I was talking with a Montana licensed physician today regarding medical cannabis and had said the word "trichome", we all know what trichomes are and that they are not only relevant to cannabis as they exist through out botany. Well when I pronounced it, he was taken back and didn't quite understand what I had said and thought I had mispronounced it. I had told him that for the longest time I pronounced it tri-chome and sometimes even tri-chrome, adding the erroneous 'r', but a while back had discovered on reference.com that I was mispronouncing it and that it was actually pronounced trik-ohm. The doctor went to the website and listened to it being annunciated online and was pleasantly surprised and appreciative for the knowledge.

An interesting point about anything cannabis related, if you don't educate yourself, you'll end up knowing nothing or nothing but grapevine perception.

Check it out yourself.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trichome

Load the web page from the link above, then click the gray speaker icon next to the word as shown in the image below. It will highlight blue when you mouse over/click it.
*Make sure your speakers are turned on*

We recently harvested a very petite purple urkel, two actually, but one is so petite I do not believe we will get more then a couple grams from it (a primary reason i am no longer carrying this strain).

We also harvest and just finished final trim on a nice Blueberry plant, very dense buds with a lot of trichomes (trich·ome pronounced: trik-ohm, trahy-kohm)

In the next few days we will harvest the remaining few plants in the #1 unit. The remaining plants include Jack the Ripper, Mental Floss, NL #5 and another Blueberry, her trichomes were not cloudy enough for me so she wasn't harvested with her sibling last week. The humidity this time of year is nice from the summer. I haven't had to run my 24 gallon humidifier at all in the last couple weeks as compared to filling it daily in the summer, I'll save that for another post :)

All in all this harvest is looking very nice, I will post pictures of the JTR when I harvest it, it is enormous, especially if you take into consideration my aeroponic/NFT cultivation system that utilizes no growing medium and just lets the roots grow into a root mat in the net pot rails. I'll blog about my specific operation shortly as well to educate folks interested in growing a perpetual supply for their own, or their patients, medicinal cannabis needs.

A dedicated caregiver stops at nothing in their attempts to grow perfect medicine, one grow at a time.

Trichomes, Sugar Coating, Coating, Powder, Sugar-Donut, whatever you call it, it is what matters most to the patient, as it contains the medicinal attributes of the cannabis plant.