Trying to determine flowering age..

so, I am a little confused about one small thing...

I think I am near that window of peak ripeness...

However I have been puzzled about one thing..

seedbank websites put a flowering time down for every individual strain, but what I don't understand is should you start counting the duration of flowering from the point that you dropped the light cycle from 18/6 to 12/12? or instead do you start counting from when you notice the first calyx/pistil development?

They started developing calyxes and pistils around 1 week after I dropped the light to 12/12... counting from when I first dropped to 12/12 I would be 3 days from 6 weeks flowering... If I start counting from first pistil development it would be 3 days from 5 weeks...

can anyone help me out?

dont go by that. go by trichrome color.

Check trichomes with a scope to determine ripeness. Flowering times given by seedbanks are usually hit or miss and are only intended to give a general idea...and usually under the most optimal conditions.

As for counting flowering days...I, like most others I would assume, start counting when calyxs and pistils appear. Counting from when you switch to 12/12 and then chopping down according to seedbank estimates will almost always guarantee you will harvest too early thus compromising your yield and potency.