Resin is a defense mechanism from herbivors. It grows to protect the important areas of the plant to continue the spieces. In a tight bud the seed pockets touch and they sense that the area from the other bud has resin there and is protected. No more protection is needed so the effort is put into another unprotected area.
You can check this with a loop or microscope. Cut the bud open and look where the resin is. It will be toward the outside or exposed area of the bud. Tighter bud means less resin on the inside as per similar strain. Tight buds look good and weigh a ton. Both good for selling. But you are smoking plant material, not resin.
I hope this helps you understand how, why and what to do in growing. Separate yourself from the old hippy dippy folk lore and experiment and talk to others that do the same. You'll improve and just maybe come across or create the next super weed.
Peace
lol no offense but thats kinda gross...and i might also mention that the fungus gnats your speaking of aren't trying to eat the buds, they are just crappy fliers and get stuck in the resin sometimes...as for the whole resin protects from eating theory...it is true that resin is pretty bitter and gross, and can burn your eyes like bleach, the only animals that ive seen eating pot are birds, they love digging beaners out of sticky hemp buds, it doesn't seem to bother them but they aren't eating the bud.All the sticky around my buds fills with those flying bugs that are so annoying. When I have a bad infestation there will be over a dozen stuck bugs, none of them make it to the bud itself. I have to go with the defense scenario on that score.
Hi
I've noticed that the biggest colas have less trichomes and are cauliflower like inside.
Would this mean the giant dense colas are less potent than the smaller ones? I *hate* giving out bad weed..
"dense" is only a good attribute to a degree, imo
Hi
I've noticed that the biggest colas have less trichomes and are cauliflower like inside.
Would this mean the giant dense colas are less potent than the smaller ones? I *hate* giving out bad weed..
Hi
I've noticed that the biggest colas have less trichomes and are cauliflower like inside.
Would this mean the giant dense colas are less potent than the smaller ones? I *hate* giving out bad weed..