Papa_Tanswered grow question 5 months ago I definitely suggest getting a little pocket microscope or a jewellers loupe to inspect the tricromes. It’s always hard to tell in pictures what’s actually going on. You’re gonna have to learn to look with your own eyes and make the judgement call with what you are seeing.
Basically if you inspect many different bud sites and still see clear tricromes, she’s not ready. Clear is bad. Cloudy good. Now in order to get all cloudy you’ll probably start seeing some turn amber. So if you start seeing amber ones then she’s more than likely ready or you can give it more time to ripen and develop a bit more of a flavour profile but that comes with a trade off with declining potency.
Some people don’t want any amber tricromes because they want maximum potency. So once they all turn cloudy they pull it immediately.
Other growers will let it go for a bit longer to develop that flavour profile. Me personally I’m ok with pulling my plants when I see 50 percent cloudy and 50 percent amber. It really depends on what you want from your harvest.
But really try to train your eyes to look at them yourself amd trust what you’re seeing. Because at the end of the day pictures are really hard to tell what’s what.