High D. P.

"you must spread..."

Of course that assumes an outdoor grow, yah?

I get a different take with leds.
There's no UV at all so I can just keep piling the trichs on and let them ALL turn cloudy without frying any of them off.

Now I'm ripening under leds then hitting them with 4-6 hours of direct sun which very rapidly turns the trich caps amber.

But, as Dreadedhermie pointed out, that color change may be cosmetic in nature and is merely a convenient indicator for us, in sunlight.
Got a couple weeks of curing to go and I'll have a side by side bake-off with "tanned" vs milky, cloistered buds of the same plant.:weedpoke:

Den V shell C.

Aloha.
Weeze