Is she making a cola

First, you'll some some fuzzy sites - bunch of stigmas easily visible. Over next 2-3 weeks itll expand along stems and fill in more. You may see some crystilization (trichomes) and even some minor plumping of the a few bracts beneath each stigma. Once that expansion nears end, shortly after the remnants of vegetative growth ends, it starts focusing more on thickening and trichome production ramps up. Won't see more expansion along stems, but buds themselves still have a long way to go. It'll look more like a bid at this point, but still not a bunch of ripe bracts. It just continues its march to ripeness from there... rely on a jewler's loup or something with 30-60X magnification to check trichomes for harvest window.