Actually those pics are fairly clear, the optics. Yeah, she still has a bit to go, but keep an eye on the trichomes at this point.
My plant is on day 74 from sprouting and just showing some colored pistils in the past week. Man, she is so slow! Looking again like a Valentine Day ± harvest, and not a Groundhog Day harvest. 
Thank you, I think she’s in her last week or two at most. Just guessing, but once she decides to do something, she does it IMMEDIATELY. Those colored pistils jumped up practically overnight.
I’m laughing, because my buddy’s Darsadeen is a month ahead of me, but I am probably going to harvest around the same time, or possibly before!
Interesting, yeah, Lucy is amazing. I’ll be curious how your other LSD plants grow. Aren’t you also going to grow other strains? Sorry, I don’t recall what you wrote about that.
Lucy is so opposite of mine, haha! Whenever mine starts to do something, I think, “Oh great, here we finally go!” And then it’s back to her snail’s pace. 
When my current one is finally done, I’m going to do another White Widow that have been quicker grows, and I’ll practice torture techniques on it. After I’m comfortable with training, I’ll do another Afghan, plus I’ll allocate plenty of grow time, just in case slower growth is normal with ILGM Afghan Auto. 
Well, you know to keep an eye on Lucy’s trichomes - check daily. 
I have three more LSD auto seeds, I’m growing them next. I also got 5 Gold Leaf Fem seeds, kinda an oops in the ordering as I planned to stay with auto. They are next - thought no way am I growing 5 at once. I’m only doing the three because of how shrimpy Lucy is - though I know plenty of this type that grew a lot taller!
My actual next huge project is going to be figuring out what to do with the trim from Lucy’s harvest. So much frost on her sugar leaves… And hubby won’t smoke, so I need to make some edibles for him. He needs pain relief (long covid symptoms) and help sleeping.
For me, I just want some killer bud to smoke. From how Lucy looks and smells, I think she’s going to fill the bill.
Partly I think it’s just genetics. But the other part of that is stress. In my (limited) experience, plants tend to excrete more trichomes and consequently more odor when they’re either fed, fat and happy, or stressed out. His plant looks good, nice and healthy - so I’m assuming he hasn’t done anything to stress her out (extreme temp drops at night to simulate winter approaching, for example), not gone the “extra mile” to get her to the “fat and happy” stage.
Best suggestions are to 1: upgrade light (more/better light inherently leads to more/better trichomes) - especially to a light that includes deep reds/far reds, infrareds (IR) and ultraviolet (UV). And 2: remove excess fan leaves. In my world, all his leaves are excess right now. I like to give my girls at least one full strip, often two, in a flower cycle. That allows more airflow, better Light penetration, and also induces some stress.
I cannot suggest enough that you go to @Caligurl ’s concentrates blog and follow her steps to making QWET - it turns your trim and sad larfy buds into a beautiful sticky trichome sludge that’s ripe for edible infusions. Plus the math is easy. 1 gram of sludge = approx 750mg. So you can dose up hubbys edibles without accidentally killing anyone (I may or may not have made some overly powerful gummies myself).
As katt williams said “you might have thought he was dead; he ain’t dead. He’s going to wake up in 30 minutes hungry enough to eat up everything in your house” 
Well thanks for this, I’m on it right away!
Haha your desk looks fine like mine
Oh I got so mad at it last night I actually cleaned it up - in my way. Looks kinda like I got in there with a leaf blower.
Had kinda overlooked this, these edibles will be the death of my last brain cell, I swear.
I tried like hell to get him to defoliate but he wouldn’t do it, beyond a little bit several weeks ago.
This leads me into another line of questioning but I’m going to make that a new post.
Ok! Even a rank newbie like me can tell Lucy is rapidly getting herself toward harvest time. Her buds have changed color, 90% + of the pistils are orange or brown, she’s smelling the house down - I smelled her when I came in the front door today, and she’s upstairs in her own room with a gigantic filter.
So, when I look at a million other journals, it seems to be nearly universal that the leaves on the plants start to die (get used up) in the process of ripening. This has never happened to Lucy, the only leaves she had that yellowed where the first one fingered leaves she grew. I have trimmed a number of fan leaves over the course of her life, I believe the number is 8 or 10. (Don’t laugh! She’s little!)
So is this something I should expect as a further signal that she’s “ready”? Or is it some plants do and some don’t yellow out at the end?
My own personal guess here is that she will be done at the end of next week, week 10. Given as how she loves to do things instantly once she’s made up her mind, is it possible that waiting the extra 9 days will be too much?
SO many questions. Let’s see if I can load some of my microscope shots. I wish I could get really clear pictures but well… I’m a shaky old lady.
Hopefully some of these are worth a damn.
That first picture is an outlier. I see no amber anywhere else on any of the buds I’ve examined.
Correction: Near universal among autoflowers. Can’t speak to photos.
pics look good to me, what are you using to magnify?
I have a little digital microscope. My problem is not getting a clear image, it’s more getting a clear picture. Hard to keep still enough.
Make sure to really look on the buds themselves, not the sugar leaves. The first pic looks like a sugar leaf (so many amber on that one), as do a couple others.
Despite using amendments, my current autoflower has done a lot of yellowing within the past 7-10 days, albeit the last plants I had to yellow, it happened much sooner without using amendments. Good questions you ask about all of that.
I really have fed her very lightly throughout. She had more Recharge and Sugar Daddy than anything, couple of doses of Awesome Blossoms and MagiCal.
Many people use a microphone boom stand with their scopes so it’s steady. But I think your pictures look great. That’d be getting really close for me