mostly indica with skinny sativa leaves and harvesting?

The strain in question is Brazil Amazonia.
I am growing this in a 200w cfl grow box.
My other indica heavy hybrids (jamaican voodoo and ghs exodus cheese) had semi fat leaves but this one is all skinny.
The seedbank says its 80% indica and only has one pic available of a top of a cola so I can't tell if this skinny leaf thing is typical.

The plant grew extremely bushy and looks like a minature (edit from baobab) african acacia tree lol. I can't post pics as I'm on my phone but my harvest post in newbie central has pics of this plant.

My question is, should I wait for the trichomes to turn amber since its supposed to be mostly indica? About 1/3 to 1/2 of the pistils are brown but the buds are really fluffy compared to my other plants, however if I dried what I got it might yield close to an oz or more of bud.

The seedbank says 8 week flowering and that was yesterday. My 2nd plant will be ready in a few days here. They said can go upto 10 weeks without degradation and that it grows buds so heavy it bends the stalks so maybe the buds are just now starting to bulk up and an extra 2 weeks could give me the density I'm looking for in an indica?

I figured skinny leaves = sativa so maybe the smaller surface area is causing a longer flowering time?

Btw I grew 2 of these and the other was male but looked identical.

phillk6751 said:

The strain in question is Brazil Amazonia.
I am growing this in a 200w cfl grow box.
My other indica heavy hybrids (jamaican voodoo and ghs exodus cheese) had semi fat leaves but this one is all skinny.
The seedbank says its 80% indica and only has one pic available of a top of a cola so I can't tell if this skinny leaf thing is typical.

The plant grew extremely bushy and looks like a minature baobab tree lol. I can't post pics as I'm on my phone but my harvest post in newbie central has pics of this plant.

My question is, should I wait for the trichomes to turn amber since its supposed to be mostly indica? About 1/3 to 1/2 of the pistils are brown but the buds are really fluffy compared to my other plants, however if I dried what I got it might yield close to an oz or more of bud.

The seedbank says 8 week flowering and that was yesterday. My 2nd plant will be ready in a few days here. They said can go upto 10 weeks without degradation and that it grows buds so heavy it bends the stalks so maybe the buds are just now starting to bulk up and an extra 2 weeks could give me the density I'm looking for in an indica?

I figured skinny leaves = sativa so maybe the smaller surface area is causing a longer flowering time?

Btw I grew 2 of these and the other was male but looked identical.

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Just a sativa pheno type it happens
As for degradation who cares its a indica. When trics start turning amber its just covering the thc into cannbinoids which gives you that super nice relaxed couch lock feeling. And since your growing a indica im gonna assume thats whats your going for. Enjoy.

Yea I harvested the voodoo at mostly milky with few amber and few clear at 7 weeks and got 5/8ths, it finished early and wanted a less couchlocky. The exodus will be cut in a few days that should be a little couchlocky with mostly cloudy right now just waiting on a few more ambers to show. The brazil just seems to be the oddity.

I just couldn't find anything online about heavy indicas getting sativa leaf characteristics...and no grow pics of this strain. I did find a review with bud shots but it was well trimmed and had all orange hairs so maybe I should at least wait for that to happen before considering chopping...then check the trichomes

Simply said it is all in the genetics and what combo is being displayed within the strain. Most commercial strains are bred for certain characteristics, mainly the flower. You can have several pheno's of plant charactistics such as leaves, height, branchiness and still have indenticial flowers on each. That being said you can also get the sativa dom pheno or the indica with indica type buds on sativas or vice versa. Really and truly is a genetic crapshoot and what is expressed in each plant. The varieties are one of my greatest pleasures to watch grow, you never know when that one special plant is going to surface.
Indica plants lend themselves more to some amber for your couchlock.
Sativa plants, IMHO are best harvested between 80 and 100% cloudy no amber.
Enjoy