The hairs (pistols) mean nothing when it comes to plant maturity. Get a magnifying glass and look at the trichomes on the leaves. (the "crystals")

Even with a magnifying glass, you can see if the round heads are clear, cloudy or rusty. I'm a tad colorblind too, but you can still see the differences.

Regardless, she won't die overnight. But If she does get over-ripe...you'll have to start checking carefully for male nanners. Over-ripening is one method of stressing a lady into kicking-out male parts, which is an advanced technique for making femmed seeds. (not the best technique available, but one of the many)

Looking great so far. Nice grow. :thumbsup:
Rusty Trichome Reviewed by Rusty Trichome on . Help need Hekp for harvest I feel stupid but I want to be really careful with my plant and do it in the right way so I can smoke the wonders of the buddah plant. I was wondering how do I EXACTLY know when to harvest my plant? I know all about the trichomes and turning to amber color and all that but IT DOES NOT make any sense to me and plus i'm stuck with a curse of being color blind so there lies a problem. What other ways can I tell that my plant is ready? It grew for 90 days, Dec 1st all the way to now which is Feb Rating: 5