Getting antsy for amber

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I’m growing 3 autos, a Bruce Banner (left in first photo), Tangerine (right) and White Widow (not shown).

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They are in week 15 (day 108) of the grow, and week 11 (day 73) of flowering.
Still very few amber, some cloudy, and lots of clear trichomes.
I didn’t know this would be such an endless process.
Is there any music I can play for them, or drugs I can feed them, to speed things up? Do they like watching bud porn? I’m going nuts here.

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Patience, grasshopper.

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For my next grow, what are the fastest auto strains, seed to stoned? Are any breeders working on reducing the time to finish?

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Patience is key. As far as seed to stoned, good luck finding anything fast.

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Some strains amber very little or late. I personally find sativa do not as much as indica. Just my observations.

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For those strains, how do you decide when to chop?

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Several solid ways. Old school is 70%-100% pistils brown and receding. 70-100% cloudy. As more are cloudy you get from a little racy to very good head high. Amber starts the body high. I grow for a medical circle. I typically harvest indica for us at 5-10% amber for sleep. Most sativa i bring down at 90-100% cloudy. Very good for daytime high. Hybrids i judge by which is showing most. Indica traits or sativa. A pretty good average for us will be 90-100% cloudy up to 5% amber. Just what we like. I typically run 4 or 5 different strains at a time. Depending on what you are looking for all cloudy=stoned. Amber gets towards couchlock and pain relief.

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Fastbuds are nice. The Hindu Kush photo i just grew had a flower time of 8 weeks and chopped. Friggin FIRE!!! Lots of info on strains available online. I suggest photo over auto myself. Auto are not faster. They are just auto. Can flip a photo soon as mature. Same thing an auto does. Biggest difference is you flip when YOU want. Easier to recover from issues.

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Good morning and hope you had a good 4th of July
I’m right with you buddy I am right with you mine are 16 weeks old this weekend and I’m waiting for Amber. I even sent out an Amber alert :rotating_light: I got nothing. Later today I will be taking new pictures again.
I have cut a few stalks I wanted to smoke my weed. Good luck

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GSCE auto I chopped at almost 19 weeks. I looked at pistils and cloudish trichs. Had a couple ambers. And I mean not many lol. And I searched. I thought for sure I fudged the chop but just smoked one last night that had been drying for a week. Little rough smoking but my wife and I got baked. We were both pleasantly surprised. :grin:

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Especially with longer cure time for better smoke
4-8 months wait for cure to finish, who knew?