Quote Originally Posted by tlranger
You guys using your scopes can answer me this. Being an old school mainliner(I try for one nice bud per plant), is the end of that bud really the ripest part of the plant. With the bottom not as far along. I'm always picky during harvest. And my main ranger use to always wanted to take the end of off the nicest died bud. I start at the bottom and work my way up, on a dried bud that is.

it could just be pheromones!!
The way a plant finishes is different for different strains. Some from top to bottom, but others go bottom to top. My present haze plants seem to be going from bottom to top. The bottom buds have slowed or stopped developing pistils and the pistils are drying up but the tops are still rushing out pistils and appear to be no where near harvest. Under a scope the trichomes are all clear with some colored (red/amber) but not translucent.