noodle

Just did my first harvest a month ago, congrats! let me answer a few of your questions. **For future not if create an official grow question other members can get credit towards the grower of the month contest by answering and then being selected by you as the correct answer.)** I decided to trim off my sugar leaves and freeze them to make fresh frozen dry ice shake. If interested, I posted a video on my diary of me trimming a branch, (lots of other examples on youtube). I think your hanging technique is great. What helped me was to leave the lines a bit loose so the branches could hang down far enough not to interfere with the ceiling of the tent. If you just move the string line to the center of the ceiling supports instead of near the edges would maybe get better air circulation. Anywho, great diary and nice first grow. Those buds look smokelicious!

With the color change my guess is a week or two. I had a plant turn purple, and it was finished when the purpling made it to the sugar leaves, at that point the fan leaves sticking outta the buds on mine were starting to crisp up. when I checked the trichomes at this point I had maybe 5-10% amber on the calyx's. Just my experience.

those fan leaves in the middle pointing up to try to reach the sun are some of the number one perpetrators of shading and blocking air to nodes, causing them to lose the airflow light and space they need to bulk right. going well overall and glad to see it -- looking forward to your harvest in this setup!

Great job, nice and healthy plants! They are starting to put on some serious weight ;)