Last noob question. Trichome progression, can I delay harvest 6 more days.

DarknessFYC

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Almost to the end of my first grow. Had some bumps in the road but its turning out to look relatively successful if I can just get through the last couple steps without disaster.

White Widow
RDWC
Advertised as 8-9 week strain. Day 69 since flip, I didn't know to start counting at flower rather than flip.

They are getting close and half could probably get the chop now but I go out of town Friday morn through Monday morn. A full harvest would take me 3 nights because of my work sched and it would be difficult to pull off. I know proper drying is critical and since this is my first time I want to be present to monitor the environment and progression but being in the proper harvest window is more important. I have almost zero reference for how fast trichomes progress so I don't know if I can leave the plants in the system for another 6 days or not. Thoughts?

Are there any strategies to stall the progression? Would cutting the lights Friday morn before I leave help stall?

The pics of trichs are from the more mature plants. The others that still have 30% of the white pistols poking out and trichs are 25/70/5% Clear/Cloudy/Amber. The chopped bud was a small one I took about a week ago but I put the pic in there for reference since the other bud pics where not great.
 

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