Chop or wait?

Solid heuristics below if you don't know the exact maturity you want. The pistils turning is much more likely to go wrong than going by trichs. Old timers would look for "15%-20% amber" trichomes in an attempt to balance out the maturity of the average trichome when the flower is done. I personally harvest with minimal amber (with the caveat that many strains will have a small wave turn amber, then produce another wave of fresh). I enjoy maximum psychoactive effect. Fun experiment is to find your favorite "indica" and then harvest two weeks early and see how she hits, because the indica/sativa stuff is about as much science as dancing for rain to fall. My personal rationale is that (1) you can always further mature your trichomes later but you can never go back [without chemical assistance] and (2) I am a flavor chaser and IME harvesting for peak milky often gives one a much more exotic terp profile that stays more true to slower still alive on the stem. All things considered, I would agree another week of patience would be fine even harvesting for peak milky.