Well, now, those are good shots of your girls.
Forget the book, you're doing just fine. Very impressive camera work!
Sure getting good advise on your plants from everyone.
Too use the Radio Shack Microscope for trichs. Here's how I use it, since we are blind old farts.
Take off your glasses if you wear any.
Take a very small piece of a bud leaf and cut it from the plant.
Trying to check trichs on the plant is damn near impossible.
Take the piece of bud leaf and put it on a flat surface. I use a white piece of paper.
Put the microscope over the bud leaf. Turn on the light and dial it in until you enter trichworld. Once dialed in leave it that way. The next leaf will be much easier to dial in. You can move the scope very slightly to check the whole sample you have.
You can actually look at both sides of the leaf to see trichs.
The trichs will be different in most cases, from the top buds and the ones taken from a bottom bud. I have actually harvested bottom buds and then waited for the top buds and vice-versa.
Try to get a bud leaf sample as close as you can from the bud itself.
Truthfully this one of my favorite parts of growing. It's like looking into another world.
Well, I hope this helps you. Took a while to figure it out the first time.