The plant is looking good man! I have been watching from the stands for a while. I love sativas, but they definitely have their own way of growing lol.
Thank you bro. Yeah she's something. When I said I wanted a challenge she gave it to me .
I veg'd her for 6 weeks then flipped so she's 5 1/2 months old so far. Looks like she's going to be finishing in Spring 2024
From my experience with full sativas they seem to take longer to mature genetically. So they end up taking a long time to TRANSITION to flower unless they are old enough and very mature. It's possible thats part of why it took so long for it to start putting on flowers. If you only vegged it for 6 weeks it might not have been quite mature enough to flower yet. Just a thought I had when you posted the veg time.
Have you logged a date when you started to actually see flower growth happening? That is when I would count your flowering period from and you might be surprised that it lines up better with what you were expecting.
My longest plants took 16 weeks from the time they showed flowers, and another 2ish weeks just under 12/12 before they started. Those had about 2 months of veg, but had a lot of LST and pruning to control size and get a specific shape. I don't remember how many tops they had, but they were manifold shaped, so each branch ended up being a tall ass cola basically.