Rusty thanks for the info. Knowledge is good. I appreciate your explanation as to the cloudy vs amber or brown. I had a problem last year because I wanted to see more amber or brown tricomes and kept waiting but the buds started to cabbage (not sure if that is an official term). That is when you have nice solid buds then they start to get a wierd late growth out of the middle of the bud and if let to grow more the buds will lose their solidness and start to become airy and less solid. I am not sure how this affects the smoke quality but I think it is negative. I will keep this information on cloudy tricomes in mind when I harvest. I still need the hand microscope. With my eyes I need a 5x just to read.:smokin: