You'll probably out live your kids Mand! All that good French booze in your system has ya pickled! HA! I'm just kidding. Ya know I love ya!

As for when to hack 'em down? If I were you, and really had no other reason to hack them down (other than impatience) I'd be going by the trichomes. And then it'd depend on what you wanted out of them. Either some smoke that'd weld ya to your couch so you could for sure watch some of those movies you've been trying to catch or some that would make you pee your pants cause you were laughing so hard as you power cleaned your house. That's up to you Mand, but all I've read suggests that the only way to harvest at the right time for max potency is to go by trichs. No gut feeling. No deadline cause it's Christmas. Trichs either cloudy, amber or a combo of the two.

All that said I hacked some down way early (by at least a couple weeks) and it kicks my butt. With all that resin ya got there, I'm sure this stuff would too. So of course it's your call...Madam.