I dont think the browning hairs tell you much more than alternating branches tell you about sex; they tell you that the plants is getting sexually mature, but not whether the first pre-flowers will come in a week or 2 weeks.
The browning hairs tell me its soon time to start checking the trichs, but not how ripe they are at all.

Hard to tell from the pics, but they look like 10-20% amber to me.
faithlessxxx Reviewed by faithlessxxx on . What do you think? I have 3 Afghanis right now that are 6 weeks into flower. Buddy I got them from says they are 50 day plants, which they will be tomorrow. I can kinda see the trichomes and they are getting about 50% milky from what I can see. About 85% of the hairs are dying and the calyxs are swollen. I did start starving them a week ago. Anyways I thought this week they would be ready to chop but now I'm thinking one more maybe two weeks. What do you think? I wanted to do a gradual harvest and take the top Rating: 5