So, I examined one of my girls who is on week 2 of flowering, I have a jewelry loupe that has 60x and 120x zoom, so I examined part of a regular leaf and a sugar leaf, just to test the thing out, so I know there are multiple types of trichomes, but the ones I’m examine for ripeness of the flower are the globular ones, but, I didn’t really see any with stems, I did however see globulars and also the hair looking trichomes, my question is twofold, are the little globulars I seen new trichomes coming in? And also, if the color is already slightly milky white is she potentially going to be potent then come harvest in 6 or so weeks? I know it’s early for trichomes development but I was just being curious, and seen trichomes that looked like hairs and then ones that looked like little beads.
Haven’t been curious enough to check trichs on a 2 week flower, lol. The actual bud is usually too obstructed by pistils at that point. The hairs are early trichs that haven’t formed heads yet.
@BobbyDigital ya lol ok ok I got a new toy and had to try her out 
. But yea I also noticed little globulars, like trichs but without stem. And they are milky already so I’m assuming that’s a good sign?
Early trichs will turn cloudy. Then there will be calyx that stack on top of those and the trichs start out clear then turn cloudy and then calyx that stack on top of those…it’s a process that continues throughout the grow. Once the pistils are mostly receded, it’s a tell tale sign that the calyx are done building. Then you check those trichs for ripeness. When the very outer calyx trichs have turned cloudy, all the stuff buried beneath is already there so she’s ready to harvest.
So yes, you will see cloudy trichs early on but they will be buried by new bud structure as the bud continues to form. All the new and old trichs do not turn at the same time.
Thanks for that explanation 