be at a further ripeness development than the outside ones were commonly viewing, unless you're actually peeling a bud apart and checking in deep.
OK.. That is just conjecture and a bad guess...
I cut ripe buds open all the time...
Trichome production... is going on on a healthy plant until the day you pull...
Yes the original Calyx hairs will go back into bud and will swell up like a size of "Pea"
Buds Hairs are grown on top cola and will stop when plant is done...
These top cola hairs always recede back into bud...
The pea size first calyxes hairs also recede right before you harvest...
Some plant species will never go Amber Trichome
I harvest when plant Top Cola Hairs recede, and calyxes hairs recede...
My buds will be thick at that time... and no, the Trichomes are not amber on the oldest Tric's EVER....
Through and through when I cut a bud, I get BILLIONS of milky Tric's.... Billions....
Maybe a few amber... Now those that say they wait for 20-40% Amber...
I just doubt it, or you harvest skinny buds...
If I had 40% Amber Tric's on my buds... there'd be like 400,000,000 amber tric's...PER BUD....
So don't embarrass your self and say you harvest at 40% Amber... That, just is not quite possible.... on a 100% healthy plant....IMO....