Aurora Indica

Easy to grow, good yields, great smoke.

By Marc W. posted on 2019-11-04

Looked forward to couch lock. Waited until I could grow these feminized outdoors. Nice bushy plant, great aroma. The night before harvest someone decided they needed that plant with 2 others more than me ! Stolen ! I should have called Big Brother and reported my girls kidnapped ! Well now it’s wait until next spring. I only grow autos indoors. Looking forward to getting to try some of this bud.

By Mark A. posted on 2019-11-04

This strain takes a long time to mature when grown from seed, and needs at least two months of veg before preflowing and alternate branching begins. This is offset by a short flowering period. Seeds were planted in early June, clones were taken in late July, and flowering wasn’t triggered until 9/7. One plant was placed outdoors, in the ground, under the metal trellis. The indoor plants were transplanted into 5 gallon grow bags and trained through an elastic trellis on 8/25. One pheno began showing signs of mag deficiency and was treated. Indoors, flowering was in full swing by the end of September. The stretch indoors was modest — what you would expect from a mostly pure indica. The outdoor one didn’t begin flowering until very late in August. It developed two massive main colas and four smaller peripheral colas. The two main colas got huge, and this strain will stretch if she needs to. I had to harvest the outdoor pheno early because of a cold snap. I would have liked to let her go another week but the weather wasn’t letting up. She has a very strong tangerine smell and I kicked myself for not cloning that outdoor pheno. Luckily that appears to be a common phenotype and the indoor one I cloned looks and smells pretty much identical. Indoors I got 3 different phenos. Two were rather lacking in resin production. They all finished at around 9 weeks. She is a solid indica, but I’m not sure I will keep her around long term. She pales in comparison to the white widow. I’ve only smoked the outdoor plant which I had to chop a little early, but the cold snap did accelerate her flowering some and I got a good yield — about 3oz off the one plant. Even after less than two weeks of curing she is tasty. She tastes citrusy and the stone is heavy. I smoked a huge joint at a concert and towards the end of the second set I needed to sit down because I was really tired. What I will say is that she is super easy to grow and a good strain for beginners to experiment with cloning and pheno hunting. That being said, there are definitely more potent strains out there, and aurora does not have the vigor, potency, or yield of an indica/sativa hybrid. I would recommend the white widow over the aurora hands down, but if you’re looking specifically for old school indica genetics aurora has them.

By Eric R. posted on 2019-06-07