No, that's just a fully seeded top so the pistils have retracted, happens when they have been pollinated on some sativas (never seen it on a indica).
Well, I think I've got it nailed down.
Today I was looking at it and took one of the dried up tops that I had been snapping to keep height in check....it was completely dry and brown as can be.
I crumbled it up and took about 10-15 good solid sniffs to get the best possible aroma recognition.
The very first sniff I knew, it was immediately recognizable, further sniffing just confirmed it.
Mexican, circa about 1978-1982.
Smells exactly like that mexican cocoa tablet thingies (abuelita brand) a light bit of pine, and some back end skunkiness.
Remember that really top notch mexican that everyone thought was chocolate thai ?....yea, exactly
All along I was letting myself be fooled by the chlorophyll since I had really only smelled the fresh greens, not dry and brown.
My bad....I guess I really wasn't interested enough to bother with details.
That fully explains the speed rush you get after smoking it, the original mexican had it in spades.
Now that I look at the whole plant it just all makes sense....someone tossed out mexican beans all those years ago and they just took off.
Here's a full plant shot and the same pic zoomed in so you can see detail.
Yep, old school mex.
You can easily see the browned out branches I've been snapping and leave hang, quite a bunch of them, the thing would be huge if I hadn't.
Don't mind my 'wall of tomato's' in the background, it's great camouflage.
Unfortunately it probably won't finish for me. I'm in the relatively upper midwest and the snow will probably hit late next month or early november....I have a feeling this plant won't be done by then.
Funny the parent plant I got the beans from *seemed* finished when I found it in mid octoberish but that could be because it was fully seeded.
Ah well.