Thank you @andyjem!
I need better camera gear (than I currently have) for proper macros under magnification. (It was tricky to capture everything in focus, in a picture through a scope, pressed against a flowerhead.)
The big take home piece for me, is to learn when the plants (in my care) are at their peak ripeness.

Research suggests that the window is only 7 days.

If a grower doesn’t look, are we just going through the motions because we’ve been doing it that way for 25 years?
I ask:
Where’s the hard evidence, backing our harvesting decisions up?