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Originally Posted by tonga420
How do u get buds to turn so purple?...
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The intense green pigment of chlorophyll usually blocks out other colors such as the coveted purple. As the weather gets colder late in the season, the chlorophyll begins to break down allowing anothcyanin (purple) and carotenoid (yellow/reds) to show through.
A genetic disposistion to exhibit anothcyanin pigments may also be a factor, and in some instances would therefore be present even in hotter temperatures. To what extent these plants exhibit anothcyanin pigments ( fan leaves, cola leaves, calyxes etc.) is entirely dependent on it's genetic lineage and individual phenotype.
Two plants of the same "purple" strain grown together may even differ greatly from one another in regards to how much anothcyanin pigment is shown due to both enviormental factors and varying phenotypes amongst that strain.
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