud]

pic after a while...

[the yeag]

i have used the handheld magnifier from wallmart ...if you have a good digital camera take a macro pic and then view it on your computer blow it up.

[dutch.lover]

cool cool...another question, i know that buds don't uniformly mature on an entire plant (like some mature sooner), but do the trichomes on a bud mature uniformly? like if i were to snip off a leaf like brooke said, would that be representative of the whole bud? or would i need to snip a few?

[brookerosebud]

that would represent the bud, but not the plant. that's the down side, you have to check several sites to get an overall idea of where they are...

[brookerosebud]

but, the trichs look like mushrooms under these microscopes... and another thing... you can see spider mites before they take over and win. first sign of spider, and out comes the neem and strips...

[dutch.lover]

alright, well i think the 30x part of the microscope that we purchased is designed to look at an object on a flat surface so i will go snip snip and give it a try....

[the yeag]

i looked at your log and estimated what it would look like now...i do not think i am wrong wait another week then snip..sampling to early will not get you high. wasting weed is a sin