How to Get the Blue Color on Weed

by Nebula Brume

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Table of Contents

4 "Parts" of Cannabis Plants Can Turn Colors (Buds, Pistils, Leaves & Trichomes)

How to Maximize Colour & Genetics

• Start with Colorful Genetics (this is crucial – choose a consequent nighttime purple strain for the nigh dramatic colors subsequently drying)
• Warm Days & Cool Nights (temperature difference day and nighttime encourages pinkish/purple coloring)
• Use the Correct Grow Calorie-free (potent direct light helps, and certain LEDs tend to bring out colors)
• PH at the Roots (low pH tin encourage purpling in some strains though it'south actually a nutrient deficiency so use with caution)

Examples of Colorful Strains

• Photoperiod (Regular) Strains
• Automobile-Flowering Strains
• Colorful "Duck" Strains (Stealthy Leaves)

Why Exercise Leaves and Buds Plow Purple?

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Would you like to abound colorful cannabis buds? You may take seen marijuana buds that are pink, imperial, red, orangish, or possibly even blue! Simply how do you grow colorful buds at home?

If you want to grow buds that are pink, cerise, or purple, you must choose the right genetics

The trend to turn colors is profoundly affected by strain/genetics, and so you lot can't force whatsoever constitute to produce colorful buds. However, you can buy seeds of strains that naturally turn vibrant colors, and there are tricks to maximize their genetics and bring out extra colors on your buds.

You cannot produce buds this purple without a strain that has been bred to makes majestic buds. There are tricks to maximize the natural color of your genetics, but you take to start with the right genes

4 Different "Parts" of Cannabis Tin can Become Colorful

When people are talking most "colorful" buds, most people imagine brightly colored buds in their hands. Just there are actually dissimilar parts of cannabis plants that tin can display non-dark-green colors, and sometimes people will lump all them all together. Each one is a little different from each other, and some have a pregnant outcome on the final looks of your bud, while others don't make much deviation.

Many different parts of a cannabis plant can turn majestic, including the whole plant!

The parts of the plant that can become colorful are…

• Pistils (Hairs) – some of the colour remains after drying/curing
• Calyxes (Buds Themselves) – very strong event on final color
• Leaves – relatively modest event on concluding bud color since many are removed by trimming
• Trichomes – small effect on concluding color

Buds are made up of dissimilar parts and are ordinarily more than than i color

Colorful Pistils / Hairs

About growers want the buds themselves to appear colorful, and so the color stays even after the buds are dried and cured.

There are two parts of the buds that can turn color. 1 function is the pistils/hairs that stick out. In that location are several strains where the pistils plow pink or royal.

Sometimes just the pistils/hairs turn pinkish or purple, while the leaves and buds may all the same be green.

When buds are dried, they retain some of their pistil color, but you volition still exist able to see the colour coming through underneath.

Colorful Calyxes / Bracts (Buds Themselves)

"Calyxes" are what make the buds themselves (some growers telephone call them "bracts"). Cannabis "buds" are actually made of hundreds of calyxes stacked on top of each other, and some or all of them may get colors other than green.

This fantastic picture shows how the overall appearance of buds changes with the ratio of colorful vs. greenish calyxes.

Virtually all Smooth Fume buds (past Tropical Seeds) produce at least a few pinkish calyxes here and there, and some plants in the correct conditions can produce buds where well-nigh every calyx is a deep imperial.

Calyxes are what requite thenearly color to your buds. Even a few regal calyxes can requite the buds an overall regal tint, and when you break open the buds there will be some pieces that are completely purple.

This nug contains several purple calyxes.

After being footing up, you can come across the regal pieces distributed throughout. The higher the percentage of purple calyxes, the more vibrant your final bud color will exist.

Colorful Leaves – Sometimes It'south Not the Buds That Turn Colour!

With some strains, the leaves may plow purple while the buds stay mostly dark-green. This tin make for absolutely gorgeous plants, merely since leaves mostly get trimmed off later harvest, usually, a lot of the majestic will no longer be as visible on the buds later the trimming procedure.

For some strains, the leaves may plough purple while the buds stay green. This often happens after the constitute gets exposed to chilly dark temperatures (but non always). Cannabis leaves exposed to direct calorie-free (especially LED grow lights) are most likely to plough purple, while leaves in the shade usually stay green. Depression pH at the roots can trigger a nutrient deficiency that makes leaves appear purple on some strains, while the leaves of other strains get brownish spots from depression pH.

Strong LED abound lights tin plow leaves majestic on some strains, like this clone of Girl Scout Cookies. When this happens, leaves in the shade often stay green. The purple is essentially a "tan" to protect the leaves.

Notwithstanding, many strains plow yellow in response to besides much calorie-free, like a man that burns instead of gets a tan in the sun. Notice how some plants in this tent turned regal due to the potent LED grow light, while other plants turned yellow. The only difference was genetics.

