Description
Active Eye Loupe
The Active Eye Loupe is perfect for viewing your plants extra-close to determine their health, trichome ripeness, or to identify pests. Small and compact, it fits in your pocket! There’s nothing quite like the unique structure trichomes present when looking at them magnified.
Features & Benefits
- 30X and 40X
- Provides targeted, optimal illumination
- Easily identify pests, disease, or plant species to target fast solutions
- Compact and lightweight design
Harvesting Trichomes
- Trichomes are the stalk-like resin glands that contain the active compounds, which grow on the leaves surrounding the flowers. As flowers near ripeness, their caps swell with resin and the trichomes become more prominent and stand erect. The Grower’s Edge Illuminated Microscope 60x allows you to monitor the buds’ progression to the peak of ripeness by watching the resin in the gland tops.
- Under magnification, you can see individual glands turning from clear to amber or a cloudy white. These colors indicate that THC is beginning to degrade into two other cannabinoids.
- When the trichomes begin to change from clear to amber or cloudy white, the buds should be harvested—this is the peak momen
Check out the official Hawthorne Gardening Company website for more information!
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