Nearing harvest, leaves dying, but hairs not turning orange.

I thought my plant had about a week or so to go after almost 50% of the hairs turned orange and the leaves started dying.

However for the past week the leaves have continued to die, but their seems to be little or no progess in the buds. There's still plenty of white hairs on top and especially on the lower buds Is my plant completely dying or something? It also seems to be taking up water really slow after I flushed it about 4/5 days ago.

Is there any harm in waiting for the buds to hopefully ripen or should they be pulled off if my plant is dying? I get that the leaves are supposed to turn, but the buds are going nowhere.

Also my leaves aren't dying from the bottom up, but more like from the middle out and more towards the top. Any ideas what might cause this?

pics would help......sometimes they look ready then you get another big push of new white hairs.!

ill try get pics up later, but basically almost half the fan leaves are totally crisp and dead and most of the others are starting to go yellow with the exception of a few at the bottom.

Is there any harm of leaving buds on a dying plant? The buds haven't really changed much in a week.. what gives?

go to radio shak and pick up the 10-20$ pocket microscope and check out ur trichs

I had a plant that was doing the same thing,after a few weeks waiting for the trics. to turn I had no choice but to cut her down cuz I needed the space and for as long as I waited for the trics to change I was starting to think that they were never going to change,now I have read that some sativas dont really get amber trics. they only get a little milky. I dont know the strain I was growing but it did look sativa to me.just something to consider.and by the way I think the radio shack pocket microscope sucks.its to powerful to get a good view,I have a cheapo chinese one that I got on ebay and its way better than the radio shack one. good luck