Although the leaves accept turned majestic, the buds themselves may exist generally dark-green.

Only the tops of buds exposed to direct light have any imperial left afterwards trimming off all the leaves. Trimming removes a lot of the purple coloring. Y'all can still come across some hints of imperial but they're not really "purple" buds.

Why Do Cannabis Leaves Plow Imperial?

Colorful Trichomes

In general, cannabis trichomes get from articulate (non gear up) to white (highest THC) to amber/yellowish (more of a mellow effect) earlier they eventually wither and die. These color changes are oftentimes used to decide the best fourth dimension to harvest cannabis.

However, sometimes, trichomes tin can plough purple or pink, making information technology difficult to know when to harvest. In that case, you want to also look at the pistils to determine the best harvest fourth dimension!

Purple or pink trichomes can go far tough to know when to harvest, but they're exotic and beautiful. The color of trichomes may go out a slight tint on the buds subsequently they've been dried and cured, only the bud color underneath will be the dominant color.

Now that you know all the parts of the plant that tin plough green, let'south motion on to growing pink and purple buds at abode.

How to Maximize Color and Genetics

Earlier yous do anything else, y'all need to begin with the right genetics. If the genes of your plant don't brand colorful buds, there'due south nada you tin exercise! And so, you must start with a colorful strain to go the all-time results with maximizing colour.

• Cull Colorful Strain (Virtually of import!)
  • Choose Strain that Produces Very Dark Colors (if you want buds to maintain color after beingness harvested and dried)
• Temperature – Warm days & cool nights
• Bright Light – Stiff light levels can help bring out color, specially LEDs
• PH at the Roots – Some strains may express colors at lower pH ranges

Choose Strains with Brightly Colored Budsand Pistils If Possible – This maximizes the overall colorful appearance of your buds.

For the most pregnant final effect on your stale and cured buds, yous want to cull a strain where as many parts of the plant as possible are colorful. So ideally, you want buds where the pistils and calyxes (which make up most of the last color) are both vividly colored. If the leaves and trichomes are likewise colorful, that will improve the result fifty-fifty further.

In this case, the buds are purple, simply the pistils are orangish.

To maximize the final color, you lot want to choose a strain with brightly colored buds and pistils. For example, this bud has purple calyxes, mostly purple pistils, and even some royal leaves. This combination makes the unabridged bud appear bright purple.

Choose Deep Purple Buds for Maximum Color After Drying/Curing  – Securely colored buds (sometimes called "black" strains) tend to be the most vibrant after drying/curing.

To produce the most colorful buds, yous need to make sure the color goes all the fashion through the buds, and ideally, also through all the surrounding leaves. This level of color-penetration is about probable to happen with intensely nighttime colored buds. Buds that are paler in colour tend to lose a lot of their vibrancy in the post-harvest processing.

These buds were by and large pink at harvest, but the color is relatively pale and muted

With this strain, all the leaves stayed light-green. Only the buds became colorful

After they're trimmed and dried, the pink colour has get more subtle.

You will "keep" the most colour afterward drying/curing by choosing strains that are nighttime purple through and through, from buds to pistils to leaves if at all possible. Securely colored buds continue more of their color after drying and curing than pale purple or pink buds.

These buds were deep imperial at harvest…

When buds are darkly colored, they tend to keep more color later on beingness dried and trimmed.

Annotation:Your buds will naturally lose some of their overall vibrancy and color during the drying/curing process (merely not whatsoever of their potency!). That's why you lot will likely never run into neon imperial buds that take already been dried and cured for ii+ weeks. Even green buds become from existence vivid light-green to a more muted green colour by the fourth dimension they've cured for a few weeks. When you seevery brightly colored buds, it nearly always means the buds are still relatively fresh.

Although color is determined primarily by genetics, there are a few things you can do to help your plant express its natural colors…

Temperature – Some Strains Express Colors When the Night Temperature is a Few Degrees Cooler than the Day

If you're growing a strain that turns color, some strains will only show their colors when night temperatures are at least a few degrees cooler than during the mean solar day in the flowering stage, specially towards the end. However, some plants don't react to cool night temperatures, and many strains (like Panama) nearly always turn colour no thing what the temperature.

Certain strains similar Sangria plow color more often when the temperature is warm during the twenty-four hours as opposed to absurd at nighttime. And so, it's ever a good idea to aim for overnice warm days, and cool, comfortable nights, because that contrast seems to assistance bring out colors for many strains.

How to Maximize Color with Temperature

• Warm Days (75-80°F / 24-27°C)
• Cool Comfortable Nights (65-70°F / 18-21°C)

Notation: Some strains turn color no matter what the temperature. You can contact the breeder and ask if they take communication on how to bring out colors for a particular strain. I've plant that most breeders will go back to you quickly if you go to their website and ask questions!

