felvapes
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Yes trichs have coloursLol it is not plant material at all , I use a very fine screen that allows no plant material thru, if you look under a microscope the trichomes are purple, and it’s blackberry from my growing days. See no plant material with non purple buds (see pic), no green as you said, also used the same grinder for years.
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Also here’s some purple trichomes, not all clear like you say, or as I preferred my trichomes more cloudy for peak THC, with about 20% amber for a nice stoney relaxing effect
But even the colours in @bulllee well described post you can see the trichs are still somewhat see through (even the opaque ones)
Flashes will show up more colours than the see through part due to refelction too (try taking pics of your clean bong with and without a flash - I did photography for years pre digital)
The flash is good to show up the colour the trich contains is what the photographer above is explaining
Less light gives less reflection and you can see through more
This is with the big professional camera too - with a phone camera you will be lucky to pick up these colours especially not zoomed in and most often will get the shiny looking "crystals" because all we get is flash reflection and light not colour so much
Have a look at @I'm Ron Burgundy? amazing natural light pics on his phone
He is a sunlight fan for pics and gets amazing results you'd think we're from a professional camera
So even though trichs can have colour in them - there is most definitely plant material in your kief and that is helping create that purple colour, as with the light green in your other pics and the usual yellow/brown you are used to in your kief (btw I can see green in your kief - just like I saw char in your avb, if you can't it's selective vision)
Even a dry sift made from unchopped bud will have a small amount of plant material
Kief from a grinder is littered with tiny bits of plant material that has been ground in the grinder
Pretty sure your space case will have the same screen as others
Even a fine one will let ground up plant material through
This is the difference between kief and either dry sift or ice bubble
They are decidedly different in look, flavour and hit - very noticeable in flavour or in the final hash product made
It's so much cleaner (as @Kellya86 mentioned) and noticeable that it makes kief seem dirty (although kief is still good stuff, especially for rosin)
Look up Frenchie (rip) on YouTube
He made some amazing hash and has great techniques
Or look at motg post on what is kief/hash
Even when I have made ice bubble from fully purple bud the product does not look as bright as your grinder which will be tainted by plant material
Check Frenchie videos and see the colour of 90% of his final product before he turns it into traditional hash blocks
This doesn't mean your kief is shite
It just means it's grinder powder saved up and it is what it is - not just trichs alone though
This isn't to say you or your kief is bad
Just it is what it is
Please try to be less defensive at ppls comments - this isn't about mine is better than yours or some competition ppl make up in there heads
I wasn't trying to have a go at you, we all learn stuff from being in here and it isn't attacks when people give us information
The pic you provided was a nice google search
Do you have zoomed in pics of your trichs for curiosity sake? They are nice buds as a mentioned
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