Thanks a lot bro!

To answer your questions, yes it's important to wait for a bit of trichome maturity in my opinion.

I've cut, dried, and smoked lower buds from every stage of growth. Early stage sometimes won't even give you a psychoactive high.

I think it's good to wait until you're in your last 2-4 weeks of flowering remaining, but the closer the better.

Sometimes I'll clip a few even a couple days before harvest because I get impatient and want to smoke that dank bud as quickly as possible.

Another thing I've learned is that upper and lower buds will mature at pretty much the same rate. Sometimes you'll notice a little more maturation in the main colas that are getting the most intense and direct light, but the lowers will still frost up just as much and mature at a relatively even rate.

Maybe we could do a video and I'll check out those plants in real time to give you a better opinion tomorrow or the next day, but from what I remember you might want to let them mature for at least another week or so before plucking any.

Do you know how many weeks of flowering you have left in them? Are the plants in flowering all the same age from seed pop? Forgive my stoner memory if you already told me :D

Really glad you got the clips and I can't wait to see what you do with them! Super exciting stuff bro, thank you for stopping by :)