Temperature makes a departure! Some strains need dissimilarity between day/night temperatures for their buds to turn colors. For example, these Western frisian Dew buds turned brilliant purple after nights started getting beneath lxx°F (21°C), though that doesn't always happen with this strain.

Learn How to Control Temperature

Strong, Direct Low-cal may assist bring out colors (especially LED abound lights)

In some cases, a constitute may produce purple tones in response to intense, directly light (on buds and leaves). This is kind of like the plant getting a "tan" and typically is most pronounced on the parts of the plant that are getting direct light (other parts of the establish tend to stay light-green). The importance of light levels varies on a strain by strain footing.

LED grow lights tend to bring out majestic coloring in some strains. Of all the LEDs I've tried, I noticed the nigh purpling under the Electric Sky ES300 (best yields and bud quality), Mars Hydro TSL 2000W, Spider Farmer SF-2000, and HLG 300 (lower yields per watt than the others just the about purpling).

Strong HPS grow lights (peculiarly 400W and bigger) likewise can bring out colors when temperatures are under control, but to a lesser extent than LEDs. If yous want a grow light that tends to bring out purples, I recommend getting an LED.

The pH at the Roots may affect cannabis bud colour expression

Outside the cannabis earth, there are a few species of plants with flowers that are known to turn different colors based on the pH at the roots.

For instance, the flowers of specific types of hydrangeas can turn blueish in very acidic soil but may plow pink if exposed to neutral or only slightly acidic soil (though this type of variation is rare in the plant earth).

However there have been occasional reports of cannabis strains that produce different bud colors based on the pH at the roots.

I have noticed that some strains (especially ones that tend to turn purple already) will often get much more purple if the pH is depression (nether 6 pH). Nevertheless, for some strains, this causes plants to become chocolate-brown spots (a calcium deficiency) so utilise this tactic with circumspection and watch plants closely for chocolate-brown spots.

Low pH at the roots (under 6 pH) tin bring out purples in some strains, specifically strains that are already prone to turn purple. This is what it looks like initially.

Here is that plant a few weeks after

For many (if not most) strains, low pH can crusade dark-brown spots and sometimes yellowing, and then use this tactic with circumspection, and it's probably only practiced to try it close to harvest in case your institute becomes riddled with brownish spots. T

These buds were given low pH early in the flowering stage while buds were still mostly white. It did aid bring our regal, but as a result, many of the leaves got deficiencies which reduced yields at harvest. If you try to bring out colors via depression pH, make sure to wait until plants are close to harvest so you don't harm the leaves past blow.

If growing multiple plants of the same strain or from clones, you might consider giving plants different pH ranges to see what effect it has on the concluding bud color.

Learn more than virtually how pH can affect cannabis color!

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Pictures and Examples of Colorful Strains

Hither are some pictures of cannabis strains that sometimes grow colorful royal and pink buds.

Photoperiod (Regular) Strains

Western frisian Dew

The next two pics are of the strain Frisian Dew, a popular strain by Dutch Passion, who specifically designed the strain for growing outdoors. Information technology is exceptionally hardy, high yielding, and is besides mold and pest resistant. About l% of the time, Frisian Dew buds will turn vivid majestic instead of green!

The plant in the centre with the dark purple buds is Frisian Dew.

Peyote Gorilla

Peyote Gorilla buds are often imperial-tinted with purple leaves, specially when grown under LED grow lights. The effects of this strain are awesome and bud quality is above-boilerplate.

Panama

The post-obit plants with pink pistils are from the strain Panama by Ace Seeds.

This is what Panama buds may wait like when they're first growing in. This beautiful pink pistil picture is by trippergreenfeet.

Equally the Panama buds develop, the pistils and even the buds themselves may intensify their pinkish colour

Smooth Smoke

Smooth Smoke buds (by Tropical Seeds) can become quite colorful, with colors from hints of pinkish to deep purple!

Machine-Flowering Strains

Larn about auto-flowering strains, which are typically fix to harvest within iii months from germination, and don't demand a 12/12 lite schedule to start flowering (like regular cannabis plants).

Motorcar Frisian Dew

Auto Frisian Dew past Dutch Passion (this is an machine-flowering version of the original famous marijuana strain) – Unlike the regular Frisian Dew which gets nearly 50% imperial bud plants, the breeder claims but 10% of the plants from this strain produce purple buds. Still, some growers are getting far amend odds than that. When purple does announced, the color is incredibly vibrant and spills out onto the nearby leaves!

Auto Pink Kush CBD

This Pink Kush CBD car consistently turns purple and produces excellent high-CBD, low THC buds.

The brilliant institute here in the lower right is Machine-Flowering Pink Kush CBD

Closeup of the Pink Kush CBD buds. They looked even brighter in person!

