Ok, that's making me feel better. I guess I was just freaking out cause I'm getting closer every day to harvest and have had relatively no problems yet. Put a lot of time into these girls
One of the most common mistakes i see and one i made a lot early on is harvesting early. Dont get impatient. Make sure most if not all of your stigmas have turned color and have begun to recede into the bud. When its ready there shouldnt be any white clusters of stigmas left around and all the calyxs should be fat and swollen.
You also want to check trichomes of course but i personally dont harvest if the trichs seem right and the bud doesnt. I always want my bud to seem mature before i really start seriously scoping it. Its easy to fool yourself into thinking its ready and getting excited and harvesting early when you go based on just trichomes. At least for me it is
You're doing a muvh better job than i did my first time around!