I appreciate the reply. Like I said, kinda new, and the guy I sell it to only sells to dispensaries. The last time I talked to him he told me that my tops were still pretty white, and he has a harder time selling it to the clubs.

Now, I clearly understand the difference between trichomes and hairs on the plant. I agree with you, and I've always used the trichomes as a guide. My distributor was referring to the red hairs, not the trikes. My plants mature from the bottom up. When the trikes are hitting their stride and screaming "ready for harvest", the bottom 2/3 of the plants have fantastic red hairs all over the buds, but the tops still haven't turned yet.

It wasn't my intention to harvest this late, but I was sick for a few days, then I needed to harvest some other plants in front of the Rhino's.

In the grand scheme of things, I'm so wet behind the ears, it's a bit embarrassing. I have little ability to diagnose plant problems at this point. Mostly I've just taken what was taught to me and tried to figure out ways to improve it.

About the time I get my (modified) SOG grow perfected, I'm going to be switching gears and dropping my plant counts to get legal. There's a guy on another forum a while back that pulled a pound off of a single plant (Chronic) under a 400w light. That's the new gold standard. That will become my new reason for living. Although I've been told to reasonably expect maybe half of that, under 600's.

As far as the Rhino's go, it just seems so surprising that Green House and others can grow the exact same strain for so many more days and have different results. I didn't know that number could vary so much from grower to grower.