Let em sit longer before cutting to amber up trichs, imho, grow an indica, and leave it to cure in the jar for 3-6 months before you start smoking on it. A lot of indicas go sleepy more then relaxing and just stoney doing that though. The only plants i know of that are really stoney on a fresh dried harvest are the columbians. And theyre actually sativas lmao.
Back in the day most buds had a lot more age on em by the time you were smoking them, and that actually makes a huge difference. And things like a mild CBD and CBN content have been entirely bred out of most lineages in favor of thc and terpenes alone. THC is a stimulant on its own believe it or not. So are many terpenes.
I can almost promise, with a good bit of confidence, that what you are missing in your flower right now, is *CBN*
Auto grower right?
if you did phots id totally and happily open my columbian vault for ya, but See if you can find a legit columbian gold auto somewhere. Dont pull it til those trichs are golden. Youll probably love it, even though its a sativa, and without having to let it sit for a few months in a jar either. The columbians do some CBn stuff naturally in their chemistry. Some of my favorite plants..... Iv never run, or looked for a columbian gold auto, but i bet theyre out there.
The bad news: Columbians usually wont purple, even if its cold, lol. my banjo x columbian is my first columbian cross ive ever run thats colored up. Its a very relaxing, stoney plant too, even pulled early. Most columbians are, even fresh dried. Even more so if ya let em golden up (which is sooner then ya think on something columbian, they dont call em gold for no reason)
ya know that stoney, lime green, gold tinted, but dank high quality brick weed from back in the day? not the flat brown mexican shit. The lime green buddy brick... That was the columbian stuff. Had those super small, but dark and striped seeds, not the fat brown/beige seeds.