Does it look done or near-done?

keebod.dobeek said:

Strain: Kerala Gold/Idukki Gold/Munnar Gold (Equatorial Landrace Sativa - South India)
Lighting: around 12/12 throughout the year.
Humidity: 75-85 throughout the year with slight increase/decrease once in a while.

Well, it has started flowering around 3-3.5 months back, which is like 12-14 weeks
Did not keep an accurate tab on it, so it is an approximation.

Because of my bad-growing it was runt-ed initially for two months indoor, and then outside under sun till now.
Radioshack kinda places do not exist here, so the option was to buy a real microscope, or else make one Do-It-Yourself style.
So, made one web-camera microscope, and I can see the trichomes. The attachments are screenshots from VLC player, from a trichome searching attempt video, along with a single bud picture.

Any approximate predictions as to how many more days/weeks till I can cut, dry and cure it?

Trichome Pictures:
View attachment 2396454View attachment 2396455View attachment 2396456View attachment 2396457View attachment 2396458View attachment 2396459View attachment 2396460View attachment 2396462View attachment 2396463

Bud picture:
View attachment 2396467

Click to expand...

keebod.dobeek said:

Those trichomes are cloudy. Aren't they?

You can't see any trichomes or frost on the bud picture because it wont stay on the leaves, as the rains wash it off. I have to take a bud or leaf, and then look at it magnified to see the trichomes around calyxes.
This bud I took to sample, was quick dried by keeping it over the router, and smoked. It made me high, a similar but reduced high of what I got with the original bud I smoked.
Just that the high lasts for maybe fifteen minutes, while the original bud's high was over 4 hours

Click to expand...

keebod.dobeek said:

@crazymanny00
No issue in waiting longer as far as the climate is concerned, but my patience is dying

I have only smoked sativas till now as we don't have indica landraces here in the south. So, I only know about this single high, and as I've read about sativa high, that should be what I get. It's like a monkey jumping to the backpart of the forehead, and then back jump again towards the back of the head, which goes on an on. The speed of jump increases increases and then its like an immeasurable frequency. Then a pause for a tiny fraction of second, then slowly jumping starts again like as if the monkey was resting for a while Its just a silly way to explain as the real high can't be explained in words

The northie indica all becomes hash If I ever visit some place outside india, I would like to try indica just to see what's the difference in the high that makes people couch-locked and body-stoned.

Click to expand...

imchucky666 said:

Looks about 50/50 cloudy and clear, but it looks like should fill in a bunch more, so I would wait personally.
Nice close ups, did you do with a glass in front of your lense? Or is your camera just that good?

Click to expand...

imchucky666 said:

You're the first I've heard say the rain washes off the trichs.

Click to expand...

imchucky666 said:

How far south? See where I am?
We get both here, but if you're deeper like 'Bama, I'm surprised if you can even find any green period.

Click to expand...

KryptoniteXK said:

in my opinion, id wait til the trichomes look 100 percent cloudy.

Click to expand...

keebod.dobeek said:

50/50 cloudy is good I felt that my buds are too small. They are just at the most our finger-size! I mean the thickness, while I've seen pictures of sativas having palm sized ones.
I'm by no means expecting such big ones as mine is just a landrace, and not commercial selective bred strains. But, I did not expect the buds to be this small as well So, I hope it would fill up more like you said

We don't have radio-shack here, so no way to buy those little ring type microscope. So, took apart a USB webcam that had manual focus compound lenses, and reversed it. Then put everything back, and now I've got a DIY microscope
The photos are just screenshots of my screen when I open the webcam shot video in VLC player So, no camera or glass in between.

Click to expand...

keebod.dobeek said:

Google says 'Ga' is georgia. You are in USA but southern USA. You are on 42 degree latitude.
I am in South India! Totally different :O I'm on 9 degree Latitude

Strain Hunters visited North India and them too explained that most of the North Indian indicas and sativas go for hash making.
They never visited south India where India's most potent strains grow

Click to expand...

keebod.dobeek said:

Oh, well it was just an assumption from my side that the rains washed away the trichomes. I did not see trichomes till today on the leaves like the way we see on the 'bud porn' pictures over here

We currently are on the Thunderstorm season. Every single day of this month starts with bright sunny day till noon.
During the afternoon the clouds start developing, and the sky gets overcast with diffused light, and by evening thunder and lightning, with torrential rain.

It's almost four months of flowering on this plant. Microscope shows trichomes on hidden areas like in between calyxes, under those single bladed leaves, and such. So, I thought maybe rain is washing the trichomes off the more obvious areas because they are exposed to direct rain.

Click to expand...