I think your plants are nice and would inspect every 12 hours with a magnifying glass looking and watching for clues to ripeness.
A little green is better than past prime.
That’s just foolish! Plants take weeks to ripen not hours or even days. Handling your buds and fucking with them every 12 hours will also damage trichomes making them look amber and giveing you a false impression that your plant is done when really it still needs weeks.
It’s very easy to harvest too early and end up with lower quality and lower yields. This is a main reason you see new growers asking why their buds taste and smell like hay. This is also a huge reason commercial grown weed is typically subpar, the growers trying to rush an extra crop and not caring about the quality and yield that comes from properly grown and ripened plants.
It’s extremely hard to harvest a plant too late. As in it really doesn’t happen on accident. You have to be actively trying to ignore a plant and “over-ripen” it to let a plant go long enough to damage it. I’ve never seen someone
accidentally harvest too late in 16 years of growing.
