Help! Harvesting ?

[ismellyou]

So, I took out my jewelers loop today to check the maturation progress of the glandular trichomes. Normally I would wait until most of the stigmas turn orange. I was surprised to see that 40% of the glandular trichomes are already DARK AMBER. I love couch lock but I've never experienced this before prior to 80% of the stigmas turning orange yet they only make up like 20% orange right now on the plants. Basically I've never cut plants that have majority white stigmas. Is this normal for some strains? These are hybrids btw. ARE THEY RIPE AND READY OR TWO MORE WEEKS? I don't want the thc to start breaking down and losing potency. Thanks for the help in advance.

 

[xtsho]

So, I took out my jewelers loop today to check the maturation progress of the glandular trichomes. Normally I would wait until most of the stigmas turn orange. I was surprised to see that 40% of the glandular trichomes are already DARK AMBER. I love couch lock but I've never experienced this before prior to 80% of the stigmas turning orange yet they only make up like 20% orange right now on the plants. Basically I've never cut plants that have majority white stigmas. Is this normal for some strains? These are hybrids btw. ARE THEY RIPE AND READY OR TWO MORE WEEKS? I don't want the thc to start breaking down and losing potency. Thanks for the help in advance.

I don't even have to see a picture to tell you that you have weeks left on those plants. 20% orange trich means the other 80% are still white. It doesn't matter if you see some amber trichomes on a sugar leaf. There is no way your plant is ripe. You've probably been harvesting early on previous grows.