I'm outdoor, and I watched my trichs very closely this summer with my microscope, and they seemed to change very slowly and at different rates. on different plants. Given I was growing outside with indoor genetics, and I had issues in june with my already flowering plants slowing bud growth because I had started outside too early.
In the end, I realized the best way to detect was by the color of the trichs on the leaves growing out of the buds. They change to amber before the glands on the buds themselves do do, so when those leaves have golden trichs, you know you're at peak ripeness - right before the bud resin goes amber and is still cloudy. You don't even need a scope to see the leaf trichs, the gold color will be apparent. even if 10% of bud trichs are amber you're cool, are you growing sativa or indica?
