Harvest & Curing harvest time ?

[hello]

prefer cerebral stage head high harvest.
auto three month old. Looks green and young still. But white milky with orange lightly spotting trichome's. This looks ready under scope, but in general looks green still growing. Is that ready to harvest or let it push through for awhile still ?
I get confused sometimes I think it shows this trichrome color, but if you let it grow but for how long can you risk it , if you prefer head high earlier stage harvest. but not too early. I get the feeling I harvest too early, trying to take advantage of the head high stage.

Also how much pruning leaves do you do during budding ? I usually just remove fan leaf type not much else.
Thanks

 

[Jpkindbud]

I remove all large fans in flower. Smaller ones stay. You could do a staggered harvest on your plant. The lowers may take a week or two to catch up. But I like the same feel so I harvest when all trichs are mostly cloudy... There may be clear and amber as well but 95% cloudy works for me. Check trichs lower on the plant and under the buds at calyx. See what they look like. Parts that get the most light will be "mature" faster than lowers that get less. Hope this helps?