Auto-Flowering Bloody Skunk

Auto Bloody Skunk by Sweet Seeds is a strain famous for its beautiful vibrant color.

Bloody Skunk car strain consistently produces captivatingly imperial buds

Automobile-Flowering Dark Devil

Dark Devil Auto is some other fabled automobile-flowering strain past Sweet Seeds that turns a gorgeous purple or even a deep red.

This Dark Devil Machine bud turned completely regal from top to bottom.

Purple Kush Auto

Brilliant colour on Purple Kush Machine plants! The buds turn most black after being dried!

pics by kingkola1

Colorful "Duck" Strains (Stealth Leaves)

"Duck" strains are characterized by their oddly shaped leaves. The idea is that the plants look less similar cannabis with 3-finger leaves. The brilliant colored buds also help make them look less like cannabis.

Frisian Duck

Ane of the most popular variations of the Ducksfoot (Ducksfeet?) strains is called Frisian Duck. This strain thrives outdoors and grows with the traditional stealthy leaves. This strain also often makes bright, beautiful royal buds (with common cold enough temperatures) that have a fresh scent that is sometimes fifty-fifty a niggling fruity.

Frisian Duck plants react well to growing in a living soil that's been composted and amended with slow-release organic ingredients.

This is a Frisian Duck plant in the vegetative stage.

This Western frisian Duck plant was grown outdoors in a greenhouse. More half of Frisian Duck plants abound brilliant purple buds!

Frisian Duck is based on the famous Frisian Dew strain which likewise produces purple buds and has been bred for generations specifically for growing outdoors. The Frisian genes thrive nether sunlight, and buds are resistant to bugs and mold!

This Frisian Duck constitute is just about ready to harvest!

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However, fifty-fifty with stealthy strains, be enlightened that they still aroma like cannabis in the budding stage!

Why Do Cannabis Leaves and Buds Turn Purple?

Sometimes you'll come across majestic leaves because of a food deficiency, only oftentimes purple leaves are actually caused past natural plant processes.

There are many species of plants that make regal leaves. The leaves appear purple due to high levels of a purple paint calledanthocyanin. Anthocyanin may human activity as a sunscreen for institute leaves considering information technology protects against impairment caused by UV-B rays. Anthocyanin is also known to help protect against cold or oestrus stress on the cellular level.

It's not merely cannabis plants that grow purple leaves. Hither'south an instance of a False Shamrock plant, which has glorious purple leaves from height to lesser!

With some cannabis strains, the leaves may plough imperial while the buds stay greenish. Just like with buds, leaves are more probable to turn colour when plants get cool dark temperatures in the tardily flowering stage.

The leaves most likely to be affected are the meridian leaves and other leaves getting directly calorie-free. With this purpling, the leaves in the shade of the plant usually stay dark-green.

For some strains, the leaves may plough purple while the buds stay green.

The leaves of this plant turned imperial overnight after that establish was exposed to chilly night temperatures.

The leaves exposed to direct light are nigh likely to turn purple, while leaves in the shade oftentimes stay greenish

In this instance, all the leaves that are exposed to the light have turned purple, including the sugar leaves. However, once the leaves are trimmed off, the buds will be by and large green.

Buds may all the same exist purple-tinted from leaves that weren't completely trimmed off.

If there'south a lot of royal leaves, there may be a lot of color left even after trimming.

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Case Study – Super Regal Brume plant

The peak leaves of this Super Imperial Brume plant accept turned a vibrant regal

Here are the buds from that Super Purple Haze found drying – you can see that the parts of the buds that were exposed to the calorie-free have strong hints of purple

A closer look at those buds so you tin amend see how much bud is royal and how much is green after being trimmed and stale (click for a closeup!)

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This cannabis found has grown vibrant red and purple leaves.

This outdoor cannabis found has turned purple everywhere it received direct sunlight. Splendid!

Cannabis sometimes has neat mutations, similar this 2-tone plant where only half the leaves turned purple!

These Swiss Cheese plants by Nirvana exploded with blood-red, pink and imperial leaves when it got cool at night right near harvest time, simply the buds themselves did not modify color. Unfortunately, whenjust the leaves turn color, the buds themselves volition frequently look mostly green once they're trimmed. But this beautiful motion picture lives forever!

Bright purple stems may be a sign of a phosphorus deficiency, but this "symptom" is sometimes actually caused by genetics, only like majestic leaves, pistils or buds!

Bluish Dream (rare deep regal phenotype)

Blue Dream buds normally don't turn this deep purple, so if y'all want to run across buds like this y'all're better off with a strain that'south bred to always grow dark purple buds. However, the pictures were so beautiful I simply had to share!

A closeup of a purple cannabis calyx

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At present larn how to improve…

• Yields
• Bud Quality
• "Sparkle"
• THC Levels
• CBD Levels
• Smell/Gustatory modality
• Density
• Bonus: What Determines Yields?

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