ready for harvest...?

Hi guys, I grow plants for the first time this year and I´m a bit unsure about right harvest time... I attach some photos below with a plead for your opinions - are my ladies ready or not? Thank you very much!

PS: I know, that after short look at pictures, one may say, that they´re probably ready to go... - pistils are gone BUT! Under the scope trichomes are: several clear/ most cloudy / several amber. I´m bit confused, because in "macro view" it seems, it´s too late for harvest (pistils are gone), but in "micro view" it seems it´s too early (trichomes are not amber yet)


PPS: outdoor growing, mostly sunny weather, day between 15 - 20 °C / night 7 - 12 °C, middle Europe

First two pictures = plant which has swollen calyxes + is drying up (branches start to crack pretty easily) / but still trichomes are mostly cloudy
Third picture = another plant - pistils are gone, but calyxes aren´t swollen and under the scope mostly cloudy
Fourth and fifth picture = last plant - pistils gone, calyxes not swollen, trichomes mostly cloudy

looks like you already hung and dried a few?? 1-3 pics have issues to say the least... no water?

I say ready... perhaps overly... ready on 1-3

Hi, thank you for your reply. I don´t think plant is dry because of "no watering", because 1) there was rain in few nights 2) some other plants grow nearby, and they are ok...

By the way, is there any other way, how to figure out, if plant is ready for harvest? I know about these:
a) trichomes should be cloudy / amber
b) pistils should be 50% brown (from half to end)
c) calyxes at branches base should fall of easily (after gentle touch)

d) you´ve mentioned "hung" - does it mean, that when plant bend to ground, is ready for harvest?

---> again - it´s probably quite different when you grow outdoor (maturing depends on weather very much)

And, how can it be, that trichomes are not amber yet, if - as you´ve said - plants are ready for harvest???

And, how can it be, that trichomes are not amber yet, if - as you´ve said - plants are ready for harvest???

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calyxes are swollen and all the hairs are orange and receded.

is this a joke?? there done simple !

Harvest the one pictured in 1-2. With the others, check the size and color of the trichs to be sure. I have ones that purpled/yellowed quite a bit after a temp dip and even a few that had all of their stigmas turn brown, but they are clearly not ready so I'm leaving them.

You basically answered all your questions. you want to go for cloudy trichomes though, not amber. when they turn amber, theyre degrading. we dont want to smoke degrading THC!!
anyways, they're done.

and man those first ones are all sorts of dead. cut em at dry em, if they already arent