First time grow, small buds, when to harvest?

Hey guys first time grow (experimental). Started late and not the best of growing circumstances so whatever I am able to harvest is fine with me.

My plant, royal queen critical, is a stretched and airy mostly due to inadequate sunlight because of privacy issues. However all the bud locations are extremely small and hard to even notice bud. Of course I'd be fine with a bunch of small nugs over nothing. My issue now is that I'm trying to figure out when to harvest. The top cola pistols are almost all amber/brownish and the rest are slowly following suit. I want to give it time in hopes the bud sizes will increase but do not want to harvest late and ruin whatever bud I can get.

Any advice is greatly appreciated and will have better pictures up later.

Give it time. At least two weeks. Get a 30X magnifier or stronger. Don't harvest until all the trichomes are cloudy with a few amber, for best results. Good luck!

veggiegardener said:

Give it time. At least two weeks. Get a 30X magnifier or stronger. Don't harvest until all the trichomes are cloudy with a few amber, for best results. Good luck!

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I agree, best I can tell is it's still a bit early and the buds look like there at the stage when they start to add mass and potency...so 2-3 weeks is my guess too.

Thanks for the advice I figured they need a couple more weeks or at least until there's threat of a frost. Here's some more pictures hope these help a little.