I had no idea if I should look for the buds themselves or the sugar leafs to start turning amber so I decided to go with the buds. At this point I watering with ph water only. The sugar leafs were half ambers and almost all milky on the buds with some clear I was checking them religiously and by Thursday night they had a few ambers on the buds. The decision was made to go with 48 hours of dark and an ice water and ice bath.
Nube, nice first grow! The only thing I would recommend is... Next time let her go another week or so. I see quite a few white hairs left. Auto flowers can pack on 20%+ more weight if you let them go longer. Just a thought.
@SHAMMYDOG, thanks I was thinking that already after seeing many of the diaries going 12-15weeks my partner in crime started freaking out after seeing a few ambers throughout the buds and the sugar leafs themselves were 60% amber. I will definitely let the second one go longer as I prefer indica vs the sativa effect my brother wanted.