wilted plants, help me

Ok im new, but I need your help. I have 2 plants outside and they looked great one day ,next day all wilted up. I did not know what to do so I picked almost all the leafs off.They were not dried up, they were all wet looking just all hanging there. Some turned yellow but mostly stayed all green.Any ideas what happened? They survived and now have lots of buds but seem to be going very slow.One plant has 90 buds on it about the size of a marble.They are very red and very sticky, but seem to be going sssllllllooooowwwwww. also when do I harvest these, how will I know, or do I just let them go til it starts freezing, help me out im lost

during flowering the plants transfers all the production to the buds and the leaves wilt and die. you will probably need to harvest around mid october to early november depending on your climate. id just watch and harvest when 50%-75% of the hairs turn red.

Smoked any of the leaves yet? They're a great base for the bud.