Is this Indica beauty ready for harvest yet?

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Hello everyone. We are at day 49 of two supposedly 8-week-flowering Indica strains (Critical Kush & OG Kush). Both are at about the same stage of readiness, but I am not sure they are quite at the best possible time for optimum yield & potency. Please have a look at the photo and tell me what you think. I don't want to bias your responses, but it looks to me as if most trichomes are fairly well developed, and milky in colour, but there are very few (less than 5%) amber-coloured trichomes. As far as I have read (this is only my second grow) you should harvest an Indica around this time, i.e. mostly milky but not too much amber.

What do you think, guys and gals? Should I chop them down and string them up? Or wait a few more days? Maybe chop 1 and grow the other 2 on? I have 3 plants so maybe I should chop one every 7 days and see how they smoke. I would like to investigate the psycho-active effect of strains with different levels of CBD, THC and all that good stuff that I have no idea what it actually is.

BTW: I harvested a single bud and stuck it in a vase so I could get half-decent photos sat at a table rather than crouching over the SCROG. Not the best photo as I cannot find my flippin' tripod.... sorry!

Thanks for your input.
 
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