Questions

So i NEED to harvest my plants by next friday night. The buds are fairly large and there are plenty of "crystals" on the leaves/bud they also smell rather delicious, and i cant afford a microscope to check the trichs. My questions are as follows.
1) Should the white hairs turn brownish or red before i harvest?
2) How will harvesting too early effect the smoking?
3) too hung over to recall the third

if you can't afford a 10 dollar microscope at your local radio shackthen what i would do is pick em the latest you can since you say its next friday pick em next friday night right b4 you wake them up. give them 14 hours of uninterrupted darkness then hang em up to dry. Not 100% accurate but you can look at the red hairs and if they're 50 % red that is a somewhat indicator that the plant is ready to harvest or could be soon. If you pick it early you just get more of a heady high. if you pick em at the right time you get a good 50-50 mix if you go a bit late you get a stoney high, and too late will just get you to sleep "not good high".