There is not plant material in my kief, I’ve looked at it under a microscope and it only trichomes, I use a very tight screen, no as I don’t have a good camera with a macro lens, I was a grower, not a photographer, also you are able to zoom in on pics you know. And is isn’t being defensive when you are wrong about my kief that I’ve just looked at again under a microscope to confirm it’s definitely only trichomes not plant material that you seem to think and keep mentioning. you know nothing as you do not have my keif in front of you (and it is not green at all).
I have grown many purple strains and I alway gotten purple trichomes on many occasions with different strains in the purple family. Blackberry was consistently darker purple trichomes thank other I grown. (Some purple strains didn’t have the colour change in trichomes at all). A quick google search and you will see indeed many people have also had purple kief.
I think you need to read the comments made by ppl (not just me) re your over defensive manner and taking offence at information
Please change the manner of communication and energy brought here
Nobody called you names or insulted you or your kief
ALL kief collected from a grinder has plant material
In fact I would say that even ice bubble and proper dry sift would still have minute bits of plant material
Nobody is trying to make you seem stupid or less than
Just discussing weed, you don't have to take it to heart like I was running your kief down
I asked for a pic not to prove you wrong but to look as the bud is lovely looking and I like seeing weed at many angles
I can't zoom in to the trichs from your pic lol it needs to be a zoomed in pic
If you go look at my pics in what are you vaping thread you'll see close up of trichs from my phone camera
Or if you check
@I'm Ron Burgundy? Pics his are way better quality and it's all on his phone in the sun
Now, here in your pic with perfect purple trichs - you can see the ends are still see through - and when taken without a professional camera zoomed in with its flashes you get the shiny crystal look more than those colours
Even the article bullee shared states that all the flashes on his canon help show up the colours (re my bong example in prior post to help understand falshes and photography without sidetracking this topic)
See the clear looking ends
I'm not trying to say anything bad about your kief - however as with all kief yours has definitely got plant material in it ....... Now here in your kief pic I can see green bits - tiny, but there and in more than where I highlighted but definitely there and if you can't see it then it may be like when you said there was definitely no charring in your dv - yet when you put a pic up there it was along side green bits in the middle
As for what I have and know - again this is not a pissing contest and I learn off people here everyday......
BUT - here is some kief I have (I don't usually collect kief anymore as I prefer the trichs in my mix and I also make higher quality concentrates now - but a couple of weeks back because of all the talk here I decided to collect some again - which I also may stop doing soon as I remember why I stopped)
Also note - two pictures, same kief
One with phone camera flash, the other with a torch - see how one light makes it look green and the other brown/yellow...... photography trickses
Now as to what I have/know besides kief?
Here is my buckets for making ice bubble "hash" and bubble bags
Next I have my dabpress for making rosin
I have dry sift screens but they are packed away - this is how you make proper trich only (almost) powder
So yea I do understand about the differences and traits of various trates....and have access to them
As a grower I would have thought you would know and utilise a number of methods to process your weed, and highly suggest you research the halls here for ideas
If I was in a position to grow I would have dry screens for trimming time (making yourself dry sift "hash" at the same time)
I would give ice bubble a go too but only if you have lots of material otherwise it can be too much effort to be bothered
A rosin press
Feco for the final process of leftovers and avb to make use of the whole plant
Once you play with these different materials and trates you get to experience different things and flavours etc etc
And as
@Kellya86 mentioned, although kief is still a nice product, once you experience the others you both understand the difference and see kief as not as clean
You can dab ice bubble and dry sift
Kief leaves your dab surface dirty - because of plant material
Legal medical weed here you can buy 55% thc powder - its basically kief, the other 45% is plant material
Ice and dry sift are much closer to 90%
I came here 4/5 years ago and had what I thought was much knowledge on weed
I had grown in the past and watched adults grow since I was a kid
Had made hash and oil
In the 4/5 years I've been on here I've learnt soooo much and realised I knew sweet FA prior (I'm getting closer to 50 these days and had a fair bit of experience and knowledge)
What we all knew and our parents knew has changed
With legalisation in other countries they have been able to use new tech and fine tune things
We learn better ways to produce products and we learn about the plant and processing it all the time
Motg shared a post about hash/kief etc recently that helped define differences people debated
We all learn here and no one knows everything
We learn new things here every week
See, like science changes its opinion with the production of new evidence, we too should do so in order to grow in life as people
Otherwise it's just faith and cognitive dissonance
I'm sharing information with you to absorb if you choose to stop blocking incoming knowledge
For me putting away my "I know the most and am the biggest stoner" ego and trying new things has really opened up my weed experience and made my weed world a much better place
I now get to enjoy much better and more enjoyable ways to consume weed and wow is weed life even better than I thought prior
Tastier and stronger and cleaner
Your kief looks great as far as kief goes
And your purple bud looks amazing
Your kief has plant material in it though as does all kief
This is not an insult to you or your kief
Happy vaping
EDIT
and in the same vein as I said I once thought kief was the best thing until I had access to and learnt to make other and better materials to compare
People in other fully legal countries have even more access to things and thus know more about qualities and difference in materials than I do
I learn from motg and others from their posts of what they have access to
There are also people much more anal than I about what is a good quality trate
There's many variables
But kief, especially from a grinder has more plant material than other forms of trayes particularly the powders
Doesn't mean it isn't a load of lovely trichs and it's nothing to be upset by :)
, 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.
. I was able to score some hand rubbed hash not too long ago 
