is it normal for the lower buds to look ready?

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus

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Because your description is vague as hell and gauging ripeness is dependent on a lot of visual clues other than brown pistils. Pistils can be brown for a number of reasons unrelated to flower maturity...pistils alone are not a good indicator of how ripe a plant is. When a flower is ripe the pistils should be receeding not just turning brown.
That's....actually a fair point. See if the first person said THAT id have likely just said oh ok no worries. But she wanted to be condescending and rude. But anyway I just quickdried a couple of the lowest buds off the branches I pulled and even they knocked my block off lol tasted a bit like hay but to be expected when I quickly but they were solid little things so I think they were pretty ready :)
 

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus

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I used to go by pistils for years then it was trichs and magnifying glasses.
Now i am lot more confident I go mainly by how much the hairs have receded back into the bud and I get more yield this way as they are left a touch longer hence they swell like fuck at the end.
For years I was pulling according to pistil colour its no wonder I wasn't getting the yields I was after.
yeah ive always gone by pistil color I need to get a magnifying glass but ill bear in mind about the hairs receding a couple of you guys have mentioned that :)
 
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