First Time a Princess

So week 12, She was due to come down this week, but i think it will be end of this week or even next. If she goes until next week, she will be in the cold room for a week, as i need to cycle Black Dog into the flower room. She is as fast has "they" say but she still has the wild look about her, which is what I wanted, all these nicely behaved squat, do what you like indica dom hybrids are great, Pure Ak being a favorite, but just sometimes I want a feisty wild one. She is smelling nearly done. Talking of smell - i rearly if ever see Smell as a marker for ripeness, this intrigues me - we smell weed all the time to judge cure, freshness, dankness etc, but never use smell to harvest, I use a loop and trich color but to be honest i'm less about that now - bk in the old days we used Pistil color and re-tractness, the trich color is a good marker, but a newbie marker I believe, You soon get your eye into a ripe bud v a early bud - lets face it very few growers esp new growers are going to let it go too far! So smell - i notice at the start of flower, the smell can be wildly different to the finished bud, then it goes trough a clean smell, about week 3 - 4 in which the dom smell is all there is, then about 3 weeks from being done the smell is strong and gooooooooood, but around harvest time the smell fades to almost nothing, except when disturbed / trimmed ect. It got me thinking to a very stoned conversation with an old hippy grower, one of the only people I knew years ago who grew indoors. He used to say, i can smell when they are ripe, cuz i can't smell nothing.. i put it down to him just being old and playing at being mystic, but now i'm beginning to understand. Anyway she is a little later then i expected, but she is a beautiful wild, heavily laden with wild Sativa flower - buzzin! Happy smokes Box