How much pollen could a pollen chucker chuck, if a pollen chucker could chuck pollen? :lol
I crossed Kali Mist, strong sativa, with NL#5, strong indica, because while the Kali was great for my depression just a little too much gave me heart palpitations and anxiety for the first 20 min or so and kinda harshed my buzz.
The right pheno from that blessed union is the bomb for me! Problem is it takes 12 -14 weeks to get finished to where the trichs are 50/50 clear/cloudy and there are very few white hairs left. One other pheno is very indica and great for bedtime so that's nice too. The 3rd pheno is middle of the road and doesn't do much for me so it gets gifted out to friends.
To try to get that pheno a shorter flowering period I have now crossed my fave with an autoflowering strain called Purple Jem, Mazar x LowRyder. This serves two purposes. Hopefully gets me a quicker version of my fave and lots of autoflower beans for planting outside in the bush next spring. 7th of June for us way up north here is about the earliest we can plant outdoors and have had frost before the end of Aug. so photoperiod plants have been a bust.
To finally get to what you were asking Applejuicer you may or may not see a burst of bud fattening just before she gets ripe. Depends on which genes it has that affect that aspect of that plant's growth. You are best to judge chopping time by using a magnifying glass or scope to get a good look at the trichomes. Jorge Cervantes says in his grow bible that the 50/50 and most hairs gone red is the peak THC time so I pick mine then and have let some go longer until all are cloudy with some amber showing up but it didn't work as well for the depression so I don't do that anymore.
Good luck!
