When checking trichomes, should I be looking at the sugar leaves near the top of the bud, or the bottom of the bud, or does it really matter?

I just grabbed a little piece of sugar leaf on the bud from about the top row of leaves and damned if the trichomes didn't look pretty much CLEAR, but on the leaf I looked at day before yesterday they were clearly showing amber. (which came from a lower row on another bud.

Someone with experience want to tell me what I am SUPPOSED to be doing. I can see I'm doing something wrong.


(And DP, don't tell me I should be medicating. I already know that. That's what I WANT to be doing!)