I’m incredibly curious as well, I think after a certain amount of time we’ve all more or less learned the word of mouth knowledge cannabis has to offer and it’s very unfortunate we don’t have the option available to do the scientific work to get the factual knowledge of our miraculous plant.
I’m open to everyone’s information so I can personally make a more well informed decision, truly hope one day we can do an experiment like you’re talking about; buds photographed and cut at different ripeness and tested accordingly so we can see which set of trichome color has the highest content and what happens as they transition through the trichome colors.
20 years from now they’re gonna know the exact day to harvest based on the percentages of different chemical contents they want to ingest