I'm with you all the way here FDD, I know the look your talking about. When I was waiting to harvest my first grow, I pulled it early cus I was a noob, and didn't know what I was doing. On my last grow, I saw the trichs start going amber, cus that was how I had heard you find out. But I kept waiting and waiting just because I DID NOT want to pull them early that time. Then I noticed that prolly half of them really just seemed ready. The smell was a bit stronger, the buds just looked like they glowed, for lack of a differant term. I cut half of them, and gave the others about another week. I didn't notice any differance in smoke, but they were great. It was an indica dominant hybrid, and I can't tell you how many times I fell asleep on the couch after we smoked at night.