You still want to see the trichs..... If you are anti-amber thats fine, but you want most of em to be cloudy at least.... No way of telling without being able to see those trichs up close, I like my 100x microscope, I take a a few snips of her and inspect em.
I try to look closest to the bud or even a little pinch of the bud itself. As those sugar leaves can be ambering and the bud still clear to cloudy.
But without seeing the trichs your guessing..... I have a Bubba Kush that just became smokable, I get totally different plant, and I wanted some amber on her, but story is still pertinent. She looked ready to chop. Brown hair, leaves where looking haggard, frosty as hell and about the right amount of days on the calendar per a seed company (I don't really use that) but what I'm saying is every indication was she was ready to chop. My mentor stopped by and said, 'when are you going to take that poor girl she's ready man" I handed him the microscope and nippers I said take a couple sample and see if you still agree. After a focusing, refocusing and cocking his head he said, "Well I'll be damned" those things where clear as a bell, not barely a cloudy one amongst them. I let her go 3 more weeks after that night. Some of the best smoke I have ever produced.
Now if that was you in your situation maybe you would have been looking at a week and a half for cloudy not real amber. But point is in this rambling medicated story. You don't know till you know..... Gotta see those trichomes.....
