i started harvesting at 7 weeks and finished at 9. i can't trim for more than a few hrs a day. back problems. the longer i waited the more amber i saw in the microscope. i wanted to harvest that way to determine if there really is any dicernable differance in how it smoked. i was able to smoke kief i got from trim and sifted through a screen after three days. and i'm just now smoking the first cured buds which are rh50 and still in jars.