[QUOTRoger A. Shrubber, post: 12634526, member: 925384"]trichomes don't all mature at the same time. clear ones are premature, milky ones are ripe, and amber ones are past ripe. they'll never all be at the same stage at the same time. so what you want is the majority to be cloudy, and just a few scattered around to be amber. thats pretty much peak. if you let it go much past 5% amber before you harvest you're just letting it get overripe, like a banana turning black.
if you have to go looking for ambers to find any, its not ready yet. there should be a few here and there over most of the plant.
i know it sucks, i'm at about the same point you are at the moment, waiting for a plant thats 90% cloudy to start producing a few ambers to let me know its actually there. just keep checking daily
Then again over ripe banana is sweeter too