sap bubbles

[f0urtwenty]

I've run across this a handful of times now but I finally got a pic.
During trimming I'll find what appears to be a sap bubble on a nug.
When you smoke the nug the sap bubble will full melt.
Usually the sap bubble is more amber in color, however this nug was trimmed off a lower branch of a plant that was turned into an xmas tree.
So this nug was cut off at week 8. About 10 days before it was truly ripe.
This sap bubble is more clear in color as a result.

Has anybody else seen this?

It would be awesome to find a technique that will be conducive to the creation of these glorious sap bubbles.


http://imgur.com/a9yy7.jpg

[OrganicOdins420]

mmmmm.
10char

[BigManNew]

That is unusual. if we are talking about the clear goop in the middle that kind of magnifies the green a little bit, then it could be sap produced by the plant as a storage for nutrients? But I will think about this, and I will let you know(I will try and find the correct answer).

p.s. that answer was the first thing that came to my mind when i saw it.

[BigManNew]

Question is that Hawaiian bud, like high humidity and a lot of rain water?

edit: sorry i should have put this in my first post

[f0urtwenty]

I should have included more details in my original post.

It was indoor, grown in a sealed room, about 80F/60% and 1500ppm during the 'day'.
The strain is the goo, in this instance.
Grown in soil with dry organics amended and liquid organics supplemented under HPS.

Yeah, we're talking about the clear goop, that would turn amber had i let this go to full ripeness.
I have a *lot* more trimming to do in the coming days on fully ripe plants and I'll look vigorously for more of these.
The sap/goop was originally almost perfectly spherical in shape, however i touched it with the trimmers and it was very sticky like honey.
That is why it looks a little runny in the pic and not a perfect sphere.

[OrganicOdins420]

could be excessive trich production, LST is supposed to initiate plant defenses into producing more trichromes as a result of stress

[BigManNew]

Yea it could be what OrganicOdins420 said about the excessive trich production. But I have a Feeling that it isn't that. I am doing some research right now, and checking back here to see what others come up with.

[Green Supreme]

So here's an old thread.
http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1038

In my experience the folks that I have encountered this have all used either Botanicaire Sweet or molasses at the end. Seems also it is more common in the nugs, than like in the old thread dripping down the stalk. Oh ya, I never used any of those things. Peace GS

[f0urtwenty]

nailed it with botanicare sweet. i think i'm going to do a little testing by increasing the PPM's on sweet during on this next run and see what happens.

thanks for the link to the other post.
awesome pics and it's nice to know others have seen the same results.

bman said he doesn't believe it is psychoactive, but he's not definitively sure either way.

what do you think?

i believe it is.
it's hard to tell because i have a decent tolerance and only a tiny droplet of this sap to try out.
but i think i noticed i was a bit more lethargic.
it also bubbled up and melted like some nice 90u / 74u bubble.
too hard to tell though.

[Green Supreme]

I had quite a bit of it, infact other tasters were Marihuanaman and Marc Emery. I think it probably was not active,it seems the active part is within the heads. I would love to have a field I could harvest the stalks to make syrup with. Peace GS

ps. sugars melt and bubble too when heated

[f0urtwenty]

another pic; much more amber.

http://imgur.com/eAxof.jpg


http://imgur.com/p6E1A.jpg

[f0urtwenty]

i've found this is called guttation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttation

Guttation is the appearance of drops of xylem sap on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants, such as grasses. Guttation is not to be confused with dew, which condenses from the atmosphere onto the plant surface.

At night, transpiration usually does not occur because most plants have their stomata closed. When there is a high soil moisture level, water will enter plant roots, because the water potential of the roots is lower than in the soil solution. The water will accumulate in the plant, creating a slight root pressure. The root pressure forces some water to exude through special leaf tip or edge structures, hydathodes, forming drops. Root pressure provides the impetus for this flow, rather than transpirational pull.

[doobiehuffer]

that perfect round amber ball reminded me of this http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/59/15/4171/FIG2 ancient cannabis :) check out photo B tell me what you guys think if it looks the same? or is that trichomes or sap?