Hi Everybody,

This is my first grow. It's an indica strain my friends brother has been growing from clones since the 80's, and they decided to breed it with another strain of indica. After the 3rd breeeding I got seeds and am now almost 10 weeks into flowering under a 600watt hps. One of the plants I harvested after about 8 weeks because it wasn't using water anymore. The smoke was OK, but the trichs were pretty clear, so more of a head buzz than anything. The original strain was always complete at 8 weeks. I now have almost all milky trichs, but none have turned amber. Some of them have lost the heads too. I've been checking daily under a 80x microscope.

Has anyone gone longer than 10 weeks flowering an indica?

If the trichs are all milky will this give me more of the couch lock buzz, or do I need to wait until I see amber first?

Thanks in advance for your help.

That seems quite strange, was the photoperiod interupted late on in flowering? If the timer had gone bad for a day this would have stalled the flowering and may be the reason why the buds are no longer maturing. If not then I have no idea why it's taking so long. Indicas are usually a bit less than sativa dominant strains, around 8 weeks maximum.

The light has been constant, but maybe some gaps between the flowering and veg rooms have caused some issues. I've read that some indicas take about 10 weeks. Has anyone had any that take that long?

yea mine took a shit load of time like 9 weeks and they had about 1/20 amber to milk trich ratio, and my shit is the PERFECT high, i dont like gettin amber trichomes in an already couchlocky strain, a deep double indi cross? damn your gonna BLACKOUT if you smoke likea gram if you wait till teh trichs are amber, but thats what alot of ppl want you know? anyways id like to get a clone of the original plant from teh 80s, any old strain to me is 10x better than the shit you can buy from banks today unless those banks are such ass FD and have the 70s stabilized haze pure genes

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ok, so it's been 10 weeks 5 days or 75 days. One of the plants has a few of the trichs turning amber on some of the larger leaves, but only the smaller trichs. Almost all of the others are milky.

When I view the trichs from an above view some of the heads look amber, but haven't seen any from the side view because they're too small and I can't balance the leaf on it's side while viewing. If I harvest when they are just turning amber will I still get the couchlock buzz?

When I harvested a couple of the plants early they dried out to where the stems snapped and the outsides were crispy in about 4 days. At this time they smell like hay. I had them in a 70 degree room with low humidity. After putting them in jars and opening them a couple times a the hay smell was still there . When I break a bud open the smell is pretty good. Does anyone know where I'm going wrong?

Thanks to everyone.

Any thoughts from anybody would be awesome. I'm a noob and scared of f'ing this up.

I'm with ya there - my first two plants I harvested still smell a little hay-like in the jars and they never really "sweated". I'm thinking they dried too fast while hanging but I couldn't slow them down any more (I even went and got a humidifier!). I am waiting to harvest my other ones - they aren't ready, but I'm hoping to find out if I am doing the harvest/cure right first. (It's my first grow too...at this point, f*cking things up would seriously bum me out!)

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im currently flowering 1 and its in its 7-8th week and mine are all white nearly look

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i can't smoke or grow for 10 months.

10 weeks seems really long for an indica! I thought about 8 was max for indicas, and 10-12 for some sativas. It may have to do with the cross breeding. Has any one else grown these seeds that you got from this guy? Are they having the same results? What happened with the first 2 breedings that you mentioned, did those plants take longer then usual?

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