--Another question prior to harvest--

I am going to cut the lady down tomorrow morning. I understood that the soil should be as dry as possible before harvest to reduce drying time. I was gone this weekend and watered before I left. Checked it out this morning and the soil was completely dry to the point that the leaves had drooped and kinda wilted. This happened to me one other time and I watered and they perked right back up. My question is...

Should I water it and let it go another day so the leaves are nice and perky for harvest, or cut it down with the droopy/wilted leaves?

Also, will this perhaps be beneficial in tricking the plant into thinking its dying, therefore causing it to try to reproduce but instead maximize THC production?

you can't trick plants... they simply react.

drying out the medium will place the plant into a drought situation. in that type of situation, one of the ways the plant prevents water loss is to produce more trich's. more trich's = more potency.