All cannabis strains reflower through their flowering process. Indica and shorter flowering strains do lesser reflowerings while long flowering tropical sativas usually produce more reflowerings and in a much more evident way.
There must be a balance in the ripeness of the different reflowerings of the plant, that's why Conso remarked to pay attention to the whole plant and not to just some trichomes on a part of the plant. If you wait until the very last reflowering is showing amber trichomes then the rest of the plant is probably already overripe and losing quality.
The best moment to harvest is not something mathematical, it's an art and requires lots of empathy and knowledge of your plants, it's also very subjective, depends on the strain/genetics, environment, grower's taste, etc ... someone can give you some overall tips to choose your harvest time, but at the end is the grower who must choose based on his/her own taste, that's why it is important that you experiment a bit, harvesting parts of the plant at different moments of ripeness so later you can decide by yourself how you prefer to do it next times.
During flowering (and in every reflowering) you will notice that some days the scents become stronger and more appealing (that's what i mean as a peak of strong terpene production), while after a few days after this peak the aromas fade or degrade a bit.
So take all these things in consideration (checking of trichomes too), but my best advice is to experiment yourself after reading this, it's a just a matter of experience, to know well the cultivars you grow and of course your own taste.
There must be a balance in the ripeness of the different reflowerings of the plant, that's why Conso remarked to pay attention to the whole plant and not to just some trichomes on a part of the plant. If you wait until the very last reflowering is showing amber trichomes then the rest of the plant is probably already overripe and losing quality.
The best moment to harvest is not something mathematical, it's an art and requires lots of empathy and knowledge of your plants, it's also very subjective, depends on the strain/genetics, environment, grower's taste, etc ... someone can give you some overall tips to choose your harvest time, but at the end is the grower who must choose based on his/her own taste, that's why it is important that you experiment a bit, harvesting parts of the plant at different moments of ripeness so later you can decide by yourself how you prefer to do it next times.
During flowering (and in every reflowering) you will notice that some days the scents become stronger and more appealing (that's what i mean as a peak of strong terpene production), while after a few days after this peak the aromas fade or degrade a bit.
So take all these things in consideration (checking of trichomes too), but my best advice is to experiment yourself after reading this, it's a just a matter of experience, to know well the cultivars you grow and of course your own taste.
( and I'm talking about the cob ! 
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